kingthrillgore

I already use pihole, but with cloudflared as the upstream. What benefits does unbound offer besides improved security?

1.1.1.1/cloudflared responds crazy fast compared to anything else i’ve used. I really just wanted off Google (and before them OpenDNS). That’s about it.

I mean, I used to think Google Public DNS was great until I switched to 1.1.1.1…

Jellyfin, Ampache, Plex are your best bets.

You know what I think is funny? The NFL doesn’t have any footage of Super Bowl 1, the only known tape of the game is held by a private collector, but he can’t watch it due to the NFL copyright. So its sitting in an Iron Mountain facility in the Poconos. And its deteriorating.

I went out of my way to see Minus One Minus Color.

Piracy was the only way people could play the greatest video games ever made for a long time: Robotron 2084 and System Shock 2.

I let me VPN lapse a day and my ISP reported 11 takedowns. They warned me (because they don’t want to lose a customer). Blocklists aren’t good enough anymore.

You lost me the second I saw crypto shit.

Blames PHP for all the issues

Namecheap.

It wasn’t GoDaddy.

aww bocce balls man, guess i’ll go somewhere else

brb downloading Yuzu repo

For what its worth, I think building a NAS has a few benefits, one being Native Level ZFS support if you use FreeNAS. Synology has gone in a different direction with btrfs and LVM, and I wish they would just stick with ZFS in User Space instead. Synology has managed to do a lot in their consumer lineup, they’ve even ditched ARM for x86 so they can offer Docker/LXC which is a big win, even if its not as performant as my own Proxmox stack off consumer hardware. That said, use what you feel comfortable with.

I disagree with this. I have managed to get by quite well with my 4-bay Synology for over five years. They still even provide updates for it. That said, most of the “work” is done on a server of its own accord, and not on the NAS. More than anything, this server will be getting an upgrade later this year with a newer workhorse from either Dell or Supermicro to better suit the needs of virtualization and LXC, and on-hardware AI with whatever consumer PCI cards I can get my hands on.

I don’t foresee a need to upgrade outside of disk replacements for storage for another few years, by that time it may be time for 10GigE at home and then, we can talk upgrade.

I can see the difference around the actor’s skin and the environment, its less fuzzy. It’s hard to tell the difference, definitely. It’s compression quality.

What you have to understand about lossy compression is:

• it throws out data you won’t be able to perceive in ideal conditions (color ranges)
• it throws out data that doesn’t change between frames

Yes, you’re right, RFC 6762 proposes reserving .local for mDNS. I was not aware of this until you brought it up, hence the dangers of using using TLDs not specifically designated for internal use.

I had actually used .local for years until I caved upon knowing, and bought kingthrillgore.name and used it both for my web sigh and my local domains. For most people, this is an unnecessary cost. We should really approve adding .lan and .localhost to ICANN as reserved domains as well.

.local is recommended for use with mDNS/Zeroconf

No, because I am worried the NSA may try to collate data from them. In fact, I zero-wipe, drill bit the drives in the platters and the PCB, and drop them off at e-waste for recycling.

Synology NAS —> Plex Media Server VM —> TV, Chromecast, Roku TV (which supports a lot of formats w/o encoding), Other devices

Yes I know Plex is getting a lot of crap but it still works and the encoding support is better than Jellyfin. I have Jellyfin ready to go if this ever changes but I am a happy Plex Pass customer.