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Working in IT for about 15 years. Been online in one way or another since the late 90’s.

I like games / anime but very picky with them.

Cats are the best people.

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • mail is the one thing I refuse to self host for the simple reason that despite not being particularly hard to get up and running initially, when it doesn’t work for whatever reason it can be and often is a gigantic pain in the ass to deal with, especially when it’s something out of your control. For personal there’s very good free options, for enterprise those same free options have paid options.

    Whether it be gmail having a bad day and blocking you or whatever cloud provider or on prem infrastructure crapping out for long periods of time causing you to be cut off from email for a while and potentially missing incoming mail permanently if the retries time out. Or anything in between. It’s one of those things where I’m glad it isn’t my problem to deal with.

    My only involvement with email is ensuring I have a local copy of my inbox synced up every week so if my provider were to ever die I still have all my content.



  • Buy the domain itself wherever you want. I like cloudflare, and a lot of people also suggest porkbun.com. You then point the nameservers for your domain to whatever DNS service you want. If you stick to cloudflare then it’s already done for you.

    For dynamic DNS I use cloudflare’s one using my router to keep it updated. It’s easy to set up. Depending on your router you may need to run a service on a machine to do this instead. things like pfsense/opnsense should have it built-in.









  • Do you actually need hardware transcoding for your media is the real question. I haven’t bothered with 4K content so maybe that’s why but I’ve never used a GPU on any media server be it plex since the early days or jellyfin the past few years. Never ran into a situation where I couldn’t play a video file properly on any of my devices.

    Are you trying to solve a problem with playback of video content or just want it for the sake of having it? If it’s the later I’d say to not bother especially if your budget is low. At some point you may actually need it at which point you can plan the hardware more appropriately.





  • I really liked the concept of this and had high expectation, but I just tried this out following their documentation and not a fan so I’ll have to pass / find a better alternative if one exists.

    The docker-compose.yml given seems to cause the containers to be lacking permissions to save images and even the DB: logs show images can’t be created/saved, restarting the container wipes the DB. No files created at all on the mounted volumes paths. The volume for game files works great though so that’s confusing. I can probably troubleshoot that but this is the first container I’ve ever had such an issue with so I won’t bother particularly due to the next points:

    On the app itself I was pretty disappointed that it doesn’t at the very least extract the files for you, and won’t even skip all the manual junk for direct play games that I took the time to name properly with (DP) on the archive files. The reason given is there may be too many manual steps/variations for installation but direct plays don’t need any of that.

    Given the manual steps required I’ll stick to copy/pasting the files off my server to my local games folder, the games themselves being added to steam if I really need to go that far with them.




  • There isn’t much thinking involved in collections unless you want to make less common ones that span across franchises or something. You can also let jellyfin do it for you but I choose to do it myself.

    More commonly you would just make them for related movies or series. For example I have an MCU collection that’s all the marvel stuff (movies and series), and same for Star Wars. Then much more simple ones like Die Hard, which just has 3 movies in it because that’s how many Die Hard movies were ever made.


  • Possible yes. Cost effective / valid business case probably not. Every extra 9 is diminishing returns: it’ll cost you exponentially more than the previous 9 and money saved from potential downtime is reduced. Like you said 32 seconds of downtime, how much money is that for the business?

    You’re pretty much looking at multiple geographically diverse T4 datacenters with N+2 or even N+3 redundancy all the way up and down the stack, while also implementing diversity wherever possible so no single vendor of anything can cause you to not be operational.

    Even with all that though, you’ll eventually get wrecked by DNS somewhere somehow, because it’s always DNS.