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Scorsese2002 10/21/25 1:47:38 PM #1:	https://x.com/variety/status/1980623852955635759?s=46&t=kblUHjD14Xk4ieJPFAQ81A --- https://www.twitch.tv/dtake86 <cite>Scorsese2002 posted [p:986794910] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>https://x.com/variety/status/1980623852955635759?s=46&t=kblUHjD14Xk4ieJPFAQ81A</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Kaldrenthebold 10/21/25 2:06:16 PM #2:	Fuckers caught on to me using my sister's account literally right when I was about to watch the series finale of sopranos. Like sat down with dinner ready to finish it. No wonder they did that crack down --- http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u223/chocolateFRESH/arts/kraid.png - Thanks GP cosmonaut! http://i.imgur.com/TuJWAR8.jpg <cite>Kaldrenthebold posted [p:986795116] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Fuckers caught on to me using my sister's account literally right when I was about to watch the series finale of sopranos. Like sat down with dinner ready to finish it. No wonder they did that crack down </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
kingdrake2 10/21/25 2:09:20 PM #3:	Kaldrenthebold posted... Fuckers caught on to me they have to catch the freeloaders no offense to the TC. the cost increase not something that will turn me away from subscribing (hulu one is worse). edit: right. i should've said disney. they want more money. --- currently playing: Infinite Links (ps4) kemco RPG RIP Sophie the dog: February 2011-april 2024. we'll miss you alot. <cite>kingdrake2 posted [p:986795152] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Kaldrenthebold posted...</cite><quote>Fuckers caught on to me</quote>they have to catch the freeloadersno offense to the TC. the cost increase not something that will turn me away from subscribing (hulu one is worse).edit: right. i should've said disney. they want more money.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
TheGoldenEel 10/21/25 2:09:59 PM #4:	Im still grandfathered into getting this for free with At&T lol --- BLACK LIVES MATTER Games: http://backloggery.com/wrldindstries302 \\ Music: http://www.last.fm/user/DrMorberg/ <cite>TheGoldenEel posted [p:986795162] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Im still grandfathered into getting this for free with At&T lol</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zikten 10/21/25 2:11:24 PM #5:	kingdrake2 posted... they have to catch the freeloaders no offense to the TC. the cost increase not something that will turn me away from subscribing (hulu one is worse). Hulu is disbanding though. I think its supposed to shut down sometime in 2026. So I wouldn't worry about that. All originals of hulu are I think already on Disney plus. <cite>Zikten posted [p:986795178] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>kingdrake2 posted... </cite><quote>they have to catch the freeloadersno offense to the TC. the cost increase not something that will turn me away from subscribing (hulu one is worse).</quote>Hulu is disbanding though. I think its supposed to shut down sometime in 2026. So I wouldn't worry about that. All originals of hulu are I think already on Disney plus. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PraetorXyn 10/21/25 2:11:57 PM #6:	I dont pay for it, but I was expecting the increase to be $5. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 <cite>PraetorXyn posted [p:986795183] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>I dont pay for it, but I was expecting the increase to be $5.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
FL81 10/21/25 2:19:31 PM #7:	more like HBO Mid m i rite --- https://i.imgur.com/TGkNCva.gif https://i.imgur.com/8mWCvA4.gif <cite>FL81 posted [p:986795248] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>more like HBO Mid m i rite</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
chris1001_the_sequel 10/21/25 2:28:20 PM #8:	Max keeps increasing the price while decreasing value by removing content. Streaming has become everything that cable was that was supposed to make streaming better. I've been moving back to physical, and ripping everything I buy and putting it on Plex. It's so awesome. I've bought more movies and shows over the past year than the previous 5 years combined. It's mine, I own it, can watch it at my leisure, and the quality is much better than streaming. --- This is a signature. <cite>chris1001_the_sequel posted [p:986795334] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Max keeps increasing the price while decreasing value by removing content.Streaming has become everything that cable was that was supposed to make streaming better.I've been moving back to physical, and ripping everything I buy and putting it on Plex. It's so awesome. I've bought more movies and shows over the past year than the previous 5 years combined. It's mine, I own it, can watch it at my leisure, and the quality is much better than streaming. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Will_VIIII 10/21/25 2:29:39 PM #9:	I really should just drop down to the ad tier for everything and get a pi hole finally set up --- Advice from a dryer: Open the door to amazement. Don't shrink from your true calling. Accept life's wrinkles. Avoid overload. Reach into mystery! <cite>Will_VIIII posted [p:986795345] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>I really should just drop down to the ad tier for everything and get a pi hole finally set up</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
