If you know Linux CLI, is there a reason to use GUI? Same principle CLI gives you more granular control and GUI simplifies a lot of things, gives you more of insight etc

Ventoy

yeah, but you don’t work if you watch a movie on a TV, op didn’t mention multi user environment where laptop would do both at the same time

yeah, unfortunately with NAS it probably won’t be as easy as connecting via usbc/thunderbolt and using it as a DAS, you’d need a proper network connection, you know, ethernet dongle, network setup, sharing etc.

I’d use a NAS connected to a router via a cable, everything else could be used wirelessly, AFAIK TVs wired network cards are shitty and wireless in many cases will be faster anyway (on of my TVs has 100Mb NIC…), if you want it cheap then buy some n100 based barebone NAS/router and install the NAS/RAID software solution by yourself, like TrueNAS (Scale recommended), unraid, proxmox, OpenMediaVault or… xpenology, for example i bought AOOSTAR R1, bought 2 4TB disks and installed xpenology, jellyfin hardware transcoding works with some tinkering (mainly reading documentation, not even touching any command line), mine looks nice near the TV and router

why not? technically MBP is more than capable of transcoding on the fly without breaking sweat, even a N100 based nas would do it in HW, the user experience of using a laptop for that is another thing

TrueNAS has some built-in kinda appstore, OMV on the other hand docker compose isn’t that straightforward, first you need to add some unofficial repo, then install docker compose, then configure it

Thanks, I’ll check it out, testing TrueNAS nightly at the moment😁

Lol, nice, I’ll look in October then, also there’s a (LTT backed, TrueNAS based) HexOS in the works, zimaOS (casas based complete OS) seems to have a proper RAID support but I wasn’t able to check it out in a virtualbox

asking the important question, but yeah, the plot is essential in porn

All the hinges I’ve seen were metallic, what fails most of the time is the metal->plastic interface

the hinges disliked that

That’s why those exist

Wut?

ZSTD FTW

as the rest said lossless compression won’t really work on media files as they’re already compressed, there are probably some compression layers based on fuse you could mount over your cloud storage mount point (if it supports mounting in linux) and it’d be transparent, but in case of video files i believe your only solution is to reencode those files, handbrake is a nice GUI tool

You can shave what you want, it’s your life

i guess “beaver” would’ve been kinda awkward with today’s connotations with shaving the beaver etc.