BakedCatboy

@BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max is getting ready for its own password-sharing crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad I doubled down in investing in my arrstack a few years ago. I find the more friends I share it with, the less storage is needed for each additional friend since they mostly watch stuff already requested by my other friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is apparently partially about exclusive deals that bar app developers from putting their apps on additional third party app stores.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Steam Deck Mini PC Using Real Hardware⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is super neat even though it’s basically just running the main board plugged into peripherals - I already knew the main board was pretty small but it’s still surprising seeing it sitting on a table.

  Makes me wonder what you could do with a case the size of a wii. Plenty of space for cooling, a 2.5" SSD bay, and I’m sure you could fit lots of other goodies in it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep on both my laptops. But I run Ubuntu on my selfhosting nuc and the vps I use as a wireguard reverse proxy - it’s a lot easier to update those every 6 months that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really just Plex, in addition to powering 6 spinning drives (~50TB total), I also run Nextcloud, immich, Ollama (CPU inference, no GPU), home assistant, grocy, vaultwarden, jellyfin, sonarr, radarr, lidarr, prowlarr, flaresolverr, and overseerr. I run Plex on a separate Intel nuc10 (also included in that $10 of electricity) which has Intel QuickSync which allows me to transcode ~8 simultaneous 1080 streams to friends while leaving most of the rest of the CPU to everything else like running LLMs on the CPU (it’s cheaper to run larger models on a slower CPU with lots of RAM compared to buying a GPU with a matching amount of vram).

  So yeah if you don’t care about n+2 double redundant disks or sharing with more than like 5 people or hosting other apps or running AI while people are streaming then yeah you should totally get something less power hungry. Just the Intel nuc10 I use for Plex (but not media storage) has a TDP of 25W so just that would lower the electricity cost to like $2.50/mo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when Netflix first introduced the ad supported plan and a lot of people were like this is how they make you pay extra to not see ads, and a lot of other people called that fud because it’s an additional tier and the normal tier isn’t impacted.

  At the time I was yelling that it was just the first step - create an ad free plan, wait for people to calm down, then raise the prices until the ad supported plan costs as much as the ad free one used to. And there you have it, they charged extra to not see ads, just with extra steps.

  I quit Netflix back then and I’m so glad I did. $10/mo in electricity gets me every streaming service on my Plex, that’s like a $100/mo value and I get to share it with all my friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck Now Cheaper Than A Switch During Valve's Big Summer Sale⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how you figure that I’m “so angry”, I thought my reply was pretty calm. All I’m pointing out is that valve treats their own employees very well, and that if you have an issue with how developers working for other companies are treated / paid, your beef lies with those companies.

  Hell valve doesn’t even charge their cut on steam key sales on other storefronts even though activating the key / downloading the game still uses steam infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck Now Cheaper Than A Switch During Valve's Big Summer Sale⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then maybe you should complain about the game company that employs those developers, not valve…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can’t leave your Steam backlog to someone else in your will⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not unless the game has an offline mode and you download the depot files and bundle it with a nosteam launcher then leave that to your next of kin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix: Profits soar after password sharing crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My storage capacity soared to 50TB after the password sharing crackdown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve fixes Remote Play on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Moonlight is Nvidia game stream so it’ll be using the Nvidia server or sunshine which implements the Nvidia game stream protocol for AMD/Intel/Nvidia server hardware.