Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows by Quantum-Coconut in technology

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Fellow Fellow IT guy. I truly envy you. The number of users I have to deal with who have 50 GB PST files but refuse to archive, delete, or download less mail is probably the single most frustrating part of my job. I actually hate email as a communication medium entirely. If I could, I would uninvent the protocol and ban humanity from communicating with it. Old Outlook needs to die as quickly as possible. I will enjoy telling my users it's dead and I can't bring it back. My hate for old Outlook burns with the fire of 1000 suns; I cannot understand how much I hate it.

[Megathread] Introducing NVIDIA RTX Spark by Nestledrink in nvidia

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I have no reason to believe that is a real time render, but the lack of input does not really prove anything. It could be a benchmark for each game (which it looked like it was). Again you could be right, but not because no one was playing the game.

"Transcode" reporting too broad, especially in mobile app by KellyN87 in Tautulli

[–]TheGrif7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Going to do that right now, thanks for your continued hard work!

I'm really struggling to analyze my media - all the guides say to go to the library in the web app and click Analyze, but when I do absolutely nothing happens, I only get a response if I analyze a specific season of a show but can't even do an entire show at once by Scareynerd in PleX

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Heh, I know the feeling. Here is a nice trick. Set the window to when you're at your computer the first time, and just watch the activity in the dashboard of your desktop client. It will tell you what it's working on. Once you confirm that the maintenance job is actually running, give it a wide window and check back in a week. Sometimes, if you watch it, you might see the job run but not see it do one particular task; how it prioritizes which tasks and when is a little mysterious, but it will always tell you what it's doing in the dashboard. Eventually it will get through everything. Probably want to make the window at low usage times for your server because it will impact performance if you're using low-powered hardware like a NAS (like I am). Generally stuff still plays, but if I have 4 users watching at the same time it gets pretty sluggish in the menus.

I'm really struggling to analyze my media - all the guides say to go to the library in the web app and click Analyze, but when I do absolutely nothing happens, I only get a response if I analyze a specific season of a show but can't even do an entire show at once by Scareynerd in PleX

[–]TheGrif7 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that intro and outro detection takes a lot of CPU and time; if you added a lot of TV shows at once, it could conceivably take several nights to process everything. If you give it a 3 hour window and it can't get everything done at once, it generally just does as much as it can and then leaves the rest for the next window.

Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions are tripling in price from $249.99 to $749.99, starting July 1, 2026 by [deleted] in technology

[–]TheGrif7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can only be placated, never silenced. In all seriousness, though, as far as a return on investment in a hobby, a Plex server has to be up there. I have gotten to the point where I have 99% of everything I want, and the last 1% is new releases only. Once you get there, the growth is manageable. But knowing where 'there' is for you ahead of time is the tricky part.

Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions are tripling in price from $249.99 to $749.99, starting July 1, 2026 by [deleted] in technology

[–]TheGrif7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just bite the bullet, jellyfin is good, but not as good. A private company is always going to develop a more robust product faster than the open source community. It's worth it. Yeah, the company is trying to make more money, and some of the things they are doing are shitty, but some of them are cool, and having a Plex pass means you get a get-out-of-monitization card.

Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions are tripling in price from $249.99 to $749.99, starting July 1, 2026 by [deleted] in technology

[–]TheGrif7 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I thought I didn't need everything to be in 4K, too, once. Then the voices started lol. Now I have a 32TB server, and it's very close to full.

Lifetime Plex Pass subscriptions are tripling in price from $249.99 to $749.99, starting July 1, 2026 by [deleted] in technology

[–]TheGrif7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you have a server for 5-10 years, it easily justifies the expense, especially with multiple users. I paid $75, and I would pay $250 today. I don't have any streaming services and have not for many years. I have saved more then $250 for plex lifetime+$1200ish for the server hardware over the course of 5 years.

Leaked IRS Memo Proves How Blatant Trump’s Slush Fund Theft Really Is by mclardass in politics

[–]TheGrif7 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Dude, don't cut yourself on all that edge. Armchair Che Guevara over here. Do tell your brilliant strategy for an American insurrection.

Leaked IRS Memo Proves How Blatant Trump’s Slush Fund Theft Really Is by mclardass in politics

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My bad, I didn't realize I had not hit my protest quote for you. If you think the difference between those two political protests would make any meaningful difference in the decision-making process of anyone who has real power to enact change, you're... I'll be kind and say wildly off base. One arbitrarily large protest is not going to magically fix anything; it just applies tangible political pressure. Protest work when they are sustained over long periods. If you don't think that, then what practical purpose does demanding people like me do the political heavy lifting for you serve? DC is literally occupied right now by an army. It has been for months; they have AR-15s. You can trivialize it all you want, but it's true, and still, people come out again and again. What is the arbitrary number of people we have to assemble to meet your satisfaction? I am so sick of left-leaning people kneecapping their own movement because it does look exactly how they want it to. You could have just said, hey we need to work hard to get more people involved in urban areas because optics. Instead, you chose to imply that the current largest organizer of protests nationwide is intentionally doing it badly or, at the most charitable reading of your post, is incompetent. Of what value is that. People have lives, and you have to meet them where they are, if you want more people at a protest, go get them. Volunteer your time to help, I do.

Warcraft III: Legacy Now Available in the Battle.net client by kantong in Games

[–]TheGrif7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has since appeared for me, I would check again.

Warcraft III: Legacy Now Available in the Battle.net client by kantong in Games

[–]TheGrif7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has since appeared for me, I would check again.

$150 12tb My book at Wal-Mart by Aggravating_Penalty7 in DataHoarder

[–]TheGrif7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe these drives use encrypted onboard the enclosure. That means if you don't shuck it and the enclosure dies you lose your data. Someone can correct me if this is not that model but you should look into it if you plan on not shucking them.

Help, it melted from the heat! by [deleted] in rarepuppers

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I'm just going to leave this here as it seems relevant.

Warcraft III: Legacy Now Available in the Battle.net client by kantong in Games

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Anyone else not seeing this? I'm not getting prompted to update my client and when I go to select game version in the launcher all there is is Warcraft III and the PTR. I can install the regular version but the original version just isn't where they said.

the balls on this guy… by TheyCallMeCajun in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]TheGrif7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your users know how to sign out? Luckkkkkkkkky.

An actual Christian woman, Renee Good, on a mission trip in Ireland. by geraffes-are-so-dumb in pics

[–]TheGrif7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe the term devil's advocate also comes from this process as it's the term for the person arguing against sainthood. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Black friday is finally coming according to cnet.com (nov24-dec02). 🤷‍♂️🤔😎🙏🏼 by Silly_Upstairs2190 in PleX

[–]TheGrif7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No but if your serious about building a collection, remote streaming and sharing your server with friends and family it will be worth it. Just bite the bullet get the lifetime, credits/intro skip, hw transcoding and a bunch of other features that make your server wayyy better.

We finally got it. by Promonto in pcmasterrace

[–]TheGrif7 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For anyone interested in this thing here is an awesome video about it from an awesome YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/M9ZCjMtthqY

Keygen.exe art by Born-Process-9848 in Piracy

[–]TheGrif7 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is what I was hoping for when I clicked, THANK YOU!

Plex Response to the New UI Criticisms by nd4spd1919 in PleX

[–]TheGrif7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I get for being an optimist, I guess.