CRON 10/21/25 2:30:16 PM #10:	chris1001_the_sequel posted... Max keeps increasing the price while decreasing value by removing content. Streaming has become everything that cable was that was supposed to make streaming better. I've been moving back to physical, and ripping everything I buy and putting it on Plex. It's so awesome. I've bought more movies and shows over the past year than the previous 5 years combined. It's mine, I own it, can watch it at my leisure, and the quality is much better than streaming. I always wanted to get into this but it seems so daunting and it's frustrating how expensive and difficult a lot of shows on Blu Ray are. --- It is what it is, man. <cite>CRON posted [p:986795350] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>chris1001_the_sequel posted... </cite><quote>Max keeps increasing the price while decreasing value by removing content.Streaming has become everything that cable was that was supposed to make streaming better.I've been moving back to physical, and ripping everything I buy and putting it on Plex. It's so awesome. I've bought more movies and shows over the past year than the previous 5 years combined. It's mine, I own it, can watch it at my leisure, and the quality is much better than streaming.</quote>I always wanted to get into this but it seems so daunting and it's frustrating how expensive and difficult a lot of shows on Blu Ray are.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
thekosmicfool 10/21/25 2:38:22 PM #11:	OK cool guess what HBO Max. The only reason I pay for HBO Max is because I have several family members that also watch it and I let them log in to my account. I know how to watch your shows without paying you for the privilege iykwim. If you're "cracking down" on account sharing AND raising prices, well now you will have zero monies from me. Your Roku and Xbone apps suck. I can't rewind reliably without it getting stuck in a stuttering loop. Often the content will load way zoomed in or have the wrong aspect ratio. Navigating through the menus is a bitch. Go to hell. --- Tonight your ghost will ask my ghost "Who put these bodies between us?" <cite>thekosmicfool posted [p:986795419] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>OK cool guess what HBO Max. The only reason I pay for HBO Max is because I have several family members that also watch it and I let them log in to my account. I know how to watch your shows without paying you for the privilege iykwim. If you're "cracking down" on account sharing AND raising prices, well now you will have zero monies from me. Your Roku and Xbone apps suck. I can't rewind reliably without it getting stuck in a stuttering loop. Often the content will load way zoomed in or have the wrong aspect ratio. Navigating through the menus is a bitch.Go to hell.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PraetorXyn 10/21/25 2:54:16 PM #12:	chris1001_the_sequel posted... Max keeps increasing the price while decreasing value by removing content. Streaming has become everything that cable was that was supposed to make streaming better. I've been moving back to physical, and ripping everything I buy and putting it on Plex. It's so awesome. I've bought more movies and shows over the past year than the previous 5 years combined. It's mine, I own it, can watch it at my leisure, and the quality is much better than streaming. This. I do the same, but I run Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin all three, pointed at the same media library so I can compare. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 <cite>PraetorXyn posted [p:986795576] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>chris1001_the_sequel posted... </cite><quote>Max keeps increasing the price while decreasing value by removing content.Streaming has become everything that cable was that was supposed to make streaming better.I've been moving back to physical, and ripping everything I buy and putting it on Plex. It's so awesome. I've bought more movies and shows over the past year than the previous 5 years combined. It's mine, I own it, can watch it at my leisure, and the quality is much better than streaming.</quote>This. I do the same, but I run Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin all three, pointed at the same media library so I can compare.