paraphrand

I have gigabit, and struggled to stream. Turned out I had the Quality of Service (QoS) /traffic priority settings on my router misconfigured.

This might be something to look into.

Can a remote user download something from your network at a reasonable and consistent speed? (Not using Plex)

Can you upload a large file somewhere and monitor the speed and see if it maintains speed as expected?

For me, these two things were also performing at unexpectedly low speeds, or being wildly inconsistent until I fixed my QoS settings.

What sort of deceptive marketing are we talking about?

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It’s a bummer that hard drives are priced this way. It’s been common for a few decades now.

Just wanted to say I share your complicated thoughts on this. It’s not as simple as “Rah! Rah! Piracy!” No one is entitled to another person’s work. But things get nuanced and messy fast once you move beyond that narrow contextualization.

And they are. 😞

The alt text the fediverse needs.

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I’m holding out for matter over thread, personally.

$25.99 + shipping for a box of 12 from their website.

Looks like dog treats.

This is why we hear about this same thing happening with Linux distros all the time.

Google One is a huge disappointment.

Huh, that’s unintuitive to me. I remember people talking about too many hard drives in a case using too much power before. Overloading it, etc. 1-2W each would not overload a normal power supply. 🤔

Did hard drives just quietly get super efficient when I wasn’t paying attention? Or is something else going over my head here?

Aww your poor wittle pc is unhealthy! It just needs some rest and some fluids.

This is why Satya Nadella said he could make Google dance.

Why is windows still bloated after all these decades?

An example of how this manifests:

I’ve started enjoying to use Final Cut for personal video projects. I’m now wishing I could use it at my day job. But we have momentum with Premiere. We need old projects to work. We need to collaborate across the team. Etc.

Momentum keeps Adobe running. This is part of why totally new Adobe apps take off slow. And why Adobe has had success buying out the momentum other companies have built. See Substance, and many other acquisitions.

Autodesk runs on this momentum too.

I’m really happy to watch Blender grow and turn into something that has this sort of Momentum. It’s a wonderful counter example.

This is only one dimension to the whole situation. But I think it’s a strong one.

Eeww. I’m going to kink shame here.

Yeah, using “self hosted” in your title is misleading.