Sure, but who is seeding it? Someone who hasn't deleted it.
Delete!?!? You mean buy more harddrives, right??
Theoretically, USBC 3.1 has 10Gbit/s from what I'm reading so it sounds like you're right. My concern is the chipset on the MoBo, how many lanes it has, and what it supports. I haven't looked into it but I bet this is the limiting factor. Especially if you're adding a lot of USB devices.
Yep, just an old PC that I moved into a case with hotswap hard drive bays. I also bought a LSI 9300-8i to support the hard drives.
I have a DIY NAS... Not sure of specs any more. Some micro-atx board with a cheaper AMD CPU. All it's for is an NFS share and I use almost no resources on it.
I have a bunch of PI4 8GB and lenovo m92p tinys that I use for the compute. Their storage is the DIY NAS.
If I was starting out and planned on growing m'y setup, id go option 4. Just do an all in one thing, run everything on it. When you run out of ram/CPU consider a pi or mini like I have. When you need more disk, add it into the NAS.
If you just want something simple option 1. USB will 100% limit transfer speed but what kind of speed do you actually need? What will you run?
Covid for sure. /s
100% don't buy from Purism. I had their laptop. Librem 14? 15? And I gave it away to a friend after about a year. I had so many problems with it.
I had pre-ordered the phone but I asked for a refund just a month or so before everyone started saying they stopped giving refunds.
I have 4 pinephones, while they're not daily driver ready, they're awesome little devices and I've written a couple things for them. I also have 0 complaints about my system 76 laptop.
My understanding when I read it the first time was that any job would negate EI all together. I'll have to have a second look. Thanks!
I have two jobs. A full time tech job where I've already hit my EI and CPP max and a part time minimum wage job with 5-15 hours a week.
If I get laid off from the tech job, will I get EI? I suspect the answer is no, even if I quit my 2nd job at the same time I'm laid off.
The problem is, my 2nd job cheque is less then I'd get from EI and I doubt I'd get more hours if I asked... The only reason I have the 2nd job is to put 100% of that pay (less a bit for tax time) on the principal of my mortgage. I don't "need" this money at all and I'm locked in for another 3 years. Just wanted to pay off the house a bit faster.
A PI will not be powerful enough to run Plex. For one person with direct play maybe but I'd suggest a lenovo tiny or something like that. Old desktop would be fine too.
If you want to transcode 4k or have a lot of users, a desktop+video card is recommended
Very well written! Seems easy enough, thank you!
No, i've never tried that one.
I do my best to stay far, far away from google. I have a used pixel 3 from ebay with GrapheneOS. No google play services or anything. I pay a company to host my mail (doing it myself wasn't worth it). I don't like to be the product and using the #1 advertising company services for free? Hard pass.
https://archive.is/NNBct
During the first decade and a half of this century, young American men devoted a growing amount of time to computer and video games and a shrinking amount to work. In a 2017 paper that received tons of attention, four economists proposed that better games (“improved leisure technology”) were luring young men away from the workplace. In a response that received less attention but that I found more convincing, economist Gray Kimbrough argued that the interaction between weak labor demand and “a shift in social norms (that) rendered playing video games more acceptable at later ages” explained the data better.
