thank you

not a very good secret.

I've almost entirely ditched streaming because of my library. I like to think I've learned how to encode media at a quality better than most services stream. Only service I still subscribe to is crunchyroll. I also run a plex server and share access with my family, so it's got its uses. Its not just me watching all of it. But I'm probably adding around 5 movies/tv shows to my server almost every day. The threat of ever dwindling disk space looms large.

Not sure how you're doing your math, but I've probably watched about 85% of it. And a lot of it I've watched multiple times.

But no. I am not ok. lol.

underrated comment. i'd much rather clone a 16 tb drive than 50 tb one. Also better speeds considering the use of more drives. That said, if I can save on electricity, noise, enclosure space, and very importantly, money, it could be pretty cool. Just need to wait and see how reliable these things are and if they are going to carry a price point that makes them make sense.

start building a media server. space goes quick. I'm sitting at about 100 TB right now and I'm running out of space.

i dunno man, i have about 20 years worth of bad experiences with seagate. none of their drives have ever been reliable for me. WD drives have always been rock solid and overall just better drives in my experience. I have two WD externals sitting on my desk right now that are almost 15 years old. Still going strong.

well, i've always thought the difference is completely imperceptible from lossless after about 96 kbps per channel. that said, if you're using certain types of components that read certain codecs like truehd, there can be a very perceivable difference between a truehd track and a compressed E-AC3 track.

i think its somewhat widespread in every community. people tend to make a bigger deal of it than it actually is though (see: this post). for example the underage relationships shown in anime are usually pretty mundane in nature, as no one in anime ever has sex -- well outside of hentai.... but that is hentai...

(insert wendys meme here)

since you're too dumb to notice, trump already betrayed the country.

ive debated these maga morons for nearly a decade. i'm done. there's no amount of logic or facts that will ever save them.