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Not at all. I built my NAS in 2020 so it’s been over 5 years and I’ve had 20 drives running 24/7 that whole time. Some of the original ones I have swapped out for larger drives. But some of the older 3TB ones have over 80,000 hours on them and are still chugging along.

I use unRAID so when one does eventually die I can just replace it and rebuild pretty painlessly. Originally I expected to lose at least 1 per year but they just don’t die. Maybe I’m lucky.

Also I noticed even though 8TB has skyrocketed, looks like 6TB are still around $35 and 3TB are as low as $13 if you are okay with smaller sizes.

Just eBay. Unfortunately it looks like prices are way up from when I last bought some. I got 2 in December for $60 + $10 shipping.

Used all the way. I haven’t looked at prices recently but I have gotten 8TB SAS drives for $40 each. Hard to beat that.

That’s not really relevant to the discussion. The number of users doesn’t matter. The point is that people will still create things even if there’s no money in doing it.

Jellyfin is another example of something I use every day that is completely developed for free. The is no difference whether 100 people or 100 million people use it. It exists because the people who built it want it to exist.

If we didn’t have copyright then people wouldn’t be able to justify putting effort into creating content because they wouldn’t be guaranteed financial compensation for the time and effort they put in.

The irony of saying this on Lemmy. Lemmy is piece of software developed and distributed for free to people who host it for free. If somebody truly wants to make something they will create it even without profit incentive.

You have to port forward Plex in some fashion for it to work properly. If you don’t you are limited to 1 Mbps streams on their relay. That is lower bitrate than YouTube at 480p.

If your router has UPnP then the port fowarding is automatic on both Jellyfin and Plex. It’s the exact same setup for both.

Setting up remote access is the same for Plex and Jellyfin so I’m confused. All you need to do is to forward port 8096 or use a reverse proxy like nginx if you want a domain.

I have plex.domain.com and jellyfin.domain.com and it was the exact same process for both.

In what way? I share my server with 8 friends/family and it does everything I need it to.

Or any proof of stake coin like Ethereum, which doesn’t require any mining at all. The electricity argument is extremely out of date for most coins besides Bitcoin itself.

As far as I know GPU mining is pretty much completely dead because after Ethereum switched the yields on everything else tanked.

This is mildly pedantic but you’re not actually running Deepseek R1, you’re running a 7B version of Qwen that’s been fine-tuned on Deepseek R1 outputs. All of the “distilled” models are existing models trained on R1.

If pricing is a concern that shouldn’t rule out a VPS. Managed seedboxes are way more expensive than setting it up yourself for the same amount of storage/bandwidth.

Go to lowendbox.com and/or use serverhunter.com to find a VPS that’s more in your price range. I currently pay $22/mo for 8TB of storage and 50 TB of bandwidth at 1Gbps.

If you absolutely don’t want to use a VPS for some reason, then I had a very good experience with feralhosting. I used them for 3 years without issue. But 8TB with them is around $75/mo compared to the $22/mo I’m paying now.

WINE Is Not an Emulator

I don’t think Microsoft is capable of not fumbling everything related to the Halo franchise.

One of those rare games with an actually good native Linux version

You just reminded me there actually was a browser called Torch that could download torrents like a normal download. It was basically just Chrome with a built-in torrent client.

I remember trying it out when it first came out in 2012. It never caught on and looks like the last release was in 2020.

I guess by “cybercrime” they mean piracy, because that’s the main thing I’ve seen .su used for.

PIA is the best for torrents. It is $79 for 39 months which is $2.03/mo and they have port forwarding. That’s less than half of pretty much every other provider.

I have had 3 clients (one for a specific tracker, one for everything else, and an extra seedbox) going 24/7 for years with no problems. No complaints about the speeds either. I frequently saturate full gigabit on both downloads and uploads.

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If you want to do less math you can just drop some zeroes and say it’s the same as making $70k while losing $2.50