CmdrShepard42
@CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 days ago:
These people might be two-footed drivers. My mother used to do this and you’d see the brakes flash on and off while following behind her because she’d be hovering her foot on the brake pedal while also hitting the accelerator.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 4 days ago:
In Proxmox, LXCs allow you to easily share resources between containers like your iGPU can be shared with your Jellyfin container and a separate Immich container. From my understanding, VMs bind whatever resource to the VM which can’t easily be used with other VMs or containers.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
This thread is comparing the ease of setup between Plex and Jellyfin and having to purchase your own domain and set a bunch of stuff up on your own definitely doesn’t make for an easier install. You might be right about people’s ability to type in a URL, but this definitely illustrates the added difficulty in setting up Jellyfin.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
There are a lot of people here who simply cannot be bothered to figure out remote access
I think being apprehensive is natural when you’re entirely left on your own for security, knowing that you could leave yourself vulnerable if you do it incorrectly. Add to this the fact that half the info you’ll find on the process is people claiming you just need to open some ports, which you know to be wrong, and it’s easy to see why it’s hard to trust any advice you find.
- Comment on When I was a kid, "thongs" were footwear... 1 week ago:
What do they call “fanny packs” in the UK? Vagina pouches?
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 week ago:
It may be the phrasing in your original comment. It sounds like you’re questioning why anyone would watch videos on YouTube rather than questioning why YouTube is lumped in with traditional streaming service rankings.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 week ago:
I watch a ton of automotive centric channels, hobbyist electronics/PC/home automation/3D printing channels and a few weird niche ones like drain cleaning and dashcams, stuff you would never see (or has never been viable) on TV at least without a bunch of product placement and manufactured drama.
For TV and movies I have my own media server and I just download the stuff I, or friends and family, want to watch but I think the experience, content, and presentation is quite different than what you find on Youtube. They fill different roles for me personally as one is pure entertainment while the other is a mix of educational and entertainment in typically shorter formats.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 week ago:
Disney also owned April’s top streaming title, Grey’s Anatomy, which notched 3.9 billion viewing minutes and benefited from its multichannel and multiplatform availability.
WTF how are so many people still watching this show agter 20+ years? I honestly find this pretty shocking.
- Comment on Hands-On: EufyMake E1 UV Printer 1 week ago:
It can print on any surface so you could throw a mug in there and print on the side of it apparently. 3D printers require a flat bed to print an object on.
- Comment on Having to manage cables is a very 80s thing that we still have to do in 2025. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Having to manage cables is a very 80s thing that we still have to do in 2025. 1 week ago:
I’d like to imagine that you’ve found an ethernet cable that mimics the long coiled phone cords of the '80s and '90s so that you can walk around the house with your desktop PC chatting with your girlfriends all evening after school.
- Comment on Prototype of RTX 5090 Appears With Four 16-Pin Power Connectors, Capable of Delivering 2,400W 1 week ago:
And wiring is typically rated for current limits not voltage (within reason). Some 12 gauge wire doesn’t care if you’re pushing 12V, 120V, or 240V but is only rated for 20A.
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 week ago:
Sure they did, buddy. “Educate yourself” they say just like all those antivaxxers and COVID deniers do when they speak their nonsense. “All cities had public transportation” before cars existed.
Hilarious
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 2 weeks ago:
What does this even mean? Are you claiming all cities had railroad and public transportation hubs prior to cars being invented? I’m brainwashed because I don’t believe you can just seize private property and demolish tons of homes and businesses to build more efficient infrastructure in every moderate to large city in the country? Prior to cars existing, most cities were tiny and people didn’t commute 50 miles for work every day.
Can you point to the cities elsewhere where this transformation has occurred or where this already existed outside of maybe a handful of examples on the entire planet?
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 2 weeks ago:
This sounds great but isn’t really feasible in cities that are already built unfortunately.
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 2 weeks ago:
Correct they’ve never used lidar.
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 2 weeks ago:
Trains are great for moving people but only from one designated area to another. With most commuters, they might be all headed to the same city but completely different parts of the city that aren’t easy to access. Their homes might all be in the same city but a 45 minute bus ride to the 40 minute train ride to the 20 minute bus ride, which isn’t helpful for what might have been a 45 minute commute by car to begin with.
- Comment on one of the really bad, annoying aspects of doing drugs is the lack of quality control 2 weeks ago:
That was just decriminalization and the state legislature never followed through with anything on their end, let things get worse, and then acted like saviors by overturning the law, funneling all that funding toward police. It’s pure bullshit.
- Comment on Over Synology, and looking to build my first home lab. Could use some advice on parts... 2 weeks ago:
Depending on your future storage needs, you might check out Fractal’s Define series of cases. I have the Define 6 and have room for around 12 3.5" drives + 4 2.5" drives in a midtower format. It’s super silent too with four fans and the nine 3.5" drives I had in it previously (consolidated down to six larger capacity drives now).
- Comment on Someone should convince Trump to wear colorful robes or a uniform and a fancy hat. 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, with unanimous support from Democrats, the Republicans passed the “Take It Down Act” which makes it illegal to host any such image online.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 2 weeks ago:
I used to be a lube tech in a different life 15 years ago and would occasionally see vehicles without dipsticks. Like you said the German brands like BMW and Mercedes but also Chrysler vehicles like the 300 and Magnum had a tube for the transmission dipstick but no dipstick inside of it just a cap on the tube.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 2 weeks ago:
File transfers between devices is one reason. With NVME R/W speeds you can easily saturate 1Gb networking equipment. I think 10Gb is more than most people need most of the time but it would still be nice to have if it weren’t so expensive. I just bought a small 2.5Gb switch to connect my server and PC together since both have 2.5Gb NICs and that seems to be a happy medium.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 2 weeks ago:
Furthermore, I don’t see the point in Fakespot since Amazon bends over backwards to accept returns for any reason.
Why go through that hassle if you can avoid it in the first place?
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 2 weeks ago:
Because tenants pay for their own electricity so there’s no direct incentive for the owners to install solar in order to reduce a bill that someone else pays.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 2 weeks ago:
Owned apartments are just referred to as condos and presumably the condo owner owns the balcony while the “HOA/COA” owns the building.
- Comment on Why Balcony Solar Panels Haven’t Taken Off in the US 2 weeks ago:
Or the fact that most people with balconies live in rented apartments and apartment managers aren’t going to pay to subsidize an electric bill that tenants are entirely responsible for paying.
- Comment on *arr stack newb, question about future expansion 2 weeks ago:
Also MergerFS like mentioned above, SnapRAID, OMV, Unraid, TrueNAS, or just plain ZFS. Something to create a pool of drives will be your best bet. These all do it while some are full OSes or hypervisors and others are things you can implement in your current OS. What are you currently using for your OS?
- Comment on With the recent happenings with Synology/Plex, I’ve decided it’s time to make the move and up my self-hosting game, just need some input from the veterans to solidify my plan and put it into action. 2 weeks ago:
AFAIK no you can’t use different sized drives. I have read about the update to allow you to expand existing pools but it hasn’t made its way to the version of ZFS that Proxmox uses, but I hope it does soon.
Previously, I was using SnapRAID which does allow you to use any size drive provided your parity drives are equal or larger to the rest of the drives in the pool so you may check that out. It worked well for me on Windows.
I would caution that if you plan to build a big library over time, to just bite the bullet and get matching drives to start with because I tried mismatched drives purchased over several years (whatever was a good deal when I needed to expand the pool) and it got to the point where it was becoming unmanageable once I hit about 8 drives as SATA ports became limited and HDD capacities on the market increased (why waste a port on a 6TB drive when you could have a 14TB-20TB drive instead?). With this new server build, I just bought several matching 14TB drives from serverpartdeals.com and had to transfer everything from the old SnapRAID pool to my ZFS pool which took about a week with rsync.
- Comment on With the recent happenings with Synology/Plex, I’ve decided it’s time to make the move and up my self-hosting game, just need some input from the veterans to solidify my plan and put it into action. 2 weeks ago:
You might look at TechHuts previous tutorial on setting this all up from around a year ago where he instead used Cockpit to manage his ZFS pool shares rather than TrueNAS. I followed that one a few months ago with a minor amount of Linux experience and got everything set up on Proxmox quite easily. I do recall some people complaining about having issues with permissions or some such which is why he created this new tutorial, but I didn’t run into those issues for whatever reason.
This new Proxmox build has been rock solid after running everything on flaky laptops, mini PCs, and a Windows-based server build for the past 12+ years and I’ve also used it to now run things like Jellyseer, Immich, Frigate, and more which is awesome, but I did spend a good chunk of money for a lot of new hardware, redundant SSDs, RAM, etc so you may be better off starting with something more basic to tinker and learn with.
- Comment on Advice needed on Nextcloud + Immich Setup (with a SSD and HDD's) 3 weeks ago:
Yes this is how I have mine setup to do just like OP is wanting.
