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  • If you share access with your media to anyone you’d consider even remotely non-technical, do not drop Jellyfin in their laps.

    The clients aren’t nearly as good as plex, they’re not as universally supported as plex, and the whole thing just has the needs-another-year-or-two-of-polish vibes.

    And before the pitchfork crowd shows up, I’m using Jellyfin exclusively, but I also don’t have people using it who can’t figure out why half the episodes in a tv season pick a different language, or why the subtitles are somtimes english, and sometimes german, or why some videos occasionally don’t have proper audio (l and r are swapped) and how to take care of all of those things.

    I’d also agree your thought that docker is the right approach to go: you don’t need docker swarm, or kubernetes, or whatever other nonsense for your personal plex install, unless you want to learn those technologies.

    Install a base debian via netinstall, install docker, install plex, done.


  • Yep. Texas has been just-one-more-thing-happening from going blue for 25 years now.

    So far, not a single damn one of those things, or even, somehow, the aggregate change of ALL of them has resulted in shit.

    Cities are just as blue as they were, and the rest of the state is just as red, and the Republicans have remained in charge throughout it all.

    And, before someone goes ‘but gerrymandering!’, the ®s are maintaining control even in state-wide elections that are just a matter of getting more votes, too, so while you can argue that some of the stuff is probably gerrymandered, that’s not the root cause of it either.

    Another handful of people moving here isn’t going to make one single bit of difference, and anyone thinking otherwise after literal decades of this kind of wishful thinking needs to take a deep breath and some introspection and figure out why they’re still willing to buy that line.


  • Timely post.

    I was about to make one because iDrive has decided to double their prices, probably because they could.

    $30/tb/year to $50/tb/year is a pretty big jump, but they were also way under the market price so capitalism gonna capital and they’re “optimizing” or someshit.

    I’ve love to be able to push my stuff to some other provider for closer to that $30, but uh, yeah, no freaking clue who since $60/tb/year seems to be the more average price.

    Alternately, a storage option that’s not S3-based would also probably be acceptable. Backups are ~300gb, give or take, and the stuff that does need S3-style storage I can stuff in Cloudflare’s free tier.



  • I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.

    I’ve never spent time around big tech types where the split wasn’t 30% libertarians, 30% right-wingers, and 30% american-style liberals.

    The problem there is the libertarians land all over the damn spectrum but you end up basically the same place you do everywhere else: it’s a 50/50 split.

    And let’s be honest, the expectation here is that a lot of the employees won’t move.

    If the goal is to avoid “liberal bias”, or whatever, moving the people from California to Texas won’t do a damn thing. What you do is you move the jobs somewhere unpalatable, knowing full well this will let you do a mass layoff without it being a layoff, because people “chose” not to move to where their job is.

    So we’re going to get a couple of jobs, but they’re going to be filled by people already here.


  • $5 says there’s a hard fork led by all the commercial providers and anyone else who has a business that depends on Wordpress, and that it happens fairly soon.

    It’s GPLed, so while you can’t call your fork Wordpress, you can just rename it and carry on with everything as it was, except you’re no longer involved in dealing with crazy.

    I’m not sure the average customer of any of those businesses knows or cares about the name of the software that their site runs, and won’t give a single crap about it not being Wordpress but some other name while otherwise staying exactly the same - or, maybe, without an opinionated obstructionist sitting in front of the code approval path, perhaps even better.




  • That’s so petty, I’m actually impressed. Like, it’s VERY hard to end up universally disliked by everyone, but it looks like Matt’s figured out how to do it.

    That’s the biggest crybaby nonsense: Oh no, the lawsuit is making us broke. Yes we started this whole thing but it’s not OUR fault! It’s those bad evil private equity firms. Yes, we take equity money too, but not from the BAD firms! Fine! We’ll take our ball and go home!

    Also, hilarious because I’m sure all the developers they have on staff are not involved in doing ANY lawsuit anything, though if they are, I’m going to watch this even closer since if there’s a group of people that firmly do not understand legal shit more than developers (because developers rightfully expect the rules and procedures to make some sort of damn sense) I don’t know who it’d be.








  • US yes, maps no.

    There are less dumb dumbphones that do a bit more, but I went for quite literally phone-calls-and-sms-only.

    I have navigation in the car that works fine, so I personally don’t need that, and am using an iPod, so I don’t need any media functionality.

    The camera is shit, but again, if I’m going somewhere specifically to take pictures then I’ve got a reasonable DSLR.

    Like I said, not for everyone but works great for what I want and makes it where I basically spend zero time on the internet unless I explicitly sit down at my desk.


  • I’m with you on phone reduction, and I’m closing in on like 8 months of using a dumbphone.

    If you’re really serious about removing distractions, a Nokia that feels like it fell out of 1996 is a shockingly good way to do it.

    A bit harsh, perhaps, for a lot of people and I won’t deny there’s a lot of compromises you have to make, but if your goal is to reduce distractions and be in the present, it’s pretty much the gold standard.

    No social media, no group messages, no email, no push notifications, no advertisements masquerading as ‘important’, nothing. If you want me you can call or text, and if you don’t want to do either then I guess whatever it was turned out to not actually be that important anyways.

    Also mine lasts like 10 days on a charge, and doesn’t cost $1000.

    My compromise to survive in modern society was an iPad mini. It’s loaded down with all the crap my phone used to have, but it’s also something I do not take to bed or out of the house, so I can still do banking apps and totp 2fa, and take and send pictures via email and all that stuff without it being a device that’s attached to my hip most of the time and thus in easy reach of noise and nonsense.