Is it possible to manually select what you want transcoded without creating hundreds of libraries?
I just finished transcoding my entire movies folder and it seemed like a 70/30 split where files shrunk in size/doubled in size..
I'd like to transcode my tv shows, but some of them are already pretty small file sizes and I don't want to mess with that.
do i basically have to go through line items and tell it to skip specific files?
BLUF: why should I use Tailscale?
I hear about it all the time when discussing homelabs and servers and whatnot, but i'm unclear on use case I guess..
Is it something I should use? Why?
For reference, here is how i'm currently set up at home:
Windows 11 PC connected to internet via ProtonVPN. Does all my day to day stuff, and torrenting and whatnot.
QNAP NAS runs all my *arrs in portainer dockers and is used as storage for media and runs my plex server.
If i need to remote in, i use my phone and chrome remote desktop for full control of my windows box.
Everything is portforwarded through my router. So far, i've only ever had maybe 2 instances of "attacks" and they were blind brute force attempts that the router identified and put a stop to.
Is Tailscale something that would be useful for me or would it just become something else i have to worry about breaking when i push updates?
Thanks!
So i know the process will involve it going from step 1 to step 2 to step 1 to step 3, etc.. it will bounce back and forth a lot. But what does it mean when the date it shows is in the future?
I initiated my BDD claim march 12th, and finally got and uploaded my dd-214 in april, and when they processed it, it shows I moved to step 2 on march 12, and moved to step 1 on july 1st.
July 1st is my first day after transferring to Fleet Reserve (Navy bullshit retirement status), is it just showing that date as when my benefits will start? Or are they not going to touch it until i'm out? I thought the point of BDD was to get everything finalized quicker?
I'm wanting to upgrade from an 8 bay QNAP 873a NAS to a rackmount server so I have more future proofing by adding the ability to add my drives with rack mount drive racks. QNAP currently only offers network drive enclosures that don't support RAID and I require RAID1.
I see a lot of old dell poweredge r710 and r720 available for about $100, but I know those are the older generations. R770 seems to be available for about 6-10k. Way out of my budget.
Is it worth grabbing a 720 (or 730 if i see one) or am I going to just get frustrated and want to replace it with something newer in a year?
I primarily use the NAS for *arrs and Plex. The highest quality I stream is 1080p, i avoid 4k to try to use less space. My current box does CPU/GPU transcoding. I'm just hitting storage limits and affordability on scaling. With only 8 bays available and two of them tied up with smaller OS only disks, I can't afford bigger drives right now (thanks AI.. 🙄). I think i have two 16tbs, two 20tbs, and two 22tbs right now and only about 8tbs free at the moment..
Should I sit tight until I can afford a modern gen r server or pull the trigger on an older one?