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Chewy

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  • How can I optimize my jellyfin, specifically transcoding and the CPU usage involved? I'm running it off a mini pc so resources are everything

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  • Given they use a N100, I'd suggest redownloading instead of transcoding for time, energy and quality savings (i.e cost).

  • FFS Plex, the server is on my local network

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  • And making sure Tailscale auto launches on a FireTV stick is a pita too. Telling them to open Tailscale on each start is not an option.

  • FFS Plex, the server is on my local network

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  • Setting up auth before Jellyfin breaks clients. This is not an option. Edit: Unless you meant VPN like Tailscale, but then you'd have to install Tailscale too, which I don't want to explain to others.

  • FFS Plex, the server is on my local network

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  • And sharing my libraries with other friends sharing back with me is pretty great.

    This feature is imo THE killer feature of Plex, although I use Jellyfin. There's no sharing of libraries like Plex does. Multiple user accounts per server, yes, but you have to switch between servers and search separately.

  • Data Backup Solutions

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  • I also wholeheartedly recommend Restic. Hetzner Storage Box or Backblaze B2 are great storage backends and directly supported by Restic.

    Borg is great too, though I've never used it because I've discovered Restic first.

  • Bazaar Is the Flatpak Store GNOME Always Needed

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  • It's packagekit which is slow. I've used Gnome Software on Fedora Atomic and it is quite fast (since a few big optimizations about two years ago) because it only has support for flatpak enabled.

  • Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support

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  • Niri already had support for X11 through xwayland-satellite, although $DISPLAY and xwayland-satellite had to be started manually.

    That said, being enabled by default is great and the other changes are awesome too.

  • Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server?

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  • Interesting. I've had a worse experience with my music library because of how Navidrome didn't support multi artist tags properly until recently. But while writing this comment, I checked again and they merged it in 0.55.0!

    So I'd recommend giving Navidrome a try too. Symfonium is a great client.

  • Please don't promote Wayland

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  • waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to ssh -X feasible.

    https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

  • PSA: If you use AMD graphics and experience frequent system freezes (especially on gnome), you're not alone

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  • Interesting. I feel like 2021 might be the time I first noticed this freezing/crashing on my PC, but not my laptop. I always thought it was the GPU, but after switching to another AMD GPU it still happens.

    The freezes happen irregularly, i.e. there's been times I thought it was fixed for it just to happen again.

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  • Some game servers, some ISPs don't provide IPv6 for (some of) their customers.

  • Using ZRAM on a laptop with 8 GB RAM. Worth it or waste of CPU?

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  • I'm using zram on all my systems, be it 4GB or 16GB. Usually swap is empty, so there's no compressing for the CPU to do anyway. If a RPI is capable of ZRAM, your PC won't break a sweat.

    ZSTD is really fast. I'm using btrfs compression too, and don't notice any performance impact either.

  • Sortable Table view with $/TB for serverpartdeals.com

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  • Sadly they've gone up in price over the last 6 months.

    Mindfactory had 16TB for 160€ (10€/TB), but now they want 240€ for 18TB (13.3€/TB).

    On eBay there's sellers like HMCW, which are now also more expensive. But returns/warranty are questionable to say the least.

    Edit: I wanna punch myself because I didn't get one at the time.

  • ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1 has a binding Arbitration waiver* !!r

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  • Yeah. There already are arbitrators by law: public courts.

  • [SOLVED] ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP?

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  • Yes, even IPv4 was intended to give each device in the world their own IP, but the address space is too limited. IPv6 fixes that.Actually, each device usually has multiple IPv6s, and only some/one are globally routable, i.e. it works outside of your home network. Finding out which one is global is a bit annoying sometimes, but it can be done.

    Usually routers still block incoming traffic for security reasons, so you still have to open ports in your router.

  • [SOLVED] ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP?

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  • If you go with IPv6, all your devices/servers have their own IP. These IPs are valid in your LAN as well a externally.

    But it's still important to use a reverse proxy (e.g. for TLS).

  • Plex has paywalled my server!

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  • Many places don't enforce those laws for simply torrenting.

    Some countries (US) ask the ISP to send warning letters and might disable the internet. In other countries law firms get personal details from the ISP and send a costly letter of a thousand Euro for a single infraction like in Germany.

  • Plex Server Replacement

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  • I would ideally like to convert the library to h.265 or even AV1 if I can make it work.

    Unless you've downloaded remuxes (which I doubt), I'd seriously recommend redownloading instead of converting your existing files.

    h.265 and especially AV1 take a long time to encode by CPU, and hardware encoding won't give you any space savings, unless you're okay with losing much details.

    Redownloading is most definitely faster, will result in more space savings for the quality you'll get. PS: Unless you've got data volume limits, but even then I'd recommend slowly upgrading over time. It's quite simple with TRaSH guides and giving h.265 a higher score.

  • What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?

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    • ActualBudget for finances.
    • Radicale for calendar/contacts.
    • Immich for photos/videos.
    • Redlib as a frontend for Reddit (LibRedirect ftw).
    • TheLounge as an IRC client.
    • Bitwarden/Vaultwarden as a password manager.
    • paperless-ngx for documents