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.

well, duh.

can’t be having anyone find the backdoors and shit that old spice and his minions have been putting in, or the traffic from who-knows-where accessing them, the data going out, the changes being made, the money disappearing…

someone that works at a local bank was at the grocery store yesterday when we were there. back by the dairy and such. this was overheard:

“hey look, they got a loan officer for the eggs”

ban science, and ban talking to scientists elsewhere. then climate change doesn’t exist here, right? wow, they really fixed that one.

wordpress.com, the hosted wp service, is a pretty solid. still comes with matt, though, but that drama doesn’t really affect you as a wp.com user.

anyone who comes to me about hosting wordpress, i send there. i don’t wanna deal with it, nor do i really want that hackerbot magnet on my boxes.

Download a copy of your information on Facebook

start?

a bit less than one-tenth of one percent of one day’s revenue.

yea, probably ‘worth it’.