I hope they extend it so that I can use my local Plex server with a cloud storage provider and stream directly from that. I don’t want it to be like cloud sync where you have a duplicate copy. I might go for their cloud-hosted server because of how resource-constrained I am at home. I really hope they extend this…

They have that if your a Plex Pass member. You can create a cloud library from one of your local libraries. Check out Cloud Sync.  https://www.plex.tv/features/plex-pass/#

I saw something that suggested that 25 Mbps is a bare minimum for well-compressed UHD, 60 Mpbs for uncompressed... I have gigabit fiber with no data caps or restrictions so I have no worries whatsoever. I signed up for the beta and I hope I get to try it out.

Since it’s a streaming box, you would think it would try to maximize streaming bandwidth capabilities. They have wireless AC so in theory the can do gig wireless. Gig nic’s should be fairly ubiquitous by now, so just a little odd seeing their hardlink trumped by their wireless.

Looks awesome, but I’m a little disappointed that the specs sheet on Roku’s site only list 10/100 ethernet. Seems like at this point 10/100/1000 should be a given. Still looks great though, might pick up an Ultra model.

I utilize the #1 option - I am very fortunate to be able to work full-time from home. It was amazing how much time and money I saved compared to my ~120 mile/day, 2 hour round trip commute I had been doing for a little over 5 years. I highly recommend at least doing some work from home if your company supports. As…

I kind of feel like we need more of an ‘all-or-nothing’ with regards to human interaction. I look at this scale and see levels 2 -4 suggesting that a human may need to be ready to take over. There’s going to need to be quite a bit of lead time on that because I have a feeling most people are going to almost…

Neat idea, I like that!

Yeah, 22 years of martial arts here... for the sake of not risking a lawsuit, I don’t even bother going to these things. I’ve went to one before and it was predictable enough not to matter but if the risk is there... especially if one of these people had the bravery to actually put their hands on me as part of the…

My questions are asked during the course of the interview so once we wrap up there’s not much more to cover. I very much treat interviews as a two-way conversation so, to me, I don’t see why you would just table all of your questions until the end.

At work some of us have had to do this when we log into our companies VPN to prevent updates from downloading, we also have to disable SMS Agent Host too. Ironic thing is that we’re SCCM architects who are intentionally preventing our product from doing it’s job.

Well given his lineage, for better or worse (prequels), that does make a bit of sense.

Yep, I found nothing about that shocking, scary, or whatever else... pretty tame actually...

I’ve really been enjoying all of these survival articles you guys have been posting. Seems like there’s a lot of overlap too, so much easier to remember. Awesome stuff!

Yes, that is a big challenge. In addition, data caps on non-mobile internets is a problem too. Personally I am very fortunate, we live in a small town that has several options. One of my options is a regional ISP (several towns in southeastern Indiana) that runs fiber to your backdoor and offers gig download with…

You know, that’s a good idea. I turned my metering on and after 30 minutes we were at about 300 MB. This could be interesting... we’re fiber to our backdoor with no datacaps so we’re pretty used to going to town on the data. I work from home, and my wife is a stay at home mom, so I bet we’re going to be pretty high…

It works because you can just hear Patrick Stewart’s inspiring-with-a-touch-of-feigned-ignorance delivery!

The ONE thing that bothers me about this episode is that after Picard plays the theme on the flute, the credits play happy har har TNG theme. It totally takes me out of the mood of the episode. This happens on plenty of other episodes and TV series and it bothers me every time. Sometimes you just need to cool it with…

I wish I could take advantage of this. My TV provider uses IPTV (odd considering I’m in the US). To my knowledge there’s no way that I can initiate and decrypt the stream without their box. I can watch channels on VLC but only if I hook into the TV network and only watch whatever channel the set-top-box is on. Oh well…

Free? Yes, but I thought to do some of the nicer TV-based features you had to pay up... maybe I’m remembering wrong? I’ll have to check them out again. Used it several years ago and there was a lot to like about it. Definitely good for power-users/control freaks (which I am)