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MarshMellow 10/21/25 2:55:31 PM #13:	The price creep is why I got rid of all streaming services except Prime, and I'd like to cut that too now that it has ads. Might as well get used to shit like Pluto and Tubi and not pay for anything but their ads as so long. <cite>MarshMellow posted [p:986795590] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>The price creep is why I got rid of all streaming services except Prime, and I'd like to cut that too now that it has ads. Might as well get used to shit like Pluto and Tubi and not pay for anything but their ads as so long.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PraetorXyn 10/21/25 3:04:33 PM #14:	CRON posted... I always wanted to get into this but it seems so daunting and it's frustrating how expensive and difficult a lot of shows on Blu Ray are. Setting up the media server itself is very trivial. I could share Docker Compose snippets with you if you want, if youve got something you can use as a server. I run my services in a Proxmox VM, and they access the media via NFS from the NAS. The media ripping itself is also relatively painless. The problem is sorting out the rip. This part is also very subjective, as it depends on what you want to keep: Main feature (this is a given, but sometimes there will be both a Theatrical and Directors Cut or Unrated version on the same disc, and you have to decide if you want to keep both or which one. If you keep both, the media server will let you select which format to watch. You need to name the movie or TV episodes appropriately and put them in the right folders. Filebot is a big help for this with TV shows.). Special features (This is the most tedious, as you basically have to play the disc and note down what all the special features are, then figure out which file is which and name them accordingly, put them in the right subfolders like behind the scenes, featurettes, extras, etc. Also, Emby and Jellyfin support seasonal features but Plex doesnt, so if you have extras for Season 3 of a show from the season 3 Blu-Rays, Plex probably wont see them unless you just put them under the main show folder itself). Trailers (Kind of the same deal as the special features, but they all go in the trailers subfolder). So it kind of depends on you. If you only care about the main movie or show, its pretty easy to identify and rename things appropriately, then throw away everything else. If you want to keep all the special features etc. for a full replica of whats on the discs, its a tedious process, but once youve done it for a while it doesnt take TOO long. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 <cite>PraetorXyn posted [p:986795677] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>CRON posted... </cite><quote>I always wanted to get into this but it seems so daunting and it's frustrating how expensive and difficult a lot of shows on Blu Ray are.</quote>Setting up the media server itself is very trivial. I could share Docker Compose snippets with you if you want, if youve got something you can use as a server. I run my services in a Proxmox VM, and they access the media via NFS from the NAS.The media ripping itself is also relatively painless. The problem is sorting out the rip.This part is also very subjective, as it depends on what you want to keep:Main feature (this is a given, but sometimes there will be both a Theatrical and Directors Cut or Unrated version on the same disc, and you have to decide if you want to keep both or which one. If you keep both, the media server will let you select which format to watch. You need to name the movie or TV episodes appropriately and put them in the right folders. Filebot is a big help for this with TV shows.).Special features (This is the most tedious, as you basically have to play the disc and note down what all the special features are, then figure out which file is which and name them accordingly, put them in the right subfolders like behind the scenes, featurettes, extras, etc. Also, Emby and Jellyfin support seasonal features but Plex doesnt, so if you have extras for Season 3 of a show from the season 3 Blu-Rays, Plex probably wont see them unless you just put them under the main show folder itself).Trailers (Kind of the same deal as the special features, but they all go in the trailers subfolder).So it kind of depends on you. If you only care about the main movie or show, its pretty easy to identify and rename things appropriately, then throw away everything else. If you want to keep all the special features etc. for a full replica of whats on the discs, its a tedious process, but once youve done it for a while it doesnt take TOO long.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PraetorXyn 10/21/25 3:07:20 PM #15:	MarshMellow posted... The price creep is why I got rid of all streaming services except Prime, and I'd like to cut that too now that it has ads. Might as well get used to shit like Pluto and Tubi and not pay for anything but their ads as so long. I did the same, but I keep Prime for the free fast shipping, I never had it for video in the first place. I can confirm that if you watch in a browser with uBlock Origin you wont see ads. I did resubscriibe to Metflix a few months ago though for things that are only on there, and Im enjoying it for now. Happy Gilmore 2 was great relative to my expectations, Wednesday season 2 was OK, Dark is an absolute masterpiece, and Im loving Peaky Blinders so far. