Yup, there are few efficient ways to handle that, so anything that does it looks something like everything else that handles it.

Sadly, not many things handle it :)

Plex does this on its own. It’s one of the features they provide. The client/service knows when the server is local even though you go outside to make the initial connection. They go through a lot of trouble to do this. You connect externally it brokers the initial connection proxies date of back and forth to see if you can talk to each other directly, your client knows your server is now local and it switches over.

I don’t know if any other video hosting package that does this. Jellyfin certainly would not. I ‘think’ if you threw a tailscale in the middle, It would be able to do it without hair pinning as long as you were using a local exit node instead of tailnet. They’d still probably go through that local exit node.

Yeah I wouldn’t put my dick in that.

There is perhaps an opportunity there. You can’t be sure that they won’t collect location information or information off your phone. But if you took precautions to make sure you were anonymous when you purchased the stuff, and the device you are using was divorced from you entirely, you just have to make sure you never ever turn it on at home. Getting a working phone number/sim without an SSN/address identification isn’t nothing.

I don’t trust that stripe wouldn’t out you. So you’d need to protect your payment info.

I don’t trust that they won’t locate you or log your communication or handle your communication or location in a way that could be tracked by a powerful third party.

That said, 99 bucks a month is pretty expensive to get an unidentified sim from a company you can’t necessarily trust.

As people have said, the Intel CPU with quick sync will be much better on power.

You could also use your m.2 to caache your regular hard drive with BTRFS and LVM or something like https://bcache.evilpiepirate.org/

Maybe spin down your HDD when it’s not being used. Most of your power savings are going to come from not transcoding unless you need to, transcoding efficiently when you need to, and powering things down when you don’t need them.

In Linux you can mess with your clock regulation, probably even put the box to sleep when you don’t need it, maybe wake on lan.

notes: Facer is a little bit of a PITA to install, follow the instructions very well.

GW4: It eats about twice as much battery as my normal faces, but I’m still lasting the day.

The text is WAY too small, but it’s pretty fun.

yeah, i’m foolishly hoping we get away from that

I’m not going to be bullied by liberal arts partisans into reconfiguring how my brain works

I hate to tell you this, but that’s a fascist argument using tradition to block out change and accepting others. It’s a screw those other races/religions history and feelings because it makes me feel less powerful kind of statement. I doubt that’s your intent, but there it is.

It used to be that simple. You could put a certain value of resistor between two pins and that was that.

This guy covered it quite well

https://superuser.com/questions/1555520/what-can-a-program-find-out-about-a-usb-c-cable-attached-to-the-computer

In brief, Type-C cable specs are nearly independent from USB data and USB Power Delivery (Type-C can support anything).

By specs, Type-C connector/cable provides two methods of self-identification.

First one is by combination of resistor pulls-up and pulls-down on both sides of CC wires. Since there are two CC pins in Type-C connectors, and several analog levels, many combinations are available. Other than connect function itself and basic determination of source-sink roles and power capacity, several “alternate” functions are defined, as Display Port, Audio, and Debug mode.

The second amendment to Type-C is the mandatory embedding of e-markers into every C-C cable. >The information in e-marker contains name of manufacturer and current carrying capability of particular cable.

The state of CC1/CC2 pins is usually acquired by a special CC-controller chip. The CC-controller communicates with main system by I2C interface. The register-based interface is standardized in Intel document USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface Specification

So, many manufacturers are including markers with maximum settings that exceed the wires’/cables’ capability.

just reduce it.

Any reduction would be great.

It would also be interesting to make the port something like a sim tray. you could eject it and replace it with a new one for a couple bucks. You might only replace it a handful of times, enough that the internal sealed contacts wouldn’t wear out.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/master

contrastive adjective (“he who is greater”)

This is not to say that the term predates slavery and is neutral today in pejorative terms.

Music used it because the original is of greater quality. The term is technically and syntactically correct here.

