shellington

same my biggest issue is having to go through the hassle of setting up tailscale on device for when not at home. I will admit I have been kind of putting off dumping plex.

Yeah i am trying to go as open source as possible to avoid this kind of crap, plex is the only closed source thing i still use and that will be replaced by Jellyfin soon.

depends on the apps vacuum tube (youtube 4k) plex 4k, also discovered a new use for it too. Wanted to play some ps1 games but can’t find the power lead for it, so after searching fruitlessly installed duckstation plugged in a usb controller and it works great. Best £60 i have ever spent such a versatile and reliable thing.

Well honestly I have been using them for a few months now and they have worked flawlessly.

What kind of services do you tend to want to watch through them?

I was using Nvidia Shields but wanted to get away from Android. Over the summer i bought some Dell mini pcs, put the Plasma Bigscreen OS on them and got some USB remote controls.

These have been working really well and is nice to have them running linux. The tv interface is really good and for the few apps that didn’t have linux versions i just made my own.

I use mine mainly for plex (which has an app) Youtube (vacummtube) and made my own apps to access tube archivist, odysee archivist and stash. So i guess it depends what you watch on it.

I use LTO for my 70TB of data. My rig is done on the cheap. I got an LTO 5 drive external off ebay for around 500. SAS card and a really old cheap HP desktop for about 50. Works perfectly, I have done a full system restore from backups and the tapes are cheap. Have had this system working for 5 years now.

In the future i plan to upgrade to LTO 7 when the drives become cheaper, but I have found it to be very reliable, great for making my backups and just so cool and fun to use.