

The workflow to set up some basic calculations with ranges formatted as tables is just much quicker. I believe that’s why Excel keeps winning unfortunately. I just tried doing some basic things in LibreCalc and it was very cumbersome unfortunately. At home I don’t mind this, but at work I’d be pissed if I’d lose that functionality. It would seriously hold me back.

I cobbled together a bunch of second hand stuff from eBay. An i5-12500T is at the heart of it for hardware accelerated encoding, 32 GB ram, an HBA controller for the 4 SAS drives (2x 11 TB and 2x 8 TB). Stuffed all that into an old atx case with an old PSU. Added a tiny touchscreen display for troubleshooting.
I’m pretty happy with this setup. I’m using Unraid and I’m running an arr stack, downloads are done via usenet. Also running jellyfin, Navidrome, Komga, Immich and Adguard.
Im still looking for a good Filesharing service that’s easy to configure and allows user registration.
I’m fairly new to all this. So it’s an exciting journey!