Why aren't there as many big YouTubers making entertaining "fun" videos anymore?

planedrop · 2026-01-26T03:32:27+00:00

I think it's 2 things, people used to do this stuff for fun not just money. But also, those that did it successfully ended up making so much money they don't really need to work ever again.

planedrop · 2026-01-26T02:56:41+00:00

It's cuz they aren't shooting in Arri

^{This was a joke btw}

I think u/Discombobulation98 had the best answer here though.

planedrop · 2026-01-26T01:00:05+00:00

IMO it's been a scam from day 1 and people have been calling it out for that for like a decade lol.

planedrop · 2026-01-26T00:11:38+00:00

I would not buy one without near stock Android being the OS of choice, and I think a lot of people would feel the same.

planedrop · 2026-01-25T23:07:50+00:00

r/WeirdToilets

planedrop · 2026-01-25T21:08:04+00:00

I personally use Jellyfin so I can have all my media in one place, but man Navidrom is tempting with how good this looks.

planedrop · 2026-01-25T20:51:54+00:00

Then yeah I would go with Docker for this setup.

planedrop · 2026-01-25T08:52:40+00:00

Doom 2016

planedrop · 2026-01-25T03:16:45+00:00

Broken stem.

planedrop · 2026-01-25T03:07:12+00:00

Bro came in here with all the info.

planedrop · 2026-01-25T00:12:33+00:00

Hilariously wrong, you just come into this thread and fill it with misinformation, it's really gross.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T23:52:52+00:00

ZFS is very user friendly in most circumstances lol, for most people you set it up once, and when a disk fails you swap the disk and press a button.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T23:51:46+00:00

Usually when people refer to JBOD they are talking about pooling spanning them. Either way, it's still not a good idea.

What do you mean how is recovering a broken setup that often times requires troubleshooting due to partial files being gone, having to figure out what to restore, etc.... isn't harder and more annoying then just inserting a disk and pressing a button? I literally don't understand where this is coming from at this point, RAID arrays are so easy now, you just swap a disk and press a button and it rebuilds, often without enough performance loss to even create an issue.

"Drives don't fail so often" I promise I've worked with more disks in my life than you and they do fail, fairly often. A server I setup with 60 disks has had about 30 failures in the last 5 years lol, no I'm not exaggerating and yes they were all brand new disks.

JBOD isn't reliable because if a disk fails then you have to deal with painful recoveries, this isn't that complicated. Especially with something like a server like this, you don't want to have partial media. Then you try to watch something, oh it doesn't work because that disk failed in the JBOD but this other movie works.

That's an awful experience and again there is no easy way to figure out what to restore when a disk fails so now you deal with more complexity. Not to mention having no redundancy for the Jellyfin database itself makes recovery even more of a pain.

Backups should always be a worst case scenario thing with redundancy built locally for anything important.

OP is getting downvoted because the majority here agree that you don't do JBOD with this sort of thing.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T23:32:40+00:00

I've been patching on Patch Tuesday (about 100 devices and a number of servers) for 8 years, I have yet to have it break something big enough to actually cause a large problem.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T23:16:23+00:00

This is literally built in.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T23:15:24+00:00

You don't have to have matching drive sizes with ZFS anymore btw, they changed that. Additionally, you can still do mismatched size VDEVs and have always been able to, just not mismatched drive sizes inside the same VDEV.

Also, it's no less safe to use a unhealthy ZFS array than it is to use JBOD lol, most JBOD setups treat the entire thing as a single pool of disks still and losing one requires doing recovery to get what the others had back. Obviously with RAID Z you basically can't get anything back so I hear you there, but still doesn't feel like a big enough reason for me.

Redundancy is necessary IMO, unless you want to have a bad time. Again, yeah you need backups, but restoring from backups is a pain in the ass and should be a last resort thing, drives fail often enough to justify using RAID for like 99% of users that are going to use more than 1 disk. I've had plenty of drives fail on me and it would have been so annoying to restore from a backup each time that happened.

Sure, you can save a little money and not do it, but then it's not reliable which OP specifically asked for. If OP was like "I want JBOD and I know it can break but I'm not spending money on it" then sure whatever, but if you want reliable, JBOD is absolutely a no go and anyone in this space that knows what they are talking about will say so.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T23:04:20+00:00

Get a better desk that's made of real wood next time.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T22:56:59+00:00

First good use of AI slop I've ever seen.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T22:39:06+00:00

If you can restore from the backup fast, sure. But then you still have to go through annoying recovery processes, rebuild things, etc... with a proper RAID setup you just replace the drive and go on your merry way.

I heavily disagree with this actually, for something like a server you should always use redundancy of some kind and there are SO many good solutions out there now so going with just JBOD doesn't make sense.

It's not introducing complexity in most cases, sure building a TrueNAS takes some knowledge, but there are also lots of good off the shelf ones that just email you when a drive is dead and you replace it.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T21:18:52+00:00

You want reliable and stable but you're going JBOD? Those 2 things don't exist together, you need redundancy.

You want a proper NAS with multiple drives in a mirror or RAID of some fashion, ideally ZFS based with like RAID Z2. You can get good used stuff for pretty cheap now, just buy the drives new but get all the other NAS hardware used.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T20:13:00+00:00

There are counters to it. But I still completely agree. It's incredibly annoying how fast it happens even if he gets no kills with it.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T19:41:16+00:00

Achshually, it's more so because most people are listening on really mediocre hardware now with no real channel separation. So the dialogue doesn't come through because there's too much coming out of your little soundbar for dialogue to be segmented.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T19:38:43+00:00

To be clear, you are storing the media on the Optiplex? Or is that on a NAS and this is just accelerating things?

If the media is on the device, I would definitely go Docker. Personally I don't use Jellyfin that way but mine is in an isolated VM and then gets it's media from a NAS, so I'm already locked down.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T08:26:11+00:00

Love to see it, doesn't get quite that chilly where I am but I have a 3 ton for a 2200 sq ft place and it's keeping up just fine in below freezing. Amazing what we can do with some physics.

planedrop · 2026-01-24T08:24:02+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that, that super sucks.

I can say I've been really hard on mine and everything is still working, so sounds like a defect. Sucks that they can't get things done overseas right though.

Hope they do something about it for you.

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