RxBrad

They sent me an email saying my account was idle (an always on Wireguard for Plex).

I converted to the Pay As You Go plan, and I was good. And it was still free.

Probably why they’re sending out emails right now saying they’re transitioning to mandatory 2FA…

Probably.

Though it was the official Mastodon container, and not a third party.

If you do use Docker, Mastodon seems to be a prime example of where you shouldn’t use the : latest tag and autoupdate with something like Watchtower.

I initially installed with :latest a few days ago and it gave me 4.1.3 (the actual latest version had been 4.1.4 for quite awhile at that point). I saw other people mention that they “updated” to a 3.x release via :latest recently.

Rsnapshot to an external USB drive.

Probably not the best, but it works for my little 6TB OpenMediaVault server with some Docker thrown in.

Not a huge deal for watching h265, since Plex still just transcodes to h264 (if it ever needs to transcode).

But it’s nice if you use something like tDarr to convert your h264s to h265.

But, just the overall improvement in speed/quality is nice when you jump up a generation in QuickSync.

7th-9th Gen uses a newer version of QuickSync than 6th gen had, which adds h265 encoding and better overall image quality.

I’d lean toward one of the 7th gen CPUs if you’re using Plex.

I’d been floating a similar idea for MAME arcade high scores.

Currently, when I play a game on my arcade cabinet, the marquee image gets a date and the game’s name stamped on it by ImageMagick, then gets uploaded so it can display on my blog. (yes – I haven’t played since March… I should really play on my cab more)

I kind of wanted to automate a high score list on my blog. Though I’m fairly sure that’s going to be considerably more work.

Imgur is preparing to wipe old uploads that aren’t linked to an account…

In my case, that’s pretty much every image I ever uploaded to Reddit using Sync for Reddit.

I won’t lie… their prices actually don’t look half bad. Dot com is ten bucks a year instead of the $14 I’m giving Namecheap…

It just takes a really long time to restore from those backups. And weirdly, they’re scattered all over the place…

Truthfully, you really only need Intel 7th gen or higher.

The renewals… That’s where they getcha…