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teawrecks

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  • Plex Announces Massive Price Hike on Lifetime Subscription Plans

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  • As a lifetime owner, the number of features they've deprecated is probably the worst part.

    • Photo support (luckily Immich came along)
    • Tidal integration (no idea if that was Plex or Tidal's decision)
    • Plugins (god forbid anyone add the functionality they keep removing)

    It's close between that and the last app overhaul that removed a bunch of functionality.

  • The future of AI in Ubuntu [Except it's Blockchains instead of AI]

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  • Yes, the tech industry has a new hammer and everything looks like a nail, but the reality is, LLMs are finding far more purchase than blockchains did. I wholeheartedly agree that you should not be forced to use an LLM when you don't want to, much less have any app run one locally without consent, but to suggest LLMs have similar usefulness to blockchains is just ignoring reality. This isn't the crypto bubble, this is the dotcom bubble. It would be more like replacing all the instances of "AI" with "the internet" or "computers".

  • Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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  • Could you maybe elaborate on the feature parity?

    1. I travel often. There are a lot of devices in hotels, bnbs, and friend's houses that have native plex support. Not so much for jellyfin.
    2. Casting to cast-compatible devices is very hit-or-miss, but mostly miss. I know the casting ecosystem is already a mess, but as far as user experience goes, Plex has spent more effort ironing it out.
    3. The native Plex client works with a controller on my bazzite HTPC when launched from the steam ui, while the native jellyfin client doesn't.

    I keep trying jellyfin out every few months, but so far keep hitting enough friction that I can't reliably make the switch.

    as in separate jellyfin account per each different jellyfin server?

    Yes, if me and 5 of my friends have jellyfin servers, we all need accounts on each other's servers. I then need to juggle accounts to access their content.

    Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy plugin I could run to mask the problem for myself, but it's not a solution for mom who may have access to my server, and one other friend's server that I don't know.

    The correct solution is federated accounts, but the devs have already stated that they don't want to do that.

    Why would you host it openly rather than in a VPN like Tailscale or whatever wire guard is?

    Then friends and family have to be on my VPN to stream anything.

  • Plex’s price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin

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  • To me this means they know they don't have a viable business model. It's possible they took on a lot of debt years ago, and now they have to enshittify to pay it back. I paid for the lifetime membership years ago, and I would say I've more than gotten my money's worth and I'm mostly still happy with Plex, but I would drop them in a heartbeat if jellyfin was a viable alternative.

    People don't like to admit it, but jellyfin doesn't have feature parity yet. I think they could solve a lot of the issues if they went the federation route, but until then, it's just easier for my family and friends to each have 1 plex account instead of N jellyfin accounts. Not to mention the jellyfin vulnerabilities that prevent me from considering hosting it openly.

  • How to not loose important documents?

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  • I have a TrueNas system locally with periodic cloud sync jobs to backblaze B2.

  • What's Debian going to name their releases after when they run out of Toy Story characters?

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  • I don't think they'll have any difficulty convincing Disney to put out another installment.

  • Having a little trouble deciding on which path to go

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  • Either way, just remember to support artists when you can. Bandcamp Friday is one of the best ways I know of to fund artists in exchange for FLACs that you can legally listen to however you want to.

    But I was a broke student in the heydays of torrenting, so I'm not judging using any means necessary to listen to music.

  • Colota 1.x - Open Source Android GPS Tracker with selfhosted backend support

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  • Lol I don't know what you want man, i didn't realize this was one of those "digging my heels in because I don't know how to be wrong" threads. I'll let you do your thing, peace.

  • Colota 1.x - Open Source Android GPS Tracker with selfhosted backend support

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  • Who is "we"? I'm responding to your top level comment. You just asked the creator of an exclusively client-side app whether they support encryption. Not only is it reasonable for me to assume you mean client side encryption, it's unreasonable for you to ask for server side encryption, because there is no server. It's a BYOBackend situation.

    Now if you're asking for client-side encryption, something like Keepass where the file itself is encrypted, you have to use some form of auth to decrypt it on use, and you can store this file using whatever backend you want, that's perfectly reasonable. I would still consider that encrypted at rest, but at least you could maybe separate encrypted reads from writes and limit the attack surface in the event of a breach.

