RxBrad

Oh, terrific.

Let’s just make every single functionality in cars be a separate paid subscription service.

Switch to a PAYG account. Continue to use Always Free resources. Still pay nothing. And don’t get your account yoinked for underutilization anymore.

That’s worked for me so far, for almost a year now. (knock on wood)

No.

This is not what Discord is for.

People need to stop trying to use Discord as a forum, or a wiki, or a website, or a file repo, or as the Support page for a product.

Discord is group chat. You say something. It’s relavent for five minutes. Then it might as well have never happened.

Web search is rapidly getting worse & worse, unfortunately. Thanks, AI & SEO-chasers…

I’ve definitely noticed the spam, and had to unsub from a couple kbin communities on my own. I’m pretty sure [email protected] was more spam than not-spam…

Duck spez, but in the good way?

Last year Google had a thing for past customers where if someone used your code when they bought a Pixel, both you and they got a $100 voucher.

Those expire on the last day of September.

Hey Google… I see you releasing this phone 4 days after the expiration date of the $100 Play Store vouchers that many of us have stashed away.

I used to get excited by new Android versions. But now I barely notice the difference when a new one drops.

I also wonder if Mastodon could be more integrated with Lemmy would that improve things.

I still don’t understand why so many people want to cram that square peg into that round hole.

Much like I never wanted my Reddit & Twitter mixed together… Lemmy & Mastodon just seem so incompatible to want to smoosh them together.

Yes kbin sort of does it, but it’s basically like two totally different worlds that happen to share a common account.

Unless tons of people are accessing your pictures, I’d recommend Tailscale instead.

7th gen Intel (Kaby Lake) can encode h265, also. Not just 8th gen.

Source: I encode to h265 almost daily using Quicksync on my i5-7500.

Intel 7th gen & higher CPUs have Quicksync that does hardware h265 encoding.

You can get an old i5-7500 PC pretty cheap these days. That’s what I have, and tDarr converts about an hour of 1080p h264 content to h265 in roughly 10min.

Comcast (no other ISPs thanks to local legislation). Suburbs of the 2nd largest city in my state (Michigan).

$84/month for 200/10Mbps with a 1.2TB cap.

You have it great.

I’m very slowly typing up a blog post on how I did it, but I had success tunneling my Plex through T-Mobile’s CGNAT by running this Docker container on my local machine and on a free (technically PAYGo using always-free services) Oracle Cloud account.

Much like Cloudflare, this is for sending specific-port traffic through the tunnel.

https://github.com/DigitallyRefined/docker-wireguard-tunnel

Pretty sure I saw that turtle humping a lawn ornament on TikTok.

Slow news day?

I’m partial to OpenMediaVault…

Definitely consider 16GB if you’re using Immich. I started with 8GB and had to upgrade. (on the bright side, 32GB DDR4 was just over $40)

I’d also say that an i7 is likely overkill for your use case (despite other comments here).

I run an i5-7500 with PhotoPrism, Plex, tDarr, and about 30 other services. The power draw barely registers on my 1000W UPS (this includes my SFF PC, external USB HDD, and 3 network switches). And my CPU rarely jumps above 20% utilization.