File format? mkv, so convenient. But media codec would be h265 any day. I find the video quality to file size to be perfect for most films and only have issues with it on the largest files and the lowest power hardware (Roku TV). For the movies I really love and rewatch I sometimes get h264 for the better visual quality. I tried some AV1 files and found the artifacts really ugly, but admittedly these were very small files. That and the lack of hardware decoding on most hardware is preventing me from migrating.

Well we all die eventually. I’m happy to serve a longer sentence and find out a bit later.

I would refer to this as background noise, yes.

Thank god the government won’t know I enjoy cat facts.

I tried out Plex when I was first setting up my media server and having to do a bunch of stuff through Plex servers was one of the main reasons I jumped ship immediately. The hardware is in my house, the files are in my house, I never want it to leave my house, I kept thinking why the hell do I need to mess around with Plex accounts and online connections??

Because Canada, woo! My definitely not picked on a whim choice has yet to fail me though, I haven’t personally experienced any downtime or slowdowns and I like the community overall.