Fumbles@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agoWhat is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life?message-squaremessage-square472fedilinkarrow-up1401arrow-down17
arrow-up1394arrow-down1message-squareWhat is a fun gadget you have purchased that has added value to your life?Fumbles@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 months agomessage-square472fedilink
minus-squarekratoz29linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoIt is truly amazing how you can put a decent multimedia provider with minimal hardware, heck, my two units act as a PMS each, and it serves well enough my usage, my girlfriend and the one user that actually uses it remotely lol.
minus-squareLilB0kChoylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoFor sure! The only reason I upgraded is because the OptiPlex costs a lot to run in terms of electricity. For stuff I pretty much run 24/7 I really wanted better power efficiency.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoYou can run Plex on a Raspberry Pi if you disable transcoding!
minus-squarekratoz29linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoYeah I know, but sooner or later you’d need transcoding, especially if you share your server :/
It is truly amazing how you can put a decent multimedia provider with minimal hardware, heck, my two units act as a PMS each, and it serves well enough my usage, my girlfriend and the one user that actually uses it remotely lol.
For sure! The only reason I upgraded is because the OptiPlex costs a lot to run in terms of electricity.
For stuff I pretty much run 24/7 I really wanted better power efficiency.
You can run Plex on a Raspberry Pi if you disable transcoding!
Yeah I know, but sooner or later you’d need transcoding, especially if you share your server :/