My homelab Debian server runs on an old PC, hosting containerized services via Docker on Portainer, including Jellyfin. The server didn't have a dedicated GPU, so Jellyfin relied entirely on CPU ...

If there was one thing that dramatically improved my network-attached storage (NAS) setup, it was learning to treat the NAS like what it truly excels at: reliable, always-on storage. Synology makes ...

This story began as an investigation into why Cyberlink's Media Espresso software produced video files of wildly varying quality and size depending on which GPU was used for the task. It then expanded ...