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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Yea, JF is getting mature enough for more people to transition.

    I’ve been running it side by side with Plex for about 2 years now, and have a couple of clients (and all of my personal use) on JF, but a few users either cant run JF directly on their hardware (and don’t want to cast every time) or they are older and would struggle to learn a new app without some hands on practice with it.

    The newest Plex UI update on some devices is causing some problems so I think I’ll have a few more users moving to JF in the near future.

    It’s a bit of a ram hog compared to plex but that’s not a major issue.


  • unraid is great but on a little 4 bay mini nas with limited expandability you don’t get much advantage for the money, it’s better for larger arrays and lots of mixed disk sizes, and on systems where you can put in lots of SSDs to make a decently fast caching setup die to unraid slower non-striped array architecture.

    On a 4 bay mini-NAS I’d go with the free truenas option and just make it a RaidZ1 of 4 disks.

    For a beginner, OMV might be simpler, and for paid options, HexOS is probably more beginner friendly than raw TrueNas.

    A free alternative to Unraid is Snapraid, but thats more of a roll-your-own solution, not an OS you can just install.


  • way back in the early days of Wifi (802.11B was the cutting edge magic future technology) I had a large antenna hooked up to my laptop PCMCIA wifi card and could pick up some open networks from a few neighbours away. I used to set it up and leave winmx running on my laptop to download all sorts of garbage.

    My home internet at the time was up-to 512Kbps satellite downlink (usually around 200k and lots of packet loss and very high ping) with a ~56k dial up uplink which was also the failover when the satellite was too weak, so it was very asymmetrical and unreliable.

    This is semi-rural Australia in 1999/2000 and was the best we could get until we got a 3G connection that usually got 1.5meg down and 500k up on a weak HSPA connection, that place didn’t get 8/1 ADSL a couple of years later around 2005/6. A couple of streets away there were already on cable and better DSL lines were available so I assume I was connecting to one of those.

    Over the weak long range Wifi connection with a makeshift “cantenna” that probably wasn’t quite right I usually got around 250k symmetrical if I recall correctly, which was really nice compared to the satellite link despite the lower maximum speed.









  • There’s something about slice of life as a genre in general.

    I guess its a sort of melancholy rose-tinted look at something a lot of people either missed out on entirely during our school years, or that we once had but lost as we all grew up and grew apart.

    Hibike! Euphonium (the whole series, movies and the perfect masterpiece Liz and the Blue Bird) hits that for me as well, I was never a band kid, but I feel like it’s 100% relatable regardless. Do it Yourself was the same, that was a great little show.