Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is a useful idiot once in a blue moon.

You have a better idea?

Putin cannot be reasoned with any more than Trump can. Ukraine has to fight their way out.

Does ICE get paid?

Of course they do, that’s obviously more important than any other public service.

service still up = no problem
Can’t access service = problem, better ssh in

Simple as

A. Run a batch transcode with Handbrake and make all your stored files compatible with your end players.
It sounds like the more recent things you are downloading are in a codec that is not compatible with your playback devices. E.g, older torrents are frequently an H.264 stream in an MP4 container, which practically every device can play now. Many modern releases are being distributed in H.265 or AV1, as they have significant size and quality benefits, but many older devices don’t support them natively. so it is forcing Jellyfin to live transcode to h.264. Find out what older titles play without any buffer or playback lag/high CPU usage and check what codec those files are in. That is what you’ll need to batch encode everything over to.

B. Sounds like you are still relying on CPU transcoding which is absolute dog. What mini pc specs do you have? If it’s an AMD or Intel CPU/APU then it should have hardware encode/decode included in it’s integrated GPU. When using hardware transcoding the CPU load is generally minimal for 1 to 2 streams. See the Jellyfin docs on hardware acceleration here.

PLA has a shelf life, it does degrade a little especially if in a room that had sunlight. Over 3-4 years old it may not ever be usable.

You may need a very long dry time (multiple days) due to the spool likely being wet completely throughout.