Check /r/opensignups on reddit and make sure you read the rules of the trackers you try to join.

It’s a midtower case so I just went with an ATX board. I would like to figure out a compact solution for the future but it’s hard to house and control a bunch of HDDs in a small footprint. I don’t want to spend thousands on a NAS and I haven’t found a trustworthy DAS solution that will hold all my drives.

You might play around with PCPartPicker since it allows for so many filtering options for things like SATA ports on a mobo or drive slots in a case and see what you can come up with.

I built my own and it honestly wasn’t that expensive (at the time back in 2018). I just started with the basics but built it to be expandable. I used a Define 6 case which gave me room for 12 HDDs, a mobo with the highest number of SATA ports, processor, RAM, etc and then just added drives 1-2 at a time as they filled up. My only regret is that I didn’t and still haven’t learned Linux well enough to rely on it because it runs Windows, the PC is showing its age now, and I need to think about the replacement solution and how I’ll be able to migrate 70+ TB of media and all my configurations to the new machine.

If you do run Windows, Drivepool and SnapRAID are useful for pooling everything into a single virtual disk and setting up a software RAID that will protect from drive failures without locking your data away.

Mainly because insurance paid for it but also because I don’t have the skills to replicate their software even though it’s essentially just text-to-speech software with what might as well be considered clipart images.

Also the “I was violently ill yesterday but I’m here today doing just fine” is a little too easy to see through.

No, working on a hotrod and I need multiple tachs

Hell yeah, borther!

I do think that’s the right strategy after seeing how effective it is for people like Trump to use, but there’s a lot of catch-up to do along with battling against state-sponsored propaganda from countries like Russia and China.

It’s definitely a funny thing to joke about but this is exactly how the media and ruling class manipulate people into falling in line with whatever agenda they’re trying to push. It’s quite scary how effective it is and how difficult it can be to combat.

$700 is a bargain. My kid got a speech tablet which is just a small Samsung tablet with a speaker mounted on the back and they billed our insurance $3500 for it.

I get the joke but it still doesn’t exist for anyone that matters. You see free markets, you attack violently

“Free markets” is a complete farce. The only free markets are in places where no government exists like Somalia. In a true free market, anyone could take over a business by sheer force since no laws would be there to protect them.

Of course it’s real easy to make this statement when it’s someone else making the sacrifice.

Both of those solutions are the same thing. You need to create collections (or check the “automatically create collections” option) in order to pare down all the movies from being shown directly in the library. You can also create your own smart collections for Genres and Decades in order to make it easier to find something to watch. All these can also be ‘pinned’ to the top of the library by adding special characters to the beginning of the “sort name.”

I’ve also split out my libraries by regular/animated for both TV and movies so Movies, Animated Movies, Television, Animated Television. It works pretty well for me and I have about 3k movies at this point.

Mines about the same with Comcast. 1Gbps down but only around 20Mbps upload.

Did ya get that memo, Bob?

Is this similar to Soulseek or Napster/Kazaa in the old days?

Because 9800 is 25.6% larger of a number than 7800.

It could be the specific audio or video codecs of those files causing the stuttering issues. I’ve always seemed to have trouble with EAC3 audio even after 6 or 7 years and a multitude of updates and different hardware.