Counterpoint to this is gas stations and the fact that they include taxes in the price on the giant sign by the road. Why should retail be any different?

I only see that at independent corner stores here. If we’re talking inefficiency, having to label every single product on the shelf is peak inefficiency.

Inventory can move store to store but the price tag remains on the shelf at the store, so this argument doesn’t really make sense to me.

Yeah but people in Finland are out raking forests all day to prevent wildfires which leaves very little time for mass shootings.

That was before I got into the games. I began playing when BC2 had been out for a while.

Seriously. The Battlefield series is by far my most played series of games with thousands of hours but BF5 really killed my interest and 2042 I purchased but only played like 20 minutes of. I find the Battle Royal stuff incredibly lame too. Part of this is just me aging out of the demographic I suppose, but this seems to be a common sentiment among the rest of the player base as well which is why 2042 flopped so hard.

I would love to go back to the mechanics that made Bad Company 2, BF3, and BF4 (despite their terrible buggyness for the first year or so) so wonderful. The kind of maps that you could play over and over and still have a great time (Operation Metro). Quit trying to copy the mechanics of other games because if I wanted to play like that, I would be playing those games instead.

This is probably all a moot point at this stage as I just find myself drawn to simple games on the Switch like Mario Kart, Kirby and Zelda, the Lego series, and barely ever touch any massive games like this outside of the Soulsborne games (currently gave up on Elden Ring but enjoying the Demons Souls remake)

Okay, try turning your lights off tonight and report back with how many additional stars you can see.

My coworkers mom paid $200 a month with a 20GB datacap for HughesNet and couldn’t even stream Netflix or Youtube. Their service is completely useless in 2025.

The night sky is also polluted by your home’s lighting and car headlights but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for most people.

I played through it quite a bit, finished the story and all the side quests, but that was more the completionist in me than the game itself. I thought the story was boring with too many side quests of “drive across the map and collect this item” and I barely remember it now. The trilogy story was insanely good to the point that I got emotionally attached to the characters unlike really any other game I’ve played.

Dudes a pile of shit but a recent flight had Starlink and that was the first time I’ve ever actually had usable internet on a plane. I was streaming Plex on my phone from my home server while flying over the Pacific.

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Imagine risking your life to teach a lesson to your class and then having half of them fail the next quiz.

I have file management software on my Proxmox server called Cockpit

imo nobody who is struggling to lose weight needs to be told about energy balance.

I disagree when I’ve heard countless people make up wild reasons why they can’t lose weight and it’s never about eating more calories than they burn. I’m not trying to shame anyone (im overweight myself) but the billion dollar weight loss industry has convinced too many people that it’s some super complex problem that can only be solved with some wacky diet and a monthly fee.

Your intel core7 has an iGPU which is what QuickSync is. Its one of the best for transcoding. Even without hardware acceleration the Intel CPU will handle this workload just fine but most of these Chinese mini PCs have ARM chips which won’t come with these benefits.

Edit: I see these Miniforum PCs do have Intel and AMD chips so I was making an incorrect assumption here.

That might really limit your options as Quicksync is pretty much the gold standard for efficiency and performance. A discrete GPU works too but you might have trouble finding them in a Chinese mini PC.

I used AMD for years (RX580) but it wasn’t always the best quality and having a separate GPU really sapped a lot more power. I don’t believe ARM processors are really optimized for transcoding either. Under the hood, Jellyfin, Emby, and Plex all use ffmpeg to do their transcoding so maybe you can research more about its performance with each platform.

Again, used is always an option. You’re not giving money to any of these companies by buying used parts and it sounds like this would get you more ‘horsepower’ from your budget than buying a bunch of new stuff.

For Frigate you can just add a Coral TPU to offload the heavy lifting but with Jellyfin you’ll likely need a GPU/iGPU (Intel) that can handle transcoding. I don’t know what specific models you’re looking at but you might try to determine their passmark score. I think it’s recommended at least 2000 score for a single 1080p transcode. Alternatively you can stick to specific file formats that won’t need transcoding but this might be some work.

You could get a used Dell Optiplex micro. They have i3/i5 processors and can be found for around $100. This will at least get you going and you can always build something later.

Nah still pricey. I believe the article stated they were $800 which puts them at $20+/TB. 5 years ago I could get new drives at $12/TB but now I can only find these types of deals on used server drives or no-name brands.

These new 30+TB drives should be driving down the cost of the small to midrange drives but that doesn’t appear to be the case currently.

Its extra creepy that my kid just put this movie on 30 minutes ago and here I am seeing a post about it on Lemmy while it’s playing on the TV in front of me.