Faceman2K23

I use Ubooquity and Komga, both mainly for the OPDS service which I access on various devices.

Ubooquity is good for basic book and file serving, but does support graphics. Komga is very much graphic focussed and is very good at it.

I replaced 4x Pi4 4gb with a single N95 mini PC with 16gb ram and wont look back.

Only PI left in my home is just running a 24/7 USBIP bridge.

the only reason to use a pi is if you need GPIO pins for custom devices.

In most cases yes, but hdd space is cheap enough that lossless compression is just the best option. Can always use them as originals to spin off mp3s or other compressed files when needed.

300cds would only be around 120 gigs flac compressed

Or you could wait for meteor lake CPUs which will have a HW AV1 encoder too.

Plex haven't even enabled transcode to H265 so it might not happen, but Jellyfin currently supports H265 encode and is previewing AV1 streaming. Perhaps that will spur Plex on to open up the FFMPEG encoder options a bit more and let us tune it to our needs and capabilities, but given the shift away from the piracy focused home media server they might not be prioritising it much.

I think part of the change in writing quality is that reality has caught up. it's hard to be thought provoking and forward thinking about the dangers of our own advancement when we are now living it daily, at an accelerating rate.

I think they could either play into that hyper-accelerating advancement thing (which is an existential threat on its own, look at how fast AI is advancing, we're decades ahead of where we thought we would be, and getting faster still), or do more of the alt-history style episodes they've done a few of, more original stories than the old on-the-nose tech warnings. Basically be a live action love death and robots.

Yea no shit It's also a significant chunk of regular youtube now too

In general for smaller servers I actually recommend starting fresh for the new server rather than trying to transfer your metadata over, but if you want to try the instructions are here that's just if you want to maintain any custom matching data, watched status, preferred languages etc etc.

You can run it on the out of the box windows install if you aren't comfortable linuxing (though I'd suggest something like proxmox or ubuntu) just install plex server, plug in the old HDDs, map the new library locations then set up plex player on the shield to point to the new server (hardcode the IP in plex players settings if you have trouble)

As for the hardware itself, if its just plex and the usual ancillary apps that go with it you can use an N100 or N95 and get plenty of performance for more than 4 clients as long as you don't need to transcode too much.

If you need to transcode 4x high bitrate 4k streams at once comfortably you definitely need something a bit beefier than those little CPUs (mostly they are memory and cache limited), but not much more, you don't need an i7 for it, just an i3 or i5 class cpu will do.

Usually means "yes this works in theory but only for very specific operations at limited scales that aren't all that important so it's not worth pursuing seriously"

I mean, we know the absolute limits of computational efficiency thanks to the Landauer limit and the Margolus–Levitin theorem, and from those we know that we are so far from the limits that it is practically unfathomable.

If they can show some evidence that they can perform useful calculations 100x more efficiently than whatever they chose to compare against (definitely a cherry picked comparison) then I'll give them my attention, but others have made similar claims in the past then turned out to be in extremely specific algorithms that use quantum calculations that are of course slower and less efficient on any traditional computer.

We know spez' secrets too.

Dude loved the jailbait subreddit before it was banned for obvious reasons.

He was a moderator.

For a while it was in the international section of one of the big liquor stores. Thought that was funny.

Didn't Asahi acquire all of lion Nathan breweries over a decade ago?

Edit, actually kirin owns lion Nathan, but asahi definitely aquaired some of their brands a while ago.