I don’t know if this is a new meme format or not, but I’ve enjoyed seeing it on my feed today

I mean xz/7z has kind of been the way for at least a decade now

I suppose you’re right, it is about time I play some Serious Sam again

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

Same, never used a mnemonic for it or anything, just

zxvf

Like it’s any other word

Time to do LFS

Lol it’s not grammar, you’ve used an entirely different word that just sounds kinda similar. You’re essentially saying the actual words used don’t matter in these two sentences because they sound similar:

I like to wear t-shirts

Eye lick two where tea-shits

I think EA also did this with the ad boards around the pitch in FIFA one year IIRC

Then you make aliases of common arguments for those functions, duh

It was an old object oriented language before Java. I think Apple made a lot of use of it?

Ah, I thought this was aVoid Linux

Unraid is kinda slackware in a straightjacket

Weirdly I think I have one of the last half-decent HP all-in-one printers from about a decade and a half ago

It takes third party ink and still more or less works as it did when I got it.

I’ll probably get a brother the day it finally dies though

Kinda funny too, as I view z-wave as kinda American. It seems a lot less common than ZigBee stuff in my experience

Tell me you’ve never worked with a corporate IT department without telling me you’ve never worked with a corporate IT department.

It’s not a professional tool, and it’s clearly not positioned as one. There’s no way in hell you get that through any remotely professional IT department. Aside from many other reasons, they can’t lock it down from an information security perspective (effectively legally required to avoid falling foul of things like GDPR), that alone makes it a massive denied response.

Yeah I’d agree it’s a bit shit that it often has to end up somewhere like GitHub, but it’s at least searchable, which (for me at least) is an absolute necessity for any community where people go to troubleshoot.

Tbh, using “site:blah” is what I’m referring to when I say about narrowing the search. Kinda just do that if I know roughly where I’m looking in order to cut through the shit, but I’ll put my hands up that maybe that’s not especially typical.

This is about the official community around a piece of software being shoved inside a opaque box. It’s shitty.

I have plenty of social groups on discord, that’s the correct usage of the tool.

Your example is more “everything is a nail when you’re holding a hammer”