RxBrad

Switch to a PAYG account. Continue to use Always Free resources. Still pay nothing. And don’t get your account yoinked for underutilization anymore.

That’s worked for me so far, for almost a year now. (knock on wood)

Connect.

It’s an all-new app, and not just some dev’s existing Reddit app wrapped around Lemmy.

And it’s free with no tracking, no ads, and no crazy $100 pricetag to remove ads for a social network that’s still on somewhat shaky ground.

Web search is rapidly getting worse & worse, unfortunately. Thanks, AI & SEO-chasers…

As someone who knows a little bit about the pharmaceutical industry…

It sucks too much to let something like this suceed. The companies ultimately making the drugs intend to profit off them. A lot.

Unless tons of people are accessing your pictures, I’d recommend Tailscale instead.

7th gen Intel (Kaby Lake) can encode h265, also. Not just 8th gen.

Source: I encode to h265 almost daily using Quicksync on my i5-7500.

Intel 7th gen & higher CPUs have Quicksync that does hardware h265 encoding.

You can get an old i5-7500 PC pretty cheap these days. That’s what I have, and tDarr converts about an hour of 1080p h264 content to h265 in roughly 10min.

I like dogs.

My network is SIGHTHOUND.

My computers…

• GREYHOUND
• WHIPPET
• IGGY
• SALUKI
• BORZOI

Comcast (no other ISPs thanks to local legislation). Suburbs of the 2nd largest city in my state (Michigan).

$84/month for 200/10Mbps with a 1.2TB cap.

You have it great.

I’m very slowly typing up a blog post on how I did it, but I had success tunneling my Plex through T-Mobile’s CGNAT by running this Docker container on my local machine and on a free (technically PAYGo using always-free services) Oracle Cloud account.

Much like Cloudflare, this is for sending specific-port traffic through the tunnel.

https://github.com/DigitallyRefined/docker-wireguard-tunnel

You’d be surprised. They even block incoming IPV6 traffic.

I wonder if it plays nice with CGNAT and ISP port blocking…

(looks at my T-Mobile 5G gateway…)

I’m partial to OpenMediaVault…

In my basement, next to the Ethernet patch panel… OpenMediaVault on an old HP ProDesk G3 with lots of Docker containers.

Just a 6TB WD Red+ HDD in the HP, backing up daily to a matching 6TB in an external USB HDD enclosure.

Random network switches lighting up most of the CAT6 ports around the house. My Google Nest router & T-Mobile 5G internet gateway are upstairs.

Definitely consider 16GB if you’re using Immich. I started with 8GB and had to upgrade. (on the bright side, 32GB DDR4 was just over $40)

I’d also say that an i7 is likely overkill for your use case (despite other comments here).

I run an i5-7500 with PhotoPrism, Plex, tDarr, and about 30 other services. The power draw barely registers on my 1000W UPS (this includes my SFF PC, external USB HDD, and 3 network switches). And my CPU rarely jumps above 20% utilization.

I would say at least 7th gen Intel. Its QuickSync is one version newer than 6th gen, and QuickSync didn’t get another update until the 10th gen CPUs.

7th through 9th gen CPUs QuickSync added h265 encoding, and 10bit h265 decoding. Also there are the all-around speed & quality improvements that come with each QuickSync generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video

There’s some real history in there if you look close enough! My VHS Player, the old WRT-54G router, a George Foreman Grill…

I don’t have a problem, you do!

You’re not my real dad. You can’t tell me what to do.

Most Reddit mods love their little artificial power bubbles too much.

That’s why most of them quickly opened shop back up when Reddit threatened to de-mod them.

They’re not going to give it up to run /c’s here that are 10% the size (or smaller).