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I’m sure they would have mentioned if they needed a cellular router

didn’t know you could still get a dial up plan.

j/k, but damn I’m so sorry, it should be illegal to call VDSL broadband.

Check routers at a pawn shops and see which ones can run openwrt.

I have a 10GbE switch and haven’t hit 500Mb/s. Network capacity likely won’t be your bottleneck.

edit: ok, we’re probably both making the same mistake here, 500Mb/s isn’t even saturating a gigabit nic, you likely mean 500MB/s

I mean, just assume everything you type online is public because, you know, it fucking is.

datahoarders

the only bad time to buy more capacity is when you run out

just a matter of being lazy, I know stuff in my Anime library won’t have english subs by default and things in my Shows library will and I don’t need to figure out how to change them on multiple devices with multiple ways to interact with options before or during play.

I can also restrict access to the guest account so I don’t have to explain the show you want to watch isn’t available in english sorry, or there’s a bunch of live tv first because they don’t want their bloody subs to line up with the normal file for some reason.

I don’t see a reason to uncouple Anime from other series

I think if you’re learning Japanese then decoupling raws and japanese subs from english subs is very worthwhile

I mentioned a cheap dedicated server because I’m not sure when quicksync was introduced, if you need to do any transcoding at all an intel macbook will probably catch fire.

and if you haven’t already then change the thermal paste. I have a 2015 pro as well and it gets real hot, factory paste can be a crap shoot if it’s even making contact in the first place much less after a decade and new paste actually makes a bigger difference in performance than I expected.

There’s nothing wrong with just running a laptop as a server until you have specific requirements it can’t meet.

Like maybe running a pi hole over wifi doesn’t fill you with confidence and you really need something plugged into your router.

in which case I’d get a cheap mini-pc. even something as cheap as an N95 will handle everything you want to do here easily but you can also go the 2nd hand 1L route which can be fun too.

finally picked up a bunch of cheap 2.5" sas drives to turn my dumpster server (Proliant DL380 G7 with 16 hot swap bays) into a backup server.

still trying to work out the specifics but the idea is because it’s a power hog and LOUD I want to use wake on lan to run a backup task and turn it off automatically.

I can turn it on via lan so I’m halfway there right? …

Lemmy

The fediverse isn’t just lemmy.

also is this your first day on the internet? blowing pedantic bullshit out of all proportion is the baseline experience on any platform.

a TBC unit might be absurdly expensive these days BUT a VHS>DVD-RW unit is cheap and needs a form of time base correction to record to digital and that corrected signal is sent to the video out ports, this also strips VHS copy protection that messes up the VHS>DVD internal copy so you have a clean signal to capture out the back.

I used a Panasonic DMR-ES35V and a Black Magic intensity shuttle capture device to rip ads from our collection. and the shuttle has zero tolerance for dirty signals, recording stops when it drops a frame so you know it’s doing the TBC right.

Honestly you should only be archiving television or videos that didn’t get a DVD release.

a VPN is almost never the right choice … so you can forgive their confusion in this case

FREE KEVIN

kids these days won’t know the joys of running a pirate bbs out of an abandoned subway stations connection box

While I’ve used the pi as a media server before and it did admirably I think you have the wrong idea, it’s just a set top client. A Pi Zero could probably do just as well or pretty much anything that can run Kodi … which rules out AppleTV sadly.

and I’m right there with you not supporting other peoples tech. My parents Chromecast got a PiHole exemption because screw explaining why they’re watching a static screen for 3 minutes where ads used to be … every time; if their tv app even loads without phoning home in the first place.

better value than streaming? yes

better value than free? debatable

I think it’s also technically illegal in Australia but because the rights holders can only come after you for the retail cost of whatever was pirated it’s functionally legal. the MPAA would rather sue a kid in the US for hundreds of millions than one in Aus for $14.95.

Pi4 just streaming Jellyfin, nothing fancy.

didn’t know infuse had a lifetime cost but look how that’s working out for plex.

I would rather ssh into a linux box I own to bash my head against bluetooth compatibility issues than have everything just work while a company sells every last bit of data they can steal from me.

and now I am too