Calculator Manipulator

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Cake day: April 16th, 2019

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  • Takes half a minute to start playing, which gets annoying real quick when a toddler gets involved with all the short videos.

    Random buffering every 10-15 minutes on most 1080p as well as 4k videos.

    Random buffering every couple of minutes on certain videos - the whole of the office us is the last one I remember.

    Crappy multi audio track support - some of them play, but most don’t. What was most infuriating at first was jellyfin happily selecting the track I want in UI and then just playing the default one anyway.

    The UI is kinda crap - I understand moving on a tv screen is more difficult, but god damn - what jellyfin is doing with arrow navigation is plain masochistic.

    When it works - it’s beautiful. But it rarely does so for long enough.


    I really want to like it, but it’s doing its best to push me away.

    And before you suggest anything - I’ve already tried everything there is to try that’s available on the open internet. Happy to hear something that’s never been posted anywhere, though!


  • I can only vouch for my setup; many variations are available.

    • Nextcloud - files, photo autoupload, contacts, calendar
    • Postfix and dovecot (and a bunch of friends) - email
    • Pixelfed - private instagram. Can federate, but I’ve never enabled that.
    • Opnsense - firewall, vpn, adblocking via unbound. Wireguard is my choice, but any would do. I get all my lan stuff available everywhere.
    • Jellyfin - media library. It’s kinda sucky, though, thinking of going back to plex, unfortunately.
    • Lemmy - well. You know what it is :)
    • Graphene on a pixel

    Hit me up if you ever decide to go self hosting route and need a hand with a thing or two!










  • dire problems, including those that accumulate over time

    That’s not a thing. You create problems over time by experimening in what is, effectively, production load. If all you ever did was install any distro and kept it up to date - not much can break. Granted - shit happens, but it’s incredibly rare.

    As an example - I’ve set up my mail server in May 2019. Chose archlinux, because I never wanted to go through a big upgrade. The only exta software installed there is mail-server related. Direct from the repos. I’ve become confident enough that now there’s a nightly cronjob to update the system with a hook to reboot if kernel or init gets updated.

    In all those 5 a bit years I’ve had one issue where I hqd to revert a kernel update.

    Another example is tang on an ubuntu server. This was at a previous workplace, but essentially it’s a piece of software from the repos. Originally installed on 16.04, has gone without reprovisioning all the way to 22.04. I’ve now left the company, but I hear it’s still running.

    Upgrading an ubuntu desktop fleet with a myriad of custom software, on the other hand… let’s just not talk about it.


  • I’m not the best person to query about backups, but in your situation I would do the following, assuming both server and desktop run on BTRFS:

    Have a script on the desktop that starts btrfs-receive and then notifies the server that it should start btrfs-send.

    You can also do rsync if BTRFS is not a thing you use, but It would either be expensive storage wise, or you would only ever have 1 backup - latest.