This, ladies and gentlemen and all those in between, is what the professionals call “talking out of your ass.”

SoulSeek via Nicotine+ running on my NAS sharing my music, movies, and TV shows.

Just kinda comes across like Mint or PopOS are somehow “less-than.”

We gatekeeping distros now?

Probably just a front for tech support scam call center anyway.

They’re gonna have to put this dipshit’s grave on private property.

Yeah, I’m overdue for a PC rebuild. Once I save up for that, I’ll probably migrate the server portion of Plex to the new rig.

Excellent points. For my particular use-case scenario, x264 for 1080p works best for the users my library is shared with. I recently overhauled my library to get as much 1080p content into x264 as I could, and my friends have noticed a significant improvement in performance. I still have 4k content, but it’s mostly for me since my personal setup supports it. Since my NAS isn’t having to transcode literally everything now, it’s no issue if it needs to transcode a few 4k streams for my remote users.

I’m running a DS918+, so certainly not the newest model, but it’s still trucking. I was thinking about upgrading to a newer chassis model, but I see the newer ones have moved to AMD processors that don’t support hardware transcoding. Go figure.

I did make a generalized statement there, you’re right. My opinions on the matter are largely influenced by the TRaSH Guides, which are a primary source for file quality settings for a significant portion of people managing media libraries. Best practices for 1080p is x264 since it 1) can be direct streamed on the most number of 1080p devices (just because you can transcode a bunch of streams at once doesn’t mean you should), and 2) has video quality aspects that are important to consider if you’re concerned with anything more than file size.

With all the files in “proper” formats, my NAS has no issues direct streaming, and transcoding the few files here and there that need it.

Mine is hosted on a NAS. So no, not nvidia.

I have hardware transcoding. I also have enough friends that more than 2 or 3 may be trying to watch something at the same time. Good job assuming the simplest setup, though.

Downloading a 1080p movie in HEVC? Hope it’s not a shared library.

ETA: Downvote all you want, but come back and talk to me when you try to share a library full of x265 1080p movies and tell me how your transcoding is going.

Gotcha - we’re on opposite sides of the backplane, so to speak. I’m in the opposite position - I’m an IP tech and frequently coordinate with field techs to migrate our customers’ circuits between service routers, and I’ve never actually seen one of these in person.

I like working in those. JunOS seems to give the most helpful error messages compared to Cisco IOS or Nokia SR OS.

My dog made a few of those this morning.

Oh I do hope there are tentacles involved!

“most personal information”

And they just handed it over to some company.

If one does watch and enjoy it, I recommend they do not watch the sequel.

He’ll need a presidential mistress. Melania already gave him a son, you know she doesn’t let him touch her anymore.

americans at least don’t actually use those two phrases in conversation

Well now they’re gonna know!