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just a matter of being lazy, I know stuff in my Anime library won't have english subs by default and things in my Shows library will and I don't need to figure out how to change them on multiple devices with multiple ways to interact with options before or during play.

I can also restrict access to the guest account so I don't have to explain the show you want to watch isn't available in english sorry, or there's a bunch of live tv first because they don't want their bloody subs to line up with the normal file for some reason.

I don't see a reason to uncouple Anime from other series

I think if you're learning Japanese then decoupling raws and japanese subs from english subs is very worthwhile

I mentioned a cheap dedicated server because I'm not sure when quicksync was introduced, if you need to do any transcoding at all an intel macbook will probably catch fire.

and if you haven't already then change the thermal paste. I have a 2015 pro as well and it gets real hot, factory paste can be a crap shoot if it's even making contact in the first place much less after a decade and new paste actually makes a bigger difference in performance than I expected.

There's nothing wrong with just running a laptop as a server until you have specific requirements it can't meet.

Like maybe running a pi hole over wifi doesn't fill you with confidence and you really need something plugged into your router.

in which case I'd get a cheap mini-pc. even something as cheap as an N95 will handle everything you want to do here easily but you can also go the 2nd hand 1L route which can be fun too.

we take for granted the ease with which information flows now days.

I only started guitar this year and the first thing I did with my first guitar was clean the human slime off the fret board, oil it, then set it up to factory specs. I could imagine buying my first guitar even 20 years ago and just getting used to however it was setup and potentially not even thinking about cleaning the fret board.

I could imagine not even knowing what a truss rod is much less that you should be adjusting it occasionally.

This is the best time in history to have literally any hobby.

finally picked up a bunch of cheap 2.5" sas drives to turn my dumpster server (Proliant DL380 G7 with 16 hot swap bays) into a backup server.

still trying to work out the specifics but the idea is because it's a power hog and LOUD I want to use wake on lan to run a backup task and turn it off automatically.

I can turn it on via lan so I'm halfway there right? ......

Lemmy

The fediverse isn't just lemmy.

also is this your first day on the internet? blowing pedantic bullshit out of all proportion is the baseline experience on any platform.

every time the media lies a neighborhood in Gaza dies

I have SERIOUSLY underestimated the size of Gaza

the actual solution to the femi paradox is that technological advancement will always outpace biological psychology so anti-natalist death cults inevitably arise at a time when they can ask chat GPT to print out a species ending virus before the AI is smart enough to survive on it's own.

China moves fast and breaks things.

Silicon valley - "No, not like that"

a TBC unit might be absurdly expensive these days BUT a VHS>DVD-RW unit is cheap and needs a form of time base correction to record to digital and that corrected signal is sent to the video out ports, this also strips VHS copy protection that messes up the VHS>DVD internal copy so you have a clean signal to capture out the back.

I used a Panasonic DMR-ES35V and a Black Magic intensity shuttle capture device to rip ads from our collection. and the shuttle has zero tolerance for dirty signals, recording stops when it drops a frame so you know it's doing the TBC right.

Honestly you should only be archiving television or videos that didn't get a DVD release.