I think either Strange New Worlds or Lower Decks is a good starting point for someone new to Trek. I think I’d recommend SNW over Lower Decks though just because the number of references in Lower Decks to other Star Trek media is pretty high.

I would double and triple check your not transcoding. Even if you’re watching on the client at whatever the files native resolution is depending on the codec of the file you might still be transcoding. For instance with 1080p anything h265 or AV1 is transcoded into h264 by the server. There’s also a few other situations where Plex with force transcoding or down convert the video whether you want it to or not.

Your NAS shouldn’t be having trouble serving the file to Plex I’d bet it’s transcoding in the background and you just don’t realize it.

Yeah it definitely a good option depending on your local used market and or what you can find on eBay.

Nah mine draw less than 10 watts at idle, unless you’re constantly loading the cpu you’re not going to see even 25 watts.

I’ve got three different sff desktop units running various apps on them. If you look around you can usually find the tiny form factor business desktops from Dell, HP, and Lenovo used and a few years old for under 100 bucks a piece. The most expensive of the three I bought was a Dell with a 9600t for 90 bucks about a year and a half ago.

ADL stands for Anti Defamation League, the first paragraph on the about us page on their website reads.

ADL is the leading anti-hate organization in the world. Founded in 1913, its timeless mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.”

My NAS is on an embedded Xeon that at this point is close to a decade old and one of my proxmox boxes is on an Intel 6500t. I’m not really running anything on any really low spec machines anymore, though earlyish in the pandemic I was running boinc with the Open Pandemics project on 4 raspberry pis.

I work in retail, but my homelab isn’t super extensive just a nas, a Plex server, and a couple proxmox boxes.

Closet I’ve ever come to being in IT was back when I was still in college and took some a networking class and some web development classes but that was many moons ago.

This the route I went too, a couple years ago I found a tiny form factor Lenovo with a 6500t on eBay for a little under 70 bucks shipped and then I found a tiny Dell with a 9500t on my local Craigslist for 100 bucks.

They’re good little boxes.

Every wireless mouse I’ve ever owned starts double clicking after like a year and a half or two years. The only exception is the Razer Basilisk I bought about 3 years ago, that ones still ok so far

Thanks for believing in me child.

Piracy has never been theft, it has always been and still remain copyright infringement. That being said go ahead and pirate, I’m not your dad.

I didn’t even know jellyfin had hw transcode till this post but I’m with this guy, Intel’s qsv is great. I have my plex server running bare metal on an gen 2 HP chromebox. It’s dual core but hw transcode with Intel QSV will do like 20+ 1080p streams.

Don’t forget about the one year of free credit monitoring

It’s probably best to not recommend RES anymore it’s been in maintenance mode for around 2 years and is no longer being maintained. Honestly I’m amazed it has been become broken and unusable yet.

For a while I was running a “cluster” of 4 raspberry pis on POE running BOINC. Not super fun but was something to do with POE.

My original plan was to netboot all 4 and run them diskless with POE power but I never got around to setting up netboot.

So the same height as George Washington. I hear Malcom Reynolds also has like 50 god damn dicks.

Ahhhhh, ok.

Man, 17 bucks per drive is pretty steep.

I’m in the same boat, I only have YouTube premium because it got bundled in with Google play music and I’ve been using Google’s music service forever.