I agree with you, but this was specifically about jellyfin.

I don’t think so, but don’t quote me on that. My machines come with a 65w charger.

A micro sized PC with an i5 and 8gb or ram can cost under 100€, and it’s way more powerful compared to a pi. Power efficient too. That’s what I used for a long time for my jellyfin server.

I personally use my home lab to test and learn, and I try to mimic a corporate environment. I have multiple instances of DNS, proxy, etc and I have a “prod” and a separate “staging” k8s environment. I try as much as possible, without going nuts about it, to update and try new changes that might be breaking in the staging cluster.

I immediately ordered a new one from another vendor, as I really needed to build a workstation, and let the purchasing department handle the case. All I know was that the seller did not believe/accept the “wrong cpu story”. From their perspective, it was a sealed box…

It happened to me a few years ago, when I ordered for work an i9 9900k, and inside the sealed box was a core 2 duo… After the seller (not Amazon) refused the return, I looked up a bit online, and it’s a common practice. I even found rolls of “Intel original” seals for 5€ on eBay.

60k stars for a free open source self hosted project? I’d say that’s a really healthy number. Jellyfin has 37k.

I did have backups, it was an easy fix. I had a pihole -up on a crontab for years, probably not the best idea :)

FW rule accept :53 from pihole only, deny :53 from all. I had some devices with hardcored DNS settings (8.8.8.8).

Pihole 6 broke my DNS (dnsmasq), and since I had a fw rule in opnsense to only use pihole’s DNS, and deny public DNS access, it was an early rise for me :)