Slavery used the term correctly, extensively and horribly. Honestly, it tainted it.

Most of the people who say it’s no big deal or they don’t care have ancestors who were on the unimpacted or positively impacted side of slavery. Very “let them eat cake” tones. (even though that story itself is a misnomer)

To be perfectly honest, the term in its etymological roots doesn’t fit well in the digital age for common use cases. It’s fallen into common parlance from the analog era, when it had a more direct meaning. Even though it’s not regularly being used as a pejorative, there’s (not zero, but) little harm in slowly phasing it out for better, more accurate terms like main or trunk or origin.

I suspect it was give and take. Lightning was a very, very slim port, but didn’t have enough pins/shielding to do high speed. C has a boatload of pins, great shielding and picked up dual sided, but the hole needs to be thicker to do this.

Other than a rubber flap on the outside of the chassis, I can’t think of any way to protect it from the inside that wouldn’t either impede plugging in or wear out quickly.

There’s def some need there.

A mechanical cover would have been good. Hell, even a rubber dust boot attached at one end would have been useful.

I keep a little deox-it around and use wooden toothpicks dipped in it. Pocket lint, and dust seem to collect on the left and the right on the ports and make them feel like they’re loose.

I had one the other week that was really bad I ended up digging it out with a dental pick. The phone had gotten wet and it was slowly making diy concrete down in there. But yeah much better to rely on air or not conductive tools, any to scratch off the protective plating

So what happens when your laptop is pulling more than 22w?

Let’s say your cable is 5G. Guess what, that doesn’t mean it supports display port or thunderbolt.

These cables all have ID chips in them that tell the systems what they do and don’t support. 1 they just can’t be bothered to put it on the packaging, 2 a lot of the cheapest Chinese cables have their chips set incorrectly.

The one cable for all solutions problem is a great idea. They could just standardize on a 240 watt 40/60 cable and sell it everywhere that would be great. Hell, I’d be satisfied if there were two cables, 240/5 with black connectors and a 65/60 with white connectors.

Apple sells 60 and 240 watt c-c cables.

The 240 watt are only 5g

The cables are unlabeled.

They sell beats brand too, they are unlabeled to their speed.

For a business, it’s buy analyzer and pick a minimum spec.

For a home, pray the reviews are right.

That’s if the manufacturer doesn’t just install a max wattage chip in every cable.

Unfortunately this is not uncommon.

Admittedly, i’ve only had a couple cable problems and one of those would have likely been labeled wrong as they were cheap cables with max wattage programmed.

One of my users came to me with a C-C phone cable that had used between a MacBook pro and a Mac charger. “This got really hot and started to stink when I used it”

uhh, crap, here have this handed them a 6 foot 100w cable and please throw that old one away I’ll give you a new phone cable too.

My other problem is with QC on random cables. I have some 6’ that won’t pass 25w. I have a Klein tester that will enumerate wattage. I throw away cables that won’t at least support fast charging.

I also have a couple Samsung trio wireless multi-device chargers, they insonsistent. If I use the 45 watt Samsung brick that came with it it works fine. If I use any other brick, it refuses to use anything but a full on 65 watt charger. I don’t know if they ignore the spec, or enumerate differently, maybe they give a different output on 9v than others, but we need to have this overall issue with compatibility and semi-functional usage that just feels janky.

I hope that eventually with GaN and other tech that everything will just do 100w or maybe all devices will go down to only needing 45 watt. It would be super nice if everything just played well together.

never a free lunch :(

thanks!

I saw that one back in the day. Never seen any of it in the wild yet.

Would be nice to get TB/DP on there too.

What is this fight club? /s

You could totally talk about E2EE if the client was SA/Electron. If the blob is just getting transferred and stored and the passphrase is never transferred, that’s E2EE.

Come to think of it, if they throw in extra keys when you make your blob, it’s still E2EE, even if they have a key for it. Perhaps we need to think differently about E2EE being then end all.