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The real winner of the streaming wars. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I just did a speedtest over wifi and got 530 down / 260 up with 45ms ping. I connected to a server a few states away and also got about the same with the closest server. I do have gigabit fiber though

How to go about updating BIOS on a Linux laptop when only .exe is provided? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I always keep a usb around with freedos for that reason. Works great and you don’t have to deal with windows

Apple Explains Why It Doesn't Plan to Create a Search Engine in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

By that logic FireFox and pretty much every company is in the same boat

PayPal Honey steals affiliate links and lies about finding the best coupons in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Grifters all the way down then

Is there a Linux equivalent to itunes for buying songs? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

There is a handy Python app for downloading from qobuz, although I think it might be more of a webrip rather than straight download

https://github.com/OrfiDev/orpheusdl-qobuz

Apple sued over abandoning CSAM detection for iCloud | TechCrunch in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

iCloud does have E2EE if you enable it

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

Instagram-famous squirrel Peanut euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home in c/[email protected]

Selfhosted alternative to Spotify in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They are already tagged as explicit/clean in the metadata as well as separated by folder with an [E] tag if explicit. I could manually rematch them but my library is large so I’d really rather not

Selfhosted alternative to Spotify in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I like Plexamp but there’s a couple of things to be aware of depending on your music library that took me a while to figure out:

They downsample anything above 48kHz which isn’t a big deal but sucks if you have hi-res music. It won’t even tell you it’s transcoding if you check the dashboard and Plexamp will show it as playing at the actual sample rate which is misleading when trying to debug.
It doesn’t distinguish between explicit and clean versions so if you have both then it will just look like duplicates. You also can’t favorite just the clean or explicit version as favoriting one will do the same for both versions.
They don’t support Spatial Audio/Dolby Atmos(E-AC-3) music. Doesn’t matter if they are m4a or flac. Again, nothing about transcoding in the dashboard but the sound will be horrible. It does at least show in Plexamp that the song is playing as Opus. I know everyone says multichannel music isn’t worth it, but I wanted to try it out and was very disappointed when Plexamp wouldn’t play them.

These probably aren’t issues to the majority of users with just their favorite songs in mp3 or flac 16-44, but it’s something for people with larger hi-res/multichannel libraries to be aware of that I recently learned.

Is it a good idea to purchase refurbished HDDs off Amazon ? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I just bought a few refurbished 12TB WD Ultrastars off Amazon and it actually says it’s sold by ServerPartDeals. Not sure if it’s the same people but interesting if they are

Balenca vs Ventoy? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe they are thinking of iVentoy which is not open source but is by the same dev

https://github.com/ventoy/PXE

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Qestions about eSATA vs USB3.0 for a drive enclosure connected to Proxmox (lemmy.world)

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I am trying to figure out the optimal way to connect an 8 bay drive enclosure to a Dell Optiplex 7040 Micro. The end goal is to have the drives made available to a Proxmox cluster and kubernetes cluster. This is all for learning experience as well as to run services for personal use.

The cluster will be made up of 2x Optiplex 7040 and 2x Optiplex 3040. All have i7-6700t CPUs, the 3040s have 16GB DDR3 and 1TB SATA SSD each, and the 7040s each have 32GB DDR4 and 2TB NVMe drive with an additional empty SATA port on the motherboard. The enclosure is a MediaSonic ProBox with USB3.0 and eSATA interfaces available

I have heard that you shouldn’t use USB to connect to storage so I have been trying to figure out a way to use eSATA even though the Optiplex does not have an eSATA port. I found some SATA to eSATA cables on eBay, would that enable me to connect the enclosure directly to the free SATA port on the Optiplex?

Would this setup work? Is it worth it to sacrifice the additional SATA port on one of the 7040s in order to avoid using USB? I would like to maximize stability and speed.

I have not yet decided how I want to configure the drives but was planning to look into either a ZFS pool or ceph. All drives in the enclosure will be for media storage (movies/tv/music, was planning to keep pictures and documents elsewhere) and passed to LXCs and kubernetes cluster I plan to run on Proxmox.

Any guidance on the connection setup, storage configuration, or my plans in general would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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