Just enjoy the ride. Test or no test, we are only here for a short time, so better make the most of it.

Searched the article and not one video link. Fantastic.

Thanks for the info. These look brilliant! I am more AMD incljned also but ive read that in terms of transcoding media, Intel is better. I have time though. Not gonna buy anything until after christmas.

This looks good! I will experiment with this when i get a more modern pi. Currently running pihole and tailscale on a 2012 pi1b

Oh! In addition, if you want to access it from a tv or mobile device you install the client on those devices and point them at the same IP and port. My lg tv has jellyfin in the store, firesticks have it, play store (i assume apple app store too) amd the server can be managed from there too.

You can set up users and allow each user to acces different content in the settings which is good if you have kids and want to keep them from watching john wick 😜

Perhaps its been made easier now as i don’t think i did much more than running the installer. My pc is on windows though, my server will likely be using some version of linux. I want to learn linux but need my main pc too much to make it a daily driver.

I used these instrctions for the windows installer

https://jellyfin.org/docs/

(Click the windows link there)

Run the installer (can set it as a service but thats only necessary if you want to run it on boot instead of after login. Afaik.)

Once installed you can access it via your local ipaddress:8096 (eg http://192.168.1.100:8096/)

From there you can head to management in the menus and set up your folders for movies/tv shows etc. You just make some folders somewhere on your pc and point it at those. Download all your content and organise it in there. Jellyfin is quite good at dividing things up into individual series and uses meta data to fill in names and thumbnails etc. And you can select the 3 dots when hovering over any thumbnails to edit the metadata or add custom thumnails etc.

I just tinker with it though. Decide what settings you want to use. I still need to set up https but need to look into self signed certificates and stuff first.

Hope that helps.

I’ve already started my journey to replace all streaming services with jellyfin anyway so i will be cancelling mine too.

This jimmy kimmel business just sweetens the deal.

got an old raspberry pi set up as a jump box with a tailscale vpn so i can remotely power up my pc from anywhere and watch anything i have downloaded. Just need to get a dedicated server and storage, either nas or internal in a larger tower. But for now its working really well.

My brother used to say, if i have to lift it up why shouldn’t my wife have to put it down?

I see his point but, i close the lid to flush so i don’t have to brush my teeth with a pissy shit particle covered toothbrush.

Wifi sognals can read my heart rate, and be used to track me around my house. But I still can’t get a signal in my room one floor up from the router.

I see what you mean. Yeah, the internet was a better place back then.

I was coming from more of a stance of the tech behind the internet.

When someone could ruin my game of ultima online by picking up the phone.

When niche message boards existed and msn messenger was how i spoke to my friends.

That was 2006. Youtube came out december 15th 2005. Facebook became available to general public in september 2006.

Look, hsres a graph

2005 was roughly the end of the internet dark ages, but it was barely different to the 90s.

2005 was essentially the 90s. People were still talking about the matrix, playing n64 and ps1, barely anyone had a mobile phone and most internet connections were still dial up.

It’s a cult.

I know what you are saying, and i agree, except i don’t think the root of the problem is addressed. Those crazy people shouldn’t have access to guns.

TonaldDrump

When did you decide to become a liar? 😀

I think its fair to say i have a favourite genre, or multiple favourites, but that is no longer exclusive or exclusionary. All music is welcome, i will no longer judge a song by its genre.

I attribute the change to having different social groups in my life. When i was in school i was into rock and thwn metal and that was pretty much the only thing i liked. Later i got in with a crowd that was more into techno, dnb, dubstep, house, minimal etc and grew to appreciate it, and love it, around the same time i was playing in bands and learning the blues, and got into jazz more recently. Always liked classical because of my piano lessons when i was young. It opened my mind up to so much more.

Except pop :)

I used to be one or some or all of these.

But some time in the 2010s, or rather over the course of the last 10-15 years, i stopped listening to music by genre and started listening to music by what made me feel good. Like, my phone is filled with music from so many different genres now i can’t really call myself anything in terms of music subculture. I’m a music “generalist”? I listen to anything that sounds good to me and don’t cut myself off from any genre just because it is said genre.

Except pop.

fuck pop.

Thats a big part of it, yeah. Theres lots of really good comments about it in this thread.

I used to say “Speeding gets you nowhere, fast” but the irony is lost on anyone that does it.