It may be time for some new hypotheses. Statistics released last month by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics from the annual American Time Use Survey show that the time young men spent “playing games” — the survey doesn’t differentiate between electronic and non-electronic games, but most researchers assume it’s chiefly the former — rose by nearly three-quarters of an hour from 2019 to 2022, more than it had increased over the previous 16 years. A Big Increase in Gaming Time for Young Men
Average daily hours spent playing games, US men ages 15 through 24* 0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2010 2020 2003 2019:1.08 hours 2022:1.82 hours
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey
*Data not available for 2020
I don’t think there’s been a sudden acceleration in video-game quality improvement over the past three years, and labor demand was quite strong in 2021 and 2022. There was, however, a pandemic that brought big layoffs in early 2020 and an extended experiment in remote schooling and work that continued long after that. Amid all that disruption, young men turned to their computers and gaming consoles. So did young women, but from a much lower starting point. The Gaming Gender Gap
Average daily hours spent playing games, US, ages 15 through 24*
0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2010 2020 2003
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey
*Data not available for 2020
What are young men doing less to free up time for all that gaming? That’s hard to say with too much confidence: All these estimates are derived from a survey of about 26,400 households that is subject to sampling and other errors, and while the increases in gaming time are so big we can be confident that they represent a real phenomenon, some of the other changes could be mostly noise. Still, it does appear that, since the pandemic, most of the additional gaming time has come from work and sports/exercise/recreation. 1 The Changing Shape of Young Men’s Days
Change in average daily hours devoted to selected activities, US men 15-24 Since 2019 2003-2019 Playing games 0.74 0.51 Sleeping -0.03 0.41 Eating and drinking 0.10 0.16 Computer use for leisure (ex games) 0.05 0.10 Household activities -0.10 0.14 Educational activities* -0.04 0.07 Organizational and religious activities 0.06 -0.14 Sports, exercise and recreation -0.26 0.16 Watching TV -0.04 -0.15 Working and work-related activities* -0.35 0.03 Socializing and communicating -0.03 -0.41
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics
*Includes travel time to school or work
Before the pandemic, there was a big decline in the estimated time young men spent socializing and communicating, and smaller drops in the time spent participating in organizational and religious activities and watching TV — with the latter activity, at 2.14 hours a week in 2022, probably destined to be surpassed by gaming soon. Notably, given the academic debate discussed at the beginning of this column, there wasn’t any decline in hours worked. That’s partly because young men’s average working hours rose after the periods examined in the papers discussed above, which seems to lend support to Kimbrough’s argument, but also possibly because both papers examined trends among men ages 21 through 30 while the statistics in all the charts here are for ages 15 through 24, which is how the BLS reports them. 2
The share of men ages 15 to 24 who spent at least some time playing games on an average day topped 50% for the first time in 2022, at 52.4%. Before the electronic era, playing games was often a social activity (bridge, anyone?), and it’s possible that part of what’s been transpiring is that the social aspect of gaming has made a comeback, with a big boost from pandemic lockdowns during which multiplayer online games provided a socially distanced way to spend time with friends.
Then there’s the question of games versus work. The 20-to-24 age group has lagged both teenagers and prime-age (25 to 54) workers in the job market recovery of the past three years, with labor-force participation still down 2.1 percentage points since February 2020 among the men, as of May, and 1.3 points among the women. I don’t think games are really the cause of this, but the big increase in time spent on them could be a symptom of the disruption the pandemic caused for a subset of young adults who had just joined or were on the cusp of joining the labor market, and it’s possible that heavy video game use is making it harder for some to get their lives back on track. Among men ages 15 to 24 who spent at least some time playing games on an average day in 2022, the average time spent was 3.82 hours, which is a pretty significant chunk of the day, and 8% of those in the age group played for six or more hours a day. 3 I think that might be too much!
Don’t worry, though, I’m not going to conclude this column by yelling at the youngsters to stop spending so much time playing video games. How could I, given that young men and their gaming consoles still don’t hold a candle to old men and their televisions? American men 65 and older spent an average of just more than five hours a day watching TV in 2022, up from just more than four in 2003. Senior Citizens Watch a Lot of Television
Average daily hours spent watching TV, ages 65 and older*
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics American Time Use Survey
*Data not available for 2020
I don’t think this trend has significant labor-market implications, but the fact that those 65 and older make up a larger share of the US population than ever and are watching more TV than ever probably explains a lot about our strange political era, and also just seems kind of sad. The slight decline in TV time since 2019 is within the margin of error, but the fact that it didn’t grow during the pandemic is at least slightly encouraging. Seriously, my soon-to-be-fellow elderly Americans (I’m 59): stop watching so much TV!