welshdog

Seems like not much of an issue. I always wonder on these sorts of things what exactly was their reasoning for the design choice? No explaination is ever offered, but it would be fun to meet a Mini engineer someday and ask them.

magnuskrantz said:

It’s really tempting to replace my 2018 Mac mini that I use as a Plex server, but it works just fine, it’s just that it gets so hot in the closet where I have it.

I'm curious, what do people use Plex servers for? I looked into it once and couldn't find a use case that made sense for me.

My late 2012 Mini is getting long in the tooth. The new smaller and much more powerful Mini will do nicely thank you.

9secondkox2 said:

No more “band” news please.

One of the most stressful and traumatic jobs in local television news was the Chyron operator. This person typed in all the name supers, sports scores, weather reports and other text based graphics used in the live newscast. A lot of the data comes in late and even during the newscast. Chyron operators are typing, listening and sending supers to the output channel for air. Back in the 80s at KXAN in Ft. Worth/Dallas news inters who showed soem initiative would be trained up and allowed to do newscasts on occasion. One time a we were doing a story about some conflict between a school and the marching band. The intern typed "Bad Parent"  instead of "Band Parent" for an interview with one of the involved parents - that's how it went to air. There was an on-air apology later in the newscast. Nowadays most news supers are generated by the script managment software and controlled by the newscast producer. I think some stations don't even have Chyron Operators any longer. Chyron was a ubiquitous brand of text generator with few competitors back in the day, thus the name "Chyron" being used generically by TV people like Xerox was for copiers. The first Chyron I used had core plane memory - that's how long they've been around. They still exist, but the market is totally different today. So yeah, no more band news.