No. 5 was a fun mental image

If this actually rings true, there’s something pretty wrong in your team.

Stand up should be a quick and uncontroversial meeting talking about what you’ve done, what you’ll do and anything you need help with, plus maybe a couple of minutes of small talk before you start.

The comfortable one is unfortunately an ultimate feature that we don’t get in our plan

I still don’t know why this architecture went for a Double XOR as the NOP, I guess they were just flexing that the reference chip design could do both in a single cycle

Plex is probably the easiest and most convenient, I think jellyfin is viable too, but I don’t use it.

If you’ve got the money, Roon or Audirvana are the gold standard of self hosted music

If you want something similar, but free, look into things like volumio or subsonic based solutions.

Lagunitas is pretty banging tho

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Home_Server

:D

I guess out of fear that we get another gitlab situation, where the open source offering has a load of key features eventually kept behind a paywall

What are you on about?

Ryzen 3xxx series processors are still being sold new today

The oldest zen processors are only just over half a decade old—a consumer CPU should be expected to be in service at least double that time.

I like that this clearly articulates that text editors are just whatever the hell vim & emacs are, with training wheels

Never go full APL

Well I didn’t say anything about perfectly clean, but I agree, it’s very nice to work on my current projects which we’ve set up our observability to modern standards when compared to any of the log vomiting services I’ve worked on in the past.

Obviously easier to start with everything set up nicely in a Greenfield project, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good—iterative improvements on badly designed observability nearly always pays off.

Good tracing & monitoring means you should basically never need to look at logs.

Pipe them all into a dumb S3 bucket with less than a week retention and grep away for that one time out of 1000 when you didn’t put enough info on the trace or fire enough metrics. Remove redundant logs that are covered by traces and metrics to keep costs down (or at least drop them to debug log level and only store info & up if they’re helpful during local dev).

Hardware transcoding on SBCs is generally not fantastic, you’re gonna want to look for one that has VAAPI/VDPAU support or you’re gonna be looking at 100% CPU for half a day to transcode a film, which will make your other services effectively unavailable at the time.

I used to run my Plex server on a Pi4 with 4GB of ram and it basically crashed any time transcoding kicked in, I swapped to an intel NUC so I could get QuickSync for transcoding.

I’ll point out though, every SBC you’ve listed has usb, which is all you need for an external disk. If you’re worried about size, I’ve got a 5tb external drive that’s about 5cm², which is basically the footprint of any SBC you could use in this scenario

Okay fair play, if you’re doing this super short term it could make sense. Though I question what SBC you’re using that’s capable of transcoding video but not the ability to plug in an external drive.

$12/m for your 2TB of usage would make sense for maybe 5 months before it would be cheaper to buy an external disk—and of course that storage is gone once that time is up, Vs a hard disk which will probably last you a decade or so

I’m not sure about transparently, that’s more in the tdarr wheelhouse I’d say. You’d dump the files into a monitored folder and it will replace it with a version transcoded to your specification.

Transcoding video takes a fair bit of time and energy too FWIW, so you’re going to need enough local storage to handle both the full size and smaller one.

I have to question the idea though, cloud storage is always more expensive than local for anything remotely non-temporary, and transcoding a load of video all the time is going to increase your energy bills. If you have any kind of internet bandwidth restrictions that’s gonna factor in too.

I’d say it would be better to save up for a cheap external hard drive to store your video on. For a year’s subscription to a cloud storage service that would provide enough space for a media library, you could probably get twice the amount of storage forever.

Unless you’ve got raw uncompressed video, any kind of transparent compression like you describe is only going to cost you in energy bills for no benefit. Most video is already compressed with specialised video compression as part of the file format, you can’t keep compressing stuff and getting smaller files.

The alternative is a lossy compression, which you could automate with some scripts or a transcoding tool like tdarr. This would reduce the quality of the video in order to reduce the file size

I’m really trying to figure out what this is used for and why it was done this way.

I’m not having much success

Working fine for me too, What’s happened OP?

Weirdly, that’s bandcamp today. Apparently they’re doing a thing where everything you buy today, they will give their usual cut to the artist too.

Shame it’s not all the time, but I guess bandcamp needs to pay for servers, etc.

Lidarr + Plex is the one for me

You’re spot on with the latter, I’ve come across a few projects over the years where the ownership is transferred and it’s then loaded up with malware or even just instantly abandoned again because the new owner just wants it on their GitHub to get a job or something.

Ahh, I can’t make that change I’ve used windows and Linux for many more years than I have Macs, the Mac way will always be the one that feels wrong to me!

Basically means I inevitably have to do the "@£`# dance a couple times a day

I prefer a British keyboard layout as that’s where I’ve always lived and that’s what all the computers come with here.

Actually no, Apple fucks it up a bit by having a weird hybrid between US layout and British layout which is pretty infuriating to have to learn (opt+3 for the # character? wtf Apple?), particularly given I switch between PC and Mac daily

I can’t believe you were able to ask that with a straight face

Good luck getting a copy if you don’t already have one, scalpers have already raided everywhere.

Edit: apparently the Christmas drinking has affected my reading comprehension

Still a warning for anyone else thinking the same

Any of the old colour screen iPod classic models did this, I’d be very surprised if there aren’t modern equivalents.

Any MP3 player that has ever existed will play mp3s no matter where they come from.

And I’d bet if it’s got a screen, it’s going to show the album art.

It is, I’ve had one of mine since 2016 and it still works amazingly for anything I’d want from it

I didn’t think zoom had any DRM out of the box tbh, I’ve never had any issue screen recording a meeting on my Mac at least

But yeah any DRM video on the web will use widevine, so will have the same result of the blank rectangle if the DRM doesn’t pass its checks

This kind of content typically shows up as a blank rectangle on any kind of remote access software

I wonder what Erlang/Elixir would be, some kind of nano-bot hive mind?

Maybe try a different lemmy client, it loads fine for me in sync

because it makes it (type)safe to use…!

Ah you’re right there, and I also agree, that feels more like a bug than by design

Not true, in the absolute worst case, unknown is what you should be reaching for, but it’s pretty rare that you can’t create some kind of type to interface with JS if it’s not already got types. You can even use jsdoc comments as type hints in the JS too if you own that code.

My not particularly hot hot-take: There’s basically no legitimate use case for any apart from “I don’t have time to type all this now, because I’m converting a massive project from JS to TS”

Oh no. This is eerily close to my experience

VSCode for anything complex and running locally, vim for everything else

I will say that unless something’s changed in Windows recently, the win32 API webview is still a vestigial version of internet explorer due to Microsoft’s obsession with non breaking changes (not saying that’s a bad thing)

Given I lived through those years as an engineer, I completely understand people wanting to avoid that particular ancient eldritch horror.

Edit: apparently there’s webview2 now based on edge (and therefore chromium), I take it all back

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way for all these electron apps to share the same runtime so people don’t have to bundle it with their applications.

You know, I bet if the applications without the runtime are small enough, you could probably stream them directly from the internet without even downloading anything up front!

I guess that shared runtime would need some way to browse the applications…

^(vscode gets a pass)

There’s a couple of browser UIs for yt-dlp out there which you could configure to dump the videos into a folder configured in jellyfin. You’re probably not gonna get metadata, but it will probably do the job