I’ve found a couple plugs “upgraded” to 3-prong by jumping the load and ground together. That made for a fun firework show when my metal fan touched something metal. Even the landlord was impressed by that stupidity.

Ah, the good old reverse polarity bootleg ground.

Fun fact: RPBG is the one fault that those plug-in outlet testers can’t recognize

Edit: Wait, no, that would be hot bootleg ground, they should catch that. RPBG has the hot and neutral switched, and also a bootleg ground to the neutral that’s actually hot

Reminds me of a story about magic

That is madness. I love it

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I’ve found SMB to more frequently have connection issues with my Linux clients, and often be slower. It’ll work, but if you’re mainly supporting Linux clients, might as well set up NFS if you like toying with things anyways

SMB for the windows clients, possibly NFS as well for the others. *nix will talk with SMB fine, but NFS may be faster. Windows’ NFS support is shit though.

Running both daemons won’t really add much overhead

Flac for storage, turn up the compression level. Transcode to an appropriate format when copying or streaming to a device

Well that sounds cool

Any model should be hardmoddable, but if you want to stick to soft mods, then yeah, you need an older model

DRM often encourages piracy

Well fuckin thank you for that concise explanation, because I’ve been planning to build a NAS and Jellyfin box, and have been wondering

Send me magnet for the torrent, for poorly available stuff I set a 10:1 seed ratio, so I’ll be seeding it for a while. I don’t cap my upload speed, but it isn’t great

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