I’ve been using the same 10+ year old 128G SSD for transcoding, cache, and metadata storage for like 6 years now across multiple tiny servers (as I’ve upgraded) with limited RAM. My current one has 16G of RAM, which is more than enough for JF, but not enough to store a whole movie transcode, let alone multiple at once. Refycled small old SSDs are a lot cheaper and easier to come by than RAM these days, that’s all I’m saying. No hate of course, your setup makes sense for what you have, I’m just saying my way is cheaper and more than fast enough for people just building their servers now.

tmpfs is overkill. I just use a crappy old 128G SSD and it’s still way faster than needed for all of my transcodes combined.

Anyway just my 2 cents.

As a programmer who grew up in rural nowhere-land, I’m convinced most people who glorify farming have never spent a day on a farm doing any actual work.

Either that or they’re isolationist due to being religious nutjobs (solidly 1/3rd to 1/2 of people in the middle of nowhere IME)

It’s probably database performance related. There’s a massive PR undergoing round after round of reviews that, when merged, will be a change to 10.12 and will resolve all of the new database performance issues experienced in certain edge cases (book libraries, large music libraries, large collections, etc)

On the Nvidia Shield the MPV backend doesn’t really work, it has an issue with stuttering. Works great on my other TV, though. Besides that, just a few crashes early on, nothing recently, though.

I’ve been using it for a couple months. It’s been great, for the most part

My logitech wireless mice will run on a single AA for like … 2 years of daily use, I wanna say? At least 18 months.

I tend to agree. When I built a PC from spare parts for my brother-in-law, I put Bazzite on it. Very clean and relatively foolproof

Nobara is Fedora but pre-configured for gaming. They mention it briefly in the video.

Agreed, but I’ve been seeing people recommending Arch as a first distro lately, so…

Is it an assumption if there’s a complete lack of unit tests?

Unclear

I used to run the Liquorix kernel with Mint. Should work fine. It’s based on the latest upstream with some extra tuning for desktop specific performance. Usually only a day or two behind upstream latest.

So happy to hear this. It’s so nasty to me when devs lock essential features like offline playback behind a paywall.

Audiobookshelf is great. For iOS I’ve got a friend with an iPhone who said that Still is feature complete and the in-app purchases are basically just an optional donation.

The language itself is not hard. It’s reading other people’s code written in it that is hard.

So basically like any other programming language.

Just threw up in my mouth a little

Yeah, if they were just running it locally off a GPU it would be cooler

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Don’t trust AI to know what they’re doing for you. The only time they work reliably as a tool is when you already know what you’re doing enough to spot their errors/hallucinations.

AI is the wrong tool here. You need to do real internet research.