Unless the media also uses HDR in which case the server will still be required to transcode.

OpPS does not do interviews atm, so I’d recommend interviewing for RED.

They are not worth it. First party controllers are expensive for what they offer, given there’s better gamepads for less money.

Just buy an 8bitdo Ultimate 2C or another one of their controllers with the 2.4GHz dongle. The wireless dongle has less latency than wired xbox/PS5 controllers, not to mention Bluetooth.

Yes. Some cracks don’t replace the call to a server entirely, and instead use a local server to return the expected response. In this case, the DRM would run normally, except for it not contacting the offcial remote server.

Obviously if a crack removes a DRM completely, there might be a performance advantage. It depends on several factors.

DRM tends to mess with your game, framerate even. People who pirate don’t have that problem.

Not necessarily. Often times DRM doesn’t get removed or completely bypassed, instead they only make the license check pass. In this case performance should be identical to the licensed original.

YeetMouse includes substantial improvements like switching to fixed point math and having a GUI.

There’s some really bad mouse accelerations built into desktop OS. For example Windows’ mouse accel curve is an abomination and I really don’t know how they came up with it. Maybe they threw a dice. [1] Comparatively a curve like [2] is much more suitable for gaming, as it essentially allows for precise tracking, small flicks with constant sensitivity, while still allowing for rapid 180 degree turns. Especially quake-like arena shooter benefit from this as you can play long range and close range with the same settings (Quake is where this kind of mouse accel was first implemented).

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[2]

With the right curve accel is not necessarily less consistent.

I’ve used linear acceleration, a limit of 2.0 and an for me suitable offset with the same consistency as without. This is because the acceleration is kicking in only after an acceleration threshold (offset) has been passed. So unless I really yank my arm, there’s no difference between having accel on and off.
The result is that normal aiming (tracking, small flicks) benefits of exactly the same muscle memory with and without accel on.

You can think of it as having two sensitivities: one for tracking, and one for quick 180° turns. Because of the linear increase in sensitivity between the two sensitivities (one caused by the offset, the other one set by the limit), it feels quite natural and not like “traditional” mouse accel.

The following 1 minute video explains this kind of custom mouse acceleration quite well.

https://youtu.be/oUJf_AgpBPI

Ugreen NAS support other OS. You could put TrueNAS or Proxmox on there, so no, there’s no security concerns (beyond all computer hardware being partly manufactured there in some way).

Emby also seems to be able to automatically merge different versions of shows/movies.

I’ve asked someone and MergeVersions does not change the file/directory structure/naming.

Though the same person also mentioned issues with duplicates even after removing the second library with UHD.

In general plugins like IntroSkipper and PlaybackReporting work flawlessly but I’ll stay away from MergeVersions for now and handle movies with mergerfs for the moment.

You’re right, it’s possible to login without internet if local network access without login is enabled in settings beforehand.

Well yes, it might be a simple feature, but it’s still work someone has to do, and there’s many requested features - as well as maintaining the current feature set. I do expect Jellyfin to get this feature at some point, but it might take another 5 years.

As we’re talking about existing/missing features: Sadly there’s an internet connection required to login to Plex, which is a no-go for me.

And I’d really love a feature to be able to share my library with someone while being logged in the same account. I.e. a kind of federation without duplicating content. Iirc Plex has something like this, by keeping the Plex server and user account separate.

It does work for movies if they’re in the same directory and have the same name before a -.

For shows there’s sadly now way iirc.

E.g. Movie Name (2025) - 1080p x264.mkv and Movie Name (2025) - UHD HEVC.mkv would make Jellyfin show a video selection in the same way they do for audio currently.

Jellyfin in general requires proper naming for media to get detected, which is not problem with automation but not that great for a collection grown over time.

It won’t save you from doing a bit of work but you could use podman. There’s systemd integration so you can still start/stop/enable your services with systemctl while using docker/container images. You won’t be able to use docker-compose directly, but it’s usually not that hard to replicate the logic with systemd (Immich was a PITA at first (because they had so many microservices split into multiple images, but it improved considerably over the first two years).

I do this with NixOS quite a bit, and I’ve yet to use docker compose (although the syntax is different, it’s still the same process).

Given OP mentioned torrent and watching media in the same sentence I assume they didn’t rip their own media, and pirated it instead.

If my assumption is wrong, I apologize.

Especially anime often use the superior .ass subtitle format, which many devices don’t support. Sadly Crunchyroll is switching to .srt which has broader support, so it likely won’t require burning them in the video (transcoding), which is the only positive thing (still a shame imo).

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1nuxuzs/crunchyroll_has_downgraded_their_subtitles

Given they use a N100, I’d suggest redownloading instead of transcoding for time, energy and quality savings (i.e cost).

There’s non-streamable MP4, which have index metadata at the end of the file. For those you’d have to download the end first to be able to play anything before it. But I don’t think I’ve stumbled upon it (not that I download any MP4 in general, as there’s the superior MKV).

And making sure Tailscale auto launches on a FireTV stick is a pita too. Telling them to open Tailscale on each start is not an option.

Setting up auth before Jellyfin breaks clients. This is not an option. Edit: Unless you meant VPN like Tailscale, but then you’d have to install Tailscale too, which I don’t want to explain to others.