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 <cite>PraetorXyn posted [p:986795696] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>MarshMellow posted... </cite><quote>The price creep is why I got rid of all streaming services except Prime, and I'd like to cut that too now that it has ads. Might as well get used to shit like Pluto and Tubi and not pay for anything but their ads as so long.</quote>I did the same, but I keep Prime for the free fast shipping, I never had it for video in the first place. I can confirm that if you watch in a browser with uBlock Origin you wont see ads.I did resubscriibe to Metflix a few months ago though for things that are only on there, and Im enjoying it for now. Happy Gilmore 2 was great relative to my expectations, Wednesday season 2 was OK, Dark is an absolute masterpiece, and Im loving Peaky Blinders so far.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Cuticrusader09 10/21/25 3:07:29 PM #16:	Im good until next September. They offered me $30 off the middle plan when I clicked to cancel and I stacked a $25 off from Amex too. <cite>Cuticrusader09 posted [p:986795699] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Im good until next September. They offered me $30 off the middle plan when I clicked to cancel and I stacked a $25 off from Amex too.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Calwings 10/21/25 3:18:02 PM #17:	My family is still on the Hulu/Disney+/HBOMax bundle and it doesn't look like that's going up. Of course, when they eventually shut down Hulu and roll it into Disney+, we'll have to change plans. --- https://i.imgur.com/PmF1p9q.jpg <cite>Calwings posted [p:986795803] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>My family is still on the Hulu/Disney+/HBOMax bundle and it doesn't look like that's going up. Of course, when they eventually shut down Hulu and roll it into Disney+, we'll have to change plans.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
chris1001_the_sequel 10/21/25 3:20:33 PM #18:	CRON posted... I always wanted to get into this but it seems so daunting and it's frustrating how expensive and difficult a lot of shows on Blu Ray are. Honestly, most expensive part of it is the storage. If you aren't compressing them, they take up a lot of of space because of how high the bit rate is. My rip for The Batman is something like 75GB. Season 1 of Arcane is 240GB (absolutely insane bitrate on that one in particular) You just have to pay attention to deals. Especially this time of year. Here are some of my recent purchases 4K Arcane Season 1: $23 TMNT: Mutant Mayhem: $15 Raiders of the Lost Ark: $15 Star TreK: First Contact: $15 DND: Honor Among Thieves: $15 Last Night in Soho: $10 Get Out: $10 Puss In Boots 2: $10 Jurassic World: $10 How to Train your Dragon 2: $10 How to Train your Dragon 3: $10 Space Balls: $17 Violent Night $12 Galaxy Quest: $13 Blu Ray Oblivion $8 Farscape complete series with Peace Keeper wars: $120 Amazon usually has some good deals going GRUV is a fantastic resource. Official joint venture storefront for physical media for WB and Universal and they run frequent deals such as the 3 for 30 that was the source of those $10 ones above. They have 20% off first purchase with as far as I know no limits. I used it to get Fringe Complete Series for $50. Actually looking to set up a NAS over black Friday to get this separated from my PC This is what I got so far https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BpgMzP Price isn't super accurate since I'm sure there will be sales, and those drives aren't an exact match for the ones I'm looking at. --- This is a signature. <cite>chris1001_the_sequel posted [p:986795835] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>CRON posted... </cite><quote>I always wanted to get into this but it seems so daunting and it's frustrating how expensive and difficult a lot of shows on Blu Ray are.</quote>Honestly, most expensive part of it is the storage. If you aren't compressing them, they take up a lot of of space because of how high the bit rate is. My rip for The Batman is something like 75GB. Season 1 of Arcane is 240GB (absolutely insane bitrate on that one in particular)You just have to pay attention to deals. Especially this time of year. Here are some of my recent purchases4KArcane Season 1: $23TMNT: Mutant Mayhem: $15Raiders of the Lost Ark: $15Star TreK: First Contact: $15DND: Honor Among Thieves: $15Last Night in Soho: $10Get Out: $10Puss In Boots 2: $10Jurassic World: $10How to Train your Dragon 2: $10How to Train your Dragon 3: $10Space Balls: $17Violent Night $12Galaxy Quest: $13Blu RayOblivion $8Farscape complete series with Peace Keeper wars: $120Amazon usually has some good deals goingGRUV is a fantastic resource. Official joint venture storefront for physical media for WB and Universal and they run frequent deals such as the 3 for 30 that was the source of those $10 ones above. They have 20% off first purchase with as far as I know no limits. I used it to get Fringe Complete Series for $50. Actually looking to set up a NAS over black Friday to get this separated from my PCThis is what I got so farhttps://pcpartpicker.com/list/BpgMzP Price isn't super accurate since I'm sure there will be sales, and those drives aren't an exact match for the ones I'm looking at. