Jellyfin and Immich, first and foremost. From there, Nextcloud, Home Assistant, RustDesk, Docmost, and Nephele.

(Full disclosure: Nephele is my own service. I find it quite useful.)

If the quality of the video is good, I like to see it here.

“the AI” -> “my magic 8 ball”

“AI powered” -> “RNG based”

“power of AI” -> “result of lots of coin flips”

It’s literally a plagiarism machine, so I completely agree with them.

Thank you for being understanding. I shouldn’t have stated it as bluntly as I did either, so I think you were justified in taking it as condescending, and I’m glad we’re seeing each other’s view more clearly now. I think it’s awesome you’re getting into Linux, and even if you don’t ultimately do it, even considering self hosting is awesome. Getting Proxmox and your own NAS up and running is awesome too, btw. Something you should be proud of. I do want Linux and self hosting to be a welcoming space, so I’m going to try in the future to be more welcoming.

When you’re ready, you can email me at hperrin-friends@port87.com about my offer. The offer stands any time you feel ready to dive in. :)

Again, you just sound like you’re not interested in self hosting. I wasn’t even that condescending to you, but you took it that way. You said you don’t want to learn how to self host in a community about self hosting. Like, imagine if someone went into a community about bicycling and was like, “Well, I don’t want to ride bikes, but I like motorcycles because I don’t have to pedal.” You should expect a certain level of disregard in a community if you’re going into that community saying you’re unwilling to learn the basics of what that community is about.

If you’re not interested in self hosting, I’m not saying you’re not welcome here, because a. you are and b. I don’t moderate this community anyway, but I genuinely wonder why you’re here. You did say you might be interested in the future, so…

This is a genuine offer: if you want to learn how to self host, I will get on a video call with you and teach you how to set up some services on your home network and open them up in a secure way. I write and run my own servers, and have for well over a decade, so I am qualified to teach you what you need to know, if you want to learn.

Yes. You could learn everything you need to know by watching a 20 minute YouTube video, but you’d rather use a paid product instead. That’s, like, the definition of a skill issue. The issue isn’t that the software is hard to use, it’s that you refuse to learn how to use it.

And that’s not the fault of Jellyfin, because the “ease of use” of Plex is because it’s a paid product. They can afford to run servers to make everything work for you without having to put in any effort to learn. You’re using their servers to make it easy for you, and you’re paying to do it.

It’s fine if you don’t want to learn to set up a service, but it does make me wonder why you’re commenting on a self hosting community. It seems to me like you’re not interested in self hosting. (Not trying to assume, but what you said is not what I would associate with someone who likes to self host.)

Sounds like a skill issue.

Plex is not free. Plex is paid software, just like Google Photos or iCloud. The only free software is open source. Open source everything. Doesn’t matter if the client is open source. If the server isn’t, it’s not open source. (I’M LOOKING AT YOU, SNAP!)

Nextcloud is pretty slow in general, but what you’re describing sounds unusual.

For one thing, Nextcloud is written in PHP, so it sets up and tears down its environment for every single request. But PHP has drastically improved over the years, so it’s not that far behind something like Node.

Facebook was originally written in PHP for the Zend engine, and since it was so slow, they forked (or more accurately, reimplemented) it to make HHVM.

Nextcloud still runs on the Zend engine.

Pretty easy. You can use a VPN if you want super secure access. I just use rsync over SSH.

Yeah, but it’s relatively expensive. It’s easier to have a friend willing to let you set up a pc on their network that your server backs up to. Even better if you can do the same for them.

Because humans will put tits on anything. I watched a movie about sentient cockroaches, and the girl cockroaches all had tits.

Joe Wilkins clearly has a thing for robots.

Then a payment method doesn’t need to have a payment.

Idk man, Linux seems not like this at all. But windows and the rest of corpo-software-hell, yeah.

Guns don’t kill people, dogs kill people.

🎵 Take my love, take my land, take me where I cannot stand. I don’t care, I’m still free, you can’t take the sky from me.

Wait, no, don’t take the sky from me!

I’m trying to convince my wife that she doesn’t need to scrub the dishes before putting them in the dishwasher.

It’s got more than just VM management, but yeah, it’s a frontend for a bunch of other services, that you don’t need Proxmox for.