So all the people who want to use your Jellyfin server have to deal with a VPN first?

That’s my point. Plex was easily accessible for friends and family with minimal setup. Jellyfin requires a bit more knowledge.

That means it can’t be shared (easily) with others. That’s the appeal of Plex and the reason why switching entirely to Jellyfin is not an easy thing to do.

Right, but if you’re hosting Plex then you’ve likely shared it with friends/family. Jellyfin isn’t as easy to share.

The hard part about Jellyfin is that it requires your own domain and some more self-hosting knowledge that a hobbyist might not have yet.

It’s not a super hard transition, but it took me a few months on/off to learn the basics of hosting a website from my house.

I’m still trying to figure out headscale on a VPS so I can mask my home IP

I host rustdesk on my own domain and it works. I don’t have my tinfoil hat all the way on though.

I kept forgetting which of the benchmarking sites was biased and I’d see some dumb opinion while researching parts. I finally added userbenchmark to the blocklist on my pihole to avoid that in the future.

California is adding a requirement for age verification for operating systems (or something like that) so each one of these violates that law by booting into linux.

Just checked out Seal. My impression:

It uses the same backend as MeTube (yt-dlp), so they have the same capability as far as website support and file formats.

Seal looks like a good option if you don’t have access to your home network or if you don’t have a dedicated machine to host things.

I still prefer MeTube because it’s a web UI that I can access from any machine. I use a VPN to stay connected to my house so I could still use MeTube while away.

Is it primarily for iPhone users?

MeTube is just a web UI, not a phone app. It is accessible by any device that can see the local IP and port of the host machine.

Yeah, that’s about it. You can watch it directly in the browser as well.

MeTube, for when my friends send me a video on a service I don’t use (facebook, instagram, tiktok). It supports a lot of sites.

It will be used to separate the wealthy from the poor even further. The wealthy people will afford it and make their families healthier and better looking.

I support the idea of eliminating genetic disabilities via gene editing, but the second you add in the option of picking eye or hair color, height, or skin color, you’re going down a path of eugenics that only works to put down those unable to pay for it.

I use my 50 mbps connection to host Plex/Jellyfin and I have a wireguard setup to allow me to access my files.

It works… Mostly. I have to manually set my streaming rate in Jellyfin to something reasonable to make it work remotely.

Downloading files from my server is an overnight process most times.

It also runs qbit with port forwarding to have faster uploading speeds. Everything manages to squeeze through that 50 mbps.

I was about to explain that there’s a way to defog these before I realized he’s not gonna see anything in there…

Same same but different. I got all the jackboxes through uhh ways and means and I play it on my HTPC on the TV.

It’s me… I’m running a widows VM…

Running it on Docker on my debian server. It runs great.

The config setup is a pain in the ass though.

https://github.com/sfortis/frigate-viewer

This is the closest thing to an android app, but it just adds a check to see if you’re on your local network or not. Other than that, it’s just a web frontend.

The frigate documentation also has some info about installing it as an app, but either I’m doing it wrong or it’s the equivalent of a bookmark on my homescreen.

Game servers are always fun! I set up a custom Minecraft modpack and have it set up on my domain. I also run an Arma 3 server, but it’s a hackjob of a self-host solution and I’m ashamed of how it works.

To address your examples directly:

Media server: Jellyfin, along with an *arr stack (Radarr, Sonarr, and qbittorrent and gluetun) to automate everything for you.

Photos app: Immich is your direct Google Photos replacement. Automated uploads, object detection, facial recognition, etc, all ran locally on your machine. Just remember: you still need a proper backup!

Recipe management: Mealie is the best I’ve used. It can import a recipe from almost any website. Very easy to cook with and follow along each step. It also lets you categorize meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), rate your meals, and randomly pick meals for you.

Other things I have going:

Frigate NVR - A couple PoE and wifi cameras set up around the home record everything. Frigate records and timestamps things based on the settings - A person walks up, something loud happens, etc. My only gripe is that there isn’t a good Android app to go with it. I’d like to receive notifications on my phone, too.

MeTube - Rip videos from almost anything. Friend sent you an Instagram video, but you don’t have Instagram? Chuck it into this and it’ll give you the video. Here’s all the websites it supports.

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Why is there an infinity symbol instead of two O’s?

you can’t break those cuffs