A 5 minute commute still necessitates putting on pants. Can’t win there.
A 5 minute commute still necessitates putting on pants. Can’t win there.
You can always just undervolt the cpu and take out the gpu. Sure, a 1000w power supply is going to be inefficient at 20% draw, but if you already have old hardware it isn’t always cost effective to replace it just because of a higher power draw.
Also the pi is great for stuff like dns and network storage, but it’s going to struggle with transcoding as a media server. I can’t speak for the 5 from personal experience, but the 4 was completely incapable as a jellyfin/plex server. I just use an old stripped down computer for media and the pi is relegated to dns adblocking.
You could always just make separate movie/tv sections and just fill it with symlinks instead of the actual files. I don’t know how you’d automate it if you can’t get consistent metadata, but it’s easier than managing your own metadata fixes.
And this comes at a time when it’s easier than ever to pirate. It’s like they’re actively trying to shoot themselves in the foot.
Small dedicated pc with no gpu, headless linux variant, whatever torrent client, Sonarr linked to Jackett pulling in shows from whatever private tracker you can get on, Unpackerr to automatically unpack rar’s and the like, all sent to Plex and you effectively have an automated system to replace every single streaming service… Sure, the initial setup is beyond most people, but it’s only a matter of time before we start seeing people sell preconfigured systems or images.
It’s effectively non-functional. “Absolute shit” is overselling it.
I know I could just use the proton version and get decent performance, but the fact that it has a native client that just doesn’t work kind of killed my expectations for the future. It’s one thing if the issues were new, but the map bug was reported over 4 years ago…