As someone who’s gone to college twice, let me just tell you, go to Cupertino for that trip. Even if you have to take out additional student loans for it. Is it financially responsible? Heck no, but its something you’ll look back on and be happy you did, plus its a great networking opportunity to both get a feel for the industry you’re preparing to enter and to potentially meet people who might help you land a job later on.
It’s really down to where you want the files to live. Sure synching would provide easy redundancy with a copy of the files on every machine, but that 20GB of documents or whatever would effectively become 100gb of files if it’s being synced to 5 different computers, eating up 20GB of space on every computer, meanwhile using a standard network share would give you a single centralized location with one copy of the data, then you just make backups according to whatever your backup scheme is.
That would certainly do it! Stating the obvious, here, looks like you have 3 clear paths to take:
I’m not entirely certain. QuickSync is an Intel GPU feature and generally just listed as Yes/No on ark.intel.com so I’m inclined to suspect it doesn’t have significant change from one generation to another. Most GPUs have a limited number of of video streams they can transcode at a time, so if you’re exceeding that number then I believe it will have to brute force it on the processor which will be anemic on an older Celeron. Have you verified that Plex is actually using QuickSync to transcode? If its been hitting the processor this whole time that would easily do that.
Video encoding you’ve really got 2 clear options: Either a 8th gen or newer consumer Intel chip with integrated graphics for QuickSync support or toss a GPU in there. You can also rely on raw CPU cycles for video transcode but that’s wildly energy inefficient in comparison.
I’ve heard good things about how anything AM4 compares to x99 era Intel on both raw performance and performance per watt, but I have no personal anecdata to share.
Personally I’m currently eyeing up a gaming computer refresh as the opportunity to refresh my primary server with the old components from the gaming computer, but I’m also starting with literal ewaste I scrounged for free, so pretty much anything is big upgrade.
So if Futurama takes over the whole “Simpsons did it” thing, what does that mean for Matt Groening’s latest work Disenchantment?
I mean there was the time where a cop pulled over a self driving car and the car started to run from the cops before it pulled over again
Damn seeing a serious Flickr link truly is a blast from 10 years ago!
Those 3750Gs are beasts though! Fully L3 capable, and every feature you could possibly want in a switch from 2008. For my final project in college I actually used one of those as my core switch and pushed it to the max using it for redundancy, routing, etc. and it just shrugged as I was simply using it for what it was built for
So with the way my house is laid out it and the difficulty in running network cables it would really make sense to put the server rack in the spider-filled basement, and a network switch on each floor. But while thinking about cost effective ways to achieve that (including use of the long distance stacking feature of the classic Brocade ICX switches or just running some of those Chinese 2.5G softrouter boxes) I keep coming back to this idea of instead setting up a BGP routed WAN or similar.
By running redundant cables I gain resilience against the chaos I live in (multiple kids and pets plus pretty frequently reorganizing furniture to get all of us to fit comfortably in our 1200 square foot starter house) plus by using a routing protocol like BGP it should do some amount of load balancing to allow more bandwidth between clients (I find peer to peer network technologies super neat so i love experimenting with them) but the thought also comes to use those Microtik router cards for even more bandwidth
Honestly it’s a lot of ideas I’ve been bouncing around while my family spends all of my hobby money on things like mini vacations that we can all enjoy
I recently went back to college and got a network engineer degree then stumbled into a super chill Origami admin role. I swear it’s the middle management IT without actually managing anyone. I sit in meetings, reset passwords and occasionally make changes to the production database!
I just make sure to tinker on the side to keep myself sane and keep the skills sharp. I want to get more than a random old laptop running docker going (there’s some fun stuff I could do with routing in that I really want to play with sometime) but I’ve got grownup responsibilities to catch up with that I neglected while returning to college before I can do that
It was just access to a VPS we had a couple of minor things running on so nothing too big, but still its a very real action that says “this is over” so hitting Ctrl+O then Ctrl+X was pretty heavy
Looks like NOAA has a bunch of such data available but I really don’t understand it enough to tell if there’s an easy download link in my cursory glance.
On the subject of NOAA, did you know you can get your weather forecasts ad-free and straight from the source? Weather.gov is one of the my most frequent bookmarks because it bypasses all of the crap of commercial weather sites