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If you have trouble with outgoing mails, you can use a hybrid approach.

Receive mails directly to your server but use a mail service to relay your outgoing mails. Configuration for that is very simple in mailcow and there are a few dozen (free) transactional email providers (e.g. Scaleway).

That way you can keep receiving your mails privately and only have to give up some privacy when sending mails.

I can’t speak for client capabilities on Apple devices, but what’s your server hardware? CPU or GPU transcoding?

I have an AMD GPU in my server and have no issues transcoding AV1 and H265 for my lesser capable clients.

You can also setup Jellyfin in parallel to Plex and give it a whirl.

Sir, this is a /c/selfhosted.

I ran Emby for a while before switching to Jellyfin. Still running it today.

It has been a few years since I last used Plex but I always liked their interface, their tech stack is fairly modern, they have apps for pretty much every device, their title matching for content works really well and there was not much wrong with it back in the day other than it lacking local authentication.

I switched over long ago when they started pushing streaming services to my users that I couldn’t deactivate server side.

Not really, the only wifi devices are phones and IoT.

Is that actually an UPS or just a backup battery? Can it passthrough the line power directly or does the inverter need to run 24/7?

In the latter case you might want to check how much power the inverter eats just by itself. For example, my Bluetti with 2 kWh needs a whopping 50W in idle just to keep the AC ports powered. Of course your unit looks much smaller so it should be way less but still worth measuring.

That is what it is.

It seems they don’t make a variant for Europe so that’s probably why I never heard of it.

The entire house is terminated there, that’s where all the cables go. :)

Is that a Unifi PDU/UPS? Didn’t even know they made these.

Also, you need to peel the stickers of the screens.

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Top to bottom:

• Unifi US-16-XG
• OPNsense DEC740
• Unifi Switch 24
• Unifi Switch 16 PoE
• DIY server with an AsrockRack X470D4U mainboard
• DIY DAS in an old server case with 18 3.5" bays

Not in picture: My UPSes, RIPE Atlas probe and an Odroid N2+ running my Home Assistant instance

The server runs Proxmox with a bunch of LXC containers running a Docker Swarm cluster.

There’s too many services running so I’m not listing them all. Let’s just say my phone is not going to be thrilled if it goes down. Also, this post was posted through said server.