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Cake day: January 2nd, 2025

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  • My server currently doesn’t have a video card (just the crappy on-board), it transcodes fine for one user (which is all I ever have). I don’t even notice an uptick in cpu when it’s transcoding (I’m sure it does, it just doesn’t seem to impact performance).

    This is a 5 year old Dell SFF, running Windows, with 3 Windows VMs in VMware. It has no trouble transcoding, while converting videos using Handbrake. It’s maxed, but it does it.

    I do plan to get a video card, it’s just not urgent.

    Edit: Just did a test and with 2 simultaneous transcodes, Jellyfin will jump the cpu about 5% on video start, but settle back down to less than 1%.

    Disk usage skyrockets with the second transcode, bouncing between 50% and 90%, and the network connection has some hard spikes at video start (with a gigabit connection).


  • Hell, I’ve found ripping a DVD to MKV results in a 3-5gb file.

    Then converting that MKV using handbrake, I can bring the size down as much as 75%. When you’re talking about a thousand videos, that adds up.

    TV series (especially older stuff) I can consistently reduce 80%+. This makes a real difference for shows that were on for 10 years.

    And these all look fine on a 65" TV from 6’ away. Why store more if I don’t have to?












  • Other than pan frying something like chicken, I don’t really have “leftover fat”.

    Bacon - ya pour that right into the bacon fat container that has its own strainer.

    Most other recipes the fat is part of the dish. As someone else commented - fat is flavor. Say you brown chicken parts for something like Gumbo, the next thing in the pan will be vegetables that get glazed, and you’re gonna need a fat for that which is already there in the pan.





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    4 days ago

    Homes don’t have a massive wheel spinning on them.

    Anyway, this is support just for the platform/stairs. Go to a fair/carnival sometime, the outriggers for the ride itself are massive, and use massive feet/shoes, similar to what you’ll see on cranes.