Good point, but if I’m going to the bother of transcoding remuxes to AV1, I’ll probably knock up a script, at least for the first while.

I’m resigned to probably giving up youtube (at least for a while, as the ad cat and mouse continues) in the not too distant future. Little of value will be lost… and going back to seeing ads is not worth the price.

Rather obvious that ‘What product did live up to its advertised claims?’ is a more useful question…

So far fine in FreeTube, touch wood.

Cheers.

I’ve had MeGusta at top weight for quite a while (years I think), should probably try ELiTE, wonder what the bitrate diff is…

Interesting, do you have an automated workflow for this?

‘Cause I’ve got faith of the heart

I’m going where my heart will take me

I’ve got faith to believe

I can do anything

I’ve got strength of the soul

An’ no one’s gonna bend or break me

I can reach any star

I’ve got faith

I’ve got faith

Faith of the heart

Also, ewww…

Wave?

You’re not wrong. But generally the idiocy is in response to beserkeness elsewhere, madness follows…

Isaac Asimov used to say that the real sound of scientific progress wasn’t “Eureka!”, but rather, “Hmm. That’s funny.”

Thanks, it really does have a great aesthetic! Sounds tedious, might be a flaw in their charging circuitry, so yeah I’d go for self repair. Good luck.

Qudilex 5K? Just wondering if I should expect problems, love mine…

Fermentation (kefir, yoghurt, cheese). Recently lactase.

Awful, would laugh at you on a date. Better than most.

Seriously, U.S., get your shit together. This crap spills out all over the world thanks to cultural imperialism (Hollywood etc.), no beuno.

To a large degree, the point of RAID is to not care about drive reliability, trust the process. Also, you seem to conflate RAID with backup (“RAID is not a backup”), you want both. In a NAS, you’re probably better off with RAID5 + backup.

In a system that can take a drive failure, the current datahoarder zeitgeist is Manufacturer Recertified (Enterprise) Drives, see ServerPartDeals.com if you’re a yank, other countries have their own options.

I’d suggest you move toward a backup approach (“RAID is not a backup”) first. Assuming you have 2x10Tb, get a 3rd and copy half of your files to it, disconnect it, and now half your files are protected. Save, get another, copy the other half, now all your files are protected. If you’re trying to do RAID on USB, don’t, you are already done, otherwise (using SATA or better) you can proceed to build your array in an orderly fashion.

For even less pain try a ublue variant (Aurora or Bazzite probably for KDE depending if you game). No faffing around with codecs and RPMFusion etc…

Literally is the grub menu…