kata1yst
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- Comment on Best Practice Ideas 3 days ago:
Yeah, similar sized environments here too, but had good experiences with Ansible. Saw Chef struggle at even smaller scales. And Puppet. And Saltstack. But I’ve also seen all of them succeed too. Like most things it depends on how you run it. Nothing is a perfect solution. But I think Ansible has few game breaking tradeoffs for it’s advantages.
- Comment on Best Practice Ideas 4 days ago:
Wow, huge disagree on saltstack and chef being ahead of Ansible. I’ve used all 3 in production (and even Puppet) and watched Ansible absolutely surge onto the scene and displace everyone else in the enterprise space in a scant few years.
Ansible is just so much lower overhead and so much easier to understand and make changes to. It’s dominating the configuration management space for a reason. And nearly all of the self hosted/homelab space is active in Ansible and have tons of well baked playbooks.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 3 weeks ago:
The fact that Michigan gets Isle Royale too boils my blood as a Minnesotan.
- Comment on Can I put a cold oxygen plasma generator in my fridge? 3 weeks ago:
Especially because, if this is the device I think it is, it’s an ozone generator, which are even more oxidizing than the normal O^2.
- Comment on Apparent issues with ZFS on RPi 5 3 weeks ago:
What controller?
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 4 weeks ago:
Dances with Smurfs
- Comment on Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion 1 month ago:
This is correct for a given transaction, but there’s no consensus needed to open a Bitcoin wallet. That is usually just a private key in an encrypted envelope.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 2 months ago:
I mean, effectively superdeterminism’s natural conclusion is that time is an illusion.
But turning this back on itself, what’s the proposed mechanism for quantum wave collapse at superluminal speeds?
Our understanding is fundamentally flawed, but thankfully the math works!
- Comment on UnitedHealthcare lawsuit accuses Guardian of trying to ‘capitalize’ on CEO’s killing 2 months ago:
That’s… Literally what the news is, morons.
- Comment on Toolhead part cooling design 2 months ago:
Like Voron CPAP? printables.com/…/534771-cpap-for-voron-and-stealt…
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 2 months 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' 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
And Supreme Commander, yes. Kind of a mashup.
- Comment on Winning 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
Can you provide your docker-compose entry or your docker run command?
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 4 months ago:
Okay, thanks for giving me that, I’ll investigate further tonight
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 4 months ago:
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 4 months ago:
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 4 months 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 4 months ago:
That’s fair!
- Comment on New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.10.7 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.