u/One_Vision_

I need to have a bedroom carpet and possibly server taken out and replaced with something else.

Who is the best in Erie to do so?

Anyone know where I can get bulk dry ice? I'm talking 10 pounds of it more or less.

I spent a long weekend trying to replicate Win 11 on Mint. I was able to get the desktop exactly as I wanted. That was easy. And for people who want a desktop experience this will do well.

What wasn't easy and took me days before giving up was getting Plex and qBittorrent and all the other things to work. It fought and fought me and I thought I could strike it down

I couldn't and shamefully went back to Win 11.

It's just not there yet. And I've run several distros trying.

You like-a the Juice, eh? Juice good, eh?

I get you more juice.

I started out Plex server as a hobby. Now, my library is over 1600 movies and 150 tv shows. Everything is perfectly annotated with filebot. And I have subtitles for everything. The current server is a N100.

I realized my current box (N100) wasn't up to the task of streaming 4K video. I mean it can, but perhaps one instance. So I bought a beelink (EQEI12) that was four times as fast.

Now I'm at a cross roads. Do I go with a linux distro for speed, or do I just plunge back into Windows 11 a migrate. Any advice would be helpful and thank you up front.

I was gifted a DS923+ and added my own drives. I bought a BeeLink EQI13 to run the servers because the DS9 is under-powered. What's the best way to connect to it? Can I run a eth cable or USB to it directly? Or should everything go through my router? Also think of running UNRAID if that matters.

Thanks in advance.

I discovered something today that I still can't explain. I bought a new BeeLink that's a Ferrari to replace my older BeeLink. It's four times as fast and quadruple the RAM. The intent was to start multi-streaming 4K.

I installed Mint Linux, installed the Plex Server, and pointed my browser to the new mini. The web-player populated with all my media and subtitles. And it indeed played 4K quickly and smoothly.

I was like, WTF? I turned off my slower mini and checked again, and got the No Media Available. I also check the app.plex.tv site and the same thing happened versus 192.168.1.xxx

Can anyone explain what's going on?