Eh - maybe - there are definitely hoarders with the ability to absorb 300TB. They’re not common, but they do exist. There are probably close to zero hoarders that could spare 3PB, especially for a collection that they won’t listen to a majority of. It’s like saying that it isn’t worth digitizing wax tube recordings because the source is so low quality. If preservation is the goal, anything is better than nothing.

Normally you’re mostly right, but in this case I have to agree that lossy existence is better than lossless absence. 300TB puts it at the upper limit of pro-sumer capacity, but it’s still doable from a personal archive perspective. If you went FLAC lossless, though, you’re looking at 3-6PB. That quantity is almost completely unattainable by hobbyists, and presents challenges even for enterprise entities. This archive is the “photo of the original document” for the collection. It’s not optimal, and there’s a lot of room for improvement, but the alternative is to just not do it at all

Sab might have its own mask settings - it would be worth looking at. Same thing applies here - subtract the mask part from 7 to get the real permissions. In this case, mask 002 translates into 775. This gives the uid and gid that the container is running under (probably defined in a variable somewhere) Read/Write/Execute, but anyone else Read/Execute. The “anyone else” would just be any account on the system (regardless of access method) that didn’t match on the actual uid or gid value.

For what it’s worth, Ikea’s LACK tables make great mini racks

Could be that lidarr is setting its own permissions for downloaded stuff (look for something like dmask or fmask in the docker config). You might also need to chmod -R so it hits all sub folders. If you have a file or directory mask option, remember that they’re inverse, so instead of 777, you’d do 000 for rwxrwxrwx.

Yeah, I’ve stopped using plex entirely. I was grandfathered in, but it just got to be too much nonsense. The license changes to unRAID don’t meet that bar, IMO. Yeah, the old license model is gone, but “buy once upgrade free forever” is what caused plex to go the route it did. I honestly never expected to get upgrades forever - I assumed that it would have to go one of a few ways for the devs to be able to feed their families, and what they choose is definitely one of the lesser evils. For a lot of use cases, it even makes sense. I stayed on 6.x for probably close to 3 years, so i would have saved money with the new scheme. I’m also willing to admit that if you’re truly dead set on free (both libre and gratis), then there are plenty of solid choices there, too

Yeah, they did something goofy with it, but they’re at least trying to not be nakedly evil. I got in when it was just a perpetual license, but the new model isn’t as bad as a lot of people think. TrueNAS is good too - I use the enterprise version at work and it’s done well. The biggest differences are that the Ent. version doesn’t expose containers or lxc so i don’t know how that works, and TrueNAS/ZFS requires same-size disks where unRAID allows mixing sizes while retaining up to 2 parity disks. At work, I buy specific drives, so zfs is great - at home I buy what’s affordable, so zfs isn’t so good. I also saw one of your other comments, and unRAID supports hardware pass-through to containers, so exposing your AMD iGPU to jellyfin should be pretty simple. I can’t speak to how TNas would handle that

I’ll make the obligatory unRAID suggestion. It fits a lot of less intensive scenarios like what you’re describing. It does carry a cost, and the licensing model is “interesting”, but it has top-tier ease of use, especially around container apps. It would also allow you to use that 1tb ssd as a cache drive since the OS would run from usb (well, in-memory but stored on usb). You can also trial it for free for 30 days and if you don’t like it, there’s plenty of good suggestions in the thread already

Everything is just peachy this week except that I’m still trying to sort out why my I’m unable to access the internet when I’m connected to my unraid wireguard instance.

I am also finally ready to ditch my plex instance, too. Got some self-inflicted permissions issues sorted and it’s been smooth sailing for long enough that I’m ready to make the switch

I’m not trying to build smokeless necessarily. Mostly, the rocks are for even heat distribution and appearance. I worry that the rings i bought won’t support flagstone, so it needs to look good without them

Either is fine, I’m trying not to break the bank on it though. The pit will be outside, below a high canopy but not covered/roofed. I’m also not sure where I’d even find some of the more esoteric rocks. Would chipped marble work here?

If you still have the original hardware, a flash cart might be worth looking into

For real though, I’d love to see a modern take on this - something in between NMS, Mechwarrior, and FTL. I’ve not found anything out there with the correct combination of exploration, ship customization and management, and sinister plot. Several games get closer, but they’re all missing something

I was a huge fan of Solar Winds: The Escape. Cool plot, aliens, dogfights, ship systems management, evil shadow governments, rebels… what’s not to love? It was my introduction to the genre and will always hold a special place

I’ll toss in Empire Records - the store set, the costumes, the music, the actors, the meandering listlessness… all scream “this is a 90’s movie about the 90’s”. Plus the whole Rex Manning plot is absolutely what happened to so many 70’s and 80’s artists. Not perfect by any means, but a great encapsulation of the decade.