That was very helpful, thanks!

Only problem I have left is getting NGINX Reverse Proxy Manager set up, so that I can offer Overseerr webpage. The Let’s Encrypt cert generator keeps throwing an internal error at the last step. Something is preventing LE from reaching my server, and I’m too clueless to solve at this point.

I may have an outdated sense of what a potlatch was. I was using the term in the sense of destroying value, per this kind of definition:

“A potlatch involves giving away or destroying wealth or valuable items in order to demonstrate a leader’s wealth and power. “

This stuck with me: Years ago, someone on Reddit described their middle school in the ‘70s having to have an assembly to stop a potlatch/arms race between kids stacking Izod/Lacoste shirts. There were well-off kids wearing three or more stacked Lacoste shirts every day, and poorer kids wearing cheap generic polo shirts under real alligator shirts to try to keep up.

It was the spirit of Homer Davenport. Rejoice and have another slice of marionberry pie.

I don’t see as nearly as many used ThinkCentre Tinys for sale with post 7th gen chips. I wonder if this is why.

QuickSync is available on earlier gen machines. I have 7th gen with it.

That was the joke, but I trust it’s much improved by the explication.

It’s what a manchild thinks is sci-fi.

Dixon.

Def my fave of that series too.

Hey, thanks so much for following up! I was very happy to stumble into good fortune here :-)

Thank you!

Oh, I got lucky then. I thought it was only 8th gen onward, based on another user’s comment. Is there a name for the gpu tech, so I can look it up?

I bought Plex Pass lifetime about 5 years ago, so will go hunting for that setting, thanks!

And it works on 7th gen Intel chips?

Is that a client setting or Plex server setting? I haven’t noticed it before.

You are a godsend. Thank for you for the really cogent advice. Setting up Unraid now.

Thank you! Am I going to run into transcoding issues with 7th gen i5 on several streams? I only have six users, and all but one of them have modern Roku or Apple TV devices.

Oh, and should I use the 258GB M.2 already in the box for the config and database, or use the 2TB 970 EVO SSD?

Random memory, but the early Norton suite on the Mac was like this amazing Swiss Army knife; it has fallen from great heights to the pit of hell.

Yeah, it’s really stark looking back at it.

Friends was a relatively well-written show, with strong comedic actors. It didn’t need this level of aggressive laugh-tracking.

If you want to be a bit poetic: There’s a thing I know nothing of.