Praised be the copyleft!
Praised be the copyleft!
the MIT license has its place
Garbage, that’s its pace.
The requirements for a media server mesh well with a NAS and *arr suite and other light loads. Low CPU demand, some RAM demand, integrated GPU if you need transcoding and that’s it.
They are wildly different from generative AI. For good performance, you’ll want a decent GPU with loads of VRAM or brute force with raw CPU power and RAM. If you care about power draw at all, you don’t want this on 24/7/365. Why not build a cool gaming rig and use it for AI? As a bonus, now you have a cool gaming rig with your AI machine!
I am just starting so take this not as a recommendation but as an option. I am familiar with Linux but do not work in IT.
I got myself a used desktop as a starting point. It can handle 2x 3.5” drives, one 2.5”, plus an NVMe. You could buy an adaptor and change the DVD drive for another 2.5” caddy, but more on that later. It came with 8GB of RAM, but it can handle 64. I spent something like $250 including cables, bolts, caddies, but not drives.
If you watched the video, you’ll notice the CPU has video transcoding acceleration and encryption acceleration too. It comes out ahead of modern N100 CPUs being widely used for home NAS these days, and draws a minuscule amount of power while idle. Indeed, most of the idle power draw for my machine comes from the drives.
So pros:
Cons:
For software, I’m using TrueNAS scale. It’s easy to install and configure, there’s good documentation and a support forum, can run docker containers and VMs. Lots of administration quality of life tools built in that you don’t need to build. Plus it’s Linux and I can tinker with it if the need arises.
To get to what you want, you could install an M.2 A+E to SATA adaptor and a slim DVD to 2.5” caddy to come up to 4 drives, add memory, a multiport multigigabit NIC, an NVMe and 4 drives and you’d be set. VMs for your firewall, VPN, pihole, dockers for the rest.
The 2.5 unit I have runs cooler and consumes less power. It’s also more expensive.
Mozilla’s V3 implementation already extends out removing artificial limitations from it. Mozilla’s doing a reverse E3 and I’m all here for it.
Now if only the nincompoop IT dept on my company allowed me to run Firefox…
Maybe because it’s so edgy you can cut yourself reading it.
Also, any tools to import high resolution photos and metadata from Flickr into any of the servers listed? Namely title, description, tags, geotags? Even better if comments too, but I know I’m pushing my luck here.
Purely for my edification, why didn’t you join the class action? It’s not like you weren’t affected or even that they had any redeeming behavior.
They’re a great use for that otherwise useless “Wi-Fi slot” on a wired machine. Not too expensive either. So if you’re using your iGPU to transcode videos, it won’t interfere with your Frigate or Immich workload. And they’re supposed to be energy efficient too.
500GB HDDs? If you don’t need hot swap, with your budget, buy new ones. Transcoding is solved by using any modern-ish Intel CPU. I built one for $230 using a used office desktop and three 4TB HDDs plus a small used NVMe for TrueNAS.
Look at the 3 minute mark for transcoding accelerated CPUs: https://youtu.be/WCDmHljsinY
You get one level at the get go because everything is in a function. So just two levels of indentation? A pretty basic if… for…if nesting has to be refactored? Into what? Goto? Should I sprinkle return statements all over the place?
Y’all gotta understand that Linus is often kind of an ass.
What is their business model?
Selling free software without enforcing it.
How do they earn money to give out?
See above.
What do they ask in return besides hoarding the trademarks?
Cash.
Which might be there to prevent legal troubles from YouTube.
Looks good! I’ll give it a try.
Ooh that sounds promising, thank you!
I just gotta say that’s one of the most positive developer-user interactions I’ve seen. Kudos Jokob, I don’t think you could do any better responding to requests and criticism.
Thanks, I’ll look into it!
Open source or bust