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Introduction This guide serves as a decent source of information about building or sourcing a home lab server. The 1L PC More to add here. Beyond 1L PC’s ThinkCentre M70s Gen 5 I was looking at this PC mostly because it had expansion slots. Unfortunately, it only has a 1 x16 PCIe slot and 1 …

Introduction This page is going to provide all the details about Plex and hardware transcoding and accelerated streaming. For now it’s a placeholder/draft. Plex Documentation on Hardware Accelerated Streaming Here is the Plex documentation on using hardware-acecelerated streaming. Some quotes from the documentation. Hardware-accelerated decoding Video files with H.264, HEVC, MPEG-2, and VC-1 encoded video …

Dram vs Dram Less DRAM in NVMe SSDs DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) acts as a high-speed cache for the SSD. It stores the frequently accessed data and the mapping table (FTL – Flash Translation Layer) that tells the SSD where data is located on the flash memory. Pros of DRAM Faster Performance: DRAM enables …

Home Assist Generally, using Home Assist is better in your environment as you can associate it with Home Assistant more easily versus going through the vendor cloud. Garage Door Openers

Screen Screen Panel Type TN/? In simple terms, the laptop panel is the core component of your screen that produces the images you see. It’s a thin, flat piece of technology that sits behind the laptop lid and creates the visuals using different methods depending on the panel type (like the TN, IPS, and VA …