[BONUS] 2025.08.24 Weekend Chat
Added 2025-08-24 22:25:17 +0000 UTCBurnie and Ashley chill out, listen to some Gang of Youths and talk about current events.
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I rage quit Fable 3 because of the sudden time skip that meant I didnt have enough money saved for the good ending
Nabs
2025-08-28 00:24:16 +0000 UTCI have been using plex for 10 years works great and comes with a lifetime license. Also gives you offline downloading
harrrison
2025-08-27 21:18:16 +0000 UTCI tried Plex for a couple of days but I just didn't get on with it, it seemed to require creating an account for things which used to be free, and I just overall didn't 100% trust it. Now I use Jellyfin on an UNRAID server, which runs on an old low spec tower server I picked up on eBay for next to nothing (Intelยฎ Xeonยฎ CPU E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10G, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia geforce 405) which I put 3 x 12 TB disks in. Unraid is what Linus tech tips used when building Gavin a new server for more slow mo guys storage - which Gavin named SLOW PHATTY I believe (because it has a phat amount of storage) - https://youtu.be/9urZug-g5MA?si=N4jIVyAWJS5Or_sa It's great, I use it every day for basic storage and in home streaming from Jellyfin - which has client apps for all my devices, android, iOS, Amazon fire stick, Roku TV. I also use the "Finamp" client app as a background audio player. I set up this UNRAID + Jellyfin when the RT shutdown was announced, and immediately downloaded as much of LetsPlay and Achievement Hunter as I could, to have a local archive in case it ever went away - it works really well, I've never had any issues with it. I like having Jellyfin running as an app on unraid, it's very easy to extend unraids functionality with other apps (which are docker based) or to run virtual machines with real OS. It's easy to expend the storage non-destructively with more disks, without messing around with raid, windows storage spaces etc. Not that Ashley and Burnie will need this now they have gigabit internet - but as I don't have gigabit, I set up my own "steam cache" on the same server (in a windows VM which has steam installed) where I downloaded all my games - which my steam deck can then locally download from, instead of going out to the internet. I work in IT and I also set up other things like a domain controller and WSUS. Even on such a low spec server, it all runs fine for me at least ๐
Andy Burness
2025-08-26 06:52:06 +0000 UTCHi, Network engineer/admin of 7 years or so. I'm gonna be the online armchair asshole. Those EZ ends (as I call them) often fail in the long term in comparison to the regular ends. You're leaving the copper exposed on the end so any condensation will corrode and potentially short the ends. My first networking gig was high end AV networking for millionaire homes in a ski town. Every house that used those ends ended up needing them replaced regardless of who installed them. We ended up making a company policy to replace them anytime we found them on a job.
an elephantom
2025-08-25 19:38:51 +0000 UTC
