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TK420 ,

Just remember this simple saying: “HP printers, no thank you”

TK420 ,

Pixma something something 1000 by Canon?

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You could say it’s already broken 🤣

TK420 ,

This is already moving fast

TK420 ,

Chrome can get fucked.

Thanks Mozilla

TK420 ,

It’s not a 15 minute setup no. However, if you have lots of media and devices, this is really the only thing like it. Yes there are alts, but it’s the same boat.

TK420 ,

I was not talking about just installing the server itself, the whole planning, installing, organizing etc. being more than 15 mins

TK420 ,

I have a decent setup and I don’t use any of that. No need for that when I’m using discs as my sources vs downloads.

TK420 ,

Thanks. Remember, Plex is for YOUR media, so you know, I feel ripping is part of the basics of getting things setup and going.

As a note to other readers: I still rip everything manually because something at some point breaks an automated process and it has to be done manually anyway….so I just do it all manually these days. Takes less time, and when I have done my library over again (a few times) I still did it all manually.

TK420 ,

It’s actually really easy to beat the integrated apps, you use a device actually meant to stream, not your TV. TVs lack pretty much everything to be a real streaming solution except for the video and audio output part … that they do well.

TK420 ,

TIL people have extra space for porn on their Plex servers. I’m surprised because I don’t think I’ve saved any porn since the dialup days because, well, dialup.

TK420 ,

I bought dedicated hardware and shucked a lot of drives to get all the storage I needed. I modded and old case to put this in, added a couple of blu ray drives for ripping my media. Also I needed to update music brainz because it had incorrect or non existent data.

I had an initial server that was quick and dirty and was great, but I needed it to handle all of my media and it does pretty well. Always can use more storage because I’m constantly buying media on discs.

TK420 ,

CDs are ripped bit for bit into wav files

DVDs have subtitles retained but I don’t compress after MakeMKV.

BDs have subtitles retained but then I run through handbrake and do h265 compression, keep it all as mkv files.

TK420 ,

Yeah I store the CDs raw. I have enough storage on my phone that I can load up from PlexAmp. I do a lot of offline listening so I love the download options and I usually stream my whole library from my server over WiFi.

I have a good amount of video downloaded in the main Plex app, workout vids, a few movies and whatever series I’m watching. All works out pretty well.

TK420 ,

I’m always getting media in a number of ways. Source rips and downloads are the best vs what’s available to the general public. I’m ok with what I’ve got going on.

TK420 ,

No, quality is a thing which is why I’m using wav files. Audio files are tiny compared to video files. I’m approaching 1TB of music, where my video library is much larger, approaching a factor of 10 times as large….and also compressed. I’m not ripping my CD library in its entirety over again. I did various mp3 versions over the years and am done doing that to a different format again.

TK420 ,

I used to fight the uphill battle against iTunes and my music. For home listening I had it all as Flac, because Flac, but for mobile I could then swap Flac for Apple Lossless kinda easy. iTunes would not recognize Flac files natively years ago (probably meow, but I don’t know).

Once Plex became my [media project] life, I didn’t want to fuck with all of that [converting CDs mentioned before] and just stuck with wav files. The OG so to speak and I’m pretty happy I’m not re-ripping music anymore. Now, new music, yes those eBay purchases get washed, ripped and stored in a binder, which is so much fun.

Do I hear a difference, maybe. What I do know is my quality issue is once it goes out of my phone via Bluetooth to my headphones. I hope one day that’s not the bottleneck. Could already be there I just don’t know.

TK420 ,

I can hear a difference between some of my old MP3’s and lossless, but no difference between lossless formats.

TK420 ,

How does clicking “subscribe” get you any better content from yt? Less clicks? Sure. Good stuff, no.

Or do you mean YT premium?

TK420 ,

That’s why I never bought any smartphones, I wondered how I’d make phone calls if something else broke on it. Like what happens if the camera dies, or the battery fails? /s

Oh right, you fix it or replace it like everything else in the world.

We should probably stop advancing technology for the sake of the few drawbacks….sounds kinda silly doesn’t it?

TK420 ,

I get that, but how does that get you better content?? It’s no different if you sub or don’t sub to a channel

TK420 ,

But to your point, non functioning running boards aren’t going to do that, nor mirrors not folding, etc.

TK420 ,

Like I thought.

Subscribing does not do anything special other than bookmark channels. It does not give you better content at all which is why none of the responses make any sense.

TK420 ,

Ahhh, I don’t remotely use recommendations. So no wonder why I don’t understand.

TK420 ,

What else do you think the world runs on? I’ll give you a hint, it’s not Trump.

TK420 ,

The kids are just a bit smarter than the older living generations as they should be.

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Brilliant way of putting it

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You will be disappointed in the battery life if you delete the thing that controls the battery life……

TK420 ,

Because people think security and privacy are a joke, and it’s times like this where it shows.

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