Here’s a small list of devices that might be interesting (sorry it’s in German): https://geizhals.de/?cat=hdxnas&asd=on&asuch=USB&pg=1&v=e&hloc=at&hloc=de&hloc=pl&hloc=uk&hloc=eu&sort=p&xf=19347_Erweiterungseinheit~2659_ohne

Keep in mind you could always go the NAS route instead and have it available in your whole network for pretty much around the same a bit higher price.

If you really end up with DAS, I can recommend this: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/tl-d800c

I started with a rack case, hated it and ended up with a Fractal Design 7 XL. Plus, after years of running it I am looking to downsize with higher capacity harddrives or ideally even pure NVMe storage (expensive as hell for 80TB+). Not everybody wants to cosplay as a sysadmin all the time.

Why snapraid and LVM when you can have the functionality natively with Windows Storage Spaces?

In my experience racks are unpleasantly loud. You can put up to 16 drives or so comfortably in a regular big tower PC case with much better/quieter cooling options.

The keyword here is DAS - Direct Attached Storage

Have you correctly set your apt preferences? I didn’t have any issues anymore since I’ve done that.

a) Release a Steam Deck successor (Steam Deck 2, 3, 4 or whatever)
b) Have the Steam “Box” have the same hardware as the Deck of the same generation, but with a higher TDP (and better cooling), maybe better storage options and a bundled controller
c) Break into a broader customer base by bringing the Deck and the “Box” to other retailers and stores (Amazon would be a huge one, but also big national brick and mortar franchises outside the US)
d) Maybe do some advertising??? Most gamers don’t even know about the existence of the Steam Deck yet
e) Bundle games or Steam gift cards with the console (at least for offline stores)

Any objections?

Good, so you won’t have to accommodate to any changes./s

Any idea if there’s work underway to improve this?

I wasn’t aware of the transcoding requirement, thank you. So I guess converting the subtitles is a best practice I should adopt.

I’m pretty sure MKV can handle VOBSUB. Why do you convert them to .srt before merging them?

Edit:

I’ve also just found this: https://github.com/elizagamedev/vobsubocr

The most comparable tool to vobsubocr is VobSub2SRT, but vobsubocr has significantly better output, especially for non-English languages, mainly because VobSub2SRT does not do much preprocessing of the image at all before sending it to Tesseract. For example, Tesseract 4.0 expects black text on a white background, which VobSub2SRT does not guarantee, but vobsubocr does. Additionally, vobsubocr splits each line into separate images to take advantage of page segmentation method 7, which greatly improves accuracy of non-English languages in particular.

Edit 2:

And a fork of it, of course: https://github.com/gwen-lg/subtile-ocr

As you seems to not update this project anymore, I have done a fork to continue the project. With subtile-ocr I have use subtile subtile is a fork no longer maintained vobsub crate. With this I was able to :

• modernise the code by :
  • update dependencies, especially nom who need a lot of code modification.
  • migrate to thiserror and anyhow for error management
• do some small optim (by reducing a lot the memory allocation count) And it could be a better start to add functionality (like managing .sup: blue-ray subtitle format).

Why would you need cloudflared? Can’t you justbset DoH/DoT servers as a backend in Pi-Hole?

Even DNSCrypt, but I think nobody really uses that.

Doesn’t Jellyfin automatically reduce bitrate as well?

I wish Flock was still around.

MKVToolNix Batch Tool works on Windows 32-bit (x86) and Windows 64-bit (x64) operating systems,

Unfortunately I’m a Linux user.

The certificate for hostiko.com.ua expired on 2/4/2025

That’s new and certainly not a good look for an online service provider.

There’s also the issue of modern laptops using their TPM chip to encrypt the drives (bitlocker) and then you won’t be able to do anything useful with the encrypted disk image.

Check your time and date.