kata1yst

What do you mean “the IP address set to it’s Netbird IP address”? In Netbird everything is referenced by it’s LAN address.

Love blocky. Seems like it flies under the radar.

Balanced take, but Prusa is very transparent about why their pricing is the way it is, and basically the answer there is that they try to keep an EU centric and ethical supply chain.

Anthropic is drawing a line in the sand protecting their model’s training sets from abuse.

Meanwhile OpenAI is down in a dungeon torturing GPT6 into writing academic mathematics papers.

Well this was in the early pandemic, so there were no kits and a lot of the parts were intended for more industrial purposes. I think with shipping and tax around $2k USD for a 350mm.

These days kits bring the price down a ton and make the build much easier.

I like my hand built voron 2.4. I’m very proud I sourced the parts myself and used it to bootstrap itself.

Now if only I could learn to stop fucking with it and letting it work instead of the months of downtime when I need to fix or upgrade something 😅

The Geneva Conventions were basically written as a “List of things we want Canada to never do again”.

https://www.missedhistory.com/article/ottoman-coffee-ban-sultan-murad-coffeehouses

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_Henry_IV_of_France

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.