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The battery apple put in the 2017 13" MBP is a big pile of doody, so I had to replace it yesterday in @AppleTurkey's machine.

I thought I was getting the genuine OEM article from ifixit, but they sent me some kinda shitbag "ifixit" brand battery. If I had known that, I'd have sprung the additional $40 and just had Apple do it. Fuckers.
 
Valve1138 said:
iFixIt is great in my experience, except when it’s come to batteries.

They sent me two for my old MacBook Pro, neither ever worked correctly.
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It's a spectrum thing for me.

iFixit's batteries are better than the "ninjabatt" shit I got on amazon for my '13 retina mbp, but both pale in comparison to an OE Apple battery for that machine (NLA, naturally).
 
Jehannum said:
It's a spectrum thing for me.

iFixit's batteries are better than the "ninjabatt" shit I got on amazon for my '13 retina mbp, but both pale in comparison to an OE Apple battery for that machine (NLA, naturally).
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I hear that if you send @gee a lump of meat he can smoke into a brisket that he'll cobble together a battery for whatever your use is.
 
man, its almost impossible to not download Dolby Vision content by accident with the *arrs @fly.

None of it is labeled in filename.

I know you get around this by just downloading only 1080p and no HDR, but thats a lame solution
 
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@Domon I'm having an odd issue where Plex suddenly isn't using the GPU for transcoding every stream. Load is low on the GPU. Using unlocked drivers. I can't figure it out. Sometimes it will show its using the CPU, then suddenly on the same stream, it will change to (hw). Ever seen that?
 
fly said:
@Domon I'm having an odd issue where Plex suddenly isn't using the GPU for transcoding every stream. Load is low on the GPU. Using unlocked drivers. I can't figure it out. Sometimes it will show its using the CPU, then suddenly on the same stream, it will change to (hw). Ever seen that?
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Can you correlate to specific file? or is it sometimes working for the file, and sometimes not.

If its the same file thats behaving differently different times, is it a different user?


Its almost certainly going to be a codec issue, like the client is requesting something that NVENC cant provide for transcode. Or in the first scenario, that the codec the file is encoded with is wonky (dolby vision, embedded subs, weird audio track) and nvenc cant address it at all.

Same stream seems to indicate same user, same file though...... am i reading that right?
 
Yes. Same stream, same file. I've come back like 10 minutes later and it shows (hw). I don't even know where to start. No unRAID errors. The Plex log is a fucking nightmare though.
 
fly said:
Yes. Same stream, same file. I've come back like 10 minutes later and it shows (hw). I don't even know where to start. No unRAID errors. The Plex log is a fucking nightmare though.
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Users complaining of buffering? I can't even see how it could flip back and forth without breaking the stream?
 
I'm thinking it might be time to build a new server. I've got an extra 1TB NVMe just sitting here because I've got no space in the server. I dunno if you track this stuff, but think you could keep an eye out for a deal? I need to put a couple NVME drives in it, proc for transcoding, at least 32GB of RAM, etc.

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Finally pulled the trigger on my minimaxing bullshit compulsion.

Got an i7-3770k coming for the server (currently an i5-2400), and an i7-2600k coming for the garage computer (currently an i3-2120), and 32GB of RAM for each. The other machines in the house are already maxed out on RAM and CPU.

Now if I could find a use for the core 2 duo e8500, all I'll have left in my parts pile is worthless garbage.
 
Gonna give zoneminder another go on the NVidia TK1 I've got, since it's got loads of CUDA cores to do the necessary, and I should have enough bandwidth on the network to handle 2 h.264 cameras.
 
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