kata1yst
@kata1yst@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Toolhead part cooling design 2 days ago:
Like Voron CPAP? printables.com/…/534771-cpap-for-voron-and-stealt…
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 days ago:
Can I guarantee? There are no guarantees in self hosting. By this logic you can never move away from Plex. There’s always unknowns. There’s always new issues to trip over. Plex is hardly without it’s own warts, but because they’re ‘known’ to you and your users nothing else will ever be able to measure up.
It’s a logical fallacy and a trap.
I set up Jellyfin basically overnight when the Plex pass changes occurred. Reverse proxies are trivial, as are docker containers, don’t let the anecdotes about things being hard or VPN being needed intimidate you.
There were absolutely bumps in the road. I had to make users for each person and email them customized sign-up links. Yes, that kinda sucked, but that’s the price for running and controlling the authentication yourself instead of though a 3rd party service that can and absolutely will eventually use that data to snoop.
Most of the time, once sent the link the users were fine, 9/10 of my users had no further issues and quickly adapted. For the last 1/10, I had to trouble shoot a few things and eventually ended up recommending a different device to connect with (it was an old TV with a really old version of Plex for TVs, they ended up buying a $40 Google TV device from Walmart and got set up that way).
The whole time I was running both Plex and Jellyfin so the migration process could happen at my speed.
My point is this: no, it wasn’t painless to switch. Yes, some tech support was required. Yes, the user who was getting hundreds of dollars (annually) of streaming services effectively for free had to shell out a paltry sum to upgrade and actually enjoys their experience much more now. No, that didn’t make it impossible or not worth doing.
I’m not saying what’s best for you and your users, and I’m absolutely not guaranteeing you’ll have no issues beyond these, but I hope you understand your hands aren’t actually tied, you’re just boxing yourself in.
- Comment on Trump calls US program helping boost internet access 'racist' 1 week ago:
Trump is notoriously a zero sum true believer, despite it being routinely mocked, disproven, and sociopathic. He fully believes that help given to people who are not him is wasteful and harmful to him, at least indirectly.
- Comment on Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way 2 weeks ago:
- Linkwarden archives to multiple formats out of the box, including PDF and full HTML.
- Both Linkwarden and Karakeep use github.com/Y2Z/monolith in the backend. Monolith is battle hardened and wildly used and accepted.
- ‘far from stable’ isn’t referring to the archiving, it’s referring to the frontend, tagging, etc. Features this blog post doesn’t even offer
- a hastily cobbled together, manual (more mistakes allowed), untested system is more fragile than standardized software used by many thousands daily
- Comment on Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way 2 weeks ago:
Or just use Linkwarden or Karakeep (previously Hoarder)
- Comment on Beyond All Reason, a free and open source RTS gets a big visual overhaul 2 weeks ago:
And Supreme Commander, yes. Kind of a mashup.
- Comment on Winning 5 weeks ago:
There’s definitely some physical manifestations of your strongest emotions. Strong feelings of fear or anger trigger musclular reactions in your belly, strong feelings of anxiety or tension in your neck, love and contentment in your chest, etc.
Perhaps they were trying to find those physical connections to gauge the emotion or intensity?
- Comment on Call it the billionaire boomerang: The ultrawealthy are turning on Trump over tariffs 1 month ago:
If only they could have anticipated the candidate that promised mass deportations, extensive weaponized tariffs, and has a known habit of not paying debt and bankrupting successful businesses would be bad for the economy!
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
Can you provide your docker-compose entry or your docker run command?
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
Okay, thanks for giving me that, I’ll investigate further tonight
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
So I just spot checked. Both shows work, you just have to not click an episode anymore.
E.g, pbskids.org/videos/design-squad -> design-squad
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
Hmmm. I just double checked and my episodes are still downloading. But maybe newer shows have a different format… What’s the exact error? I’ll try to reproduce and fix.
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
The streaming was easy, just declared I wasn’t paying for it anymore lol. We still have a crappy version of Spotify for free because of another service (ISP or phone plan something like that), but it’s purely used as a backup.
Jellyfin’s interface is a bit clunky as a music client in my experience. FinAmp looks cool but it’s still early on.
Navidrome does smart playlist, crossfading, gapless, flac streaming, and flac to opus transcoding. Those are sorta my core requirements, and Navidrome + the clients we use handles them all with aplomb.
As for the user playlist thing… I haven’t seen anything like that but maybe I’m misunderstanding.
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
That’s fair!
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
Yeah Music Assistant uses Snapcast, which has been fun. I did try squeeze, but haven’t had a reason to switch so far
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
It’s a crappy python script I packaged in a docker container lol. Turns out PBS kids uses an open unauthenticated CDN for serving videos to the website and apps.
I can share if you want, but it’ll take me until tomorrow to make it public
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
Certainly!
Jellyfin I use for video content. I find its music functions lackluster.
Navidrome I use (and my family uses) for personal listening.
Music around the house, like on one or more of my casting capable speakers / tvs I use Music Assistant. Also let’s me do automations easily, and doesn’t tie up an android phones media’s output. Struggled with earbuds while casting taking over audio for too long before deploying Music Assistant!
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
I will add, what helped me the most with Plex/Jellyfin load was using Tdarr to normalize my library’s formats into something easy to direct stream to any device without transcoding.
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
It’s old but fairly beefy. Most of the RAM is reserved for ZFS reads, but in reality theres tons of headroom.
CPU: 2x E5-2630L v2 Motherboard: Intel S2600CP RAM: 8x8GB DDR3 1333 ECC Disk:
- 1x 500GB SSD OS
- 1x 500GB SSD ZFS cache (L2ARC)
- 45TB ZFS Mirror+Stripe pool (various sizes, 8 disks)
I’ll probably be moving this to a cluster of mini computers whenever prices look right, just for power efficiency.
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
The general list:
- Immich
- Jellyfin
- Plex (deprecated but kept around for my plexpass using friends)
- Internet Radio (custom container)
- PBS kids downloader (custom container)
- Lidarr
- Sonarr
- Mylar
- Radar
- Prowlarr
- Open-Webui
- QBittorrent
- Sabnzbd
- Navidrome
- Synapse
- Element
- Forgejo
- Tdarr
- Calibre
- Calibre Web
- Tautulli
- Bazarr
- Syncthing
- LazyLibrarian
- Linkwarden
- Mealie
- GlueTun
- Kopia
- Home Assistant
- Music Assistant
- Blocky
- FoundryVTT
- Wireguard
- ArchiveTeam Warrior
- Traefik
- Docspell
- Birdcage (though I’m slowly replacing this with my own bird sound server)
- Frigate
- FreshRSS
- Ntfy
- Samba
With all the supporting services:
Server: Containers: 76 Running: 74 Paused: 0 Stopped: 2 Images: 92
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 1 month ago:
Fuck no, ain’t nobody got time for that! My self hosted stack has 40+ services. I lock them to minor releases (where semvers are used), deploy blind with automation, and fire alerts when breakages occur, which is thankfully rarely.
What you’re suggesting works for small, very carefully curated environments. I grew past that years ago and doubly so when I had kids.
- Comment on - Buy Once Software 2 months ago:
Donate when you can tho
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 2 months ago:
Yeah but 1gb/s by me is $80/mo minimum…
- Comment on OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support - Liliputing 2 months ago:
1 Ethernet port does not a router make.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 2 months ago:
Ollama + OpenWebUI also can do this.
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 2 months ago:
Just do Navidrome. It’s better anyway in a multitude of ways.
- Comment on Corning’s new Apple-like ceramic glass might save your next phone from disaster 2 months ago:
Wake me up when they finally do transparent aluminum.