after almost 15yrs my plex server is no more. jellyfin behind nginx with authentik is running very nicely.

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    16 hours ago

    honestly every explanation probably just ends at ‘this is what i learned on and it works’. same way i religiously use nano and try to do everything in bash first. or how a couple coworkers can’t stop explaining their vim workflow and defending python unprompted like it’s a trauma response for them. my current homelab is also running a r9 with 64gb ram and 30tb storage. if i were paying for remote hosting, still using salvaged hardware or being paid, i’d invest time learning newer processes. but containers haven’t caught my interested and this set up takes basically no effort on my part to maintain, so i can focus my limited free time elsewhere.

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      14 hours ago

      honestly every explanation probably just ends at ‘this is what i learned on and it works’.

      Yeah, lots of these answers basically boil down to “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

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        11 hours ago

        These days the hammer is usually docker/podman/lxc containers instead of VMs though. Like, you don’t need a container to run a self-contained statically-compiled binary, yet people still do it for some reason.

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      Same.
      The time it takes me to write a single function in Python is the same as writing a whole Bash-script using nano.
      Also I initially set up my homelab using Docker in a VM on Proxmox. Totally useless abstraction, but I never found the time and patience to migrate the VM to bare metal.