PeachMan @ PeachMan @lemmy.one

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I've heard of people bagging and relocating them several miles away. Makes sense to me if you're careful about where you put them. Not sure how kosher that is though.....

You can convert most movies to 1080p x265 and it takes up a little over a gigabyte of space. If you're already hosting 4K movies, why do you give a shit about another gigabyte? If you're NOT hosting 4K movies, then you have ZERO reason to transcode, just make everything 1080p and call it a day.

Also, transcoding DOES cost you money, your electric bill goes up, even if you don't track it or care. So spend the extra fifty bucks on a few extra terabytes now rather than spending it over the course of several months transcoding. And if you cut out transcoding, you can run Plex on VERY cheap hardware, so that saves you money too.

Transcoding. Is. Dumb.

Most Macs are overpriced, but the $599 M2 Mac Mini is an absolute STEAL compared to the rest of their lineup. And its existence drives the price of used Mac Minis down, which is also great.

Don't transcode on Plex if you can avoid it. It's very compute-intensive and it makes your streams look like shit. Convert your videos to nice formats that most people can direct play (like x264 or x265) and turn transcoding off. It'll keep your hardware running longer, keep your electric bill down, and your streams will look better. Win-win-win-win.

Yessss that's a nice sweet spot in pricing, still too rich for my blood but I bet it'll drive the prices further down on the $300-$400 cards.

This seems pretty obvious. A decent e-bike costs like a thousand dollars, and you can get a cheap one for even less. Cars cost tens of thousands of dollars. There have always been more bikes sold than cars, because they're small, cheap, and functional.

I feel like NextCloud needs some relatively capable hardware to run on, and their minimum specs are bullshit.

I've tried it on a relatively capable PC (with an old i7) in a docker container in WSL, and it ran like shit. I'm sure it would have run better natively, but I don't want to devote that entire machine to NextCloud.

I've tried it on a Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB) and it ran like shit. People keep saying it runs on low-powered hardware, but I have yet to see it.

I think it's just you. What extensions do you have installed?

I'd suggest disabling ALL of them to see if things improve significantly. Then, re-enable them one by one to see which one might be the culprit.

I didn't say they were legit. You seem to think that stealing keys from your local library is, though? Lmao

I thought Facebook lite didn't include messenger features? If they're bundling it all into one lite app, I'd actually say that's a GOOD thing.

You think stealing from your local library is somehow better or more reliable than an OEM key? LOL

I liked it at first, but I find myself disliking Logical Increments the more that I look at it....if only they did a better job of being more flexible, like showing me other hardware that's similarly priced. Yes, I could pair THIS EXACT processor with THIS EXACT graphics card, but what if something similar is on sale or I just want to see other stuff available in my price range, and see how it compares?

For example, imagine I'm a shopper that thinks ray tracing and DLSS are very important (I'm not, but bear with me). They're recommending mostly AMD cards, with no indication of what Nvidia RTX cards have a similar price/performance ratio. Specific features might be a little more important to me than just a benchmark score and a dollar value.

Or maybe you're a porn recruiter, that's a double whammy.

Uhhhh I don't know about y'all but I got one Windows license for free back in college, and I've upgraded that one ever since to newer versions of 8, 10, and 11 for free. Oh yeah, and I actually scammed a second license out of that one, I just held on to my old Win7 drive for a few years, then booted it up in a new system one day and associated it with a different MS account, and upgraded it all the way to 10. The upgrade process gave me a second Windows key apparently, so I got two licenses for zero dollars.

And that's not even mentioning the $5 OEM licenses that you can get online..... Also, you know you don't NEED a Windows license, right? You can leave Windows deactivated indefinitely, the only downside is that "please activate Windows" shame text on your desktop (which you can get rid of with a registry edit).

Of course they can, they literally own the machine. You don't own it, so don't treat it like it's your own private job hunting platform or porn viewer.

https://9to5google.com/2021/08/03/android-tv-lineageos-walmart-dynalink-chromecast/

https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/android-tv.4276/

Uhhhhh I first played Sons of Liberty when I was like 12 lol. Video games can and will be played by children.

It should be noted that this is advice specific to white men in Western countries 😆 but yes, it's true.

Right, if you pay to have sex with a person that's utterly destitute, completely desperate, and has no other options, is that REALLY consensual?

There are plenty of examples of sex workers that are NOT in that situation, but there are just as many (I would guess more) examples of people that ARE in that situation.

I'd be curious to see whether sex workers increase/decrease in a region that implements a universal basic income.

Fair enough, the features are nice. I just want people to know that they're compromising on security by using Telegram. But if you don't have any REAL reason to be paranoid, then you don't really NEED to use Signal.