Hopefully dude never gets caught (Which he probably won’t as it’s now been greater than 48 hours, and we all know what that means if you’ve seen The First 48)

But if he does, it’s going to be awfully hard putting together a jury that hasn’t heard of JURY NULLIFICATION

How do you know they’re not a witch? Fuckin Witchists man

But it would not surprise me if Microsoft goes around paying OEM manufacturers to not bundle anything but windows with their products.

They already did that in the 90s

Id like to formally propose !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world as the new /c/news lmao

Not having sympathy for the death of another/Saying karma bit them in the ass != Wishing for another’s dearh

Doesn’t Ubuntu and a few other distros still sell physical install discs?

Not entirely true, there is absolutely a lot of AI going on in science and medicine, it’s definitely doing some good for humanity on that front. And thanks to stupid VC investors money chasing unicorns everywhere, it does have a trickle down effect to the actual “good” AI.

It’s just that Medicine and Science AI articles aren’t money making articles, so you don’t see them as much.

Eh, it’s not like that’s not a solvable problem. Electric cars and AC also suffer from the same issue wherein they’re as clean or dirty as the electric generation they’re connected to.

Hook an AC to a renewable energy source and it’s not all that dirty (provided no leaks), AI data centers are the same way.

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.

If you’re open to suggestions, I’d suggest having your NAS doing what it’s best at, serving as file storage and then build an actual server that’ll be leaps and bounds better that’s directly hooked into it. As a file server, that NAS has many years of life left.

Looking at the price that NAS cost new, you could build an absolute juggernaut of a Plex server for around the same price.

I read through a bit, and it seems the whole anti-4K/x265 stance and even the anti-Transcoding stance as a whole was based on a Plex forum post “The Rules of 4K”, which if you follow back to the source states:

NOTE: for 2022 – Plex has come a long way since this FAQ was originally written, HW transcoding has become more available and more stable, and tone mapping was recently added to address the hdr/sdr color conversion issues.

The first 4 ‘rules’ generally are no longer as important as they once were, but may still be a good thing to bear in mind.

And I agree with that statement, coupled with proper hardware (like I said even an old and cheap 1060 will do the job nicely, or even the cheap but new Intel Arc GPUs have proven excellent for this task) Plex’s transcoding is rock solid, there’s little reason to not transcode these days.

Plus it’s not like device support for native x265 isn’t growing

Well there’s your problem, it ain’t got no gas in it!

HW transcoding is more than just flipping the switch in the Plex dashboard.

For one, you need a GPU of some kind, even shitty or old ones like a 1060 will get you far

For two, it needs to be properly configured for PCIe pass through on Docker (if Plex is in a docker container)

For three, a NAS is like…second to last tier as far as Plex servers go (with a few exceptions) with the bottom tier being “repurposed old computer”. While there’s nothing wrong with that, you can’t make generalized statements like you did based on that kinda setup.

Then something is wrong with your setup, HW transcoding should be able to handle 3 transcode streams of a HEVC 1080p video file easily. I’ve had peaks of 8-10 simultaneous transcoding streams without issue (going above 5 does require you to patch the Nvidia driver (if using Nvidia consumer GPUs))

share a library full of x265 1080p movies and tell me how your transcoding is going.

Sounds like somebody missed the memo on hardware transcoding LMAO

I have a 200TB+ library full of 4K AND 1080p movies/shows, no issues transcoding here.

blu ray still looks better than streaming by a long shot

The commercial offerings? Yes

Downloaded media + Plex/Jellyfin for streaming? No (Well, technically, depends on ones preferences, taste and configuration.)

Blu-ray also requires far more physical space

“Calculators can’t solve word problems!” Line also seems to be failing the test of time lol

Nah it’d be more like “Cambodia has internet, why didn’t you remote in‽”

Then again, I could always blame it on security, “Tried, guys in netsec banned Cambodia addresses” LMAO

There are exceptions to every rule LMAO

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if you post something publicly, expect it to be used publicly.

OH MY GOD! THEY KILLED KENNY!

Why TF is discord on the list for “best community chat app”‽ That shit should be disqualified.