merthyr1831
@merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
- Comment on NAS Power Consumption 1 week ago:
I’m probably in a similar boat thanks to 4x NAS drives (in 2x mirror vdevs so essentially half as power efficient too). I wonder if using an SSD or two for things like caches would help with power draw since you could defer disk usage for longer by relying on a more efficient cache.
SnapRAID is also an option. One benefit is that multiple disks don’t need to be spinning at once to access data. Downside is that your parity isn’t calculated in real time so less data redundancy.
- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pain but also it’s no surprise that DNS and ipv6 are premium when ipv4 and dynamic IP works so well for 99% of us. Even if you wanna host something publicly there are totally free services and software tools to cover most if not all caveats of not using ipv6 (for now).
I have selfhosted for years and only paid for a domain name recently.
- Comment on HDDs: How loud is *too* loud? 3 weeks ago:
metronome for the other components to practice playing songs at the right bpm
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- Comment on how to set up a remote managed node for mom 3 weeks ago:
Yeah even if you’re someone who is super concerned about Jellyfin’s API safety, it’ll likely be less maintenance setting them up on tailscale than duplicating the streaming hardware. But that’s assuming OP’s family are as tech illiterate as mine
- Comment on First time software set up help 3 weeks ago:
I have two 4TB in Raid 10 (ZFS Mirror) and two 8TB as the same. All in TrueNAS Scale.
TrueNAS is pretty good for a basic setup imo!
- Comment on What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server? 4 weeks ago:
A computer. Seriously that’s it. Of course depends on your use case (media servers usually need more than a web host for example)
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 5 weeks ago:
Rsync to a Hetzner storage box. I dont do ALL my data, just the nextcloud data. The rest is…linux ISOs… so I can redownload at my convenience.
- Comment on Your favorite "one click" self hosted open source app installer/server manager? 1 month ago:
diet pi counts right? most of the software in their managed repo is a straightforward install and largely preconfigured for daily use. It was my first server OS and im very fond of it
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
Oh yeah I don’t buy the backwards compat stuff because you can version an API to preserve backwards compatibility to sensible ends.
I’d be very interested to see cases of streaming or copyright lawyers essentially hacking users to litigate them. The only stuff Ive ever seen on snooping by corps on pirates it’s usually collecting PII from public sources like torrent clients without VPN coverage.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
I know about adblockers but these websites are still usually ass even with them.
I don’t mind battling them for something like an F1 livestream but when you want your own collection of stuff that won’t get randomly shit on by domain seizures or ISP blocking, there’s a reason I’m self hosting my media.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
They doubled the price lol. And why pay $80 for something that they have the right to gut at any time?
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
I use a non-rooted docker, reverse proxy, and cloudfare domain. I know Jellyfin has some API security issues but I’m still unconvinced that any of them can be used to escalate to any level that would threaten my server (or even my instance of Jellyfin).
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
You’re not paying for software maintenance, you’re paying a subscription service to a private company that has already decided to cut back on features that others also thought they were paying to maintain.
If you want to actually pay for software maintenance, migrate to Jellyfin and pay them instead, rather than filtering your payments through middle managers and shareholders first.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 month ago:
No matter how bad someone might think Jellyfin is, it is a million times better than subjecting yourself to endless ad slop on one of these ““free movies”” websites.
- Comment on Sharing Jellyfin 1 month ago:
I have it as an unprivileged container behind a reverse proxy and HTTPS/HSTS. I know it’s not perfect but I keep backups of important shit and monitor things regularly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As others have said. The errors are easily fixed and documented if annoying. Some will require console access but are usually pretty safe.
- Comment on Alternatives to Roku/AppleTV for Jellyfin Client 2 months ago:
It’s surprising how slow open source is on replicating Roku. So many manufacturers could be using Linux to bypass androidTV and RokuOS bullshit. I suppose AndroidTV is good enough even despite that.
- Comment on Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Rust) 2 months ago:
There’s a bunch of technical debt passed off as features, too. Like, Nextcloud runs background tasks as a cron job which is something I’ve never seen with other hosted services. It’s probably a holdover from before containerised applications were ubiquitous but honestly it comes off as jank.
Also, I wonder if there would be an argument for a Nextcloud fork that doubled down on PHP by utilising something like Laravel to put all the rendering on the server side. Right now it uses VueJS which is fine, but PHP is really best suited for server side rendering that you just can’t leverage when using a front end framework in JavaScript.
