It really depends on what you need.

Plex relies on the client device to provide the necessary compatibility to play thing, otherwise the server needs to transcode it into something that is playable.

Which means that when you curate your library in a way that is completely compatible with your clients, you can run a Plex server on a raspberry pi. If you don't, and you need transcoding then you also need the hardware to do so.

This also depends on what needs to be transcoding, a 4K video will require a lot more performance than a 1080p Transcode.

Then, you need to distinguish between the different types of transcoding, when you have a Plex Pass, you can use a GPU for the transcoding, otherwise your CPU needs to do that.

In the last 1-1.5 years, the beelink mini pc with the N100 CPU was really popular because it was small, fairly cheap and had a iGPU in it that could even handle a couple 4K transcodes.

So, the first thing I would do is check what your requirements are. Do you have Plex Pass to be able to utilise hardware transcoding? Maybe also look in other players like Plezy for getting better compatibility than the official Plex app.

At some point you need to actually leave the roundabout.

Back in the day, I liked to watch Cory Williams and his SMP Films / Mr Safety / DudeLikeHELLA / TheMeanKitty channels, even if they were sometimes completely ridiculous, they were still fun to watch. When he started to Vlog it was still entertaining. The whole "Moving to Alaska" part was still interesting and weird, and I still liked to watch the videos. For TheMeanKitty, in 2018, Loki and then in 2020 Sparta died, so the channel, for the lack of a better word, was dead as well. But his main Channel then only revolved around doing Family vlogs, then game some Game stuff with Motion Capturing and Game Dev. Moving back to Oklahoma and so on. It wasn't interesting to me anymore, and I slowly lost track. I am glad that he now looks happy, and I wish him all the luck.

Another one would be Joshua Weissman. I really liked his initial content, his recipes and guide videos on how to do all sorts of things, like fermentation, making sourdough, pickling and so on. But, as soon as the channel took off and he hired more people, it became a bit weird. The "witty" comments, many times at the expense of his employees, got annoying. I also don't have that much of a Problem with innuendos, but this was overdone at some point. Looking now at the channel videos, it has heavily changed from the food being the focus to Joshua in the Thumbnails. This might be more of an "algorithm" thing, which I get to soon, but I still don't like it. But soon after that, it got more into the direction of "competition" content, the "But better" part, in which he makes some fast food items at home. While it was still interesting to watch, I think it is misleading because even Joshua struggled with the time to make all that stuff in the time to get it, and that, as a professional chef. Not to mention that the usual other time factors like preparations and clean-up aren't factored in as well. Soon after that, it got the MrBeastification.

Around 2 years ago, the channel and videos shifted to the "I did this" or "I tried that" with him basically going around and trying food stuff, rating them, and practically complaining about them most of the time. Funny enough, the last 22 videos (practically the last 10 months) all start with "I". Because of Popular demand, he also added his recipe channel, but, for me, I already lost interest.

I think the time I unsubscribed was when the interview came out, in which he basically said, "yeah, the purpose was to find something that worked and do that all the time", which means that his style of content wasn't going anywhere. Then also came out the allegations of him treating his employees like shit and stealing recipes. This all led to me not being interested anymore.

According to MAL, the first season sits at 6.44, which would be something I would skip. While there are some Anime I have seen and considered "good" at 6-7 rating, they are not particularly noteworthy. But everyone is different in that case.

But, actually looking at the article, I don't think that the summary of this poster is actually that representory of what the article is about.

First, it lists all Anime that have been released or will/should release this year. This includes the list above since it is the "Fall 2026 Anime release dates". So, it is just a copy-paste from the article of what has been released/will be released this year, not that it is "big".

But the "Top Pics" of the Author(s) (1 writer, 2 contributors) are the following:

• Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season 2
• Jujutsu Kaisen season 3
• My Hero Academia: Vigilantes season 2
• Frieren: Beyond Journey's End season 2
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run
• One Piece: Elbaph Arc
• The Apothecary Diaries season 3
• Sekiro: No Defeat
• The Ghost in the Shell

Not only that but also long explanations.

I am a part of a couple of self hosting subreddits and I like to explain why things are the way they are because I feel that it is valuable to share that knowledge, even if the person doesn't care about the details initially.

