My experience after 35 years in IT: I’ve had 10x more outages caused by automatic updates than everything else combined.

Also after 35 years of running my own stuff at home, and practically never updating anything, I’ve never had an outage caused by a lack of updates.

Let’s not act like auto updates is without risk. Just look at how often Microsoft has to roll out a fix for something an update broke. Inexperienced users are going to be clueless when an update breaks something.

We should be teaching new people how to manage systems, this includes proper update checks on a cycle, with appropriate validation that everything works afterwards, and the ability to roll back if there’s an issue.

This isn’t an Enterprise where you simply can’t manually manage updates across hundreds or thousands of servers, and tens of thousands of workstations - this is a single admin, small environment.

I do monthly update checks, update where I feel it’s warranted, and verify systems afterwards.

Two requirements stand out: Media streaming (jellyfin) and multiple hard drives.

In the video front, Jellyfin has documented what you want to look for if you’re building “new” (that is, not just using what you have lying about). Discrete video card is very much recommended for tranacoding (which will invariably happen). Check their docs here. They also cover which processor to use and why.

Let’s consider drives now: what’s the reasoning for multiple drives? I had this requirement too, then had a Dell OptiPlex SFF (Small Form Factor) fall in my lap. Because it can only handle 2 drives (in addition to the M2 OS drive), it made me rethink things. At first I added a 4 port SATA card and four 2.5" drives I had lying around. It worked, but what I realized was my media server needed enough storage to hold my library, but it didn’t need internal redundancy. So currently it has an 8TB drive for my library, and an M2 drive for the OS (which is how this machine comes anyway). That drive is duplicated to a NAS and two other drives on different machines (to protect against drive failure).

I run a monthly host OS backup to my NAS, just in case (but it’s a simple rebuild as my services/tools run in VM’s).

I had a cooling issue at first, then realized it was an old machine (2017), and the cooler paste was likely hard. Cleaned it off and put on new and the fan now runs quietly, even when converting. At idle it hardly makes any noise at all.

One nice thing is it has a relatively small power supply, so it peaks at 80w while converting, and idles about 15w.

It lacks a discrete video card, so when it does transcoding the quality suffers a little. I’ll need to upgrade the power supply to add a video card.

I’m really impressed with this little box - I’d buy another in a heartbeat.

Because necklaces are fragile. The end.

5% daily, of global revenue.

Now that’s how penalties should work.

The library.

Tons of books on CD, takes minutes to rip.

They also have audio books via streaming apps and digital players (like an mp3 player with a single book). With either of those you have to do the old school record the audio though, so I avoid them u less I absolutely have to.

I also do mp3 rips of videos that are mostly just lectures, where visual isn’t critical.

This is the answer.

The only downside is you can see how stripped those screws are even in this photo. That’ll be fun.

Keys are brass, not magnetic

I have repeatedly caught those “experts” contradicting their own statements during a diagnosis, a couple times in urgent care when a family member was in serious distress.

It wasn’t intentional on their part, just an oversight, as it happens with all of us.

I learned to carefully track statements/conditions/limits while diagnosing tech problems in team discussions under pressure. In that environment, anyone can call out a mistake or contradictory statements, as the goal is accurate diagnoses.

Just because someone is an “expert”, doesn’t make them infallible.

Additionally, it’s not for them to decide my course of treatment - it’s for them to help me understand the risks of different treatments, the likelihood of success, and we decide together.

I aay this as having just gone through saying no to major surgery that the docs just assumed I would do.

My body, my choice.

This kind of question is similar to proving a negative in logic.

You’re asking why people think it’s trustworthy, implying you believe it isn’t.

1. *Which people think it’s trustworthy? You used an ambiguous “many people” - I’d need to see something supporting this assumption.

2. It would be more useful for you to give examples of why you don’t find it trustworthy, as this is what really matters with regard to any source.

I don’t trust any one source, and instead try to piece together a likely truth by considering the different sources and how a story is told. I’m surely wrong as much as I’m right, but it’s the best any of us can do.

Ok, so what “back doors” does it install?

Claims without evidence are just that - claims. I see nothing you’ve posted to be evidentiary.

That said, there is potential for malicious behaviour, but let’s not go off half-cocked on this.

Have you read your reply to OP?

It’s a bunch of circular repetitive answers that simply re-iterate what OP has already said.

So it sounds like an LLM response.

Meh, this would’ve been funny in the 90’s, maybe - which is when I heard a version of it.

Many states have people with multiple dui’s

Hahaha, that’s the point of a password manager. If remembering worked, we wouldn’t need any of this.

Also, I have 300+ unique logins.

Pretty much every car today IS AWD - a better version of plain old 4WD. So even your analogy doesn’t work.

That’s your first question? Not the talking rabbit digging a tunnel to Albuquerque?

What?

These kinds of questions are meaningless.

Unless you meant it rhetorically.

I prefer Goop or PC7/JB Weld

She intentionally didn’t follow proper process - we have email from her boss telling her to follow proper procedure to bring the biological samples in, she decided not to.

She then lied to customs multiple times, first by not declaring the samples, then saying she didn’t have them, then a couple other times.

I’ve dealt with similar issues (not biologics, but other stuff that requires declaration and has a well-established process).

Something very odd with her behaviour, not sure why someone well-versed in this process would behave like this.

This has nothing to do with Trump/ICE - she’s behaving strangely and lying all over the place.

That looks like a town I’ve driven through in either VA or W. VA.

Where is it, OP?

All that wood is quite weathered - I’m impressed it’s stayed up that long