[krick]

That sounds fun, is it computationally expensive? Is it, like, actually processing the stuff even if nobody's watching? I'm not gonna try it on my current NAS, because it's all HDDs and I can hear it in the room, so I mostly use it as "cold" storage, but your post really made me want to try it. Also, now that I'm thinking of it, must be pretty hard for HDDs too, if you don't use some dedicated all-SSD NAS specifically for that...

[ertian]

No, unless somebody starts a stream there's no computation. If nobody is watching, it's idle.

If somebody tunes in, the server figures out where to start the stream and begins streaming.

[unixhero]

/r/homelab and /r/homedatacenter called. We love computationally expensive.

[sublinear]

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

[gnarlynarwhal42]

I didn't read his comment as saying that HN is turning into Reddit, just a bit of a joke about some people not minding or flexing the intensity of the "idle" state of their lab

[unixhero]

(1) Are you missing some words in your sentence? I would understand your point if you said "don't post comments ** like that ** it makes HN feel like it is turning into Reddit **.

However I cannot understand how you extrapolated that I actually stated that Hacker News is turning into Reddit. That is factually and materially evident by my non-editable comment above.

I assume that you meant (1) and I can understand where you are coming from.

However we are just extremely into hosting our own servers and services. Some go to extremes, and there really are no places on the internet like /r/homelab and /r/homedatacenter , maybe only /r/selfhosted .