I like to share my knowledge about things that I have used over multiple years, and I also don't like to simple give you the solution because, most of the time, important information will be lost by just saying "do it like this".

But over the last year I had a couple of people mention the typical "ignore all previous instructions" and lately it is just downvotes. No explanation.

People can't detect AI so they see AI in everything.

That reminds me of a recent situation.

As someone working in software development, we are required to take part in the security trainings, the usual "don't open things from people you don't know" and "verify that a link is 'known' even if you get something from a person you do know", yada yada. You know the drill.

Recently, I got an email from our Boss saying something about "Here is something that you need to click on so that you are being authorised to do this stuff". Here was my thought process:

1. This is from the boss's Email. But this cannot be trusted since it can be faked
2. This is about something we/our software can do. But I don't know why I have to do this, since this isn't really something I am part of or even know anything about
3. It looks like a legit email
4. I hovered over the link, which had some weird target location that I didn't know

So, as a good boy, I opened a new Support ticket on IT with a screenshot of the link and said: "Got an email that tells me that I should open this link, but I don't know this link. What should I do?". The response was simple: Mark as Phishing and delete the Mail, done.

2 hours later, I got a message on Teams from IT which said: "Well, apparently that mail you marked as phishing was actually from us (was legit)". Great. Mail is gone now, don't know where Outlook put it, and frankly, I don't care.

If you train your people to "question everything" and not open links they don't know where they are going, then don't use some idiotic "middle man" or referer links in your official emails either. Even better, announce things before sending something out. I don't know how many emails I have gotten over the years where I would question the content and ignore it only for it to be something more important that nobody felt the need to announce first that something like this is coming our way.

After the dashboard change on my shield, I simply installed projectify as the new launcher. Now I only see what I want without ads.

I actually like to have an app over just a website. Even if the app is just a website.

I would open an app once on my phone. Even when I put the link of the website on my home screen, every click would open a new tab in my browser instead of just redirecting me to the web page I already had open 2 hours ago.

And with an app, I can be more selective with permissions and what that app should be allowed to do or not, like sending notifications.

But I feel like that nowadays most things are developed mainly for mobile devices which pisses me off too because visiting your website now has all of that empty space on most of my monitor while the actual used spaced is so cramped that it looks weird.

I don't really agree with that.

You also wouldn't really know that a coat was made of ethically sourced pelts or if it was made from animals in abhorrent and cruel conditions. But knowing that could shift your opinion of buying that coat, simply because you wouldn't want to support the practice of abusing and the cruel treatment of Animals.

"AI" is something that a lot of people are not OK with. Disclosing that something contains AI is a good thing because it increases transparency, and a person could determine that they don't want to support its usage.

I also think that, no, "AI" isn't as easily distinguishable anymore as you might think, at least not generally. Heck, I am still sometimes getting the "ignore all previous instructions" comments because I like to explain things in more detail, which ends up in walls of text (because regurgitating solutions doesn't really help). What you clearly be able to distinguish as "made by AI" are the poor examples, the "slop".

The leather was fine. The part between the rubber sole and the leather shoe (I think it is called midsole?) just disintegrated.

The were stored in my shoe rack. I wouldn't say that it is particularly humid there but it would be warm-ish (depending on the weather).

I wasn't particularly shocked by this since they were simply lying around for that long. Maybe active use would have extended their life a bit more.

But maybe I can give them to someone that can add a new midsole so that they can be used again.

A couple of months ago I was invited to go hiking with some friends. When preparing, since I didn't have some hiking boots, I saw my boots that I got in my military service. That was a great idea because they were already broken in and all of that stuff.

After around 3/4 of the almost 15km hike, I lost the sole on the first boot and a km after that the other side. Had to finish the hike on both without a sole.

Well, they were standing around for like 10 years so I am not surprised that they failed and that the whole stuff between sole and shoe Desintegrated but still.

Used a fire TV stick for a long time but multiple factors made me finally switch to an Nvidia shield.

Worked great for a year and then an OS updated made the home screen 60% ads, especially those that started to play with sound when I was on them for like 2 milliseconds. Installed projectify on it and now I only see what I want to see.

It is always disturbing to me how much ads I see when I am using someone else's system, because I banned everything at home.