If you don’t have one already, it could be turned into a linux-based input device for your TV.

they may be using really slow hard drives or an SSD without DRAM.

or maybe a shitty network switch?

maybe the bandwidth is used up by a torrent box?

there’s a lot of possible causes.

if the cpu performance and memory capacity is still enough, i’d recommend upgrading the storage. SSDs are reportedly getting more expensive, but it isn’t that bad yet.

running an external drive through some kind of USB 3.X connection would also be possible, although at reduced speed. (won’t matter with a HDD, obviously)

not OC, but i ended up redownloading whatever was x265 and replacing it with 264 or anything else.

also the 1060 in my NAS can do NVENC encoding. that helped a lot with compatibility.

didn’t have money for an external hard drive or anything like that growing up, so a lot of stuff got lost over the years. but when i upgrade my NAS’ hard drive i will buy an enclosure and scrape all of the important stuff together. like recovery codes for my 3ds collection, old photos of my late cat. that kinda stuff. then i’ll see how frequently i’m gonna update the data.

yeah, after trying to figure it out for a whole day, i’m tempted to either set up a linux mint vm or just get a slow pc do do it. i don’t care enough.

if i was to build one, i would go for a thinkcentre. easy to get for cheap and perfectly able to stream video (with linux, of course).

i had a transmission jail once, but couldn’t figure out where to mount the jail, and how the file paths would have to look. but a jail seems like the way to go. i might be able to put more energy into figuring that out now.

I found a third party app which basically just opens the web-client and might be able to register itself as the opener app for magnet links. i’m gonna try that one when i get home.

sounds like you might wanna underclock stuff, LTT made a video about a cost competitive gaming pc which is more effficient than an equivalent gaming console. or get something like a rockchip-based Raspberry pi clone with pci-e slots

i may have figured something out, godaddy doesn’t support ddns, but you can change the ip of an A record via the API. and i have found a program that runs under linux as a service that does exactly that. problem is, where in my nas do i run it? do i try to install it in truenas? or jellyfin? or do i create a new jail with the sole purpose of running said program?

https://github.com/navilg/godaddy-ddns

I‘m trying to set it up so i don‘t have to switch VPNs on my phone all the time. Also my Company IPad doesn‘t allow me to set up my own VPN connection.