I appreciate these tips. I’m gonna save this comment for the next time I circle back to Jellyfin.

Because I have friends and family that want access to some of the media I host. It’s a lot easier if I can just give them access and have it just work and whatever device they want to use.

I don’t know, and honestly that’s the beauty of it. It just works, and while I know every system is vulnerable to attack, I suspect it’s more secure than what I’d setup myself.

They provide super-simple access from outside your home without any tech knowledge. Automagically. It even works (albeit slowly) without port forwarding.

You may not need Plex to do anything, but it’s kinda disingenuous to say most people can easily and securely set up port forwarding and a DNS service/reverse proxy/etc to keep outside access working.

I am hoping that jellyfin gets better over the next few years. I keep trying it and it keeps feeling broken to me. Lots of people have the same experience it seems but then there’s also always a few people that act like I’m crazy. Nah, it’s still not there, unless things have changed a lot in the past year.

Eh, probably 10 months ago.

Actually yes, I’ve tried jellyfin like 3 times now. I’m sure I’ll try it again.

I know I’ll be downvoted to oblivion but I’ve never had good luck with jellyfin. Plex has a lot of issues but in terms of just working, it’s been far superior ime.

A great question. First of all, all of my services run with docker compose and use volumes for their config storage which get backed up regularly. Then I just use markdown files organized by having a separate file for each service. Basically anything I would need to reproduce my setup on a new machine is what I try to write down. All the docs and compose yaml files are versioned in git. I usually realize I left out info later on and add it as it occurs to me, typically if I have to set up the services on a new machine. This all applies to any software that needs more than a little config, not just apps hosted for the purpose of other machines using them. It’s a very imperfect process, but it’s a ton better than what I used to do which was think “eh I’ll remember how it’s setup”. I rarely would remember all the key details.

If the point is the GIMP’s name hurts it and Photoshop’s does not, I can fully agree to that.

Photoshop is not popular because of its name. It’s popular because it’s very powerful and was one of the first on the market. I’m sure there were a lot of anti competitive moves over the years also. But it’s not due to the name.

That post title reads like nerdy mad libs

Heh, I was thinking the same but then settled on length: 100%

stop calling it “my sequel”

Why?

I didn’t read this because you cannot undo op saying “I don’t care what their politics are”.

Good to know your fascism gets expressed as a web browser choice, I guess.

Speaking for yourself it would seem

Piefed.social was too, on my end

Yep, that sounds like the poster child for this phenomenon.