I wish clients would prioritize low seed torrents.

I disable queuing and just have a bandwidth cap on my torrent client. Technically, I’m seeding thousands of torrents and don’t have any issue.

Occasionally when I go to clean up some torrents (like when migrating servers) I purge based on most seeders first and never kill anything below 3 seeds.

X Chrome

Ughhhhhhh

DRM. They don’t like how open Linux can be so to combat people using it for pirating their content the companies restrict it.

For instance, Netflix is capped at 720p on Linux unless you are on Opera, apparently.

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/30081

I have a 200+TB library for my Plex and jellyfin instances. The Roku was just a family friendly launcher and remote. I bought them when you could still disable ads in the secret menus and most of the Roku BS is blocked by a pair of piholes, but I’ve gotten annoyed chasing new urls to blacklist.

It’s DRM for the other app bullshit that becomes a hindrance for going the Kodi route. There really isn’t a good alternative that I’ve found. Linux boxes will limit some services to 720p and jt’s mostly baseball and local news programs that I’ll lose.

For the news, I need to look at something like hdhomerun or something else I can pair with an OTA antenna.

For baseball, not much other than the absolute mess that live streaming sports is. Doable, sure. But a pita and sketchy last I looked into it. My season ticket comes with MLB.tv, but the irony is that I’m “in network” so all my teams games are blacked out for me. I had previously created a VPN tunnel and routed one of my Rokus to a different state to watch it. But it’s not a user friendly experience.

For games, I already have a batocera box running on an old dell thin client with way more power than a pi, and it has Kodi on it. But the UI/UX still sucks.

I have a Roku ultra in my kid’s room.

I do not want her subjected to ads when she turns on the TV.

This is unacceptable to me and I will be replacing all my Rokus immediately.

When my girlfriend moved in, she had a big TCL Roku TV its software absolutely sucks. But it would keep a blinking led on ALL THE TIME if it wasn’t connected to wifi.

I put it on my iot network, and I’m considering null routing it.

I actually had a Roku box plugged into it since it had a better experience, but I’m probably going to switch that to a Nvidia shield pro because of this ad bullshit.

Totally reasonable. I don’t shuck anymore, so I don’t have the concern of getting the wrong disk.

I’ve personally never had a problem with their returns before. But I haven’t had a doa disk out of their “renewed” internal disks yet.

Specifically the renewed drives sold by Amazon. They are the returned/refurbished drives. I’ve probably bought 10 or so in the last few years and that’s how they’ve all come. I haven’t had a failed drive out of them yet. (Seagate 22tb and WD reds 18tb)

Amazons renewed drives usually come well packaged. Antistatic bag, suspended inside very thick air pocket thing that completely encases the drive, inside a good cardboard box.

My father got us kicked off our ISP for downloading music from random public trackers.

I’ve been on private ones for years and never gotten a warning.

We all are. The left and the right.

We have all been told from different sources who or what to be mad about.

Some were so mad about contrived issues they voted in someone who campaigned on destroying the federal government.

Others are pissed off that that person who was voted in is destroying the federal government.

The outrage machine literally is why the fascist pig is in the Whitehouse in the first place.

What you might be asking is why we aren’t rioting in the streets. Just know that some of us are 4 times as far from our countries capital as London is from Berlin. In a blue state, who would I be protesting to? The people who already agree with me?

I second the super micro picks. They are relatively cheap and super reliable.

Currently I run a 36 bay 4u supermicro server. It runs unraid because I’m lazy and it seems to handle the mismatched disks really well. Most of my stuff is now docker containers out of laziness. But I prefer VMs for production services. I built this box to also be able to handle external SAS cards in case I need to add another shelf. But I really wish unraid would support multiple pools of their main storage type. But I hope to replace all my disks with 22tb before I get to the next shelf.

I used to run a 7 node ceph server for my storage. Which has a ton of benefits going into data warehouse stages. But it ended up being more frustrating than I needed. At least 5 years ago when I was running it.