Well, my internet connection would have to be a lot faster, and they would all need devices that support UHD h.265 and HDR10 playback. But if you have have gigabit upload and they all have shields or similar with just as fast connections, you’re good to go without transcoding (if no one wants to access it through mobile)

I regularly watch on my server when I’m not home and a few friends of mine also have access to it, so I need the content to be available in SDR and lower bit rates. When I stream from home, I‘d like to have access to the full quality and HDR though, so either I need multiple versions of each film or hardware encoding/tonemapping and a used gtx 1050ti was a lot cheaper than the required storage would be to have 4 or 5 versions of every film.

But yes, if you’re only streaming within the same network, hardware transcoding isn’t necessary in the slightest. But then a SMB fileshare might also suffice…

As I need hardware transcoding, that makes emby immediately non viable for me. I also usually watch via various apps and on tv, which, if you don’t have emby premiere are also not free to use.

I mean, it’s so old, it’s probably safer than 10 next year

It’s free and open source. That alone is a big plus. And it works fairly well. What does emby do better, that warrants paying $120 for it?

Yea. Although I do use iMessage with a few people, it’s not really a big thing here in Germany, so I also do use different apps. The main app, that requires me to get out my phone, is Snapchat, as there’s no desktop app and the webapp sucks.

Or, if you can afford it and have the space, get a 5.1 surround system (or better). Most movies and series are mastered in surround and besides being a more immersive experience in general, dialogue is primary played by a designated speaker (center speaker) and most sound systems allow you to boost the output to said speaker, making dialogue stand out a bit more against the music/noise.

Having it open on my mac while I’m working on it so I can access message apps that don’t work on the desktop without having to take out my phone.

In all fairness, it’s not really necessary, but it‘d make my life a little easier for a use case I actually have.

We live in the 21st century. Anything is possible. Also, women have last names, too.

Yea. There are very few machine learning driven features that would actually improve my life in a meaningful way. I feel much more „punished“ by the omission of iPhone mirroring on mac than any Apple Intelligence feature.

Or whose last name is Blimpson.

I really love our German equivalents: Harald Lesch and the show TerraX. Had the privilege of seeing him live in a guest lecture in my uni about the anthropocene. He feels so much more genuine and less arrogant than Neil DeGrasse Tyson. If you know German and don’t know him, check him out. Both on TerraX and his YouTube presence. There are even some full lectures on there, similar to the one I saw life.

IPoAC?

I only have it for drunk couch local multiplayer with friends anyways so upgrading beyond bo3 isn’t even remotely necessary for me. I only bought it because I didn’t have access to my bo2 copy.

In all fairness. I didn’t even notice BO5 was a thing until they released BO6. I own BO3, and read that BO4 was utter garbage. Now I know BO6 exists and that it’s probably garbage as well.

By units shipped it’s mediatek. Also, according to ARM, Qualcomm is in violation of their license. This is how they wanna make sure Qualcomm pays what ARM thinks they owe them, which seems fair, if they’re in the right.

You don’t need apple if you have two other megacorps bitching with each other.

Their best customer would be mediatek though. Their chips aren’t as fast but they sell more of them and to ARM only the latter really matters.

And you can usually snag a used copy for even less without losing out on anything. That’s the main reason why I would never get a digital only console. But also, I‘m primarily a PC gamer, so I’m tied to digital only but at least I‘m not bound to a single store.

Sport hätte mmn primär in den ÖR was zu suchen. Wenn ich ne WM auf RTL gucken müsste, würde ich es nicht tun, außer die machen einen kostenlosen HD webstream verfügbar. Deshalb guck ich auch nie Bundesliga. Ich würde aber auch argumentieren, dass Sport Kultur ist.

Ich würde aber zustimmen, dass aktuelle Hollywood Blockbuster nicht Teil des Programms sein müssen. Klassiker und Nischenfilme auf 3sat oder arte fand ich trotzdem immer toll, wobei ich auch das dann als Kultur verbuche. Das konkurriert ja aber auch kaum mit den privaten.

Seconding the re-verification thing. Sounds indeed like that storage device is getting senile. Never had any game self verify in any launcher I‘ve used. Might also explain the errors in game.