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MC_BatCommander 10/21/25 3:34:51 PM #19:	Well, guess it's time to cancel the last streaming service I was holding on to. --- The Legend is True! <cite>MC_BatCommander posted [p:986795983] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Well, guess it's time to cancel the last streaming service I was holding on to.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PraetorXyn 10/21/25 4:11:12 PM #20:	chris1001_the_sequel posted... Honestly, most expensive part of it is the storage. If you aren't compressing them, they take up a lot of of space because of how high the bit rate is. My rip for The Batman is something like 75GB. Season 1 of Arcane is 240GB (absolutely insane bitrate on that one in particular) You just have to pay attention to deals. Especially this time of year. Here are some of my recent purchases 4K Arcane Season 1: $23 TMNT: Mutant Mayhem: $15 Raiders of the Lost Ark: $15 Star TreK: First Contact: $15 DND: Honor Among Thieves: $15 Last Night in Soho: $10 Get Out: $10 Puss In Boots 2: $10 Jurassic World: $10 How to Train your Dragon 2: $10 How to Train your Dragon 3: $10 Space Balls: $17 Violent Night $12 Galaxy Quest: $13 Blu Ray Oblivion $8 Farscape complete series with Peace Keeper wars: $120 Amazon usually has some good deals going GRUV is a fantastic resource. Official joint venture storefront for physical media for WB and Universal and they run frequent deals such as the 3 for 30 that was the source of those $10 ones above. They have 20% off first purchase with as far as I know no limits. I used it to get Fringe Complete Series for $50. Actually looking to set up a NAS over black Friday to get this separated from my PC This is what I got so far https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BpgMzP Price isn't super accurate since I'm sure there will be sales, and those drives aren't an exact match for the ones I'm looking at. I would advise getting ECC memory and a motherboard that supports it if you can (that one may, but its motherboard dependent). Id also advise Seagate Iron Wolf Pro or Exos drives over WD anything. The only drive failure Ive ever had was a WD Red 12 TB drive, that failed like a month after the warranty ran out. Id go with TrueNAS for the OS. ZFS is indispensable for data integrity, so my next NAS will definitely be that. I prefer to keep services and storage separate, so I use Proxmox for that. If you wanted to do only one device, Id put Proxmox on it, connect the drives to a LSI HBA flashed for ZFS, and pass the HBA through to a TrueNAS VM. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 <cite>PraetorXyn posted [p:986796330] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>chris1001_the_sequel posted... </cite><quote>Honestly, most expensive part of it is the storage. If you aren't compressing them, they take up a lot of of space because of how high the bit rate is. My rip for The Batman is something like 75GB. Season 1 of Arcane is 240GB (absolutely insane bitrate on that one in particular)You just have to pay attention to deals. Especially this time of year. Here are some of my recent purchases4KArcane Season 1: $23TMNT: Mutant Mayhem: $15Raiders of the Lost Ark: $15Star TreK: First Contact: $15DND: Honor Among Thieves: $15Last Night in Soho: $10Get Out: $10Puss In Boots 2: $10Jurassic World: $10How to Train your Dragon 2: $10How to Train your Dragon 3: $10Space Balls: $17Violent Night $12Galaxy Quest: $13Blu RayOblivion $8Farscape complete series with Peace Keeper wars: $120Amazon usually has some good deals goingGRUV is a fantastic resource. Official joint venture storefront for physical media for WB and Universal and they run frequent deals such as the 3 for 30 that was the source of those $10 ones above. They have 20% off first purchase with as far as I know no limits. I used it to get Fringe Complete Series for $50. Actually looking to set up a NAS over black Friday to get this separated from my PCThis is what I got so farhttps://pcpartpicker.com/list/BpgMzP Price isn't super accurate since I'm sure there will be sales, and those drives aren't an exact match for the ones I'm looking at.</quote>I would advise getting ECC memory and a motherboard that supports it if you can (that one may, but its motherboard dependent).Id also advise Seagate Iron Wolf Pro or Exos drives over WD anything. The only drive failure Ive ever had was a WD Red 12 TB drive, that failed like a month after the warranty ran out.Id go with TrueNAS for the OS. ZFS is indispensable for data integrity, so my next NAS will definitely be that. I prefer to keep services and storage separate, so I use Proxmox for that. If you wanted to do only one device, Id put Proxmox on it, connect the drives to a LSI HBA flashed for ZFS, and pass the HBA through to a TrueNAS VM.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Spurner 10/21/25 4:14:10 PM #21:	TheGoldenEel posted... Im still grandfathered into getting this for free with At&T lol <cite>Spurner posted [p:986796347] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>TheGoldenEel posted... </cite><quote>Im still grandfathered into getting this for free with At&T lol</quote></quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
