Chewy7324
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- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Interesting, maybe they check whether it’s a domain/remote IP on the client side to prevent usage of a reverse proxy.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
didn’t have to
Now you do have to, unless you pay for Plex.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
You need to properly name your media with a proper scheme (include tmdbid/imdbid).
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Yes, after I set up the server properly (reverse proxy). With this change the same setup on the server side is necessary for remote streaming with free Plex.
My mum puts in the domain, username and password and starts streaming.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I don’t think Jellyfins focus is currently to support irregular naming schemes. Naming media correctly with a proper scheme is the way to go.
Just so you know I wouldn’t hold my breath.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Yes. There’s Audiobook shelf for Audio books.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Roku is also a thing in Europe.
Though I also gave up trying to set up Tailscale for people and just exposed Jellyfin (behind a reverse proxy).
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
“Good luck setting up remote streaming with free Plex.”
Yes, Jellyfin does not forward ports for you. Same as free Plex. With this change both are the same difficulty to set up for free, the only difference is with Plex there’s a shortcut: Buy Plex.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Jellyfin does not host anything. With this change free Plex users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) and Jellyfin users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) have exactly the same features.
The only difference is that Plex no longer provides expensive services for free, while Jellyfin never provided them.
- Comment on Simplest Path to Jellyfin Access for the Developmentally Disabled 3 weeks ago:
Roku is really locked down. There’s ads on one side but nothing else.
Otherwise Projectivy is an Android TV launcher that can be configured to be really stripped down. It takes a bit of time but if you do it right it’d show less options than even Roku (it’d show only the apps you select, no launcher settings etc).
As a box I’ve heard good things about Onn (Walmart) if your in the US. If not, Homatics is great but pricey. Kick Pi KP1 is more affordable (but still way more expensive than Onn).
- Comment on Jellyfin: why is the line two different colors? 5 weeks ago:
This. The blue line is the watched progress and the orange line is the transcoding progress.
- Comment on Best Synology Replacement? 2 months ago:
Ugreen NAS support other OS. You could put TrueNAS or Proxmox on there, so no, there’s no security concerns (beyond all computer hardware being partly manufactured there in some way).
- Comment on How to manage docker compose apps? 2 months ago:
It won’t save you from doing a bit of work but you could use podman. There’s systemd integration so you can still start/stop/enable your services with systemctl while using docker/container images. You won’t be able to use docker-compose directly, but it’s usually not that hard to replicate the logic with systemd (Immich was a PITA at first, but it improved considerably).
I do this with NixOS quite a bit, and I’ve yet to use docker compose (although the syntax is different, it’s still the same process).
- Comment on How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything 2 months ago:
Given OP mentioned torrent and watching media in the same sentence I assumed they didn’t rip their own media, and pirated it instead.
If my assumption is wrong, I apologize.
Piracy and Morality
Whether they own a physical edition of that media I don’t know. In my opinion owning a physical medium of the media is a big part in the morality discussion of piracy. But in my juriscition I’m legally not allowed to break the encryption used for CD/DVD/Blu-ray, so I’m technically pirating even if I rip my own discs. There’s obviously no way to find out for copyright owners of their discs were ripped for a private copy, but that’s also (nearly) the case for Usenet/Torrent with proper precautions. Anyway, if you read until this point, thank you!
- Comment on How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything 2 months ago:
Especially anime often use the superior .ass subtitle format, which many devices don’t support. Sadly Crunchyroll is switching to .srt which has broader support, so it likely won’t require burning them in the video (transcoding), which is the only positive thing (still a shame imo).
- Comment on How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything 2 months ago:
Given they use a N100, I’d suggest redownloading instead of transcoding for time and energy saving (i.e cost).
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 2 months ago:
And making sure Tailscale auto launches on a FireTV stick is a pita too. Telling them to open Tailscale on each start is not an option.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 2 months ago:
Setting up auth before Jellyfin breaks clients. This is not an option.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 2 months ago:
And sharing my libraries with other friends sharing back with me is pretty great.
This feature is imo THE killer feature of Plex, although I use Jellyfin. There’s no sharing of libraries like Plex does. Multiple user accounts per server, yes, but you have to switch between servers and search separately.
- Comment on Data Backup Solutions 2 months ago:
I also wholeheartedly recommend Restic. Hetzner Storage Box or Backblaze B2 are great storage backends and directly supported by Restic.
Borg is great too, though I’ve never used it because I’ve discovered Restic first.
- GitHub - gmag11/Paperless_ngx_uploader: a simple Android app to upload documents to a Paperless-NGX server using the native share intent.github.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Got my first script kiddy 4 months ago:
Some game servers, some ISPs don’t provide IPv6 for (some of) their customers.
- Comment on Sortable Table view with $/TB for serverpartdeals.com 5 months ago:
Sadly they’ve gone up in price over the last 6 months.
Mindfactory had 16TB for 160€ (10€/TB), but now they want 240€ for 18TB (13.3€/TB).
On eBay there’s sellers like HMCW, which are now also more expensive. But returns/warranty are questionable to say the least.
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 5 months ago:
Yeah. There’s already are arbitrators by law: public courts.
- Comment on ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP? 5 months ago:
Yes, even IPv4 was intended to give each device in the world their own IP, but the address space is too limited. IPv6 fixes that.
Actually, each device usually has multiple IPv6s, and only some/one are globally routable, i.e. it works outside of your home network. Finding out which one is global is a bit annoying sometimes, but it can be done.Usually routers still block incoming traffic for security reasons, so you still have to open ports in your router.
- Comment on ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP? 5 months ago:
If you go with IPv6, all your devices/servers have their own IP. These IPs are valid in your LAN as well a externally.
But it’s still important to use a reverse proxy (e.g. for TLS).
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 5 months ago:
Many places don’t enforce those laws for simply torrenting.
Some countries (US) ask the ISP to send warning letters and might disable the internet. In other countries law firms get personal details from the ISP and send a costly letter of a thousand Euro for a single infraction like in Germany.
- Comment on Plex Server Replacement 5 months ago:
I would ideally like to convert the library to h.265 or even AV1 if I can make it work.
Unless you’ve downloaded remuxes (which I doubt), I’d seriously recommend redownloading instead of converting your existing files.
h.265 and especially AV1 take a long time to encode by CPU, and hardware encoding won’t give you any space savings, unless you’re okay with losing much details.
Redownloading is most definitely faster, will result in more space savings for the quality you’ll get. PS: Unless you’ve got data volume limits, but even then I’d recommend slowly upgrading over time. It’s quite simple with TRaSH guides and giving h.265 a higher score.
- Comment on What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers? 7 months ago:
- ActualBudget for finances.
- Radicale for calendar/contacts.
- Immich for photos/videos.
- Redlib as a frontend for Reddit (LibRedirect ftw). - TheLounge as an IRC client.
- Bitwarden/Vaultwarden as a password manager.
- Comment on NixOS on Proxmox LXC: Good or Bad? 7 months ago:
NixOS in LXC works great, although I switched to bare metal NixOS a few months ago. I didn’t see the need for proxmox as it hindered my ability of declaring the whole system.
Creating NixOS LXC’s is a bit of a pita. Some links that helped me two years ago: