That makes sense.

I’m certainly of the camp that it’s bad for developers to use to coordinate with their communities via discord in part because it’s terrible for documentation/disorganized.

Guess I’ve just never given super big discord channels the time of day since they seem about as productive as a major twitch streamer’s chat. Like you said, a bit like screaming into an avalanche, everything is lost to the noise.

What issues did you have with it? Too busy? Overeager mods? Bad organization?

It helps if your server can decode AV1, but you never need it to encode to AV1. Basically the main usecase for transcoding AV1 would be burning in ASS formatted subtitles, commonly used for anime. If you keep your anime in other codecs then you shouldn’t need to transcode AV1 ever unless you add more clients into the mix that can’t handle AV1 natively.

For what it’s worth, I use an Intel N100 with quicksync, and that can decode AV1 because it’s 12th gen. Works great for me.

Yes, hardware transcoding = using hardware acceleration for decoding/re-encoding the video files. CPUs do it pretty slowly (or they use a ton of electricity if they’re fast enough to do it quickly) but the special decoder/encoder chips on GPUs (including integrated graphics GPUs) can handle that sort of task no sweat in most cases as long as you’ve got it preperly configured.

TRaSH guides don’t actually force you into using one filesystem. I have Sonarr setup using the guide and it uses 2 separate drives just fine.

One thing I would note is that because of the emphasis on quality above all else, following the guides strictly would fill up your drives fairly quickly. If you were to re-prioritize the config to emphasize small file size, you could probably fit 3-4x as much content on there.

If you’re planning to run Jellyfin or Plex, I’d recommend a low-profile Intel ARC GPU.

Those things transcode video like nobody’s business and they’re not all that much more expensive than the GTX 750 people have mentioned in this thread

I use Sonarr.

Even if you rip your media, it’s just really good at organizing your media files when you “import” them, plus it can fetch the metadata itself and put it into NFO files, which Jellyfin can both read from and write to, if you enable it. This allows for faster library scans and effectively eliminates the issue of mis-identified episodes/shows.

Don’t pirate from OnlyFans, support small business owners.

Yeah, they advertise using only the context of the keywords of your current search. No storing of personal data, no profiling. They’ve had third parties review that. Seems fine to me.

Startpage is similarly anonymous, but it uses Google search

Slop as a slang term is far older than its present use to primarily describe the output of AI, see Merriam Webster’s definition 4-C for the second noun meaning of the word:

a product of little or no value : rubbish

watching the usual slop on TV

Hamburgling?

Actual inter-religious comparative theology is probably even better for developing skeptical critical thinkers than not teaching people about religion at all. I would love to see schools adopt that sort of coursework.

Anyone who feels the need to brag is lacking, IME

I just download dual audio and English subs and turn off subs and switch to Japanese audio when I wanna practice my Japanese, personally.

Borat is canonically from Kazakhstan, which is a real-life country.

The one I’ve had the longest is 4 years old. So far so good. They have lower heat output than they otherwise would due to lower friction. Other than that they’re quite ordinary drives in terms of use.

I buy 14TB enterprise helium-filled HDDs off serverpartdeals for like $140 a pop. 4TB for $100 is a bad deal

Iron Maiden: Live After Death (runner up live album for them is Rock In Rio, the crowd is literally a quarter million people and they’re into it)

Considering how dumb the police chief is on that show, I think it was an intentional joke