chris1001_the_sequel 10/21/25 4:24:58 PM #22:	PraetorXyn posted... I would advise getting ECC memory and a motherboard that supports it if you can (that one may, but its motherboard dependent). Id also advise Seagate Iron Wolf Pro or Exos drives over WD anything. The only drive failure Ive ever had was a WD Red 12 TB drive, that failed like a month after the warranty ran out. That mobo supposedly does which is why I do have it. I've been getting mixed signals on ECC everywhere, everything ranging from a waste of money to you might as well be juggling chainsaws if you don't. I'll probably end up getting it, just with less overall capacity to start. From what I'm reading 32GB for a machine that is 95% going to be used for just Plex is plenty. The HDD's are tricky. I've heard the enterprise drives are incredibly loud, and I'm in a studio, so noise is a concern for me. for OS I'm looking at HexOS. I don't mind learning TrueNAS but I like the idea of easing into it that Hex could provide by handling most of it. --- This is a signature. <cite>chris1001_the_sequel posted [p:986796442] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>PraetorXyn posted... </cite><quote>I would advise getting ECC memory and a motherboard that supports it if you can (that one may, but its motherboard dependent).Id also advise Seagate Iron Wolf Pro or Exos drives over WD anything. The only drive failure Ive ever had was a WD Red 12 TB drive, that failed like a month after the warranty ran out.</quote>That mobo supposedly does which is why I do have it. I've been getting mixed signals on ECC everywhere, everything ranging from a waste of money to you might as well be juggling chainsaws if you don't. I'll probably end up getting it, just with less overall capacity to start. From what I'm reading 32GB for a machine that is 95% going to be used for just Plex is plenty. The HDD's are tricky. I've heard the enterprise drives are incredibly loud, and I'm in a studio, so noise is a concern for me. for OS I'm looking at HexOS. I don't mind learning TrueNAS but I like the idea of easing into it that Hex could provide by handling most of it. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Will_VIIII 10/21/25 6:00:46 PM #23:	Honestly you don't need to spend much to create a reliable Plex server. Mine is a 13+ year old Dell Optiplex with a bunch of external drives. Yeah at one point I might want to create a raid with 2 identical HDDs but I'd also find it unlikely that all my drives would die at once too. It's like 22 TB across 5 different drives --- Advice from a dryer: Open the door to amazement. Don't shrink from your true calling. Accept life's wrinkles. Avoid overload. Reach into mystery! <cite>Will_VIIII posted [p:986797292] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Honestly you don't need to spend much to create a reliable Plex server.Mine is a 13+ year old Dell Optiplex with a bunch of external drives.Yeah at one point I might want to create a raid with 2 identical HDDs but I'd also find it unlikely that all my drives would die at once too. It's like 22 TB across 5 different drives</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
kyujo 10/21/25 6:03:13 PM #24:	TheGoldenEel posted... Im still grandfathered into getting this for free with At&T lol same I actually thought they weren't allowing more but sounds like a family member was able to recently as well --- Now Playing: FFT:IC Last Watched: Alien: Earth, Peacemaker <cite>kyujo posted [p:986797329] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>TheGoldenEel posted... </cite><quote>Im still grandfathered into getting this for free with At&T lol</quote>sameI actually thought they weren't allowing more but sounds like a family member was able to recently as well</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Mr_Karate_II 10/21/25 6:08:41 PM #25:	All paid streaming services are starting to crackdown on password sharing. --- I believe in Joe Hendry!! Michigan Wolverines men's basketball: Big Ten Champions <cite>Mr_Karate_II posted [p:986797378] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>All paid streaming services are starting to crackdown on password sharing. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Will_VIIII 10/21/25 6:23:54 PM #26:	Mr_Karate_II posted... All paid streaming services are starting to crackdown on password sharing. Last I checked HBO still allows 1. --- Advice from a dryer: Open the door to amazement. Don't shrink from your true calling. Accept life's wrinkles. Avoid overload. Reach into mystery! <cite>Will_VIIII posted [p:986797526] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Mr_Karate_II posted... </cite><quote>All paid streaming services are starting to crackdown on password sharing.