dmention7
@dmention7@lemm.ee
- Comment on What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge? 23 hours ago:
Beginner here (to Linux and networking anyways), running Unraid for about 18 months now. Fully agree, it’s been great for actually getting up and doing useful things quickly and relatively pain free.
Eventually I would like to try working backwards and getting things running on a more “traditional” server environment, but Unraid has been a great learning tool for me personally.
It’s like… Maybe some folks learned to overhaul an engine before they got their driver’s license, but lots of people just need to a car to get to work and back today, and they can learn to change their oil and do a brake job when the time comes.
- Comment on Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k 4 days ago:
Honestly, as long as it’s easily DIY upgradable (accessible speaker mounting locations, standard DIN panels, etc) I am all for this. Most OEM audio systems are stupidly overpriced and suck complete donkey balls compared to what you can get for a few hundred bucks at Crutchfield and install in an afternoon.
For the last 20 years or so, most factory audio systems are so integrated into the rest of the electronics that they can be an absolute nightmare to upgrade unless you are a pro–which means you get the worst of both worlds.
- Comment on Macaroni and cheese is just nachos made with flour. 4 days ago:
What kind of weak-ass, soggy, no-meat-and-beans-having, baked-and-topped-with-bread-crumbs, bring-to-the-church-potluck, topologically-fucked-up nachos are you eating??
- Comment on Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS 1 week ago:
Just speaking for myself here, but as someone with only basic literacy in networking and almost zero prior experience with Linux or Docker, I found Unraid extremely straightforward to spin up–especially with the numerous guides floating around on Youtube. I started out with a used SFF PC that cost about $120 and a few drives I had lying around, and was up and running with basic NAS functionality in an afternoon.
I’ve mucked up a few things trying to do something more advanced without fully reading up, but I haven’t had a single hiccup with Unraid itself.
1.5 years later, and I’ve got ~80TB worth of refurb enterprise drives and hosting several media and other storage services, and I don’t see myself outgrowing it anytime soon.
- Comment on This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin 1 week ago:
Thats what I thought too. The reality is still fucked up, but I don’t feel one iota of bad for people getting scammed for using an app to snitch to ICE.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
Man, if I had the poor luck/foresight to have purchased a Tesla earlier, I would be driving like the politest mofo in existence these days.
- Comment on Radarr manual import workflow 1 month ago:
No you’re right, the hardlinks themselves are not directional. I just misunderstood the advice as meaning that Radarr would create a hardlinked file in my torrent folder, using the existing file in my media library. (It will not)
The part that was tripping me up was that it seemed like I had to manually add the movies to Radarr’s library before it would let me import any of my torrent files. Otherwise it would give me an error saying the movie was unknown.
I think I’m starting to get the hang of it though.
- Comment on Radarr manual import workflow 1 month ago:
Thanks, that makes sense.
I’ve been going cross-eyed staring at the Trash guides and Servarr wiki trying to get hardlinks and all the file paths working correctly (stupid simple fix in the end), so a little nudge in the right direction is appreciated.
- Comment on Radarr manual import workflow 1 month ago:
Sure, that would get all the torrented content into radarr quickly, but I guess I should have stated that my intent is to continue seeding that content from the qbittorrent client on my media server.
Unless radarr is somehow smart enough to hardlink the opposite direction (from the media library back to torrents folder) and let qbittorrent know that content is ready to seed…?
- Submitted 1 month ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 2 months ago:
Not OP, but I can answer part of your questions:
if I migrate to Jellyfin do I need to fuck around with my folder structures ? No special case just /movie/title | tv/title in my use-case with the usual arr stack for grabbing.
I have Plex and Jellyfin running off the exact same media library no problem at all. So there should be zero need to modify anything–if anything Jellyfin seems a little better at catching “extras” folders than Plex.
I don’t need remote playback for movies/tvs but I have no idea how to replace Plexamp and if you have suggestions, feel free to mention it.
The Jellyfin app plays music–but it’s definitely NOT a music app. I always hear Symfonium highly recommended, but have not yet given it a whirl myself.
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 months ago:
Thank you, this clears up some misconception i had about how the *arrs work!
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 months ago:
Got it, thanks!
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 months ago:
If all your current files are still in the “download” folder, you could probably setup the arrs and qbit as recommended in the guides
Yeah, that’s the rub… they are all currently in separate movies, shows, and music folders as Plex/Jellyfin want them to be.
