Easier, yes. But nowhere near as much fun.

if data has no value then why do people want it so bad?

disability benefits can’t be garnished. i think it’s ok to be mad at people for spreading misinformation even if they themselves are fighting a just cause. lies like this help nobody.

it’s barely more than what they offered me when i was in high school and i told them to fuck off? military service does not pay all that well

it’s not, that is your annual salary

only 35k to dodge bullets in some far off corner of the world away from your loved ones?

and they’re surprised no one is taking that offer?

I have a YouTube Premium family plan. We use it so much that it’s easy for us to justify.

The Steam Link app is exceptional. the Apple TV natively supports Xbox and PlayStation controllers so it all works pretty seamlessly.

The Apple TV is quietly the best little streaming box. It is very capable, and according to my PiHole it’s far less chatty than my Roku or Android TV devices.

Also, I love Tailscale. I love how this press release reads like it was written by nerds for nerds rather than by writers for investors.

I won’t defend Plex, but Jellyfin just isn’t quite there as an alternative yet. Their ATV app leaves still leaves a lot to be desired. I’m hoping it gets there sooner than later though so I can finally jump ship. The only other thing I really want is some tool to migrate the “watched” status of all my content to Jellyfin.

The one thing keeping me off Jellyfin is the fact that Infuse for Apple TV doesn’t have great support for it yet. Infuse is by far the most capable media player on the device, and it has excellent integration with Plex.

There’s your individual experience, but I’m basing my statement on Backblaze’s annual drive failure rate reports.

Isn’t Western Digital one of the more reliable hard drive manufacturers?

Every time I’ve gone to move to a new place, central air has been my top priority. I refused to consider homes that relied on window units, swamp coolers, or those floor units that are basically a scam.

I live somewhere with cold winters and hot summers though, maybe I would feel different somewhere with more mild seasons.

It’s true with most appliances.

The problem is it is difficult to know today which appliances will still be functioning in 20 years.

What are you transcoding from, and what is your reason for wanting to do this? It might not be worth th effort. Lossy to lossy transcoding is already not ideal, and hardware encorders end up trading either size or quality in exchange for speed. I’ve played with NVENC h.265 a lot and found the end results weren’t really any smaller than what x264 gives me for similar quality, so I just use x265 and deel with the slower encodes.

It may be cheaper to just buy more storage.

I keep seeing this meme and I don’t get it. Oppenheimer wasn’t surprised when the bombs were dropped on Japan.