</quote>Last I checked HBO still allows 1.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Mr_Karate_II 10/21/25 8:58:55 PM #27:	Will_VIIII posted... Last I checked HBO still allows 1. I don't have HBO so I wasn't aware --- I believe in Joe Hendry!! Michigan Wolverines men's basketball: Big Ten Champions <cite>Mr_Karate_II posted [p:986799012] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Will_VIIII posted... </cite><quote>Last I checked HBO still allows 1.</quote>I don't have HBO so I wasn't aware</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Will_VIIII 10/22/25 9:38:33 AM #28:	Mr_Karate_II posted... I don't have HBO so I wasn't aware I share with my brother in law who in return shares a space on Crunchyroll. We're good still September since we sub for an annual plan, but come next fall we might drop to the ad tier which might not allow sharing. --- Advice from a dryer: Open the door to amazement. Don't shrink from your true calling. Accept life's wrinkles. Avoid overload. Reach into mystery! <cite>Will_VIIII posted [p:986803009] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>Mr_Karate_II posted... </cite><quote>I don't have HBO so I wasn't aware</quote>I share with my brother in law who in return shares a space on Crunchyroll. We're good still September since we sub for an annual plan, but come next fall we might drop to the ad tier which might not allow sharing.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PraetorXyn 10/22/25 1:38:27 PM #29:	chris1001_the_sequel posted... That mobo supposedly does which is why I do have it. I've been getting mixed signals on ECC everywhere, everything ranging from a waste of money to you might as well be juggling chainsaws if you don't. I'll probably end up getting it, just with less overall capacity to start. From what I'm reading 32GB for a machine that is 95% going to be used for just Plex is plenty. The HDD's are tricky. I've heard the enterprise drives are incredibly loud, and I'm in a studio, so noise is a concern for me. for OS I'm looking at HexOS. I don't mind learning TrueNAS but I like the idea of easing into it that Hex could provide by handling most of it. It depends on what youre doing. You can run Plex and a couple dozen other services on 4 GB RAM. But ZFS (and thus TrueNAS or HexOS) really likes RAM for caching and performance. The more the better for a ZFS storage server, as ZFS will gobble up all the RAM you let it, basically. ECC will always be better than not for a file server if you care about your data, but ZFS can recover from bitflips by itself supposedly. To me, the extra cost for ECC over non-ECC is negligible in the total cost of a server build, so I would always go that route. IMO HexOS is not ready for prime time, and no where near worth its cost. Id go with TrueNAS and just learn it, youll be much better off. At the moment, as far as Im aware, HexOs has no local management, so if your internet is down, youd have to manage it through the TrueNAS interface anyway. You also want to consider out-of-band management. If something goes catastrophically wrong, you really dont want to have to unplug the server, tote it over to a desk, plug it up to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, to try and troubleshoot. Proper server motherboards will have IPMI for this purpose, but these days there are a number of devices you can use for IP KVM. I use a JetKVM for this with my Proxmox server. This lets me put the JetKVMs Ip address into my browser, and I get host display from the Proxmox box, so I could troubleshoot and control it from my desktop across my network. A must have IMO. I will level with you about noise, as I hate noise too. When I bought my Synology NAS, I went with 12 TB WD Red (non Pro) drives as theyre 5400 RPM and thus quieter. The first couple of weeks I had it, it drove me fucking bonkers anyway, because when you first get it, the drives are going to be spinning as it runs S.M.A.R.T. tests and builds your storage pool(s) etc. It is probably going to annoy you whatever drives you get. Plex by default does deep media analysis, where it will basically scan every media file you have to figure out when the intro ends (thats how the Skip Intro button works), when the credits start (thats when it pops up the Next Episode button), what the codec is, etc., etc. It depends on how much media you have, but this takes basically all day with my collection, while Emby and Jellyfin will scan everything in 15-20 minutes. The drives will annoy you while Plex is doing its scan. To help with noise, I highly suggest getting 4 pads like these: Diversitech MP4-E E.V.A. Anti-Vibration Pad, 4" x 4" x 7/8" Pack of 4 https://a.co/d/fM13e0P Sit your NAS on top of those, balanced, and they will keep it from vibrating whatever you have it sitting on when the drives spin. This will help a lot. The rest of it just comes with time. Over time, the drives will rarely spin, and when they do, it will bother you a lot less, you just kind