No reason to transcode if you have the bandwidth I've found, just allow / force direct play / direct stream on all clients
Also I run RAID 1 USB HDDs and honestly they do fine with up to a few people at a time streaming
On my most active Pi 4B I run docker with: Bazarr Doplarr Foundry VTT Jacket Overseer Plex Portainer Radarr Sonarr Syncthing Transmission through VPN
You can do a lot with these little things
Edit: missed an r
This is the way, grab the freeleeches and seed. Back when I was building ratio I would do this on a Seedbox, now a days I do it myself as my bandwidth has greatly improved
It also really depends on VRAM IMO, I have a 4090 and these days I don't tend to touch anything under 30B (Wizard Uncensored is really good here) if I had dual 3090s I would likely be running a 65B model.
For a unique take... The music and background sounds in Kenshi. Music is so sparse that when it does kick in, and how it kicks in, is just really unlike any other game.
Nier just has an incredibly atmospheric way in which it handles music. Not to mention the OST is just flat out amazing.