My homelab has never been running more smoothly and I’m learning tonnes with effectively bespoke tutorials for my exact setup. At work, if I spend weeks developing a high quality report, translating it into derivative documents (like work plans or policy documents) has never been easier to get started. It gets me unstuck in a few keystrokes with a “shitty first draft” that I can refine. But you have to start with good info - it can’t make something good out of nothing. I see value, but maybe different from what it’s being sold as.

Hermes is also the trickster god in Greek mythology, but not sure if the makers of that project were thinking of that, or his role as messenger. Or the one who guides souls to Hades. Dude’s got a lot of jobs…

100% on the RSS angle, but is there also an issue of a manually triggered search of your Wanted list not being able to get all the way through because of rate limits on your indexers? Or something similar?

Yeah, it really helped unstick some items that were in my queue but for whatever reason never got grabbed. Suspect it was the way Sonarr/Radarr work their way through your monitored items but never get around to searching for some of them? Everything is also unexposed for me (why bother? I can add stuff through lists on Trakt, or just wait until I’m home, or WireGuard in to my box if I really need to) but I’ve turned it off. Will look for alternatives.

Sam Crenshaw would probably narc on you tho

I used it for almost a year at the lowest tier, then got the couples plan more recently and it has high spouse approval factor, even though there was some initial setup

Dunno. Check their about page, but appears to be through GCP?

Kagi. Privacy focussed, no ads, and excellent results with options for sorting preferred sources to appear at the top, or not. Costs money but man, it’s fast and good in the way Google was back in the day. Some plans also include anonymous access to a variety of LLMs though they are older models, and if they can run them locally, they do. Really liking it.

Just Watch is a pretty great service for this, especially when recommending a show or movie to others. Other services integrate with it too (like Trakt, which is a nice one stop shop for discovery, scrobbling, and list management).

…that mediocrity can pay to greatness”

All this “mediocrity” is pretty overwhelming right now.

But did you solve your own problem?

The National Film Board is totally free, and you can watch the Log Driver’s Waltz anytime you please!

Karma doesn’t always ripen in this life, but upon reincarnation.

One third of Americans (non voters) were happy to watch whilst another third (MAGAts) attempts to murder the other third everyone.

Charmin instructions unclear. Wiped butt with polar brown bear

Given (in our house, anyway) cover songs don’t count, I’m going to make a ruling that as a derivative work, your Wham!-ageddon streak remains safe…for now

You may want check out Infuse for the AppleTV. I have found it fixed every audio drift and video jitter concern that I’ve ever had with Plex or Jellyfin.

You can point it either directly at an SMB share, or a library hosted on Jellyfin or Plex. The advantage of this is it caches the artwork in the library, not on the AppleTV, because the AppleTV will periodically flush its local cache, leading to long re-fetching times and waiting to watch things.

I have no recommendations for the Chromecast.

Maybe. I was a kid so probably was given crap equipment anf cheap film and likely didn’t treat it well. But the principle is the same. Having deeper shadows that preserve detail, and brighter highlights that aren’t blown out is what, for me, evokes a more visceral response when watching content, whereas Increasing the number of pixels from 1080p to 4K doesn’t.

First, good job on not having a smart TV. They’re truly awful.

I would de-emphasize the actual resolution benefits of 4K. Most of us don’t sit close enough to notice the difference.

For me, it’s about high dynamic range (HDR).

For example, when I was a kid, I was always annoyed by how the photos I took of what I thought was a gorgeous landscape, and then developed the film (yes, I’m an old) it always looked horribly bland and drab.

Watching 4K content on a TV for the first time was like looking at the beautiful landscape again. (It actually was - Netflix’s Marco Polo had the most stunning vistas!)

Most answers here are missing the benefits of a home Mac running 24/7 if you’re already part of the Apple ecosystem. For example, you can have it sync all your iCloud data (documents, photos, iTunes content) and back them up locally, then elsewhere outside of Apple’s ecosystem. You can also have it act as a local CDN for OS updates, whereby it will cache OS downloads locally so any subsequent updates will be super quick.

On the downside, I found native Docker on macOS kinda sucked, and just installed Ubuntu on my 2012 Mac Mini (now running Proxmox for funsies), but I have an old iMac to do the caching. You could probably virtualize and get both benefits, and I am considering moving to a new M4 mini for the power savings and sheer speed. That M4 Pro chip has absolutely incredible Geekbench numbers while sipping power.