It makes it harder for law enforcement or others to access the phone without knowing the pin

I just bought a Sony BRAVIA 8 and it’s close to this. Never connected to WiFi. It goes directly to my HTPC input and I never see the home screen unless I want to.

Different branches work together all the time.

I’ll never understand why they spend so much effort pushing ads into people’s faces

money

Also, disappointingly, most people don’t care about the ad all that much.

ah shit

But ceramic plates can probably be put into a working enclosure to get the data from it again

As long as you’re not trying to do any transcoding, you could run all this on a pi 4. I’d recommend 4 GB minimum if you’re running a stack of arrs, just in case you want to add more to it.

You’d have to use a USB enclosure for the SSD.

There’s no hard limit or standard, but I think 14 TB might be the largest you could find in a consumer HDD. The WD EasyStore goes on sale pretty often and sells for a good deal. Those should be quiet and already come in an external case. Look for reviews about it before buying.

The sound is determined by what kind of drive it is. Consumer drives are for in-home use and are usually quiet. Enterprise drives are for dedicated server rooms or data centers and can get loud because it’s loud in there already.

I would recommend sticking with consumer level HDDs if this is a concern. The cost per TB isn’t as good.

I bought a 14 TB Seagate Exos and put it in a Fractal R5, which is a very good noise insulating case. I can hear clicking from anywhere on the same floor as that machine if I listen for it.

You could maybe pair two consumer drives together in JBOD to get the space you want, but that’s more expensive.

thank you for your service

why sub to any of them when you can sub to a VPN?

yarr

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ GFIBREI Adapter for Android Google Phone to Power Adapter 6 ft USB-C to USB-A Certified Adapter

I used to run everything on a 4 TB and found it filled up really fast. 10-14 GB for a good quality 1080p movie, 3 GB per episode for the good shows, etc. It all added up really fast and I’d have to clean out old stuff pretty frequently.

I ended up buying a refurbished 14 TB HDD and it’s been smooth sailing since then. I think I’m a little more than halfway through it right now.

In terms of transcoding streams, the i5 8400T would win, hands down. The integrated GPU on the 8th Gen and higher Intel chips can do several (like, 8+ or something crazy) 4K streams simultaneously. The iGPU is just a beast. Be sure to enable hardware transcoding in the Plex server settings to use it properly. Look at Intel QuickSync for more info on that.

That being said, if you’re streaming media to a modern device, you should be able to direct play everything and won’t need transcoding. I find transcoding is only necessary when people I’ve shared with are trying to stream and my bandwidth is too shitty to handle the full bitrate.

I see several options here:

• Thinkserver only, direct streaming stuff or minimal transcoding
• Thinkserver as NAS, SFFPC as Plex transcoder
• SFFPC as server, not as much storage

Billions from the air force? That’s a huge reach, dude. The aircraft they fly over are already going to fly anyway so the pilots meet their minimum flight hours. They use it as training to be at a location at exactly the right time, as if striking a target.

3,000 black files of NATO

Pretty basic

Buy in bulk and freeze what you don’t need immediately.

I bought one of those giant Costco ground beef packs. I think it was like 10 lbs or something for $30.

I packed it into patties and seasoned it immediately. I stacked them with parchment paper and threw them into the freezer. They turned out great.

A VPN.

Mullvad is £5/mo. AirVPN is €7/mo.

Both are top tier VPNs. Mullvad has all RAM servers. AirVPN offers port forwarding.

Plex with Sonarr/Radarr/VPN/qBitTorrent is the way to go.

Until this is officially added, there are browser addons that will automatically convert links to your own home instance.

MAS is directly affected by this and doesn’t work anymore.

On their GitHub it looks like they’re looking for a way around it.