From all this paranoia about drones lately, I’ve learned that apparently there are a number of humans who’ve never looked up at the night sky before.

I certainly hope this isn’t real. If it is, though, we’ve clearly held Darwinism at bay for far too long and maybe we should just start letting these things play out.

(Potentially) rusty nail covered in cow shit. That sounds like a bacterial nightmare.

I need to know if they have books! If you go home with someone and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!

I’m a proponent of literacy, by any means necessary.

The wheel of Karma continues to turn.

KC Missouri is the fun side. KC Kansas is for the folks who want to live in a somewhat urban setting, but still be WASP-y about it.

The biggest player is a company called EviCore by Evernorth…

Just a letter off from “EvilCore” - could they be any more on-the-nose?

Yeah, I’m overdue for a PC rebuild. Once I save up for that, I’ll probably migrate the server portion of Plex to the new rig.

Excellent points. For my particular use-case scenario, x264 for 1080p works best for the users my library is shared with. I recently overhauled my library to get as much 1080p content into x264 as I could, and my friends have noticed a significant improvement in performance. I still have 4k content, but it’s mostly for me since my personal setup supports it. Since my NAS isn’t having to transcode literally everything now, it’s no issue if it needs to transcode a few 4k streams for my remote users.

I’m running a DS918+, so certainly not the newest model, but it’s still trucking. I was thinking about upgrading to a newer chassis model, but I see the newer ones have moved to AMD processors that don’t support hardware transcoding. Go figure.

I did make a generalized statement there, you’re right. My opinions on the matter are largely influenced by the TRaSH Guides, which are a primary source for file quality settings for a significant portion of people managing media libraries. Best practices for 1080p is x264 since it 1) can be direct streamed on the most number of 1080p devices (just because you can transcode a bunch of streams at once doesn’t mean you should), and 2) has video quality aspects that are important to consider if you’re concerned with anything more than file size.

With all the files in “proper” formats, my NAS has no issues direct streaming, and transcoding the few files here and there that need it.

Mine is hosted on a NAS. So no, not nvidia.

I have hardware transcoding. I also have enough friends that more than 2 or 3 may be trying to watch something at the same time. Good job assuming the simplest setup, though.

Downloading a 1080p movie in HEVC? Hope it’s not a shared library.

ETA: Downvote all you want, but come back and talk to me when you try to share a library full of x265 1080p movies and tell me how your transcoding is going.

My dog made a few of those this morning.

This is what happens when you fart in a smart car.

Do these work ok on a glass top stove?

What a legacy, though! Sounds like a lovely human being.

Had me really interested for the first few frames.

He’ll need a presidential mistress. Melania already gave him a son, you know she doesn’t let him touch her anymore.

No dress rehearsal today, it’s the stage manager’s nap time, go practice your lines for a few hours.