Words evolve, and sometimes, they gain new meanings. “Bare metal” is not a scientific terms, and so it can be bent depending on the context.

You can either accept that or not, it doesn’t change the fact that that’s what it now can mean.

It’s just what it means in this specific context.

They’re not running directly on the host, with directly meaning directly.

If you go by definition, I agree with you, but the definition is not always the thing to go off of.

Have you read my comment? It’s about where the packages and services are installed.

In this case, they’re installed in the container, not on the host

Not in this context. Bare metal means all packages and services installed and running directly on the host, not through docker/lxc/vms

Yep, fair enough.

Yeah that’s very far from the definition of a scam. A bad product isn’t a scam, you know exactly what you’re getting, it’s on you if you “fall” for it.

Still more complicated than Netflix.

Also, none of the money you pay goes to the original creators. If I’m already paying, I want at least of the cash to go to them.

But this is a Piracy community. RD costs money. Not good enough. We’re talking about the “ideal” solution.

So that’s interesting, how exactly are they scamming people?

Yeah but you just named three things you’ve got to setup to work together, where RD is actually paid.

Netflix you open and it works, that’s my point.

Netflix, with everything and with an option to download an .mp4 if desired.

They literally say “it doesn’t matter” if you leave it open, but that you might come across issues if you don’t

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/allow-port-80/

It’s not.

If you want to learn zfs a bit better though, you can just stick with Proxmox. It supports it, you just don’t get the nice UI that TrueNAS provides, meaning you’ve got to configure everything manually, through config files and the terminal.

Just fyi - running TrueNAS with zfs as a VM under Proxmox is a recipe for disaster, as me how I know.

Zfs needs direct drive access, with VMs, the hypervisor virtualizes the adapter which is then passed through, which can mess things up.

What you’d need to do is buy a sata/sas card and pass the whole card through, then you can use a vm.

Haven’t come across any xml during my deployment so far

Yeah, whoever thought that sd cards were a good idea for anything even resembling operating systems is a dum dum

Oh for sure, it’s just a loot more expensive

They’re taking about a NAS though?

The issue is, you can optimize a software encoders continually, you can use tricks for better quality etc.

A hardware encoder is just that - hardware. As soon as it’s burned to the silicon, you’re not making any (at least substantial) changes to it. You might also be limited by what you can actually do directly in hardware without using too much die space.

Tldr.: no, you won’t get the same result