Glad you were able to back up your favorites, sounds like it was a cool channel. Sad to hear about stuff like this after it was gone.

People really get confused when they see 50% reduction and exactly the same as X and think they’ll just crank down the bitrate and be good. As others have said you really should try a few options although instead of bitrate you could try using crf values and find what works on your setup.

Also while screenshots can help, it really is something you should look at in motion. Sometimes you can think ‘this looks horrible’ but in motion it’s fine and you never see it. But it also works the other way too.

There’s a science and an art to getting good encodes. Hell even the encoders update and update little things behind the scenes that can effect the outcome as well.

That was so damn cool back then.

Window kit on the side panel Chrome skull fan grills with the LED eyes CCFL blue tube in the bottom Then add in a HDD raptor with a window kit

You’d be king of the lan party

It really depends on you, there are more resources than ever to help from text, YouTube videos and of course paid courses. Start small, see what you like, Tech is a marathon for most. Can a NET+ help fill in gaps, sure but so can trial and error on your own hone lab. If you are just going for knowledge and not to further a career just stick to the free stuff.

I’m confused why you say you can’t find information on how to set up home lab projects. There are hours and hours of content on YouTube that also do sometimes point back to blogs and GitHub repos.

I will say that the problem I have is once they show you how to setup say a reverse proxy there’s generally not follow through in either deep diving into all the additional settings or more advanced setups. If there is the other problem you’ll run into is that it can become outdated quickly so it’s a double edged sword. But setup and getting things running in a home lab there shouldn’t be any shortage of info to consune.

This new wave of “buy a core i7 4th gen USFF PC instead of a Pi” is wild. It’s really case by case of what you are doing but lots of people seem to push “proxmox and tons of VMs! or GTFO” on everyone.