SoulSeek via Nicotine+ running on my NAS sharing my music, movies, and TV shows.

Excellent points. For my particular use-case scenario, x264 for 1080p works best for the users my library is shared with. I recently overhauled my library to get as much 1080p content into x264 as I could, and my friends have noticed a significant improvement in performance. I still have 4k content, but it’s mostly for me since my personal setup supports it. Since my NAS isn’t having to transcode literally everything now, it’s no issue if it needs to transcode a few 4k streams for my remote users.

I’m running a DS918+, so certainly not the newest model, but it’s still trucking. 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. Go figure.

I did make a generalized statement there, you’re right. My opinions on the matter are largely influenced by the TRaSH Guides, which are a primary source for file quality settings for a significant portion of people managing media libraries. Best practices for 1080p is x264 since it 1) can be direct streamed on the most number of 1080p devices (just because you can transcode a bunch of streams at once doesn’t mean you should), and 2) has video quality aspects that are important to consider if you’re concerned with anything more than file size.

With all the files in “proper” formats, my NAS has no issues direct streaming, and transcoding the few files here and there that need it.

Mine is hosted on a NAS. So no, not nvidia.

I have hardware transcoding. I also have enough friends that more than 2 or 3 may be trying to watch something at the same time. Good job assuming the simplest setup, though.

Downloading a 1080p movie in HEVC? Hope it’s not a shared library.

ETA: Downvote all you want, but come back and talk to me when you try to share a library full of x265 1080p movies and tell me how your transcoding is going.

I’d imagine it looked less janky and more sturdy when it was new.

I do often say the Missouri side of KC is the fun side.

Put your head in the database butthole and receive the lethal dose of the diarrhea of knowledge!

Not missing much. It’s full of WASP-y pearl-clutchers.

If you want a result from a specific website, you need to specify that in your search query. Otherwise, stop complaining about getting the answer you were looking for.

Dropped me bloody keys in there!

You could probably drill much deeper into Mars before encountering that issue, though, since its molten rock is significantly deeper than Earth’s.

Redirected to banggood.com. With a URL like that you’d expect porn, but it looks to be an Amazon ripoff.

ETA: subsequent clicks took me to dhgate.com, another shady shopping site. They probably run multiple sites and the link sends you to some sort of roulette thing that spits you out on one of them.

Yeah, they do all they can to push the premium accounts, but there’s a free option buried in there somewhere.

My hypothesis on this is they just don’t want to facilitate moving money out of their bank to another one. Moving money between accounts held by the same bank is usually much easier. The major US banks are for-profit businesses, after all.

Alternative hypothesis - US banks aren’t implementing new features because they’re mostly all still running on ancient IBM mainframes.

My main concern every time these health-sensing toilets come up (it’s a topic on everyone’s mind, ya know?) is how long until they start associating waste with the people it comes from, and then forwarding that info on to entities like insurance companies? I’d be too paranoid to use these in public bathrooms, and if I had one at home I’d be doing the usual IoT best practices - keep it on it’s own network with no internet access.

I’d imagine by wires that just aren’t visible. Even auto flushing toilets need power for the sensors, not that unusual.

What that tells me is they have such high employee turnover that their application process is just a disguised pool of warm bodies to pull from as needed. I’d avoid diving in if at all possible.