A NAS is just a small desktop computer. If you have a motherboard/CPU/ram/Ethernet/case and a lot of SSDs/HDDs you are good to go.

Just don’t bother to buy something marketed as NAS. It’s expensive and less modular than any desktop PC.

Just my opinion.

What do you mean by showstopper? I only encode my shows into AV1/opus and I never had any transcoding happening on any of my devices.

It’s well supported on any recent Browser compared to x264/x265… specially 10bit encodes. And software decoding is nearly present on any recent device.

Dunno about 4k though, I haven’t the necessary screen resolution to play any 4k content… But for 1080p, AV1 is the way to go IMO.

• Free open/source
• Any browser supported
• Better compression
• Same objective quality with lower bitrate
• A lot of cool open source project arround AV1

It has it’s own quirks for sure (like every codec) but it’s far from a bad codec. I’m not a specialist on the subject but after a few months of testing/comparing/encoding… I settled with AV1 because it was comparative better than x264/x265.

Thanks :) Now I remember ! It’s always AI…

Dunno how good their strike went and/or/if their actions had any effect on stack* and derivatives…

I just hope there will be some open source replacement maybe with federation? Dunno, I’m not a contributor but stack* most of the time solved my questions I had and I will probably miss the human interaction :/.

Can you please tell me why? I read about it and made a lot of noise but I forgot what it was about.

If i recall A lot of power user even threaten to delete their post as strike?

Nothing fancy but I found an old RPI3 and want to selfhost Vaultwarden and piped on that thing to give my parents a way to watch YouTube without those nasty ads and give them a proper and easy way to store their password. (Over wireguard tunnel)

Also If the universe aligns buy a N100 or 200? To host my own router/switch setup and finally take advantage of my 5Gbit fiber 🫤. I still need to figure out how I get WiFi AP to work with a N100…

Not much but I have a lot other things to figure out but mostly software wise :).

Thanks for the share and the new channel added to my favs!

The woman’s voice on the podcast was very AI’ish… I mean, the way she spoke, the wording… I know this is mostly marketing shit speaking, but that was the first thing that poped up into my mind when I heard her.

How so? From my perspective I’m just saying that yes Microsoft probably doesn’t need to implemement such measure, however does that mean that they don’t?

But that’s always a take people won’t argue on because… It’s Microsoft, why would they do that? But why not?

That’s people hiding behind the benefit of the doubt giving Microsoft a positive opinion given in the absence of full evidence.

Happy holidays.

I tried a lot of self-hosted read-it later services, but they all have some wired issues when scrapping some specific websites with discussion (like github, stackoverflow…) so I gave up on them.

For bookmarking and archiving I use Linkding.

For text processing and archiving I use singlefile + zotero.

It’s related though. If you have enough money, the means and interest, nothing is impossible. Specially if you are a big player/monopoly in IT.

Yes I don’t have any degree in cryptography, AI, or any related stuff in security and mathematics, however I read a lot, tinker a lot and work hard to maintain my homelab and self-hosted services. I’m not intelligent by any mean but I’m not stupid either, critical thinking is a very important aspect but I digress.

To give you another example, to better understand my comment on why I’m thinking like this, are some of the NIST curves in cryptography to sign SSL certificates which do not contain any backdoor by itself but have known weaknesses which allowed the NSA to snoop on communication for years… Intentionally or not that’s you to decided with your personal believes. And that’s not something I read on reddit or first search engine result but mostly research papers or people in the education sector writing trusted paper. And thankfully zlibrary exist or I woulsn’t be able to access those resources.

I surely oversimplified everything here, with my limited knowledge, but that doesn’t take away (IMO) that we shouldn’t trust any big player in the IT infrastructure overall.

PS: And yes Microsoft probably doesn’t need to implemented such measure, cauz’ people are anyway giving those info away for free… You’re right on this point :).

Uhhhg… Why so offensive? I’m just saying that if you trust a multi billion dollar company, your trust is in the wrong place.

If you are privacy conscious and have to deal with Microsoft’s services because your workplace doesn’t know better… I feel sorry for you.

Wait until an internal leak reveals how this was a self-backdoored/malware vulnerability.

I will probably get down voted for this comment (because conspiracy?) but in a few years we will see a lot a pikachu faced memes about it. Can’t wait to laugh my ass off.

The most upsetting thing IMO, is that people are just so brainwashed that they forgot what this was all about…

Oh yeah so only couch watching :) !

I can’t jump in for everything related to NAS, Yunohost or RAID5.

However, If you wan’t to host the arr stack with jellyfin or other media server, you probably need something to encode on the fly (some kind of GPU).

CPU encoding is superior but slower. Also this would leave your server CPU for other tasks more important. Encoding is very demanding and could bottleneck your whole server if you only rely on the CPU to do the heavy lifting and share your media server with family members.

Update

Planning to close my Google Play Developer Account. Please say hi if you are interested in obtaining the latest gplay release files from me to help in publishing this app.

Seems like most open source project are leaving Google’s official store? That’s nice but will leave out some potential visibility for people who have no idea other than Google Store.

I wish their was also an easy way to leave github behind :/. Wait&See !!

funky boards which are laptop CPUs soldered to an mATX motherboard.

Expandability

Aren’t those mutual exclusive? Or is there a specific reason why they are directly soldered to the mainboard?

Not directly an issue, however I found NextCloud and OwnCloud to much bloated and not very responsive. I tried all the possible alternatives and they all had some strange drawbacks (proprietary database, chunked into some weired file format…)

Sure I could just use my nextcloud instance without all the possible add-ons, but I just wanted a simple and a reliable cloud service that just syncs my files between my devices without all the bloat.

My final argument would be that it is written in PHP… Programming language of the past ! While I’m probably wrong on this one and I do have no idea of the programming language realm and probably evolved over time, I do prefer something written in a newer more “secure” language.

So that’s why I settled with syncthing. It’s not a cloud service but a syncing service. It’s different but has the same purpose in the end with more configuration options on how/where and when to sync between my devices.

As a final note (cauz I remembered something) 3 years ago I had a really hard time to make NextCloud work properly, via docker, with my reverse proxie (Treafik) I had to allow it manually in a configuration file and still didn’t work great, but was probably my skill issues at that time :).

Thank you ! 😄

Thanks :) ! Could you tell me what use case/purpose such function can have from a dev perspective?