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yup, I had an issue where I couldn't find my original SACD of Jeff Wayne's 'War of the Worlds' to rip (it's in a box in the laundry, along…

for those thnking of getting an n100 or n150 mini pc - this video (not mine) may be of interest / use to you.…

I have an N150 mini pc and I run pihole, home assistant and will be running opnsense on it as well. The n100/N150 is more than capable.

yeah the pricing on mini PCs (which I keep an eye on) has gone up.. bloody trump's tariffs shouldn't be affecting Aus, but they are.

dude it's a shame I can only give you but one upvote! Loved Monarch S1, looking forward to S2. Had dreams of being in production in my…

I made a HDMI CEC to usb adapter for my mini pc I use running Libreelec (Kodi).

I've been using the intel n100 based mini pc (Lark X 2023) I'm using to reply to this for almost 2 years for my nightly web browsing,…

yup.. price error for the win.. I bought one of those and use it running proxmox, pihole and home assistant.. haven't finalised my opnsense…

nice, is it too much to ask which productions you've worked on please?

DDR5 has ECC built in.

How many cores do you need? If you don't need more than 4 then go an intel n100 / n150 as it's extremely low power and the intel igpu is…

@nottoobright ISPs used to include usenet with their services, no idea if it's for free any more as I've been paying $50 a year for premium…

usenet and https are the way. trackers are obvious what you're doing.

too many fingers?

there's a new BIOS for the AMD 585U on their website - https://aoostar.com/pages/drives-systems direct link:…

sorry for newer motherboard should be DDR5 SODIMM, not DDR4 - also there are similarly priced N100 motherboards with 2x 2.5GBe and 1x 10GBe…

ahhahaha.. sorry, best laugh I've had in a while. Sure AV1 encoding is nice and the cheapest / best (?) way to go would be an intel A310…

I built my own 8 bay NAS for around $600, will support up to 12x SATA drives and I'm running the synology DSM operating system (so totally…

yes. that was me.. a jonebo N3 - 8 bay case

if you're using a browser then I thkn I noticed that firefox doesn't support HEVC, but chrome does.

"Streaming works great locally but can be slow over the internet." Yeah that'll be your nbn upload bandwidth being the bottleneck (what…

This is the way - I'm running an intel n5095 with auxxilium and direct boot auxxilium from usb into synology DSM 7.2 (with the hardware…

I built my own 8 bay NAS for around $600, will support up to 12x SATA drives and I'm running the synology DSM operating system (so totally…

ahh ok that makes sense.. I know the current fire tv sticks have been on mega clearance in the USA - with the supposed new models having a…

the adds are usually around $60-70 for the fire stick 4K and the few I've just looked at have price stickers on them, so I doubt they came…

I see the same people selling amazon fire tv 4K sticks on marketplace and gumtree quite regularly, so there's obviously some loophole…

hardware transcoding on Intel n150 with jellyfin - https://youtu.be/meD9A5pAxMQ?t=1282

yup.. which is why I bougth an N3 - suited my purpose well and not too big.

following up with an obvious - but unless you have a plex licence, hardware transcoding isn't supported. also this video may or may not be…

I built the following 8 bay NAS for under $600 six months ago - I also don't think the above hardware is worth $800. Also I know it's a…