- Comment on Hoarder is rebranding to Karakeep - r/selfhosted 2 months ago:
the new name is pretty slick so not all that bad
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 2 months ago:
Cloudflare is known for being unreliable with how and when it enforces the ToS (especially for paying customers!). Just because they haven’t cracked down on everyone doesn’t mean they won’t arbitrarily pick out your account from thousands of others just to slap a ban on. There’s inherent risk to it
- Comment on How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet? 2 months ago:
Even just basic API versioning would be sufficient. .NET offers a bunch of ways to handle breaking changes in APIs
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 2 months ago:
they also have good free tiers for hosting services i think? see them come up at a lot as an alternative to oracle for hosting small svcs
- Comment on Proxmox vs. Debian: Running media server on older hardware 2 months ago:
MergerFS and SnapRAID could be good for you. It’s not immediate parity like with ZFS RAID (You run a regular cronjob to calculate RAID parity) but it supports mismatched drive sizes, expansion of the pool at any time, and some other features that should be good for a media server where live parity isn’t critical.
Proxmox and TrueNAS are nice because they help manage ZFS and other remote management within a nice UI but really you can just use Debian with SSH and do the same stuff. DietPi has a few nice utilities on top of Debian (DDNS manager and CLI fstab utilities, for example)but not super necessary.
Personally I use TrueNAS but I also used DietPi/Debian for years and both have benefits and it really matters what your workflow is.
Docker or LXC containers won’t hurt your performance btw. There’s supposedly some tiny overhead but both are designed to use the basic Linux system as much as possible: they’re way faster than on WSL. For hardware acceleration it’ll be deferred to the GPU for most things and there’s lots of documentation to set it up. The best thing about docker is that every application is kept separate to eachother - updates can be done incrementally and rollbacks are possible too!
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 2 months ago:
I use nginx proxy manager and expose it behind a subdomain entry on cloudflare (though you can use any DDNS service i bet). NPM handles the security so I get HSTS and HTTPS on Plex and Jellyfin without either needing it set themselves.
From there anyone can access Jellyfin/Plex via my subdomains (plex.mydomain.com or watch.mydomain.com at the mo)
- Comment on Tools to migrate from Plex to Jellyfin? 2 months ago:
You may have to use port forwarding or a reverse proxy but the end result is functionally identical to plex. IMO the server detection feature of Plex is overengineered for what it is, and I just sit it behind my reverse proxy and connect to it that way.
As for music and apps yeah Plex is pretty nice, but even for audio you could use other services if Jellyfin didn’t fit your needs like Navidrome
- Comment on Help me choose hardware for my first custom setup 2 months ago:
My setup was about 500 USD if I had to guess:
Used i5 9500 (mainly for QSV but you can use any modern CPU as long as the iGPU is relatively recent)
32GB RAM (more RAM = more cache for file IO)
4TB HDD
256GB NVME boot drive (recycled from my steamdeck)
Node 804 case.
TrueNAS SCALE for the OS.
I’d recommend to get double or even triple the drives I did, maybe 3x 2TB or 3x 1TB depending on your budget. Only because that unlocks RaidZ1/RaidZ2 which can give you better RW speed and redundancy should anything go splat, and you can’t retroactively convert your drive into a Z1/Z2 pool without manually transferring the data later which might take a looooong time for you.
I dont think my route was the cheapest: IMO youd do better going AMD even despite the poorer support for HW transcode only because the motherboards are insanely expensive and hard to find, whereas that money couldve given me a better CPU and later you can add an intel iGPU if you’re really struggling.
- Comment on Help me choose hardware for my first custom setup 2 months ago:
Jellyfin supports HW transcoding on Rockchip too, but the issue with the Pi5 specifically is that it doesn’t have a hardware media decoder so it’s actually worse than the Pi4 if you can get HW transcoding running on it.
- Comment on Help me choose hardware for my first custom setup 2 months ago:
I have an i5 9500 and for what its worth Nextcloud always seems to be the least responsive web app I’ve used. I think it’s just the nature of Nextcloud.
- Comment on Help me choose hardware for my first custom setup 2 months ago:
Another thing to note is that extra RAM is super useful with ZFS since it will use extra RAM as a cache to speed up IO. 16-32GB will let ZFS keep significant amounts of data instantly accessible to services like Jellyfin - Eg. a new movie or tv show that multiple users will watch simultaneously.