So it's super fancy ReShade. As long as you can turn it off, who cares?

https://reshade.me/

The new streaming economics are that, unless you are an established multi-billion dollar IP, like Star Trek, Marvel, Lord of the Rings, or Game of Thrones, you aren't going to get enough money together for live-action anything beyond a simple detective show or medical drama.

There's a rare exception now and then - bestselling novel adaptation, established director or writer, etc... Whedon has a bad name right now, so nobody is going to be throwing money at him. His last huge-budget TV show, The Nevers, got pulled from HBO before it was finished airing.

My understanding is that, given the variety of video tape machines and differing video standards, 16mm film was the easiest way to distribute shows internationally. Everyone had some sort of 16mm telecine machine, but videotape recorder standards were all different. The downside was frame-rate sync issues, which were fixed in the olden days by slightly speeding up or slowing down the film. Nowadays it can be re-sync'd to the original framerate using compositing/resampling tools. Modern "AI" tools are pretty phenomenal at doing this. They can re-create missing frames to sync up odd frame rates, and you'd never know the difference.

I'm running a 5x ZFS+2 30TB FreeNAS array. All our desktops and laptops back up to it, and it stores all our ripped CDs that get streamed through Plex. The really important stuff has a secondary off-line backup (photos, tax stuff) as well. Total cost was around $1000 including a Dell server. Worth every penny if you don't want to loose all your stuff.

At this point I think it depends on the individual drive mechanism, even from the same manufacturer. The best data source for this stuff is Backblaze, whom unfortunately only covers enterprise class drives. There is even quite a bit of variation across different manufacturing runs of the same drive.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog...

One run of Seagate 12TB drives has a 2.7% failure rate, which is mediocre, while a different run of the same drive is at 0.9%, which is pretty good. HGST used to be great, but now their numbers are mostly well north of 1%. WDC looks pretty good, except for one drive at 2.6%,

I'm even OK with using AI to do minimal graphics work. Some nonsense playing on a TV in the background of a bar. Graffiti in an alleyway. Grunt work stuff not important to the game itself, but makes the world feel a little more lived-in. Not character design, or voices, or the layout of a level, or clothes, etc...

I think "Were too expensive" is operative here. Blu-Rays are pretty cheap these days. You can pick them up used at thrift stores for a couple bucks each. If you deal hunt on Amazon you get get them for $5 new. Even UHDs aren't bad, especially if you buy in bulk. You can get the Alfred Hitchcock Ultimate Collection UHD box set on Amazon for $112. That's 14 movies, which averages $8 per film.

Who is "they?"

Put a few tens of billions of dollar in escrow and indemnify any financial institution that suffers from a financial loss due to poor Cobol to, most likely Java, conversion. Then I'll start believing their claims.

There is a lot of demand for graphics and compute cards. nVidia sells them. They are pretty good. At some point there might be less demand for them. They'll still be profitable. Not as profitable, maybe, but profitable nonetheless.

How do you like Jellyfin? I've been using plex on TruenNAS, mainly for a huge number of ripped CDs and a few dozen movies. I don't need anything fancy, it's just a nice interface on a TV for the movies, and a cheap tablet streaming music to some remote controlled speakers.

My TrueNAS server takes forever to boot, 80% of it is loading ZFS pools. 19% of it is Dell's derpy server firmware that meticulously inventories every chip and cable in the server before thinking about booting something.

My Gentoo install running in Qemu on Windows 11 takes about four seconds to boot from the time Qemu launches to sddm.

Roughly 20 seconds from hitting the power switch to the login screen. The desktop comes up within a second of typing in my password. 13th gen Core i9, 32GB RAM, Samsung 990 Pro. MSI hardware. Windows11.

Bootup seems to be faster when you shut off all boot options except for the Windows bootloader. I shut off as much diagnostic, peripheral searching, and legacy boot stuff as possible.

You have it about right. AI can code fairly simple programs and do a halfway decent job. It can't write complex software, it falls apart quickly as features are added. As a programmer, you can use AI to write the chunks of code needed to make a complex piece of software.

A podcast I listened to used AI to write a Linux/Qt based broadcast clip management program. It didn't do all of it by itself, but he wrote up requirements and asked it to write the pieces of code that filled those requirements, and pieced the resulting code fragments together himself. It didn't generate perfect code, he had to play around with prompts to get close to what he wanted, and there was a bit of cleanup and refactoring, but it whittled a, probably, two week long project down to a couple of days.

He was involved with Epstein because of money. Epstein could funnel money to companies and organizations Andrew wanted funded. Getting girls for his friends was a side-hustle for Epstein. If you were that rich and powerful, you don't to to some money manager guy to get a prostitute, you just fly to Amsterdam. Now if you were at a party thrown by Epstein and there were girls there, and you are a sleazeball, you go for it.

There really isn't a lot of evidence of blackmail coming out. There might be, but I haven't seen any concrete examples, beyond rumor and conjecture.