DonutsRMeh

It even makes sense on a technical level. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any group or company (at least that I know of) approach AI this way. It has always been either “absolutely no AI and it’s all slop” or “we are all in and we are not even writing a single line of code”.

Holy fucking shit. I read the whole thing and I even enjoyed reading it. This has to be the most sane shit I’ve read all month. This is THE definition of “how to use a tool”. I freaking love it.

Nextcloud has been treating me very well

Jellyfin has “Quick Connect” that does the same thing

The difference in your comment between the two is only entering the URL, which is normally the first screen you are created with on jellyfin clients. you’re using the same crappy remote to enter the username password, no?

I didn’t know this was going to trigger so many people. lol. People paid money and are trying to justify their purchases. Good for everyone who uses it. I’ll continue using my “ugly, duct-taped-together mess” jellyfin I guess since I have zero issues with it and I don’t go out of my way to find “bugs” and “missing features” to just point out some things plex has that jellyfin lacks. Eh, it is what is.

That’s subjective. I’ve never had an issue with it, neither has my wife or son or the couple of friends who use my media.

Understandable, but like I told the other person in another comment. Setting jellyfin on a friend’s device is as easy as setting up plex if you get a domain name. I have one from cloudflare that I pay $10 a month for. I create the user account on my end and only give my friend the server address and login

I’m having a hard time understanding why you need all of that to just log into your jellyfin when you’re not home! You don’t need wireguard. That is something you chose to do for some reason. I can do it with literally the same way you said it

“install the plex app and i emailed you your login details.”

Replace plex with jellyfin. Your mother won’t need to do anything but downloading the app and putting in the credentials. Get a domain from cloudflare for $10 a year and set it up on the server. That’s it. No need for wireguard. I did the same thing for my friend who uses my jellyfin. I only sent him username and password. That’s it.

Someone please educate me, in case I’m missing something. Is there an excuse left why people use plex, not jellyfin? It’s now basically on every platform and even supports music and audiobooks.

Sounds cool, but I don’t think I can trust someone I’ve never met with all the media I have.

Man, this makes me very proud of myself. I switched to Linux 10 years ago when it was really rough to maintain. Oooofff the sleepless nights I’d spent hunting for fixes that AI now can fix in mere seconds. I use ChatGPT a ton now to fix issues and my distro has been solid ever since.

We all need to keep one thing in mind, 99% (if not all) corporations will never again code anything manually.

My son is an avid watcher of my jellyfin, and that’s more than enough for me to feel it’s worth all the effort I’ve put in it. He even asks me sometimes to add this show or that movie and I freaking love it.

Ok, you get a pass from my “or just use a damn normal lock” dad’s finger wagging 😂

I’ve been using Immich for a couple of years now, and I really like. Nextcloud is good, too.

Is the custom launcher you use called “Projectivity”? That’s the one I use and it’s great.

A couple of years ago, I complained about not many options for PDF editing on Linux, now there are too many of them and I’m 100% ok with that. Thank you for this.

Elonsbitter.net sounds like a good replacement to nitter

Bachelor of science in molecular biology here. Never had any computer/programming courses, not even in college. I come from a 3rd world country, so our “computer lab” naturally had two desktops that we were only allowed on for half an hour a week for basic windows tasks. I’ve always been a curious person, though. Moved to the US in 2010 and started messing around with a laptop I had that was struggling to run windows. Ran into this thing called “Linux” and the rest is history.

I’ve had countless sleepless nights fixing things on my broken Linux installs and/or to make some things work. That is the thing that built what I know now.

Being the same curious dude I am, I wanted to dip my toes into self-hosting, and I just discovered that it’s just a whole new world that is even more fun. Been doing things in this realm for around 1.5 years now and still dabbling.

My own DNS is still up and strong. Take that, Cloudflare.