But it’s sounding like the best bet is to leave the existing content alone for now and spin things up per the guides until I have a better handle on how it all works. Appreciate the input!
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m using Unraid, so this would all be in dockers.
I think maybe I had a false understanding that radarr (for example) interposes itself between the actual media files and Plex/Jellyfin… which sounds like a PITA to undo, and was giving me pause.
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 2 months ago:
Thanks, this is helpful!
If I do a “clean” install, can i later identify specific pieces of media within a library to monitor?
- Submitted 2 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 2 months ago:
I love scheduled and automation based DND, except that about twice per year, SOMETHING SOMEWHERE updates and causes my alarm to be silenced by DND, despite having my clock app exempted from every possible silencing mechanism I can find.
For the life of me, I can’t understand why that would ever be a useful behavior, let along default one.
Lucky for me, I have a pretty robust internal clock, but Holy Fuck is that annoying.
- Comment on Are Expensive TVs Actually Better? An Analysis of TV Prices and Review Scores 2 months ago:
Not to knock on you, because everyone’s got different priorities, but I think calling it a “huge expense that’s no longer relevant” is a pretty loaded framing. A decent 75-ish inch TV can be had for about the same price as a middle-road flagship phone.
Sure, I can certainly watch a movie or play a game on my little 6" phone screen, but it’s an entirely different experience–in the same way that eating a protein bar and eating your favorite meal will both technically nourish you.
Granted, I’ve spent quite a bit in excess of the cost of a decent TV on the audio system to go with it, but pretty much anything other than watching rando youtube videos or playing idle phone games, I would rather do in front of a large screen with immersive sound–gaming, shows, movies etc., even if it’s just me alone.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 2 months ago:
Destroy it?
Like he destroyed Twitter by turning it into his personal propaganda outlet, maybe.
It sounds to me like he’s just positioning himself to control an AI tech provider who will conveniently be contracted to replace all the government positions he is trying to eliminate.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 2 months ago:
I just saw few dozen identical comments with a bunch of upvotes, so the idea of people randomly dogpiling one single comment for no apparent reason struck me as funny!
I seem to recall a subreddit like that… chains of identical one word posts, 20 comments deep, all with a hundred upvotes… and one poor dude with like -1000.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 2 months ago:
Fuck ICE. All my homies hate ICE.
Scanning this thread though, I was kinda hoping there would be one single “Fuck ICE” comment amongst the rest, that was randomly downvoted to oblivion for no apparent reason.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
S22+ here, I found it in my installed apps via system settings.
- Comment on YSK Elon Musk's actions are not random and the Silicon Valley's hostile take over of the federal government was planned over the last decade. 2 months ago:
Honestly I don’t mind dictator esque people running the world into the ground if it means we get onto a hopefully better path later through shocking the system
LMAO that “if” is doing so much heavy lifting there, Elmo is going to claim he invented it to power the next gen of SpaceX rockets!
- Comment on 'ELIZA,' the world's 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code 3 months ago:
Link to try it out: sites.google.com/view/elizaarchaeology/try-eliza
- Comment on Serving my media library to my TV (local network only), i need suggestions 4 months ago:
I don’t have specific troubleshooting advice to give, but I have been using an Nvidia Shield Pro as my main streaming device for about 4 years now. It is overpriced for what it is, but it has been rock solid for streaming via both Jellyfin and Plex.
The official Jellyfin app is definitely not as polished as Plex, but it has consistently worked for me on the Shield.
- Comment on Best HDD/SSD for local media hosting 5 months ago:
Fully agree.
I’ve purchased refurb drives from both them and GoHardDrive.com. So far I’m 5/5 for a mix of Exos and HGST Ultrastar drives working perfectly out of the box.
Anytime these drives pop up on Slickdeals, the thread is full of 3 types of people: People who have never bought a refurb/recert drive but insist they are all going to burn your house down, people who have bought several with no issue, and people who have received a failing drive that the seller promptly replaced.
- Comment on House Centipedes 6 months ago:
That’s honestly why they creep me out the most. Spiders will generally be chilling out in a corner somewhere you expect to see them, doing their own thing, and not moving much unless directly disturbed.
Most of my experiences with centipedes involves them darting out from under a baseboard at night and scaring the shit out of me when I’m only half awake. Then by the time I realize what it was, it’s already scrambled across the floor to disappear under some other piece of furniture.