chronicledmonocle

Canonical has had a lot of missteps in recent years. Some (like snaps) they still actively are shooting themselves in the foot with.

I just timed my Debian box from cold shut down to ready to go. It was 13 seconds.

My Ubuntu Server? It took 86 seconds to boot on the exact same hardware.

A standard install of Ubuntu Server uses more RAM, has longer boot times, and generally just needs more resources to get going. You can strip some of that out, but Debian is that way from the start. Plus, Ubuntu is just Debian with extra shit on top.

Debian is also much longer lived and stable than even Ubuntu LTS releases, so I generally have just found it to be better suited to deployments where I don’t want to fuck with it for a long time, besides monthly patching.

As someone who has both Ubuntu servers and Debian servers…go with Debian. It does everything Ubuntu does, but leaner and better.

How does one send a massage? 😁

JFC I thought you were exaggerating.

If you get old ObiTalk devices and flash them with community firmware, you can use Google Voice for free with a land line phone connected to it. Batt backup for your modem, router, and the adapter and you’ve got a free phone.

Appreciate you taking the time to respond. I’m so jaded by the low effort posts here that it’s made me grumpy 😂

Another AI generated project from a person who has zero comment history beyond promoting said project and is likely to stop committing to the repo in a week.

I feel like this is the 5th “I built this solo (leveraging heavily LLMs…” code project I’ve seen in a week on Lemmy. I get that development is hard, but I’m so tired of slop projects that get one big release and then the dev gets bored, not commiting another commit to the repo ever again.

Jellyfin is great and I run both. However, sharing access with family is a PITA compared to Plex. I paid for Plex Pass lifetime at the $75 and have no reason to fully move. Keeping Jellyfin around in case Plex tries to rug pull lifetime passes, though.

I know Plex is a business that has to make money, but if I hadn’t bought a lifetime pass for $50 a decade ago, I’d have dropped them at this point.

Also true

I bought Plex Pass when it was $75 for the lifetime option.

I prefer Jellyfin, but sharing is harder for family members with it because I can’t get them to just log in without existing credentials (Google Account, Apple ID, etc). Trying to convince me 67 year old mother-in-law to enter a URL, username, and password into an app with a remote is like asking my child to eat broccoli.

For now, I’ll keep running dual stack with both. If Plex pulls lifetime passes, even though it’ll be a PITA, I’ll convert everyone to Jellyfin despite the pain.