jesus was never in the car 1 ton cummins-powered lifted ram dually with stack exhaust.

it’s an iptv stb, it doesn’t need much. it’s not designed for subscriber customization or ‘app’ loading.

the same captions could be used for hamburger or hotdog buns.

my usual response when asked where i’d want to live, or where i’d move to if i could during the winter or summer. the answer is canada. always canada. something like thunder bay year round… maybe winter in edmonton and summer in winnipeg (no. i don’t have that ‘backwards’)

Me, someone who hates all 4 seasons: YEAAAH!!!

so, you want it where it could be foggy freezing rain in the morning, then sun shining and 60-70F by mid/late afternoon, then the temperature crashes at sunset with 4 inches of blowing and drifting snow by bedtime?

any ‘lawful’ access that’s baked-in will also be used and exploited ‘unlawfully’.

windows isn’t the problem. it can and will run all day, every day.

your existing box isn’t a server. it’s a desktop pc that you’re doing ‘server things’ on. you want a server, make it one:

move the retro gaming, the ‘shitposting’, the 3d design work, and the random internet use that goes with those things, off to a different pc. doesn’t even need to be that much of a pc. enough for the 3d work and emulators, and a fast lan port or wifi for accessing your ‘server’.

leave the existing one with the *rrs, the storage, the drivepool and snapraid… get everything else off. disable any oc settings you have enabled. it’s a server. then leave it alone.

it all runs on Windows 10 (which is where the issue arises)

what ‘issue’? your hardware should ‘officially’ support win11.

the only 6bay lff cage for it i found online after a quick search was over $400usd.

as others mentioned, msa30 is scsi (yuk). along those lines, you’d want the msa60 which is sas/sata, plus somewhere on the server to connect it to. probably not cheap.

but i really don’t think it’s worth putting a whole lot of time or money into a 15 year box… at least not anything that can’t be used in or with newer stuff later.

i’d probably just grab some 2-5tb 2.5in hdd for media storage and use those before i bought something specific for that old hardware.

dl380-g7 is some really old stuff. 1st gen westmere. not very power efficient for the performance. there’s no hardware encoding (qsv with encoding started with some 2nd gen).

how well it can do software encoding would depend on the cpu. but don’t expect too much, and nothing more demanding than h264 avc at reasonable settings. you’d need a newer video card with hardware encoding for hevc, av1 or anything like that.

iirc there was a 6bay 3.5in option for those, and that cage/backplane might be available somewhere.

definitely got some spins (ok, a lot) on my record player when i was little. i musta had all the records from the early 70s and they all got played all the time… unless it was the chipmunks, or snoopy, watching a ‘movie’ on the show 'n tell.

the subsidy thing is backwards.

most ev shouldn’t get subsidies. especially not the heavy tanks that do more damage to the infrastructure.

petrol-powered vehicles should be taxed more instead–a lot more. at purchase (or resale), at registration, every year at tag renewal, and at the pump. and be subject to lifetime emissions and safety inspections.

charge double or triple in fees for ownership and push gas prices to ~ $2 per litre like it is in parts of europe, then most everybody but the least-endowed will be buying battery electric vehicles. small, efficient ones.

well, the one that hit the news recently is that bullshit $400m ‘armored tesla’ contract for state department. the one they ‘oopsed’ and went back to remove tesla by name from.

auto-enabling that is, perhaps, the single most annoying thing they’ve done to windows. like you don’t even get a fucking choice when they do it, they just take your data… which adds ‘most frightening thing done’ as well.

and onedrive is also configured to cloud-first. you don’t even have your files on your hardware unless you go back and access them again (so they’re re-downloaded) or reconfigure onedrive to put them all back.

i just use repurposed PCs. cost (or lack of, rather) is the prime factor.

the main playback ‘device’ is currently a 6th gen laptop that runs lid down (doesn’t support turbo boost, so heat isn’t an issue at all), and an old wireless kb/trackpad for a ‘remote’.

storage is a hodgepodge of usb hdd, 2.5in hdd, and desktop systems. usually only one of which is being used (powered on) at a time.

i just use a text dump out of ‘everything’ for my ‘catalog’ and have numerous vlc playlists saved. i looked into things like jellyfin but the work involved in normalizing directory structures and filenames would be nightmarish.

top panel: 2021

bottom panel: 2025

lord diaper sees any foreign spending that isn’t promoting his string-puller’s agenda as being a waste–because that money could be flowing to him and his comrades instead.

twice as much, per capita, in fact. and the u.s. fails to cover everyone or everything that should be (like it is elsewhere at half the cost).

the u.s. gives countries money (usually) with the condition that they spend it on u.s. made equipment and munitions. those companies then make profits on those sales. it’s basically subsidies for the u.s. defense industry. part of the ‘military industrial complex’.

i think those funds fall somewhere under defense dept spending and would be separate from non-defense related foreign aid (humanitarian, medical, environmental, disaster, etc).

trade it for sundays, then poop on the boss’s dime on monday.