quirzle

Dumb.

Incognito mode has always been intended for prying eyes using the same browser, and it works fine for that.

1. https://www.synology.com/en-au/support/RAID_calculator or similar is good to easily do these calculations
2. No, but more RAID configurations than not are limited by the smallest size drive. It’s a factor to consider, assuming you can’t afford to just buy a bunch of disks. I wound up maintaining two separate NAS devices, one of which gets my old, smaller disks.
3. Generally yes, though you’d be surprised how little difference disk speed makes once you get enough of them in an array.
4. I use Synology with various shucked WD externals. I have a bunch of other stuff in my homelab though, so I need the storage to not be it’s own project, else I likely would have built something less expensive. I’m sure there will be better suggestions in this thread than mine.

For things I don’t care enough to archive to my own collection, I use a Shield TV with SmartTube, an alternative client that blocks ads, incorporates SponsorBlock, and a few other nice tweaks. Definitely my favorite YT experience of all the ones I’ve tried.

I don’t know how common they are anymore, as Plex has moved toward hosting their own metadata and I’ve never bothered using any myself, but there historically have been some number of YT metadata agents (e.g., this one) folks could add onto their Plex server and pull the metadata from YT directly. Expanding something like this to also query the Sponsorblock API seems like it wouldn’t be terribly difficult.

The harder part would be getting the player to incorporate Sponsorblock to actually use that data to skip the segments. Plex, in particular, seems unlikely to ever try something like this, as their business model is moving more and more toward ad-supported streaming content rather than improving the self-hosted media server that got them popular.

You wouldn’t want the Sponsorblock to be part of the download process, but rather the player. Being crowdsourced, it’s not immediate and often gets improved/corrected over time, so a video’s least likely to have good Sponsorblock timestamps right after being uploaded (when an automated program would likely be downloading it).

We need a Plex/Jellyfin/etc. metadata provider with the Sponsorblock info included. Could keep the data up to date, even after the videos are downloaded.

Without the Oxford Comma, it’s not a list but an appositive phrase. In that context, it’s correct usage.

So what’s you’re proposed solution? Your directive to “fix that” was a bit light on details.

This is a step in the right direction. The automated reviews will supplement, not replace, the reviewing triggered by manual reports you supported in your initial comment. I’d argue the pushback from police unions is a sign that it actually might lead to some change, given the reasoning the give in the article.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/oxford-comma

So fix that.

Were it so simple, it would have been fixed decades ago. The difference is that having AI review the footage is actually feasible.

RAID6, one big storage pool. On that one, the bulk of it’s usage in a single shared folder for video, though I do have another carved out for a VMware datastore for the homelab, though it’s mostly just there for somewhere to stick VMs when I’m updating DSM on the smaller DS9220+ (4x8TB in RAID 5).

I’ve got a DS920+ on a shelf, and she’s super jealous of the Rackstation.

Most retail stores have a 30day refund window…

90 days is pretty standard. But also, retail stores are selling goods. Not wanting to accept goods that have been used for over a month is more reasonable than not wanting to refund a service that’s not going to be utilized.

Seriously. I’m running a Synology with 12x16TB. That’d buy a bunch of months of streaming services…but this way actually gives me content to watch that I want to watch.

I meant without Prime. Most of the time, my orders take 4-6 days to even ship anymore. I’ll occasionally sign up for a month of Prime when they offer it for free again, and it’s back to normal for that month.

But yeah, there isn’t free 2-day shipping anymore, just “free Prime shipping,” which is slower than 2-day and faster than non-Prime.

Start? They’ve already been doing that for at least a couple of years now.

Nobody was telling you how to do anything. Dude was just disagreeing with the “physical media is easier to use” point of the guy above him and elaborating on why.

Convenience, I’d imagine. Not everybody wants to deal with ads or self-hosting.

I also know someone that subs to a pirate streaming site that they use for learning English. It has a solid library but also has dual subtitles on everything and categories based on vocabulary difficulty and accents. It’s cheaper than a single legit subscription, but has way more value (both the language stuff and the massive pirated library).

Being able to download from my Plex library made this an easy pick for me.

This is still a hardware limitation, just at scale.