  • Colota 1.x - Open Source Android GPS Tracker with selfhosted backend support

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  • All phones are already disk encrypted these days. If you want disk encryption on your PC, you should enable it. Otherwise, it's the responsibility of whatever backend you choose to handle encryption over the network.

  • Power efficiency

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  • You might be surprised how little power it's sipping when sitting idle. Unnecessary disk accesses might be the biggest power use in those hours, but that's more likely to cost you due to wear and tear and eventual replacement of the drive.

    I recommend buying a Kill-a-watt and monitoring your power consumption on the server for a week or two. Then do some math to see how much it's actually costing your energy bill. If it's actually considerable, then try using tools like powertop to see if you can determine what's generating all the activity.

  • Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke

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  • Ok, I misread what you were linking to. Yeah, that's pretty bad to allow actual streaming of content to unauthed users. I agree they should not be encouraging anyone to set this up to be publicly accessible until those are fixed. Or at least add a warning.

  • Jellyfin critical security update - This is not a joke

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  • If I say I custom rolled my own crypto and it's designed to be deployed to the open web, and you inspect it and don't see anything wrong, should you do it?

    Jellyfin is young and still in heavy development. As time goes on, more eyes have seen it, and it's been battle hardened, the security naturally gets stronger and the risk lower. I don't agree that no one should ever host a public jellyfin server for all time, but for right now, it should be clear that you're assuming obvious risk.

    Technically there's no real problem here. Just like with any vulnerability in any service that's exposed in some way, as long as you update right now you're (probably) fine. I just don't want staying on top of it to be a full time job, so I limit my attack surface by using a VPN.

  • self-hosted image hosting like Imgur?

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  • If it's just for you, then you don't need to tackle the hardest problem of content moderation.

    The second hardest problem is bandwidth. If you post something to a forum that suddenly gets a lot of traffic, without some kind of CDN intermediary, you'll get a hug of death and/or a huge bill for all the bandwidth.

    The third hardest problem is uptime. My assumption is that you want the content to remain valid forever. No one likes seeing dead links in old forum threads. So as you use it over time, anything you've posted over the years could get a sudden unexpected viral hug, or you have to let it die (which may not necessarily stop the hug, since everyone would still be trying to ask your server for the content).

    Just making sure you appreciate how difficult solving this problem inevitably becomes. Note that discord and Lemmy Posts let you upload images, so you shouldn't need such a service in those cases. But for random forums, it quickly becomes hard.

  • Cloudless Smart Home: Thread, Zigbee, ...

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  • I was also intrigued by the introduction of the matter standard, but the reality is there are already a ton of low power, cheap ZigBee devices out there that can operate for years on a battery.

    I think I've run into one thread/matter compatible device that I was considering, but found a HA forum thread saying their experience with that protocol+device+HA wasn't as stable. So I didn't do it. I'm not even sure how cheap and low power thread/matter devices can get.

  • Will we have to choose between privacy-friendly Linux distros vs legal Linux distros?

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  • Doesn't the law expect "Operating Systems" to do this? I feel like everyone should point fingers and lean on bureaucracy. Systemd should say "well don't look at us, we're not an operating system, we're just an init and services system", and Linux says "well we're just a kernel, usermode does whatever it wants", and Debian says "well we're just a distro, we didn't write any of the packages we just stick them together."

    If the tech illiterate idiots who wrote the poorly thought out law can't figure out who to ask, maybe they'll do their due diligence next time.

  • Garuda Linux Says No to Age Verification Outside Legal Requirement

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  • it will not implement such measures unless legally required.

    What a bold stance 🤦

  • Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes

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  • So your claim is both that the Linux kernel operates perfectly fine without systemd for certain distros, and also that the Linux kernel is heavily dependent on systemd and it would be difficult to re-engineer to work otherwise. Do I understand your argument correctly?

  • Surge in Systemd forks after the latest changes

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  • Gnome is not Linux.