of learn to tune out that frequency I suppose, The reason you want to get Pro or Enterprise drives is because the warranty will be 5 years instead of 3. Thats worth a little extra noise given all Ive outlined above. When the drives arent spinning, the system should be dead silent unless youve got it mining crypto or something. --- https://store.steampowered.com/wishlist/profiles/76561198052113750 <cite>PraetorXyn posted [p:986805037] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>chris1001_the_sequel posted... </cite><quote>That mobo supposedly does which is why I do have it. I've been getting mixed signals on ECC everywhere, everything ranging from a waste of money to you might as well be juggling chainsaws if you don't. I'll probably end up getting it, just with less overall capacity to start. From what I'm reading 32GB for a machine that is 95% going to be used for just Plex is plenty. The HDD's are tricky. I've heard the enterprise drives are incredibly loud, and I'm in a studio, so noise is a concern for me. for OS I'm looking at HexOS. I don't mind learning TrueNAS but I like the idea of easing into it that Hex could provide by handling most of it.</quote>It depends on what youre doing. You can run Plex and a couple dozen other services on 4 GB RAM. But ZFS (and thus TrueNAS or HexOS) really likes RAM for caching and performance. The more the better for a ZFS storage server, as ZFS will gobble up all the RAM you let it, basically. ECC will always be better than not for a file server if you care about your data, but ZFS can recover from bitflips by itself supposedly. To me, the extra cost for ECC over non-ECC is negligible in the total cost of a server build, so I would always go that route.IMO HexOS is not ready for prime time, and no where near worth its cost. Id go with TrueNAS and just learn it, youll be much better off. At the moment, as far as Im aware, HexOs has no local management, so if your internet is down, youd have to manage it through the TrueNAS interface anyway.You also want to consider out-of-band management. If something goes catastrophically wrong, you really dont want to have to unplug the server, tote it over to a desk, plug it up to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, to try and troubleshoot. Proper server motherboards will have IPMI for this purpose, but these days there are a number of devices you can use for IP KVM. I use a JetKVM for this with my Proxmox server. This lets me put the JetKVMs Ip address into my browser, and I get host display from the Proxmox box, so I could troubleshoot and control it from my desktop across my network. A must have IMO.I will level with you about noise, as I hate noise too. When I bought my Synology NAS, I went with 12 TB WD Red (non Pro) drives as theyre 5400 RPM and thus quieter. The first couple of weeks I had it, it drove me fucking bonkers anyway, because when you first get it, the drives are going to be spinning as it runs S.M.A.R.T. tests and builds your storage pool(s) etc. It is probably going to annoy you whatever drives you get.Plex by default does deep media analysis, where it will basically scan every media file you have to figure out when the intro ends (thats how the Skip Intro button works), when the credits start (thats when it pops up the Next Episode button), what the codec is, etc., etc. It depends on how much media you have, but this takes basically all day with my collection, while Emby and Jellyfin will scan everything in 15-20 minutes. The drives will annoy you while Plex is doing its scan.To help with noise, I highly suggest getting 4 pads like these:Diversitech MP4-E E.V.A. Anti-Vibration Pad, 4" x 4" x 7/8" Pack of 4 https://a.co/d/fM13e0PSit your NAS on top of those, balanced, and they will keep it from vibrating whatever you have it sitting on when the drives spin. This will help a lot.The rest of it just comes with time. Over time, the drives will rarely spin, and when they do, it will bother you a lot less, you just kind of learn to tune out that frequency I suppose,The reason you want to get Pro or Enterprise drives is because the warranty will be 5 years instead of 3. Thats worth a little extra noise given all Ive outlined above.When the drives arent spinning, the system should be dead silent unless youve got it mining crypto or something.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
PeteyParker 10/22/25 1:51:19 PM #30:	I literally just signed up for the $10 Netflix/HBO Max deal from Verizon the other day. Haven't seen any notification that it's going to increase but it will be annoying if it does. --- "How can.. the Prime minister.. support a law.. that makes it illegal for people.. who....What I'm trying to say is.. Oasis rules!" <cite>PeteyParker posted [p:986805170] in HBO Max pr... [t:81058398]...</cite> <quote>I literally just signed up for the $10 Netflix/HBO Max deal from Verizon the other day. Haven't seen any notification that it's going to increase but it will be annoying if it does.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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