I tried to setup Plex and it was just about the most god-awful experience I’ve ever had. It was unnecessarily complex to accommodate their cloud infrastructure setup.

Installing Jellyfin took like… 2 minutes and I’ve had no issues since.

Only thing I don’t like about Jellyfin is the metadata engine, which I have disabled and just use TinyMediaManager and save everything to .nfo which is picked up by Jellyfin immediately. Works great.

IT’S BAD IN MY TOWN, SO THAT MEANS IT’S BAD IN ALL THE 33,904 LOCATIONS NATIONWIDE! HRUHRRURHRHRRURHRURURHRURHR

People like you never cease to amaze me with the sheer volume of exudate that comes out of your mouths.

https://youtu.be/T_D3d1RWBrI?t=5

I think you may be blaming the victim here

Must be nice to live in your world where you can vote to take other’s rights away and when they start taking your rights away you get to act surprised and people online will defend your actions because hey, you were lied to by the guy who’s specifically known for being a liar. You can totally vote to hurt others, and people will defend your actions online! It’s totally fine. /s

I’m expanding my second term indefinitely! I wasn’t elected to a third term, my second term just won’t end–so therefore it’s all constitutional!

MMW.

While I do agree with your sentiment you must realize these people have been lied to.

Tired of hearing this excuse. Trump lied his entire first term. Verifiably. Anyone who believed that the second would be any different shouldn’t be voting–I don’t care the circumstances.

We’re looking at the dissolution of our democracy for all time and you want me to not hold these people accountable because they were “lied to?” That’s just stupid. The same kind of apathy that caused this situation to begin with.

Assuming disabled people must have voted for Trump and therefore get what they deserve is disingenuous.

This isn’t at all what I said. I said specifically you can’t vote for the “throw all disabled people in a volcano” party and then be surprised when they start throwing disabled people in volcanos…

I’m a person with disabilities, which is precisely why I didn’t vote for the “throw all disabled people in a volcano” party… It’s not wrong to hold people accountable for how they vote, even if they’re disabled. That’s not saying “haha, you deserve this!” but rather its “Welcome to adulthood. Decisions have consequences.”

Being an asshole out of pocket sure as hell won’t win those people back

Why would anyone want to win them back? Either you have emotional intelligence and understand that the Trump platform is bad and evil, or you don’t. It’s not some contest to see who can “convert the most people.”

Fact of the matter is, is that if you vote against your own self interests, I have no sympathy for you. You would have been all “hazzah-hazzah!” when Trump was talking about ruining everyone else’s life, but now that he’s coming after yours, you’re all pissed off?

How is a reasonable person supposed to have sympathy for that? I’m totally against harming the disabled. That’s why I didn’t vote for Trump. But how can I look at some dude in a wheelchair who voted for Trump and not think “you stupid piece of shit, you did it to yourself.” It is what it is at this point. He told everyone exactly who he was, and exactly what he was about from the beginning. It’s like a bunch of Vegans electing a Lion to lead them only to be totally fucking shocked when he pulls out his meat agenda. It’s astonishingly stupid.

Has nothing to do with being liberal, center, or right, despite how hard you’re fighting to make it that way–even though I don’t even identify as a liberal… lol so nice try.

Exactly what I mean. No one should be standing around scratching their head thinking “I could never have seen this coming!”

Same with all these Republicans who are cumming in their pants because the administration is currently going after who they want them to. Soon as they’re not, and they’re coming after them, they’re gonna be again like “I could never have seen this coming!”

The fallout is going to be epic, and by then it’ll be too late. We’re fucked for good.

There comes a point where you become complicit in your own abuse. If you’re a person with a disability it should be painfully obvious to you which part of the isle you should be on…and if you’re not, then yeah. I blame you.

It’s adult time. Time to be a big boy a realize you fucked up.

Oh well. Who’d ya vote for?

Email is like, the worst possible option. Check out Apprise. Super easy to setup Telegram or Discord notifications via webhooks. Takes like a minute.

“I’ve done enough damage. It’s time for me to step aside so someone else can continue my legacy.”

Considering Congress has a 94% reelection rate, abso-fucking-litely they do.

They spent hundreds of millions setting up the program and it’s projected to funnel $15 billion annually into the MTA. But sure, they’ll, totally just put everything down and walk away because the President says he no longer approves. lol.

Now to guess which ones will still be maintained in 5 years 😆

If you figure it out, lemme know. lol

Here ya go: https://selfh.st/apps/

Will cover about 90% of your bases there. You can even look up proprietary software and it will show you self-hostable alternatives.

My goto would be wireguard, is that still a good option?

Yes.

Private cloud/File server

https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=File+Sharing

Is a local video streaming app actually useful for a rare watcher of movies etc, or can they be streamed directly from the file server?

You can do it any number of ways. I have it setup a pretty cool way, I think. I leave my PC on all the time. I also have a home NAS with all my media files on it. I host Jellyfin server on my PC and in the Jellyfin settings link to the network location of the files (\\nas\media\tv, etc). Works great, especially for transcoding because I run the server on my Windows PC, it gets access to my GPU for transcoding. Really great setup I like to think. Only drawback being you have to leave your PC on all the time, which doesn’t bother me.

Is Docker the way to go for everything? or just install on the machine directly?

There are alternatives to docker, like LXC but they’re not as widely used as Docker. So unfortunately…

Another option for you could be Hyper-V if you don’t mind using your PC to run containers. I like it better than running docker containers.

Matching 500 episodes (e.g. Looney Tunes and Disney shorts) manually isnt fun.

With tools like TinyMediaManager, why in the absolute fuck would you do it manually?

At this point, it sounds like you’re just bad at media management more than anything. 1080p h265 video is at most between 1.5-2GB per video. That means with even a modest network connection speed (500Mbps lets say) you can realistically download 5TB of data over 24 hours… You can redownload your entire media library in less than 4-5 days if you wanted to.

So why spend ~$700 on 2 20TB drives, one to be used only as redundancy, when you can simply redownload everything you previously had (if you wanted to) for free? It’ll just take a little bit of time.

Complete waste of money.

Because Spotify is just one source…

https://meidasnews.com/