Joelk111

If, to you, not being able to play one game in the sea of many many many games is akin to death, maybe you need to see someone about addiction.

If you cheat in a game, you’ve burned your bridge. It’s like taking a piss in the cereal isle of Kmart, you probably won’t be welcome in that Kmart any more. Or hey, maybe you’ll end up like an acquaintance I knew who was banned from a Kmart, maybe you’ll be hired on as staff without them checking the binder of banned people. I think I’ve lost the plot of this analogy.

Figured I’d ask here as thought self-hosters would care most about looking after their photos.

Couldn’t be more wrong in my case. I host immich so I don’t have to worry about taking care of my photos. I hate taking care of my photos. I hate organizing them, and almost never go back to look at them anyways. Immich just yeets them onto my NAS and I can use visual search to sometimes find what I’m looking for with nearly zero effort from me.

All of that, to answer your question, I just throw them on Immich and they appear on the timeline in roughly the correct spot. I also will often share a link, asking friends and family to upload to my Immich server.

Host both. Keep plex up for your gma, Jellyfin for everyone else. Tbh Jellyfin is also pretty intuitive. Currently I’m hosting both, but my gma doesn’t use it, so I’ll probably move completely to Jellyfin.

Mine works about the same on Linux as it did on Windows. I paid for it so no need to pirate it. If I hadn’t paid for it I probably would’ve started using something else.

Tbh I didn’t think of my stuff as a home lab, though I guess it is. I just call them my home servers. Sounds cooler and is a better phrase for describing to non-techies imo.

I moved to Kubuntu recently. I’m overall happier, but I’ve had a number of pain points.

1. I bought DaVinci Resolve thinking they supported Linux. They do, just very poorly. Figuring out how to get that up and running was a faff. Davinci Resolve also doesn’t support AAC audio on MP4 files on Linux, so I had to write a script to transcode the audio of media to WAV. It also doesn’t play nice with window management. Overall, using resolve has been a huge pain.

2. I use Insta360s software just to stitch 360 video, getting that set up with bottles wasn’t the most straightforward but it works now.

3. I still haven’t figured out Fusion360, and I really don’t want to spend the time learning a new software. I learned it before I’d started making an effort to only use cross-platform tools.

4. I bought the Xbox Store version of Forza Horizon 5 so I could play it on my PC and Xbox. I no longer have the Xbox, and I’d have to re-buy it on Steam if I wanted to play it.

5. My Index just isn’t detected on Ubuntu. It was on Windows. I’ve tried a bunch of things, but it just doesn’t show up, so I haven’t been able to play VR. It might have a bad cable, but I’m not sure. Weird that it showed up before and doesn’t in Kubuntu.

Linux is all about finding alternatives. There is an alternate workflow, but you might have to deal with inconveniences or put in effort to learn something new. It’s been a lot of work. Also, I might need to dual boot windows to play VR stuff.

Ahh, that’s valid. I’ve been wanting to build a (relatively) small 16TB SSD NAS for video editing, after which I could dump footage to my main NAS. SSD NAS systems can definitely make sense depending on your use case. Hell, you can even game off of them if you’ve got 10gig networking.

Why do you turn off the NAS at night? Reminds me of my grandparents turning off the wifi at night.

I understand what you’re saying. What would make GrayJay open source? Allowing for community contribution?

Edit: I looked it up thanks to your unhelpfullness, and open source seems to mean making the code available for the community to use, modify, and share, which Grayjay seems to do. I’m pretty sure I’m right here, but I do want to hear your definition and argument. Is your issue that the license doesn’t allow others to make money using the source code?

By the acronym, opening up the source code to the public would make it open source. What is Grayjay missing to be open source then? Accepting contributions?

It’s free, and I see an official Github repository containing the code, is that not foss?

Sure, that’s why I paid for Plex Pass. Plex isn’t free.

You’d be better off directly donating.

Damn I’ve gotta set up one of these, whether it be this one or paperless. The text recognition in photos would be huge.

Yeah, all the threads I came across when I looked into this were like “Self host everything! Except email” so I haven’t looked into it.

Thanks for the explainer, that makes a lot of sense.

They said kilawatt hours per how, not kilawatts per hour.

kWh/h = kW

The h can be cancelled, resulting in kW. They’re technically right, but kWh/h shouldn’t ever be used haha.

This is a factual but irrelevant statement

Watt hours makes sense to me. A watt hour is just a watt draw that runs for an hour, it’s right in the name.

Maybe you’ve just whooooshed me or something, I’ve never looked into Joules or why they’re better/worse.

Mate, kWh is a measure of electricity volume, like gallons is to liquid. Also, 100 watt hours would be a much more sensical way to say the same thing. What you’ve said in the title is like saying your server uses 1 gallon of water. It’s meaningless without a unit of time. Watts is a measure of current flow (pun intended), similar to a measurement like gallons per minute.

For example, if your server uses 100 watts for an hour it has used 100 watt hours of electricity. If your server uses 100 watts for 100 hours it has used 10000 watts of electricity, aka 10kwh.

My NAS uses about 60 watts at idle, and near 100w when it’s working on something. I use an old laptop for a plex server, it probably uses like 50 watts at idle and like 150 or 200 when streaming a 4k movie, I haven’t checked tbh. I did just acquire a BEEFY network switch that’s going to use 120 watts 24/7 though, so that’ll hurt the pocket book for sure. Soon all of my servers should be in the same place, with that network switch, so I’ll know exactly how much power it’s using.