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  • better than Linux ever was before

    I did Linux on the desktop for 15 years. I was primarily Windows at home, Linux at work. With a job change, I took a detour through Mac for a couple of years, then WSL hit, and I ran Windows for quite a while.

    I dropped back in, but only at home when Bookworm landed. I was playing Steam games with video acceleration right out of the gate. For a lot of people, it’s just going to work right out of the gate, and updates are just going to work. Now that a lot of shit’s going Electron, a lot of apps that had an edge in windows are now identical through their web interfaces.

    If you’re not playing games with a lot of anti-cheat, using proprietary hardware or don’t need access to some windows-only apps (or you can put up with Wine), all the distros are up to the point where they operate just as you’d expect them to.






  • Plex does this on its own. It’s one of the features they provide. The client/service knows when the server is local even though you go outside to make the initial connection. They go through a lot of trouble to do this. You connect externally it brokers the initial connection proxies date of back and forth to see if you can talk to each other directly, your client knows your server is now local and it switches over.

    I don’t know if any other video hosting package that does this. Jellyfin certainly would not. I ‘think’ if you threw a tailscale in the middle, It would be able to do it without hair pinning as long as you were using a local exit node instead of tailnet. They’d still probably go through that local exit node.


  • rumba@lemmy.ziptoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHome server advice
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    5 days ago

    As people have said, the Intel CPU with quick sync will be much better on power.

    You could also use your m.2 to caache your regular hard drive with BTRFS and LVM or something like https://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/

    Maybe spin down your HDD when it’s not being used. Most of your power savings are going to come from not transcoding unless you need to, transcoding efficiently when you need to, and powering things down when you don’t need them.

    In Linux you can mess with your clock regulation, probably even put the box to sleep when you don’t need it, maybe wake on lan.