ms.lane

I just wanted to distro name to be ‘Bastard’ :P

deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bastard main

It can’t handle radio shows or VA mixes well either.

Picard will not, it’s possibly the worst thing you can do to a folder of untagged music.

Use kid3, it can use musicbrainz without making a mess of everything.

Mstream - it’s the lightest and simplest of streaming servers.

It’s probably too soon after 25.10 for another Australian animal, so lets go-

28.04 Bastard Bandicoot.

Apple’s lawsuit with Apple Corps/The Beatles was lengthy.

Do you think Canonical have the cash and energy to fight that battle?

Codeberg or anything hosted in the EU is an unfortunate no-go.

GDPR DoS Bomb made it so - ‘right to forget’ means that a bad actor can kill a major project by invoking their right to forget, which would mean all code they’ve ever submitted would have be audited out.

If you consider using software that has version control on GitHub immoral, then using TCP/IP is immoral.

No problem :)

but does the hardware affect the output quality/size if the settings are identical?

Yes, your laptop has a much newer quicksync block with proper HEVC hardware-

NAS is Gemini Lake, which uses QS from Broxton/Apollo Lake/Gemini Lake

Laptop is Tiger Lake, which uses about 3 versions newer QS, for Tiger Lake, Alder Lake and Raptor Lake.

Broxton QuickSync doesn’t actually have an asic encoder path for HEVC, it’s all via shaders.

12 disks go to sleep after 60 min of inactivity

That will kill your drives far sooner than a temperature spike. load/unload cycles is one of the biggest HDD killers.

Google did some research on this way back when. Failure rates start going up at an average temperature of 35 °C and become significantly higher if the HDD is operated beyond 40°C for much of its life. That’s HDD temperature, not ambient.

On the contrary, they found that temperature had almost no bearing on failure rate.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

My fileserver regularly ‘enjoys’ 45-50c during the day when I’m not home in summer.

Aircon isn’t cheap to run, so everythings getting fried while I’m at work (getting fried since we don’t have AC at work)

mstream just uses folders, so you can organise however you want.

Apps for Android and iOS, webui for everything else. Does basic (single setting for whole server) transcoding if you wish (I don’t for mp3/m4a/ogg sets, I have them on a second server instance, mstream is very light)

Don’t feel bad, just share back :)

Hardware RAID is dead.

• They’re no faster than Software RAID today

• They’re vendor and often model locked to a particular make or model of card (so if your card goes bust, so does your array, where software options you can migrate the entire machine to a completely new one, as long as the disks are good so is your data)

• ZFS wants access to individual disks anyway

Check which raid card your Dell shipped with, if it’s a PERC H200 or H310, you can flash it to IT mode to make it work as a plain HBA. If it’s a PERC 700, you’re SOL on IT mode. I’m pretty sure it can expose vdrives, but that’s probably more trouble than getting a cheap HBA at that point.

So I think very low idle is possible, I’m just not sure why this box idles so low.

Corporate desktops tend to by design, 5w difference in idle over 10,000PCs is 50KW…

NFS seems a poor choice for mobile when simply losing the link will cause end user troubles.

I hard dropped it years ago when a momentarily dropped link would mean you needed to reboot the client machine or you’d lock up for minutes at a time trying to poll the mounted directory. (which, when pinned in a gui file manager, meant every time I opened the file manager or a save dialog box, my entire system would just lock up for minutes at a time)

I use an unholy combination of smb and sshfs now, since they can fail gracefully where NFS just can’t.

That’s just Docker in a nutshell.

Andrew Wilson is literally a Ventrue Prince.