Lots of good ideas here. This is my take:

Get a bunch of Velcro cable ties. Start grouping things together. As you go, you’re going to get better placement ideas. Once everything is organized, you can decide the next step. Personally, I would look at having the PC in the bookshelf, and look for a way to put the cables in the wall.

If you do that, I’d suggest having 2 cable runs with a string looping through so that when you change things up you can easily pull a new cable.

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I’m just going to leave this here.

I haven’t done it other than for testing, but you can pair a fire Stick remote to a PC using Bluetooth and it works with Kodi.

Yes

This looks interesting, I hadn’t heard of it before. Do you know if they support sas controllers?

Try getting a used server. You can find one on labgopher. For the budget you have, don’t expect something great but it’ll be a start.

It’s like Ligma but different

That makes sense. I’m a lazy guy and I didn’t want to try testing so I went with a known quantity.

You should take a look at getting sas enclosures. They’re pretty cheap, like $200 for a 16 bay. That will be so much more reliable.

God-tier shit post. I hope this becomes legendary copypasta.

Yes.

That’s definitely the unfortunate part. The good thing here is that this not only stimulates the economy, it does so by improving the lives of people who really need it. When we hand the PPP loans, that money went straight into the pockets of people who didn’t need it. It was mostly grift. This is the opposite.

OK Biff lol

Here’s my advice. The most important things are that you have a free GPU slot and another PCIE slot on whatever you get. You’re going to want a GPU for transcoding when disk space gets tight. You want the extra PCIE slot for a sas card. Disk shelves are surprisingly cheap, and you can keep adding disk that way. They daisy chain.

As far as the OS, I’m partial to Unraid and Truenas but seriously, anything you are comfortable with will work.

Here you are OP. Providing content and asking the real questions.

Sysco foods. Cisco is the router company, but some of their stuff tastes the same.

Older veterans do too. We all think it’s weird.

I’ll vote for Biden in '24 but why the fuck can’t we have real, viable candidates anymore?

Staten Island is literally one of the 5 boroughs of NYC. The city is more than Manhattan. But yes, SI is a cesspool.

I think BF hits most of these.

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