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Now this is where we start getting into the classic audiophile discussion territory. There are folks into audio who can spend hours trying to convince why even lossless encoding like ALAC doesn't compare with a raw audio stream. As far as I am concerned, I find it difiicult to tell between even...

Availability of Free time not withstanding, it was not a standalone statement. And you missed the context around the same I obviously understand the need to store / safe-keep some media files. I have my own repository for that. May be worthwhile to read the preceding posts - but i presume you...

In which case all I would say is that you must be incredibly good at finding rare combinations on the interwebs.. Like Oldies/classics in AV1 encoding :tearsofjoy:

Let me draw an analogy. If my shoe size is 8, I would not buy size 6 or 10, would I? There is nothing i gain with PGS over SRT-its not that my server cant transcode it but why would I pick a file of that kind in the first place. The problem you are talking about is a hardware constraint on...

Hevc hardware decoding is present on pretty much every PC/Phone/Tab/whatever from the last several years. I havent really tried doing local playback on a browser but it stands to reason that if I have setup a plex server, i would have some or the other compatible app on my client devices. And...

I dont get it - there is literally no end user device these days that cannot do a direct playback of even very large/ high bit rate media files. Why bother/ burn power for transcoding? There are plenty of options for local DV+atmos playback on TVs incl ATV and firestick

It only gets cheaper in the US around the end of the lifecycle. Unlike India, US never gets sale discounts on iphones and relatively small discounts on ipad . The last cheap ipad i was able to pickup was the 2018 ipad pro in 2019 for around 650 odd incl taxes. For whatever reason, apple tends a...

There is no free lunch The magic KB has added extra weight at the bottom to keep the combination stable because of that suspended floating design. The KB folio has no such stability restriction as the weight of the ipad itself keeps it stable - It adds no more weight than any regular protective...

I have a 8 year old Bosch Ixo with torque setting adapter - recently changed the battery It has a regular 18650 cell

Yup - India pricing is pretty fair considering inclusive of 18% GST here and the $999 figure excl Sales tax . If you have to choose between a Mac and an iPad pro, by all means it should be the Mac - No questions asked. But if you have an existing mac (or a windows laptop for that matter), The...

1 ubuntu VM as NAS and a couple of other services 1 VM running home assistant 1 VM running grafana and influxdb for various logging 1 VM running windows for legacy reasons 1 VM running opnsense as the primary router - (this was on an independent machine (baremetal ) earlier but moved it to this...

This! my first homelab was a couple of RPIs (OG gen) running Home autmation and NAS duties. Over the years, a lot has changed - the hardware, the architecture and the topology (Currently a 10th gen intel with 48Gigs of RAM running 4 VMs and 5 containers) But one thing that remained...

I guess you would have done this already so the response is too late - but for future reference: the beauty of virtualizing is no hassle backups and near instant restores You do not need to backup (or image) the server itself. but ALWAYS, and i mean always backup the VMs and CTs 1) The backup...

No i i didn't. There are two categories of inkjets that are available regardless of brand. The razor/razorblade model i.e. cheap upfront (3-4K) and expensive proprietary cartridges or non locked but understandably expensive upfront (10K+) I'd be curious to know if there are any non-locked but...

@altair21 This thread is going a little all over the place and completely outside the original topic So i will keep my response restricted 1) On your point on printers - no one likes it if their printer gets locked for proprietary ink and such. However with the traditional/established pricing...

Guess i am stating the obvious .. but Majority of influencer reviewers are thought through right from the inception stage to invite the max number of clicks rather than any kind of altruistic thought process to help others make the right decision. A video in 2024 titled M2 works very well for...

I don't. I paid a lot more for my droid than i paid for my iphone . This was just to demonstrate that a product built with an emphasis on quality always costs more Although the general perception around here often seems to be that macbook/iphone/ipad whatever are overpriced - catch is that...

Arent you assuming two things in a bollywood 80s movie Black/White vein viz: - Customers are idiots - Corporations are outright evil In the example of proprietary ink that you quoted, there are two facets that you are disregarding: 1) locked inkjets are disproportionately cheap for the...

Question is - why should they if it fits the bill. A technology purchase decision is not rooted in ideology (And should not be).. Every purchase I (or anyone) makes is a compromise in some way or the other. And if paying an arguably higher apple tax for a relatively hassle free and a more...

Despite all the negatives around limited upgradeability/ high price for upgrades - To give credit where its due, apple hardware does last longer in general with minimal hiccups. I wont go into the details - but let me just say that for the last 15+ years, I have always kept two (or more)...