RxBrad

Panasonic plasma forever…

As an ancient plasma TV owner with a Logitech Harmony remote on life support… they make external HDMI splitters with ARC now?

Huh.

Unless tons of people are accessing your pictures, I’d recommend Tailscale instead.

7th gen Intel (Kaby Lake) can encode h265, also. Not just 8th gen.

Source: I encode to h265 almost daily using Quicksync on my i5-7500.

Intel 7th gen & higher CPUs have Quicksync that does hardware h265 encoding.

You can get an old i5-7500 PC pretty cheap these days. That’s what I have, and tDarr converts about an hour of 1080p h264 content to h265 in roughly 10min.

I like dogs.

My network is SIGHTHOUND.

My computers…

• GREYHOUND
• WHIPPET
• IGGY
• SALUKI
• BORZOI

Here’s what I’m rolling with right now… I try to nuke everything even vaguely political…

GOP
Trump
Biden
conservatives
elections
voter fraud
senate
senator
house of representatives
whitehouse
reproductive rights
pro-life
pro-choice
2nd amendment
gun control
Marxist
MAGA
Pelosi
climate change
Parliament
koch
murdoch
desantis
politician
fascist
Rudy
leftis
liberal
antisem
right wing
supremac
on strike
hateful
elect
liberals
republicans
democrats
republican
democrat
congress
abortion
communist
socialism
socialist
capitalism
capitalist
fascism
vax
global warming 
ukrain
covid
proud boy
cops
police
defund
minimum wage
billionaire
the government
injustice
human rights
climate crisis
democracy
private healthcare
public healthcare
labor contract
on strike

It gets a lot more bearable once you setup a Politics filter that blocks dozens & dozens & dozens of keywords (mine is up to 66 words so far)…

Comcast (no other ISPs thanks to local legislation). Suburbs of the 2nd largest city in my state (Michigan).

$84/month for 200/10Mbps with a 1.2TB cap.

You have it great.

I’m very slowly typing up a blog post on how I did it, but I had success tunneling my Plex through T-Mobile’s CGNAT by running this Docker container on my local machine and on a free (technically PAYGo using always-free services) Oracle Cloud account.

Much like Cloudflare, this is for sending specific-port traffic through the tunnel.

https://github.com/DigitallyRefined/docker-wireguard-tunnel

Definitely consider 16GB if you’re using Immich. I started with 8GB and had to upgrade. (on the bright side, 32GB DDR4 was just over $40)

I’d also say that an i7 is likely overkill for your use case (despite other comments here).

I run an i5-7500 with PhotoPrism, Plex, tDarr, and about 30 other services. The power draw barely registers on my 1000W UPS (this includes my SFF PC, external USB HDD, and 3 network switches). And my CPU rarely jumps above 20% utilization.

One reason behind it is that people are taking to defederation, simply based on whether or not you yourself defederated some third party.

See the Threads “grab your pitchfork” posts here on Lemmy for reference… Plenty of “we need a list of people who didn’t defed Threads so we can defederate them”

I would say at least 7th gen Intel. Its QuickSync is one version newer than 6th gen, and QuickSync didn’t get another update until the 10th gen CPUs.

7th through 9th gen CPUs QuickSync added h265 encoding, and 10bit h265 decoding. Also there are the all-around speed & quality improvements that come with each QuickSync generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video

Similar methods, I guess.

The guy running FediBuzz has been asking people to donate API keys as a workaround. It remains to be seen how it will all turn out.

Something about blocking access to data for not-logged-in visitors.

Blocking AI scrapers, I think.

FediBuzz relays have been absolutely indispensable on my own single-user Mastodon server. Without them, following hashtags would be futile, as id only see hashtags from accounts I already follow.

Unfortunately, Mastodon is killing FediBuzz in its next 4.2 update.

My only other option is to relay with entire other servers, which will add tons of unwanted storage on my server – including shady stuff from the gross corners of those servers that I probably don’t want stored locally.

It almost feels like they’re trying to push me to use a big server.

Yeah. A year or two ago, Plex added a thing where you can add any show or movie to a “Watchlist”, no matter what service it’s on.

Overseerr can already automatically pull in that in and turn it into Radarr / Sonarr requests. I would think Reiverr could eventually do it, too.

I’ve got one friend who just cancelled all of his streaming services, and is asking for only the most recent season of stuff he watched.

So, Overseerr actually works in his favor.

Can you request specific seasons or episodes of a TV series that way?