Faceman2K23

Great album

There are a few models available with 1920x1080 displays, but they are mostly still 4:3 screens and VGA inputs.

I have IPMI and web interfaces for most gear, I just don't want to have to carry a laptop in every-time I need to tinker.

I also have a bunch of AV switchgear and it would be handy to adapt a multiviewer to one of the VGA ports for monitoring that side of things too.

the Arr apps will automate downloads but you can go into their ui's manually for overriding things when needed (like replacing a bad copy of a TV show for example), jellyseer/overseer handles requesting and adding new shows/movies to be monitored from a simple webapp that you would host on the server and give them a shortcut to on their devices homepage.

I'd go with a 12th gen or newer intel cpu, something small and entry level is more than enough like a 12100 or 12400, we just want the igpu to handle the occasional transcode, 16gb of ram, a cache SSD or two in a mirror, and a decent stack of HDDs of your choice, the OS can be anything you want but I suggest going with something NAS focused like unraid, openmediavault or truenas (jellyfin is not officially supported on truenas but it does work). if it's a new build from scratch for long term archival of high quality media i'd start with at least 6 HDDs, with one for parity, if you can budget for 20tb drives for example that gives you a spacious 100tb of useable space with the ability for any one disk to fail without any data loss. you can then build that into a normal ATX PC case.

You can use windows or any flavour of linux but you will be doing more work to make them work properly, where the above solutions are more plug and play.

I would make sure their hardware is capable of playing as many file formats and codecs directly as possible though, when you get into hosting 4K media, particularly for full fat UHD Bluray rips, you will find apps built into TVs or lower end streaming boxes just cant do it and the server has to chug through transcoding on the fly, the igpu can do it just fine, but you should try to avoid it for maximum performance and image quality, so perhaps budget for an nvidia shield or something.

Plenty of players still don't support AV1, though with a modern gpu you can brute force transcoding it on the fly.

I have a jellyfin test server running an an intel n95 and it can easily handle a couple of 4k AV1 to H265 transcoded streams on it's own with decent image quality, but it struggles with 3 if the bitrates are too high. still, it's more complexity than is needed considering AV1 only saves a small amount of space over a good H265 encode which are ubiquitous on the net.

I put of grabbing one of these when my work was clearing them out, giving them away for next to nothing.

Now when I actually need one I cant find one for less than the cost of my best damn server. and nobody seems to make a basic cheap one.

I've been going through my collection alphabetically grabbing one album for each letter, I skipped posting B because i chose Verspertine by Björk, which as you may be aware, is not metal.

Tomorrow might not be posted either because I feel like listening to drab majesty, who are also not metal, despite being heavy as fuck in their own way.

Careful, they'll ban you again for talking about being banned.

That's what they did to me, after talking about bans with other banned users on a separate instance.

Then they should be fined for wasting the courts time, and spreading misinformation.

Great album, my copy is a transparent reddish purple.

Jack shit, they have no power over that, but you can be made aware of an available upgrade as soon as they are possible.

I'm with ABB, and when FTTH upgrades were available in my street I had my appointment booked the day after they were given the green light by NBNCo. I was up and running on gigabit fiber (upgraded from FTTN VDSL) within 2 weeks total.

It was about 18 months for me from seeing the fiber in the street to being able to get connected.

It will happen, just keep bugging your ISP for updates.