djdarren

My personal setup is that I have a VPS running Yunohost, with my own domain, so I added it to my Tailnet and set up redirects. So my navidrome server is pointed at https://navidrome.coolname.com via my home server’s Tailscale IP.

Works well enough for me, but I don’t know anything about these things, so take my example with a pinch of salt.

For me the biggest hurdle was finding apps that felt the same as the ones I was used to.

Take Mastodon: I’ve gotten used to Moshidon now, but previously I used Ivory, which is ridiculously polished by comparison. The natures of iOS and Android mean that there are very few Android apps that are as …pretty… as most iOS counterparts.

Also; functionality. I guess because iOS users are more likely to pay for apps, developers are more likely to cram in as many features and polish as they can. If you try to replace an app with 1:1 feature parity, you’re mostly going to be disappointed. Photos on iOS is an incredibly useful, user friendly app which has almost all of the library and editing features most people need. Immich comes close, but not quite close enough for me to be able to confidently say that you could switch from one to the other without really noticing.

apple makes you feel so cozy and content in their UI design that anything even slightly different is really disruptive

I switched from iPhone to Graphene a couple of years back after almost 15 years of iOS, and yeah, the transition from one to the other was the very steepest learning curve. It’s almost like jumping from Mint to Arch. My partner wants my Pixel when I next upgrade so they can play with it and get used to it before having to make the jump from iOS, but I know it’s going to be a painful transition for them.

This is sort of the route I was considering, so it’s cool to know that someone has tread the path before me.

Gonna bash Debian on my 2014 Mac mini tomorrow, install Bigscreen and see what’s up.

If it’s Steam Link you want, get dedicated hardware for that. Even a Pi4/5 will do. Use it for Steam Link only, and keep the Apple TV for media.

This is probably the route I’ll ultimately take. Gonna toss KDE Neon on my 2014 Mac mini and see how it rolls.

just pay-for apps that may or may not do what I need.

We use Infuse with Plex and Jellyfin, and yeah, we pay a couple of quid every month to it (for the higher definition codec support), but it’s pretty much spot-on for our needs.

It is, yes. Streaming from my partner’s PC up in their office.

I probably should have laid out my uses in the OP, shouldn’t I?

We primarily watch TV from a friend’s Plex server, or my own Jellyfin. We don’t have Apple TV+/Netflix/Amazon, or anything. Not these days. The only legit streaming service we do occasionally use is BBC iPlayer.

Other than that, it’s a Steam Link / Moonlight machine, plus sometimes playing tunes from Apple Music.

A nicety would be to be able to AirPlay to it, so my wife can show me videos that she’s saved to show me, but I’m not sure how feasible that is outside of Apple devices.

I’ve only been playing with it today, but I reckon Azuracast ought to tick all of your boxes.

I’ve pointed it at the drive that holds my Navidrome library. Once it’s finished sorting through all 14,500 tracks, I can then sort them all into various different playlists to do more or less the same as you’re looking to do.

Just today I installed Azuracast on my server, pointed it at my Navidrome library, and now I have my own radio station. Once it’s all configured I’ll hook into it from my laptop for my weekly show using Icecast, which I’m really forward to doing. Because I’m cool.

I am the living embodiment of failing to remember this every time I decide to automate something, or write a script to make something happen with one word.

Plex and Chill Jellyfin and Impregnate Jellyfin and Masturbate

For me it’s the constant notifications I get from DAVx5 telling me that it can’t connect to my Nextcloud server.

My company recently switched out all of it’s older Dell for newer ones that are capable of running Win11 (because existence is pain). As a result, I now have three Dell micro PCs two of which are on DDR4, one is DDR3. All of which cost me nothing.

I’ve already put Proxmox and OpenWRT on one and shitcanned the crappy Linksys my ISP gave me, and am about to put another into service as my home server. The third one has yet to reveal its use to me, but it’ll come.

I currently have eight computers of various specs, sizes and configurations, and am happy to rehouse a bunch more.

Excellent, thanks!

I was just wondering if I could point it to folders that already exist on my server. In particular, my Syncthing folder.

Owncloud is very handy for sending things to people in a pinch. I have it running in Yunohost on my VPS.

This comment led me to investigating copyparty for myself. It looks good.

Do you know if you can specify existing folders?

I’ve been pondering doing this to a broken iMac I’ve got.

It got donated to me by someone who needed to thin out his studio a bit, so it didn’t cost me a penny. But I took the screen off to give it a clean out and repaste, apparently didn’t tape it in place securely enough as a temporary measure, so the screen fell off. And smashed.

I did some swearing.

However, it’s still a surprisingly handy spec. 3.5ghz i5, 24gb RAM and a Radeon GPU. So I’ve been wondering about pulling the guts and turning it into a desktop, then making it my home server to replace the 2014 Mac mini I currently use.

ponderings intensify

My home server is 100% up, because I never check it and that’s how it works, right?