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Yea it's a pretty crazy increase. time to VPN up and move the family plan to india or turkey.

TMR said to give it time as the load was higher than expected and some teething issues with the servers are messing with the rollout. Its a government body so the server and bandwidth will be the cheapest tier possible and the app developed by the lowest bidder, so give it time.

Basically they specced out the backend for the load it would expect when the system is in place and in use by the steady state number of users, not for the initial influx of thousands of people trying to set it up at once. rookie error for app service rollouts, but a common one with government services.

our id's have been in a digital database for some years now so this doesn't really change anything, this is just an option for the people that would prefer not to carry a wallet at all.

They did announce that people should hold off as there are rollout issues (of course there are, it should have been expected)

So give it a few days.

The best way to improve plex/jellyfin performance is to make sure your players support what you are trying to watch and transcoding should only be needed if you are sharing remotely to someone with either slow internet or a crappy old player.

Of course, with hardware encoding the chip in that little computer can do what you are asking, including doing it at 4K if needed.

Thats a pretty old calculation that doesn't take into account hardware acceleration, which modern chips can do very, very well.

So you can get away with a celeron class intel chip (or whatever they are calling them these days) and mange multiple 4k to 1080 transcode streams without issue.

I have a mini PC with an Intel n95, which is around 5500 on the passmark chart, but can easily churn out 10+ 1080p to 1080p transcodes if needed, of course the ideal setup is to avoid transcoding wherever possible. that's not my main server, but it's nice to know that if I wanted to I could move my plex server onto it and it would be fine.

not usually too hard to fine older Norco and similar cases with 16+ drive bays.

I got one on FB Marketplace for less than the cost of a new 10tb drive.

good reliable motion sensing is hard, anything solely PIR based is going to be unreliable and give false positives when sensitive enough to "work" but if the sensitivity is turned down to avoid false positives they barely detect anything reliably, the middle ground is pointless to try to tune as it varies so much all the time. there are better ones out there that are a bit smarter or use multiple sensor types combined, but they usually cost 3-5x as much as the Sonoffs.

Look for microwave presence sensors for something actually useable. its a newer tech that has started to drop in price dramatically and works so much better as it doesnt rely on IR or temperature in any way.

Now i'm hungry

A simple, reliable and always pleasing meal.

If you haven't tried it yet, next time try tossing the broccoli with olive oil and a bit of salt then bake it in the oven until the florettes are brown and crispy. works great with cauliflower too, you can par boil them beforehand too if you prefer the softer texture and it still works great.

Not sure about a do-all solution for the Manga side of things other than some outdated archive torrents or things hidden in the depths of usenet, but a free program called FMD2 can automate the downloading and CBZ-ifying of manga from hundreds of sources. it can act like a sonarr for manga once set up with series you follow and of course you can bulk download just at a slower rate due to the same limiting.

Zigbee can be set up with either a USB dongle on the HA server (if you go that route get a dongle with a proper antenna), via hardwired networked hubs, or by Zigbee2mqtt or similar DIY options.

So for coverage across a large property with multiple buildings, networked hubs would be a good bet.

Most zigbee devices act as repeaters/routers for other devices, but they all need some route to the hub. so in your case, multiple hubs would be an option.