Machine driving around the parking lot with a speaker UPDATE: The bread was worth .000001 btc, but after this morning it’s now worth .00001 btc. Please have your employers adjust your pay. UPDATE: Bread was worth .00001 btc but has just updated to… My point is, fluid prices in a young currency are problematic, personally I’m worried a solar flare will wipe out the block chain and the internet at the same time and all that investment all just Poof’s like cotton candy in a bowl of water… So much global wapoo for an intangible thing like a crypto currency, too bad it can’t be tied to a physical token that could operate more like cash, so you have the security of the block chain, knowing you are not dealing in counterfeit, and the freedom of handing a $5bill out.
I quit streaming services around 4 months ago, determined the exact maximum streaming quality every device I own can handle, used a $60 used office PC from craigslist, admittedly I haven’t fully figured out how to get subtitles to work without transcoding, but I just need to sit down and figure it out at some point. I direct stream all of my content from a 10+ yr old PC and it uses less than 5% cpu while watching a 4k movie. I could stream to easily 5-10 PC’s and still likely be able to do software maintenance on the PC at the same time. That and with how jellyfin looks like a streaming service, with no transcoding it’s better than any streaming service. Nearly every streaming service you use is transcoding on the fly instead of storing 20versions of each video for direct streaming, direct streaming a previously encoded asset will always deliver a higher quality viewing experience.