Yeah… when you pull up stats for Netflix library, you learn some things… Like how little content they actually had. Never cracked 7000 movies… And while that may seem like a lot to a lot of people out there. Those of us that remember blockbuster stores, you ignore like 90% of them cause they’re dumb or silly movies that you’d never watch anyway (or stuff you’ve already watched). Then you can put actual numbers to it… If each of these are full bluray rips (which they’re not as far as Netflix goes) they only take up 175TB… It’s not a lot of movies at all.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-netflix-movie-and-tv-show-catalog-changed-over-time-2020-2

It’s pretty easy to see how an individual could collect more content than netflix easily. Now add money to the equation… I think it would be possible to collect double or triple netflix easily.

I just want to point out the Technitium project as an alternative to unbound and bind resolver as well.

Regardless, it’s really easy to setup your own DNS resolver that resolves to DNS roots.

I run 4 vms that are seedboxes. Each are on vpns and I’ve observed them to hit up to ~90MBps, just shy of gigabit (I have 8gbps). Most of the time I’m not uploading much at all. It’s not just you bandwidth and the VPN that matter. But also the peers that’s making the request. Sometimes they just don’t talk to you but the other peers. Or they don’t have that much download bandwidth. The only real way to test is to self host your own torrent and grab it from a controlled outside peer. See what it actually gets when you pull directly.

“I’m paying with exposure.”

In this case though, advertising otherwise would have actually cost them money… This is the one time that it actually is a “decent” although not “great” argument. The exposure dynamic to companies is completely different than for workers.

Torrents only here… I have 8gbps internet. I’m privileged, so I seed (10x or one year). I don’t see a point to paying to be part of a usenet in my situation. I have a few private trackers I’m on. I should see about getting into a few more though to spread the bandwidth wealth. 4 seedbox vms to roundrobin the new torrents that get added.

Right… you talked to one person… has it possibly occurred to you that the one person could have been wrong?

Ah yes, because google never discontinued “enterprise” features… So how’s Jamboards doing?

Google Domains?
Google Surveys?
Google My business?

Do I have to keep going? In case you forgot… the graveyard is MASSIVE. https://killedbygoogle.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20231127004942/http://www.adventuresinhifiaudio.com/26/01/2018/audiophile-rocks-down-the-rabbit-hole-once-again/

oops.

Edit: Holy shit I just read the page. These people are lunatics.

Even with disk brakes on both wheels you don’t have enough contact with the ground to ride at such speeds in a traffic-safe way.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/stopping-distance

https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/niatt_labmanual/chapters/geometricdesign/theoryandconcepts/BrakeReactionTime.htm

The brake reaction time normally used in design, therefore, is 2.5 seconds.

Stopping distance in a car is therefore 140.22 ft.

Do you think that you can’t do equal or better on a bike?

Any situation that you believe a car can do safely, there’s no reason to believe a bike couldn’t either. FFS we have these wonderful things called motorcycles. Much less contact with the ground [than a car], much higher speeds. Works just fine.

Go ride a bike… Grab the left brake as hard as you can. You will change your mind.

cyclists denied appropriate infrastructure

Clearly you’ve never been to NYC… There’s bike lanes everywhere.

If you agree that humans can control a car going 75mph, then a bike going 28 isn’t an issue.

Just downloading a movie because you want to watch it is not. OK thanks for your time.

Counterpoint… Seeding is a public action… And thus me downloading it and seeding for a 6-12 months is exactly Civil Disobedience (especially on my 8gbps pipe).

It may or may not… Federation being the bitch that it can be. Also, doesn’t help I’m an admin of my instance, so things tend to still show up anyway because “moderation”.
Also the comment was in the email notification I get regardless.

But it looks deleted on my instance at this point. Still worth addressing the other points that I brought up. Reduction of plastic by 90+% is still a very very useful thing, especially when it doesn’t particularly… or at worse minimally… hinder recovery of the metal materials during recycling.

Edit: Just like veganism… mandating people to eat no meat doesn’t need to be the end result… If everyone just changed out a couple of meat meals a week with vegetarian options. Collectively we can make a MASSIVE difference.

But in this case cans being so common anyway… This is massively worse because that just means bottles are fucking useless from the get-go. My house buys cans whenever possible. (honestly we mostly drink just water anyway.)

Seems like that’s a very commonly known fact since it’s been repeated ad nauseum. What seems to be completely missed is that compared to plastic bottles is something like 95% less plastic (probably even less actually). Also the liner can be easily separated from the metal when it’s time to recycling the can while during the meltdown process.

Or cans…

They’ll just print it regardless.

Congrats? I’m running my Plex server on enterprise hardware. There’s no onboard gpu for decoding because that’s not the purpose of that hardware. I do have a graphics card in there to do transcodes, and intimately monitor that usage. My original statement still holds. “which could be a problem if you’re CPU limited or have no GPU for hardware transcoding.”

Transcoding may not be that accessible/useful for some people. I’d rather waste some drive space than do transcodes for every user, but that’s because I have 400TB(not a typo) of space but don’t have enough space to put in any card that takes up more than 1pci slot. In my mind throwing another 20TB drive into my configuration is easier and cheaper than transcoding. In a couple of years we’re going to be having this discussion for AV1 anyway.

Edit: Oh, and 3-4 streams at 60fps, isn’t enough description… really doesn’t cover the most taxing part of the transcode process, which is resolution. 3-4 1080p streams is much easier than even 1-2 4k streams. Considering that content is trending towards higher resolutions rather than higher framerates, I’m not sure what you’re getting at. My T600 can do 3-4 4k streams before it starts running into problems. That should be something like 15-16 1080p streams. Considering my library, I’d still rather have the drives in a more accessible format that will direct play on more devices than transcode my 60-100mbps 4k videos. Keep the transcoding for those that really need it rather than making it the default answer.

9500T has quicksync. That’s why you’re transcodes were only 1-2% on the cpu. You were doing transcoding on the built in gpu.

It is NOT trivial to do transcode without hardware decoding. How much utilization was on your 630 iGPU in that scenario?

Only if you’re disk limited or bandwidth limited. And in many cases will lead to transcoding the content, which could be a problem if you’re CPU limited or have no GPU for hardware transcoding.

Everything (not literally… but figuratively) can do x264. Not everything can do x265…