Blame Brexit. EU phone service is pretty good for me.

Companies need a well paid fall guy so they can demonstrate the illusion of solving the major problem by letting them retire.

Steam is optional for gaming now.

Even the current Debian Stable, which is nearing the end of its run, has a recent backport (currently at 6.12.9).

Oh that’s cool to know! Yeah, I can’t think of something myself.

I largely agree with ya. I bet someone can cook up some edge cases where the newer kernel might matter. I like that this article lays out how to setup the GPU. But I know Ubuntu has a nice gui for installing proprietary drivers.

Damn leachers

So that’s a reasonable idea, but those kinds of systems have been around for a long time and I don’t recall these ever going above 100.

I was wondering that. But I don’t believe they track it that way otherwise I would expect all the categories to be this way instead of just the cpu features.

I haven’t tried setting up jellyfin myself. However, if you’re able to use pcie passthrough on your container, you could probably use any spare card you might have? (assuming it fits and your psu can handle it)

Oh thanks I must have missed that in the title.

The xeon does have more cache too. So if the GPU acceleration is the make or break it option. You could toss a card in there.

I’m assuming you’re talking about version 1 of the 2620.

Although the xeon is the weaker processor, if you’re planning on having those containers active together the larger thread count will potentially be more beneficial than the faster i7.

But this is one of those things where you’d need to test against both and see. Since there’s a bunch at play.

I’m assuming the xeon comes with ECC ram?

I’d decide based on how loud it’s gonna make my homelab, if I get to use ECC ram and the type of workload being applied.

Since you’re just looking to make a router the xeon would be my tentative choice.

Are there any practical options outside of chromium apps and Firefox forks?

I just want a bigger battery in the same form factor. Innovation in the wrong direction if you ask me haha

26.9% performance gain over the 7800X3D

wow! did they figure out why?

I’d suggest using IFME (https://x265.github.io/download.html) it does support MKV.

Due to the nature of video, using another codec will have some differences even if it’s minimal.

But if you encode the video as AV1 with conservative settings it should be possible to reclaim a lot of that space with minimal impact.

Metadata should be retainable but you’ll likely need to experiment.

Their mission is committing to provide “universal access to all knowledge”.

It’s rather depressing that people are attacking such a site. They might have even made a bit of coin if they responsibly reported it.

Surprise surprise when your IT budget is perpetually anemic.

What are your thoughts on the alternative path the article talks about “…zeroconf, mDNS, or DNS-SD advertisements”?

Basically an unauthenticated perl interpreter with root open to the network by default in most configurations across a couple decades.

It’s about as bad as it can be?