The OP mentions he switched to a Google FitBit Air which seems like an elastic cloth band which is all I want too, except I want it to operate like an Apple Watch in terms of integration with Apple Health. Anyone know if the FitBit Air and Apple Watch are similar in features?

> if anything Apple is catching up That's been Apple MO for a long time. They may not be the first to market on a new tech, but when they do deliver, it's more advanced and higher quality than the competitors. It's a good strategy IMO.

For me the only advantage of a foldable phone would be to make it smaller, not to double the actual size.

Apple iPhone Duo is out

Unfortunately I don't have electrical in my toilet closet in my master bath. I'd totally do it though.

I have two bidets, neither use electricity. Also they fit on existing toilets. Just search bidet kit.

Don't need a heated bidet. We get -40C days here and I'll still take the ice-laser to the behind over TP.

They have battery operated ones! Maybe there's still an option for you there.

You only need electricity if you want heated water, I’d guess that a bidet comes with a tee fitting with a valve on the T side that goes in between the supply valve and toilet supply line, allowing the supply valve to provide water to both the toilet and bidet.

M5 Pro in a Mac Mini with 64GB RAM and 10Gbit Ethernet seems like the perfect Jellyfin server and Ollama test server. All for just over $3K (I specced with only 1TB local nvme).

Probably worth it for Ollama but you can run Jellyfin off a raspberry pi.

> you can run Jellyfin off a raspberry pi.

This may depend on the size of your library. I tried installing Jellyfin on a Synology NAS, which runs Plex just fine, and it ran so poorly it was basically unusable. It “worked”, but it was painful.

not sure which cpu that Synology has, but I run jellyfin on ugreen nasync dxp8800 plus which has intel with QSV and it breaks no sweat in both transcoding (if needed) and serving over 10GBE.

It's a Synology DS720+ with a Celeron J4125, 2GHz, 4 cores, 2GB of RAM.

I thought it would be fine, because Plex has no issues, but it was painful. Every client I tried on the AppleTV was equally painful, and I didn't even try using a client until making sure all the metadata was downloaded and setup via the web UI. I was very deliberate and did one thing at a time, spending a whole day on it (mostly waiting and browsing to different screens to force metadata to get downloaded and cached).

You don't have enough RAM. Not sure why you wouldn't use a cheap PC to run jellyfin on and then just use your NAS as the media pool.

Why would I buy and manage a whole PC for Jellyfin when Plex runs off the NAS without issue?

With everyone saying Jellyfin can run on a Pi, I would think it would be better optimized for low-end hardware.

A Pi isn't a NAS with an old CPU and minimal RAM which is running a bunch of other things as well. I have run Plex on my Synology, and it's fine, but I also have 8gb ram and honestly always have a better experience running Jellyfin on a small PC. Easier that way, and you can run other services. Before the rampocalypse you could find mini-PCs with 32gb ram and 1tb SSD for like $350, and have great transcoding ability when you are on the go or have multiple streams going.

My plex runs just fine on a 920+ with the same CPU + additional 8GB ram stick. Worth checking out.

True re: the Raspberry Pi, but I was thinking the 10Gbit Ethernet would allow more concurrent streaming in my household. But it's probably overkill.

If your household consists of more than 15 people consuming 4K content at the same time, the 10G upgrade may be worth considering.

Edit: never mind, 2.5G is now the default, so you'll probably need more than 40 people to saturate that with streaming video.

Yeah, if you're transcoding for clients a lot I'd just spend the cash on upgrading the clients to support HEVC at minimum.

Can't say about Ollama but my 2017 Intel NUC 32 GB runs all of the arr and fin stack while it's idling, swimmingly.