Most devices generate a random IPv6 address and change it frequently. Your browser fingerprint is much more useful for device tracking than your IP address anyways.

Just because each device has a globally routable IP address doesn’t mean they can be accessed from outside your LAN. You still have to add a firewall rule to open a port to the device.

You can put a big hard drive in an external enclosure and use it for offline backups. There is no point in paying for cloud storage for something you can just download again if needed. Save the cloud storage for backing up non-replaceable data.

It’s only decent until you need to do something the GUI doesn’t support. Then it will overwrite whatever you changed in the CLI or luci every time it boots up.

10,000 and 15,000 rpm drives were made obsolete by SSDs and were discontinued several years ago. They are slower than many modern 7,200 rpm drives.

They aren’t patching CPUs that were released 5 years ago.

They should be patching back to Ryzen 1 since those are still perfectly good CPUs. 5-7 years really isn’t that old considering how little improvement there is with each generation.

Kodi doesn’t do any transcoding. It just mounts the NFS share and plays the file.

What kind of files?

I use Kodi to keep track of what TV shows and movies I’ve watched.

They are commonly used with USB keystone connectors. For some reason most of them have A connectors on both sides.

Cat5e works fine for gigabit. If it’s not connecting at 1G, then the cable has been damaged and is probably connecting at 100M.

You should be seeing about 118MB/s in an iperf test on gigabit ethernet.

It would have been nice if they came up with something shorter like .lan.

It’s either 2K or 4K video. The bitrate needs to be high because any compression artifacts would be very obvious on a huge screen.

I would be more worried about that fact that the AI enabled device likely needs an internet connection to function. That means the manufacturer can take away features or brick the device whenever they want to.

They look like crap, I won’t watch them.

You can specify multiple formats and it will download the first one that’s available.

It works great on Linux for DVDs and regular blurays.

FreeDNS works pretty well as long as you don’t need more than 5 DNS records.

Yeah, they really want to keep your data.

Have you tried mounting the google drive on your computer and copying the files with your file manager?

That looks interesting. Does anyone have a link to it? The only thing that comes up in the search results is the liliputing article.

Transcoding from one lossy codec to another just reduces the quality even more. You can transcode to wave or flac, but that will just increase the file size.

There won’t be much of a quality difference between opus and mp4. If the music was uploaded at 44.1K, the mp4 will be higher quality even though the bitrate is slightly lower since the opus would be resampled to 48K.

PCIe 2.0 is 500 MB/s per lane, it’s not going to limit the speed. That CPU certainly doesn’t have enough power to run something heavy like IDS at 1gbps though.

They should have been able to put a stop to the scraping very quickly. It’s not that hard to block or rate limit IPs that are causing excessive load.

I just add my CA to my devices and use self signed certificates for stuff on my LAN. I don’t want to go through all the trouble of using lets encrypt for something that’s not accessible from the internet.

I would suggest getting a router that runs OpenWRT or OPNsense. That will let you configure anything you need to. It’s open source firmware so it will respect your privacy.

If you go with OPNsense, you will need separate access points since it runs on a PC. The Unifi access points work well for that.

I wouldn’t get one unless it was dirt cheap. The CPU wasn’t that great when it was new, now an ARM SBC will outperform it using a fraction of the power.

I use it all the time without any VPN and haven’t had any issues. I watch almost all youtube videos in MPV, which uses yt-dlp to get the video. I download any video I may want to watch again later to my server.

I always use yt-dlp do download youtube videos. It doesn’t require installation, you just download and run it.

Sure, if you have enough data to make the cost of a tape drive worth it.

M-disc is for long term storage, which flash and hard drives are not suitable for.

I see an LG WH14NS40 on amazon for $55 US that will write triple layer discs. Where are you finding $130 drives?

Blurays will be much more reliable and will write much faster than cheap flash drives. A double layer disc only holds 46.5 GiB though and triple layer discs are still somewhat expensive.

It sounds like he wants everything done server side like they did in the mid 90’s. It’s certainly possible, but it won’t result in a very good user experience. The whole page would have to reload to change anything on it.

Just make sure the VPS will shut down if the bandwidth is exceeded rather than giving you a big overage charge.

It looks like they are trying to compete with fedex on how much damage they can do to your package.

I typically look for 1080p X265 encodes around 2-4 mbps to save disk space. I will download higher bitrates for anything with a lot of film grain since it will get very blocky at lower bitrates.

I can’t tell much difference between 1080p and 4K unless I’m very close to a large screen. Also, most 4K files are HDR and I don’t have anything that supports HDR.

They will usually block port 25 so you can’t run a mail server. It’s unusual for an ISP to block everything unless you are on CGNAT.

If your ISP provides IPv6, set that up. Everything will have a globally routed address, so your domains will work from your LAN and the internet. If you don’t have IPv6 available, get a free tunnel from Hurricane Electric.

There’s an option to allow it to run offline and that will allow it to work with cracked clients. There’s no user authentication, so only make the server accessible to people you trust over a VPN.

Someone already worked out how to do it: IP over Avian Carriers. The ping time is terrible though.