Thanks,
bcachefs could be the answer but I don’t really want my data on a fs I need this week’s kernel to access properly. Maybe I should just hold off for a few months.
I’m not monitoring the drives, I have backups of important stuff…but would be nice to tag more important stuff amongst the mediocre stuff on the off chance both drives don’t fail at the same time.
doh
will just keep on keepin’ on then
Thank you.
I think I will aim for =>8
so any nuc with a number 7 or more would do the job?
It seems unreasonable with the hardware, even with nice things.
I run Gentoo, with lots of binaries, on my 2011 iMac just fine but encoding HD video on it feels like abuse.
I’m using a 2011 imac & 2010 macbook pro as my main devices. I have an rpi4 as a little media center & personal server.
2160p x265 looks great on the pi, 2160p x264 is grim. Encoding 2160p on any of my systems is pain.
Ongoing it would be nice to be able to re-encode the occasional 2160p video faster than a tenth of real time or feeling like I’m overly stressing very old hardware.
Think I may keep an eye out for a 2nd hand nuc, I like small & quiet and I didn’t realize until posting this thread that cpu encoding is preferred to gpu. A nuc would also be nice for some better retro game action than the pi4.
I don’t have anything that can play 4k h264 aside from my phone.
My Rpi4 plays 4k h265 beautifully, so I like h265. Space efficient is just a bonus.
mpv & ffmpeg have been my go to’s for a decade or so…but mpv on the Rpi4 can’t yet manage 4k 2160p afaik, so Kodi it is at the moment.
Thanks
What is resizable BAR?
Tailscale just so everything works out and about with minimal effort.
I have Navidrome on my pi4 streaming/transcoding to my Android with Symfonium.
Slskd runs on my pi and can be access via my phone browser.
Makes it simple to acress slsk anywhere, download flac and stream it right back as mp3.
Took me a while but I’m happy with navidrome/symfonium/slskd/tailscale in place of spotify.
Found a forum post that explains how to add and follow other libraries, which is nice. The libraries I’d been trying to follow don’t seem to have public share links displayed, the ones in the example work.
Appreciating the sharing side of FunkWhale. There’s a lot of potential and some good sounding pods out there. It has the basics. It works as a personal or social music pod, pods can interact, subsonic & maybe other activity pub stuff too. Most importantly it has content, lots of it.
Currently listening to another pod directly from my home pod for the first time, which is nice.
Been looking at it a little more over the past month or two.
There’s a lot of interesting music out there and nice to be able to wander around people’s music collections.
I’m not sure on how one should navigate Funkwhale land. I have an account on a pod but don’t know how I’m supposed to follow or interact with other pods I have bookmarked, it seems to only mention channels which are a bit useless.
Perhaps I have just misunderstood Funkwhale but it seems like it could be an amazing federated community for music. As it is I think I need an account for each pod or to just use listen not logged in. It seems more like a replacement for jellyfin/navidrome and the like with some fediverse functionality as opposed to a world on federated instances sharing and collaborating.
Is it reasonable to advise someone who is new to this stuff on MacOS to just installl Ubuntu on VirtualBox?
New to linux, think she needs a gui. I will look into UTM.
I’m not sure there is a need to run linux on bare metal, or carry around a second laptop.
Thanks, good to know it still works
Sounds good, is there a simple guide to UTM on MacOS?
Thanks, I do have backups of important stuff.
I think bcachefs is what I’m looking for, but I’m gonna wait a bit until development calms down a little and keep on the way I am at the moment.