Dave

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[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I use a laptop most of the time because then I can sit in a recliner with my feet up. I spend the day at a desk I don't much fancy doing the same in the evening.

I have a Framework laptop from the first ones they made, which are upgradeable and repairable. Unfortunately they don't ship to NZ, I got mine by freight forwarding and also got parts a bit later the same way. But now they have cracked down hard on freight forwarding as I recently learned, so I can't get any more upgrades until they start shipping here (no announced plans).

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 months ago

The problem is either my mobo or CPU is dead, so I can't run the old system haha.

It sounds like my old system could handle transcoding better if I had enabled the right options, so now I have to decide whether to buy a new motherboard and risk it being the CPU, or just upgrade everything.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I don't do a lot of gaming these days. When I played Baldur's Gate 3, once I got to Act 3 I switched to streaming from the desktop to the laptop using the Steam function as my laptop couldn't handle it. I also don't do upgrades as frequently as you.

If you had an old mobo and CPU, you could downgrade and keep the NAS running until you had a replacement.

Good point, I didn't think of that.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 months ago

Ah I got the wrong impression. Good to know it won't affect me, cheers.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

If a person was ordering them, they would do it in numerical order. Despite these being numbers, the computer is still ordering in alphabetical order.

Doing it the way a person would requires the file manager to understand context, which requires a lot more logic for arguably little benefit.

I note that your season and episode start with 0 as well (S01E05), in order to ensure the alphabetical ordering works. Perhaps you should use 5.0 to solve this in the same way.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 22 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I believe it's correct. If you sort say "A", "AA", "AAA" then you get

  1. A
  2. AA
  3. AAA

Because the first character is compared, which are all the same, then the second. The first one has no second character, so it comes first. The second has no third character, so it comes before the third item.

In your scenario, you have:

  1. 5
  2. 5.5

The first characters are the same, so it looks at the second character. Item 1 has no second character so it comes first.

Scenario 2:

  1. 5.5 A
  2. 5 A

The first character is the same, so it looks at the second character. The second characters are "." and " ". The "." comes first in the character ranking so is shown first.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I think your advantage is needing two machines. Then you can swap stuff between them to test as well.

I gave away my previous build in whole and built a new one. No spare parts ๐Ÿ™. And my SO and I are generally using laptops day to day, no need for more desktop machines and can't swap pieces between laptop and desktop.

I don't think having an old mobo/CPU would help anyway, I'm pretty sure one of the two is broken and swapping both out won't help work out which one.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh I didn't realise I could do that! You first link seems to say there is quite limited codec support though?

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago

I bought a multimeter and tested the PSU, and it all seems fine. So pretty sure it's the motherboard or CPU.

I'm using it as an excuse to do an upgrade, so will probably get a new mobo/CPU/RAM.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 1 points 7 months ago

Ah that does look like good bang for buck! Thanks!

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 7 months ago

Yip. Have tested the PSU with a multimeter and it's fine. Narrowed it down to the CPU or motherboard. I decided I'll just do a bit of an upgrade and get a new CPU, motherboard, RAM.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 7 months ago

Oh wow that's awesome. Shame that someone told me about all the issues with recent intel CPUs. I'll probably go AMD again.

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