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goodbye plex (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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after almost 15yrs my plex server is no more. jellyfin behind nginx with authentik is running very nicely.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yea, JF is getting mature enough for more people to transition.

I've been running it side by side with Plex for about 2 years now, and have a couple of clients (and all of my personal use) on JF, but a few users either cant run JF directly on their hardware (and don’t want to cast every time) or they are older and would struggle to learn a new app without some hands on practice with it.

The newest Plex UI update on some devices is causing some problems so I think I’ll have a few more users moving to JF in the near future.

It's a bit of a ram hog compared to plex but that's not a major issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could you point me to a good tutorial for hosting Minecraft server for my kids?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

if you want easy java minecraft i might try something like https://github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-server though i've not tested that one beyond 'it did install'.

for bedrock this walkthough does a good job of covering the steps. https://harrk.dev/dedicated-bedrock-minecraft-server-ubuntu-setup/

microsoft has a habit of changing the download url regularly so automating it gets annoying. my kid has moved onto java so i've just left the bedrock server shutdown.

if you really want to run a java server outside docker and you're comfortable with bash scripts, i can post mine here. but one of the docker builds is going to be the simplest way to get started with it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Right? Jellyfin is awesome

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Wouldn’t containers make more sense for some of these rather than full blown VMs?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What is virsh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It is the command line interface for libvirt/qemu/kvm on Linux. I usually just use virt-manager remotely via SSH to create and manage my VMs, but virsh can be handy as well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

command-line virtual machine manager

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Plex still good for the boys that bought the lifetime pass. I understand why people would change. But it's still the best plug and play option. Waiting until they break the "lifetime" thing and fuck us over.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't that already happen? Or am I misremembering?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Mostly not yet. They did restrict the bandwidth on relay, but anyone with half a brain can open a port and that still allows apps to direct connect without relay. Honestly I wish could just force it to never relay since randomly my iPad will use relay even when I’m on the same network but that’s more because the new iOS app since the rewrite is dogshit.

Lifetime pass since 2012 here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I'm pretty certain that you can turn Relay off in your account settings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Hmm I don't like dogshit. Nobody ever seems to clean it up.

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