I live in Pittsburgh. They don’t call it the rust belt for no reason. If you go to a junkyard you’ll see tons of perfectly working old Toyotas and Hondas as far as the engine and things go, but they’re all rusted out to the point of not being worth the repairs. This part of the country sucks for owning any car. Tons of potholes, snow, ice, salt, etc. A lot of roads are just fucked in this state. Can’t even avoid the potholes when your whole car’s suspension rumbles down the road the whole time. Highways are a little better but not much. There’s plenty of uneven roads on them too.

Sucks tryin to stick to older cars considering all this. Unless you get something out of state I guess

Yeah. It’s the same thing Uber did with pushing cab services out of business.

Not only that, but AWS is the real money maker for them. Not that retail and gaming and prime and whatever don’t also make boat loads of cash, but it doesn’t even graze AWS. The scale of these data centers is unreal and most of the internet runs on AWS.

I’m an industrial electrician with background on what they’re ordering and installing in terms of control panels and if you saw the weekly shipments it’d make you sick. And we’re only one supplier, they have others.

Finally about to beat lies of P.

I grabbed quite a few games on deep sales. RE2+3 remakes, no man’s sky, Detroit become human, planescape torment, oxygen not included

So I’ll have plenty to play over this winter when I generally do less and am cooped up more either reading or gaming or watching anime.

Honestly has been a bit hard to dip into the backlog as even though I’m close to 700 hours in Factorio over 7 or 8 years, it keeps bringing me back to it. I’ve finally set up some good factories on multiple planets. Setting up multiple space travel ships transporting materials between planets is so fun! Once I reach the final planet and research all technologies, I’m gonna take a break for a bit. Then see what the mod scene is like now with space age. This is still my first vanilla playthrough after playing with mods for years since space age was released.

Why is damn near everything in Chinese?

Oh right on. Genuinely didn’t know this

I’ve never opened a port for Plex.

That’s a far cry from how most people watch movies and TV though. Most everyone I know uses it through some sort of app on a device in their living room, like a smart TV, fire stick, game console, whatever.

How well does remote viewing work on jellyfin? I have a lot of friends and family that use my Plex, I’ve also had a lifetime pass for pushing a decade.

Like how easy is it to send an invite and the person be rolling with no technical setup from me? I just sent a Plex invite last week to my friend’s brother who did some plumbing work on my house, dunno if I’ll even ever see that dude again haha. I’m certainly not goin over to his house to set something up.

Or my dad struggles enough with it as it is, he’s 70 next year so I get it. But that might be more of a problem with the Plex app on his ancient smart TV.

This is a big reason I stick with Plex.

Fucking christ, now the mini PC I cart around to look at drawings and schematics at work is going to freeze up and be slow even more than it already is for some crap I don’t need

One thing I’d add is a whole house surge suppressor.

I saw the power lines arcing to either each other or the bamboo outside our house last week during a bad storm.

A whole house surge suppressor is only like $100, I’m gonna get one soon and install it. I saw it’s best to install it as close as possible to the main incoming power lugs, one lead on each leg of the split phase 120/240.

A UPS will protect against surges but it’s just a good idea with how many appliances and devices have circuit boards in homes these days. Like your furnace, oven, washing machine, game console, TV, etc.

I had an insane surge last winter so it’s a long time coming haha. I woke up and half my circuits were off. I measured 170v to gnd on one of the legs. Power company and fire dept had to show up to fix it.

Power is ehh not great where I live.

Edit: for your point about a NAS failure. If that were to happen, since I use unRAID, I could just throw the disks on any Linux PC and my data would be fine.

I wasn’t crazy about i3. I really like hyprland though. Been using it for about a year now.

Get a OnePlus 13. They’re ~$900 now but that will soon drop when the new model drops, or black Friday or whatever.

No bloat, great specs, a new battery technology that lasts for 2 days for me.

Or you could just do your chores and not drop 20k

You can still just use individual emulators

Some of the biggest data centers are pushing 100 megawatts. When I worked on the solar farms out west, an entire industrial site would be around 200-400 megawatts.

For context, those sites would be powering entire towns. The Blythe mesa solar project is over 2,000 acres of solar panels. It’s bigger than the town. Quite a bit of Las Vegas is ran on solar.

It’s not quite as simple as just sticking panels on the roof of the data center. It also needs to be reliable enough to store the energy so it’s available at night when the sun is down. This is still one of solar’s biggest hurdles.

Or you can just as easily install a Linux distro, because that’s all steamOS is but slightly game-ified. If anything you’d probably have a better desktop experience with a distro built with that in mind.

I just work a trade. Nobody is trying to network with the guy there to rewire an electrical system in a steel mill. Unless it’s to poach to jump ship to a different job haha

There never used to be tornadoes in my area. Now there are. With climate change, anything’s possible!

My friends don’t have it set up. Some of them are friends of friends, and people I don’t talk to regularly. I’m not going to try and convert them. It’s also a bit more complicated via tailscale or VPN reverse proxies and Plex “just werks”. If there’s anything beyond just installing an app and clicking an invite, a bunch of people who use my library are going to have a hard time. Like my dad, he’s pushing 70. My friends would also have to do the goofy networking setup for it to work for me.

I’m also not even sure if people I share with have means of installing. My one friend who uses my library a lot does it through a Samsung TV. That involves sideloading the app to install jellyfin.

Lastly, like I said, music. Plexamp is one of my #1 used apps. There’s a lot that goes into that beyond just being able to play media. It curates playlists depending on what you just listened to or gives you similar artists, similar to how Spotify makes a “radio” after playing something.

Something that’s getting glossed over in these comments is the ability to easily watch or listen to friends’ media.

I have my own library with about 1k movies, a bunch of anime and TV, and 10k albums. But I have like 6 or 7 friends with libraries even larger. My one friend has 37k albums, they all have thousands of movies I never even heard of, etc. It really makes it like my own mini streaming service, and I love throwing on a huge music library on shuffle via plexamp while driving to/from work.

I paid like $70 for a lifetime pass years ago, so I’m along for the ride I guess. I really rely on the music aspect of it, I haven’t had a spotify subscription in like 7 years.

I know they changed a lot lately, and particularly what pisses me off is how vague and how they intentionally obfuscate how their model works now. I have friends that for years used my library, and recently have been like “I saw Plex started charging now so I stopped using it” and I have to be like “no it’s still free because I have a lifetime pass”. It’s definitely just to trick people into getting monthly subscriptions.