Have to agree.

That .ml is so closely tied to development (and previously the first landing space) is problematic, there were a bunch of people asking if donations were purely to dev or if they supported the .ml servers at all as well, because they didnt want to provide any financial support to .ml.

And thats even aside from precisely the issue you mention.

I really think its one of the bigger reasons behind all the piefed support.

my point the Lemmy devs’ tankie position is a liability for the growth of federated networks.

The responses to fundraising for Lemmy development recently is a perfect example of that

Plex is a good example that does just that (not on my rec list but a good example) along with many business grade IPTV and media streaming products (think digital signage).

I’d really love to rework JF to do it, but structurally it wouldn’t work, you’d need a management service in front of it.

Remember that we’re talking about a server on your local network, and a device on the local network to make the connection for the stream. We aren’t talking about streaming over the internet.

• Client looks up server via DNS
• Client connects to public IP
• Client handshakes to server
• Server announces to client available connections (public, local)
• Client continues connections with local address

There is no need for tailscale or anything, this is a local connection. The only thing the public address is doing is the initial call to the server.

The good ones… Are not cheap (if someone knows a cheap option though, I’d be happy to add it to my own repertoire!)

For me, I backup with:

• A second NAS
• a clone to a NAS at two other homes (family), which also sync to mine
• Encrypted backups to generic cloud storage

Edited to add:

You dont need to backup everything.

What is being backed up by me at all the locations above:

• Content I can’t replace (home photos, movies, etc)
• Configs for services
• Personal documents and other such data.
• etc

Aside from the home movies, its not a huge amount of data. Lots of VHS conversions of graduations, Christmases, etc of long past.

Locally I back up more to the second NAS including:

• Content I can replace but this is faster
• Full backups of VMs
• LXC snapshots
• etc

So while I have a huge amount of storage at home, what’s needed elsewhere is not anywhere near as much.

Depends on the server obviously, but most will pass off their local once the initial handshake is made.

Once that is done, DNS isnt relevant anymore.

Edit: This is especially true for media (movies, TV) servers.

Should all be local after the connection is made, as long as nothing is wonky with your setup.

Locally you should resolve that DNS to your local server though, not via cloudflare.

Used tiny/mini/micro.

Get the gen of Intel CPU you can afford purely for hw transcoding. 6th-8th gen is good, newer gets you more, even av1 becomes an option.

If you have a NAS, great, store videos there. If you dont, I’d upgrade the t/m/m with an m.2 and (config dependant) you can usually stick a 2.5" in there as well.

Proxmox for the OS, run lxc’s for the individual services you want, or make a docker LXC and run them in there. Personally I just make an LXC for each service.

Apex AD-5131 was my favorite - 3 disc changer, DVD, vcd, and svcd support. Played everything, you didnt have to swap discs, and if the vcds were done right, you may not even notice when the changer hit.

I dont necessarily miss the tech, but I do miss the ease of experience compared to so much of the nonsense today with streaming (which is why I only watch or listen from my own media servers).

The first UAV in the 1800s were incendiary balloons, Austrian attack on Venice.

A. M. Low was a pioneer in rocket guidance systems, planes, etc. In 1917 the “flying bomb” (a controlled airplane) was developed, and later developed into the Kettering Bug - a bomb with wings - which had a terrible success rate and never got used in combat. You can see a reproduction in Dayton, Ohio, at the museum for the Air Force.

Target drones (training drones for military pilots) were made by Radioplane and sold to the Army in the 1940s. That led to the SD-2 Overseer in the 1950s.

Which led to the Lightning Bug, based on target drone designs, used to monitor the Chinese, then Vietnam. They would deploy a parachute so they could be picked up mid-air so they wouldn’t fall into foreign hands. China shot down a few of them and set the shot them down and set those drones up for public display.

Drones have a much longer history than you’d think!

Classic to TBC.

Did my pally quest for the mount, only to see that no longer be needed just a bit later…

I haven’t played wow in a long time… Classic, TBC, then wotlk, cata, then took a break from it, came back a loooooong time later and just… Didnt enjoy it.

I would definitely do something like this to play with family and friends, going to have to check it out!

This is one of those cases where an algorithm carefully trained on only relevant data can have value.

Hopefully more people learn that this is the important part.

It becomes nonsense when you just feed it everything and the kitchen sink. A well trained model works.

Assuming you want to replace it all, not just home lab use…

1. Drop their router/modem combo if you can, get your own modem and router. Options are pretty wide here, but what I prefer is a wired router and separate WAPs. I’d lean toward opnsense for the router OS, and I’d use something with as little as two to four ports - one for the modem, one to hit a switch, two more gives you a second modem option (cellular as mentioned) and a second switch to hit if needed. Ideally with 10gbps for future proofing. Dont make your router/FW do lift of a switch, IMO.
2. Get a switch sized to your network. Since you’re going with a 10" rack, a small 8 port with a couple 10gbit uplinks would fit the bill. Managed only here. You dont need the latest and greatest - I have a stack of Aruba 2920s, 48+4 PoE+ (stacking cables) that I got for free that were being replaced. They came out in 2013 and went end of sale in 2017, and have been in my home lab since. So - any thing managed that handles what you have and a bit more.
3. In terms of WAP, TP-Link, ASUS, and Zyxel all have decent hardware that works well.

Just a language shift for corporations, definitely.

Subscriptions aren’t buying, thats the problem.

Yeah I just dont have a need with no devices to handle it natively, while the rest of my library can be. Building a new htpc media player for the living room next, new server after that.

New because I’m using a lenovo tiny as the server, which means either I build a new box completely, or I find the right used workststion tiny/mini/micro that can handle av1. Complete build will do a lot more (well, the t/m/m does too, but not to the extent my big box builds are set up for).

About the same here, minus the music videos (only a few dozen there for the kids), plus a fitness library, so I’d say it evens out to roughly equal.

Mostly HEVC but I still have some h.264 floating around that I have no interest in reencoding.

No AV1 at all until I get a new Intel GPU or newer Intel CPU to handle transcoding it nicely.

Thats the problem…

Right now I’m not even served by one of the big companies, and they haven’t improved service in… Years.

Even their fiber lines max at 500 symmetric, and they won’t drop to a residence. No other options either.

Comcast is now in the area, and as much as I hate them… It would be cheaper and faster by a lot (on both counts). Half the price, 25 times the upstream.

Its a sad state of affairs IMO.

Thats what I’m on currently, and soon I’ll be able to get 1.2gbit symmetric!

Still a far cry from 2-3gbps. I dont know of anyone with home internet service capable of that, but maybe elsewhere there are better options.