RankWeis

joined 1 year ago
[–] RankWeis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read once that if you’re trying to get some creativity juices flowing, removing unnecessary details will allow for more abstract thought. Like “write a story about an ogre” would lead to very different stories than “write a story about an ogre doing pushups”, even if the latter is probably arguably more funny.

So that was my thinking here about being a bit vague, I was specifically talking about tankless water heaters which got us on the subject though.

[–] RankWeis@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you, I love the internet. Was discussing this with my roommate and didn’t know where else to ask!

[–] RankWeis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The discount in price is the only benefit of the two year plan from what I saw. They can offer this discount because they can get the lump sum of money in one go. This is the idea of the time value of money, a lump sum now is greater than an equal amount later.

It makes little sense to offer a month to month plan at the same price with a contract in place, because now there’s the overhead of the contract on top of everything else.

So your best option is likely to stick with the month to month price, unfortunately.

[–] RankWeis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it is ersatztv, you basically need a gpu for the ffmpeg encodings though. It’s fun if you get it to work, I have my face appear every hour at the bottom of the screen like a network logo.

[–] RankWeis@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I host my own iptv service to mimic a real channel but with my content. It’s amazing and we all love it.

[–] RankWeis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's hard to say since it's all RAIDed out but they're not SSD's, I just didn't have the space on the drive. But looks like I'm in the market for a new cpu, motherboard and NVMe drive now. Thanks for your input!

[–] RankWeis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Interesting, I'm using a synology NAS in order to store lots of data, it should be relatively speedy but probably not compared to an onboard SSD. My SSD only has about ~100gb of free space so even using it as a temporary download center may not be right, looks like I'm looking into a terabyte nvme. Thanks for the suggestion!

 

Is there a way to speed up extraction of 40+gb 4k videos? This is by far the most time consuming part of the process and I was wondering if there was any hardware acceleration or even multi cpu way of speeding this up.

My cpu isn’t the newest, it’s an i7 5820k, overclocked just a bit, but I have a hard time believing that a newer cpu on its own will have more than marginal gains on this front, but I could be way off here.

edit: I just realized my processor came out in 2014. So I'm sure in 10 years we've made some inroads, I thought I bought this guy in 2018.