Adobe is a bloated garbage company that hasn’t truly innovated in a decade, they’re just hoarding their proprietary tools and formats to squeeze as much money out of customers as possible.

Worth what? It’s free! And yes, it’s open source. It can also be self-hosted if you’re paranoid.

You can do a lot better by buying your own modem and router, but that can be expensive. The thing you’re doing right now is a good idea if you don’t want to spend a lot of money, whine at your internet provider and get them to send you a better router.

It also runs like crap, even on decent hardware. I don’t get why people love it so much…

NetworkChuck

Not really, you’re ideally paying for a server that you have complete control of. The differences are mostly just fundamental limitations.

Example: if you’re hosting off site, you will always be connecting remotely, so your access depends on a network connection. If you’re hosting at home then your stuff is still accessible when your internet goes down

More importantly, if you find something free, expect it to be from a very sketchy company. You should be paying for something like this, and you should go through a company that you TRUST.

Yeah the distinction is pretty small, and usually people are just talking about FOSS software…but I’d rather avoid the semantics so just calling the community “open source” makes sense to me.

I don’t have a definitive answer to your first question, but why would we want to limit a sub to FOSS-only discussion? It’s a more restrictive designation. By calling the sub “open source” we’re keeping it open to software that isn’t technically FOSS.

Ah yes, they fired a bigot. How dare they!

I’ll see if I can find a password manager created by other small-minded bigots and let you know.

Agreed, NextCloud performance is atrocious. You need decently powerful hardware to run it, so at that price point just buy a nice NAS.

Right, a KVM’s usefulness is narrow and you’re ideally using it as a sort of backup to a backup of critical systems. That means you usually only hear about them in server environments, and that means that sysadmins pay a LOT of money for enterprise-grade KVMs.

But it’s very cool that we can build a dirt cheap, half-decent KVM out of a Pi nowadays. I might have just left mine running if I there wasn’t a Pi shortage; I wanted that Pi for other stuff.

It’s good for critical systems that you might need to reboot and do things like see the BIOS (which you can’t see if you’re using a normal VNC-type remote access solution). It’s probably not necessary for most setups, but it can be very useful in certain situations. I made one myself, then literally never used it, and I’m now using that Pi in a different project.

Lots of guides on YouTube to do this: https://youtu.be/KQVQOq0Tpgo?si=sYUEz1CnBPQGQ6Ch

Basically, you need to use SSH to communicate with your Pi. That way you don’t need a monitor.

LOL that’s not a bad way of explaining it. My reasoning is that I like CloudFlare, so I’ll default to them, but if CF goes down I want DNS to continue working. I figure Google is one of the servers that’s LEAST likely to go down.

I do CloudFlare first and Google as backup.

How bad is your upload speed? Most of my x264 and x265 encodes have a total bitrate of around 1.5-2 Mbps. You can’t stream that without transcoding?

Also, have you LOOKED at transcode quality from the other side? It looks TERRIBLE, and it doesn’t significantly reduce your bitrate. I’m telling you, whatever math Plex does to decide whether or not to transcode is USELESS. I’ve seen it transcode x264 videos (that definitely didn’t need to be transcoded) and send them to friends at a HIGHER bitrate, it’s legit insane.

Do what works for you, but Plex transcoding is a bad “feature” that should be avoided at all costs.

EDIT: I’m far from the only one noticing this, the common wisdom is that Plex clients are telling your server to transcode, even when it’s not necessary, and there’s not much you can do about it other than fully turning transcoding off.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/ojsspo/help_finding_out_why_plex_is_choosing_to/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/ugu0rg/how_to_avoid_transcoding_as_much_as_possible/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/13qrknp/plex_transcoding_when_it_shouldnt_advice_please/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/uxu4v6/transcoding_when_it_shouldnt_be/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/crhw8r/why_is_plex_transcoding_when_it_doesnt_need_to/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/9qade9/how_do_i_avoid_transcoding_as_much_as_possible/

I’d agree with others, I don’t think you need a custom “app”, you just need to upgrade your spreadsheet skills. That’s probably the easier path here.

Theoretically you could make your components variables and just point your sheets doing the calculations at those variables. So you just change value of your variable, and your sheet re-does the calculation.

The only reason I’d recommend doing something custom is if you’re building a client-facing form. But even then, a simple Google Form that points at Google Sheets would work.

It’s only limiting if you’re doing things that need more RAM and faster drive speeds (most people are not). Of course, if you need more, don’t buy this thing? I didn’t say it was great for EVERYBODY.

Handbrake