go get ‘em!

One way to be sure it doesn’t do this is to manually choose you artwork for each item. This will lock in your choice, especially if you upload custom artwork from, say, theposterdb.com. Yes, this can be a real pain.

Plex updates poster art to stay “fresh” and assumes you’re ok with this if you never set a custom poster yourself. So, as I said, manually choose a poster for the media, and it should remember this choice moving forward. If the default choice is what you like, select something else, then switch back to make sure Plex knows you intentionally selected it.

I, like almost anyone else here, will recommend linux. I’ll get back to that later.

Your hardware setup is… fine. Plex has pretty low hardware requirements and runs well on old hardware. The real hangups are memory minimums and the ability for hardware-based transcoding. The second you have covered with a CPU with QuickSync enabled. The first: you’re going to want upgrade to 16GB when you can, but 8GB will get you by for now. The memory is less for Plex itself and more for the stack of companion apps you’ll want to install alongside it, the minimum of which include:

• Sonarr (for automating tv show downloads)
• Radarr (for automating film downloads)
• Prowlarr (enables multiple trackers and forwarding search and results to Sonarr/Radarr)
• a torrent client (transmission, qbittorent, etc.)
• VPN client container(s) (this setup depends on your VPN and the setup may range form ‘easy’ to ’nightmare’ depending on the service you use)
• Docker, to run all of this in containers (including PMS itself)

(see the c/Plex add-ons guide for more info on these app and links to setup guides)

Now to you choice in linux distro: In the past, I would have recommended Ubuntu, but it’s been on the outs lately since they’ve switched their software distribution model to Snaps rather than the industry—standard Flatpacks, making life difficult for some people. Instead, I would recommend Debian (what Ubuntu is based on), as it has improved dramatically in usability and ease of setup. And software that works/is built for Ubuntu works for Debian, so you’ll have a wide breadth of available software packages. It’s a 30 year-old distro that’s stable, reliable, and very well-known, so it’s not going anywhere and has tons of community support. It makes for an excellent server OS.

One alternate I’ve seen people mention is Pop_OS!. It’s based on Ubuntu (but uses Flatpacks) and has a slick, shiny, custom version of GNOME, but, as a server OS, offers little advantage over, say, Debian. It’s biggest advantage for users is their proprietary NVIDIA driver solution which is the only one i've seen work out of the box on linux, but that’s not an issue for you.

I’d stick with Debian if I were you. It’s simple, easy to set up (relatively), and you’ll have zero trouble finding all of the software and support you need in abundance.

I hope this helps. If you need any more support or have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!

ADDENDUM: your data access speeds to your HDDs is not a real priority. Streaming the data from your drives takes little data bandwidth, so while it would be nice if all of your drives were internal, it’s not necessary. Many people use external, NAS, and even cloud storage solutions without issue. The main issue is capacity. You’ll use that up pretty quickly and also quickly notice that you’re buying new hard dives often to meet your demand for more capacity.

On that note, arrange your media storage (not your boot drive) into an LVM (Logical Volume Management) drive pool solution where your drives are a unified storage pool to which you can simply add another drive when the storage pool runs low on space. LVM basically treats a group of HDDs as a single drive, distributing the data evenly across them. And, if one drives started going bad, the LVM software can shift the data off of it so it can be removed from the pool (ideally onto a new drive you add first).

so, how many hundred trillion times in a row does some have to say the n-word to get a strike? I’m betting it’s pretty high…

if MS were serious about making its online spaces safe for anyone but the most toxic, vitriolic bigots, they would have kicked them all off decades ago. but they won’t, not ever, because they value their money far more than they dislike what they have to say or the negative attention it attracts.

what, were they having a “siege heil” and goose-stepping competition that got out of hand? or were they arguing over who hated trans people more? jerks, lmao

you’re welcome to keep defending racism and racist symbols while claiming that. I’m sure other racists will believe you.

at least I still get free 5G! Thanks Obama!

Kind of hard to be sarcastic when thinking about that

The evidence before the court is

Incontrovertible, there's no need for

The jury to retire

In all my years of judging

I have never heard before

Of someone more deserving

Of the full penalty of law

The way you made them suffer

Your exquisite wife and mother

Fills me with the urge to defecate!

Since, my friend, you have revealed your

Deepest fear,

I sentence you to be exposed before

your peers—

TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

The difference is that there is proof of their wrongdoing, And the fact that they were actual political appointees while they were doing it, not private citizens

it could also be solved by jailing fewer people and for shorter periods of time…