Nato is not dead just because the US leaves it. The EU wasn’t dead either after the UK left.

They use the hardware acceleration not only for transcoding and encoding but also for the AI models afaik. It’s great!

I use a an Inteln Arc card for transcoding. Mainly because I also use Immich and transcode movies too. It’s great.

I most of my parts from Ebay second hand, including the CPU.

I understand the purpose of open-source. I can voice my opinion and say the software isn’t good in some ways. The developer should be able to handle criticism.

TrueNas Scale was mentioned here several times. If you want something more easy like Synology but just as flexible, you could give HexOS a try. It’s still very early in development but has the main features. It’s running on top of TrueNas so you can always use the more complicated settings when you need to.

Freakout? Didn’t he just reject?

Why are there official clients then? Better not to provide any client at all than bad clients based on the web UI.

i5 9th gen. 8 Seagate Ironwolf in a RaidZ2. 64GB ECC Ram. Software: TrueNAS.

Extremely slow and clunky UI on Android. Music has no star rating as every other software including Plex and Navidrome has. It sometimes starts transcoding for no apparent reason.

Not perfect but the best we’ve got.

It’s bad. But it’s the best we’ve got.

You’re not going to change the system. It has been like that since mankind lived in caves. Accept it and improve your own part in it. Complaining will only make you unhappy. Emotional people are usually the ones that lose.