I’ve been avoiding it ever since the Balena moniker change.

That’s pretty much dependent on your and your platform’s jurisdictions.

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.

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 With subtile-ocr I have use subtile subtile is a fork no longer maintained vobsub crate.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).

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

Unfortunately I’m a Linux user.

http://web.archive.org/web/20241126022341/https://flathub.org/apps/com.bitwarden.desktop
Doesn’t seem that way.

Our Lord and Saver

Try listing the flatpak remotes in the terminal, maybe the correct repository isn’t added/enabled.

They will eventually stop to release physical media unfortunately.

Who would have thought people aren’t paying for stuff that’s not worth paying for?

shred

Can also be used from KDE Partition Manager.

Use LUKS encryption in the future.

The devs of mpv

IsThereAnyDeal.com helps a lot with knowing when it’s worth to buy a game.