Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1133130/me-getting-executed-in-2027-for-using-a-vpn

Hello!

I'm new to the selfhosting game - I have literally set up my first mini pc (Gmktec mini g3 plus), nothing fancy. Definitely I don't plan to set up any bare metal or to build from grounds up (yet).

One of the things I'm self-hosting is a Jellyfin server. I've noticed that the video sizes of what I enjoy there (like old Miss Marple) are rather large - about 5GB per file.

So I've added a compression pipeline (basically ffmpeg script running after Transmission marks the file as complete) - but it takes 14h per file to gain ~1.5GB (anything further and I notice quality drop). And that adds a significant bottleneck.

So I though - hey, why simply not expand the storage.

I'm looking for good quality, not too pricey storage options that I can easily attach to my Gmktec mini pc (I'm assuming via usb c?)? What I can buy here let's say in the budget of up to 300 euro (or 350 usd, or 250 British pounds)? If you tell me I absolutely have to double the budget then I can be convinced.

I tried googling different options, but honestly there's too many. I don't care about data redundancy (Jellyfin media server, duh). What is the best external drive that I can use? Or should I go for NAS? Or a raid storage that I can connect to via usb c?

tldr: budget 300 euro, looking for storage options recommendations, preferably usb-c

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8536170

https://mastodon.social/@LukaszOlejnik/116594227712369614

they all try to do me like that

help i get theatened with extortion by my vape if i throw it away. Anthropic says it's my own fault

Due to it's danger, no public access, only accesible by selected partners, like Google, MS and nVidia "for security", so I'm calm, I think

rule

I saw this mailbox today and I want one so bad

Bedard is invoking a now-familiar argument among American liberals — namely that their party should always be pitching compromises rather than making maximalist demands. And perhaps at the end of drawn-out legislative fights, that logic occasionally might make a bit of sense. But what’s new here is that this argument — which had resulted in so many surrenders, including Barack Obama’s surrender of his single payer promise and then his public option promise — is now being made by liberals even before Democrats are in any kind of policy fight at all.

That, of course, is the intended effect of the Searchlight Institute’s proposals — to get liberals to help stop a Medicare for All fight before one even unfolds.

...

Notably, Searchlight’s own executive director, Adam Jentleson, once criticized that game in 2019 when Pete Buttigieg suddenly dialed back his support for Medicare for All. Back then, Jentleson impugned Buttigieg, saying he “supported Medicare for All for 15 years, then flipped and started attacking other Dems over it after raising a ton of money from the health care industry.” Jentleson added: “A reasonable person might conclude that the health care industry bought Pete’s opposition - and did so pretty easily.”

Fast forward seven years, and the health care crisis is worse, but Jentleson is now playing that game. And my question is: Why would anyone fall for such an obvious parlor trick? This impulse by liberals to constantly back down and make apologies for capitulating Democrats is just weird — and it’s ultimately why so many Americans think Democrats stand for nothing.