ButteryMonkey

I understood about two thirds of that tbh.

Im the sort of person why plex is still a big thing. Just enough knowledge, but not enough for all the things.

I know docker isn’t the only option (idk if thats what you mean) but idk any of what you proposed as alternative. Ill send this to IT person, maybe they’ll get it, but i don’t :) i want to get the things, but i don’t have the background knowledge to make them digestible. Have a degree in technical communication, so very good at learning, more for science than tech, unless I can find a good tech guide first and then I’m great (but tech people are notoriously shit at documentation for anyone even remotely lacking in tech skill)

Genuinely don’t know how to set those things up, and “my personal IT” doesn’t know either because they also have limited docker experience, and no media management experience, the media stuff is my contribution, and I do it painfully manually (i like curating, so its largely fine, but its painfully manual). i’ve been looking into it on and off for a hot minute. But I have zero docker experience which is the main way those things are done afaik.

If you know of a good guide for those things, one that doesn’t assume you are a whiz with docker already, I’d be interested. Personal IT person does security and used to sysadmin, so I’m sure they could figure it out if i can’t, but we haven’t found any particularity good guides for it that were digestible without the background knowledge. Something neither of us has any other reason to learn, so hasn’t been done.

Good to know, I’ll have to look into that. I’d like my jelly set up for the very few highly technical people I know who can manage their own connections (I got my limited technical skills somewhere!!), as well as my own home use, so thats helpful. Also to have a backup option for the person I care enough about to manage a VPN for (literally one person, but I also want them to have access to my calibre database as well as share folders for GOG games, and they are with it enough to learn what I teach them for maintaining the connection)

Im not sure exactly when I became a data hoarder, but I certainly am now, and more tools are good. Thanks for that info :)

Sort of, I guess? It probably would be very different if I’d been naming them in a way that works for jelly from the start, but it’s just a massive undertaking at this point to… retrofit, for lack of a better term coming to mind.

I was under the impression they used the same agent for metadata, but they must not, or there must be some changes in how Plex handles stuff.

I’m not really sure what you mean by special feature in this context, but plex pulls the meta largely without needing to rename files (some exceptions, but they are very obvious, like if there’s words/numbers before the title for some reason, like when I ripped my 13 hours of classic monster movies and they were numbered), and it usually doesn’t care about extra stuff like encoding info and whatnot. Hardly need to manually match anything when it gets added, and never need to manually match shows. Handfull of stuff if I rebuild the server from scratch, but those files mostly don’t have metadata to begin with (some youtube rips, some documentaries that probably came out of a series, that sort of thing). It just seems to be a lot more forgiving, I guess.

I’m just not super interested at the moment in going through my entire library, which would take half of forever, to rename everything to make it work properly. Especially when I already did/do that for plex’s requirements, and it works fine. I assumed when I set jellyfin up it would pull the same, but it doesn’t, in my experience.

I have both technically running. The metadata matching on jellyfin is complete ass, so I have to manually match up like a third of my library, or reconfigure the files (absolutely not happening) which I just dgaf enough to do when vanishingly few people would be able to use it, so its only partially set up. It also can’t be accessed by anyone because I’m not dumb enough, nor smart enough, to open it up to the internet (I don’t know how to do it safely and I’m thus entirely not interested in trying).

Plex, by contrast, is already configured (and if I have to scrap the library and start over, as I’ve done several times, its pretty easy to reconfigure), the metadata linking is correct and automatic most of the time, everyone already has access to it, and it just works for them, and thus for me. I’m not giving it up just because a bunch of hyper-nerds on the internet say it’s bad for, frankly, nonsense reasons that don’t apply or matter to me or honestly most people who use it. I’ll wait until it -actually- is bad for my use, or until jellyfin serves the use I have for it, which it absolutely does not do presently, and may never. (And no, a vpn or whatever setup is not a solution, it’s just one more thing to maintain and fuck with constantly to keep it working for people who don’t even know what a vpn is. Hard pass.)

I wouldn’t pay for plex now, nor in the last several years, and I strongly discourage my users from doing so, but spent money is spent, so might as well keep using what I paid for until it doesn’t work for me anymore. I mean really, why not? I genuinely haven’t seen any valid reasons to get rid of it, and lots of reasons to keep it.

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You have it good my friend. Language is powerful.

Oh for sure, I appreciate the effort to help :)

Age 5, yes.

I know that’s why but explaining to other people is easier to just describe :)

Any time I get even remotely bored while needing to focus on the boring thing, I start falling asleep. I can’t help it, my brain just goes into power saving mode when it’s being forced into something completely unstimulating. I desperately wish I could harness this power, but even books about statistics or the history of the concept of zero are too interesting and will keep me up and engaged. It has to be genuine spontaneous boredom. Though the “sleep with me” podcast sometimes comes close because I can’t follow what he’s saying for more then a sentence or two at a time due to his speech patterns.

I got in trouble for falling asleep in class so frequently they made me stand in the back of the room to stay awake.

So that’s how I learned I could fall asleep standing up… same exact nodding off behavior as while sitting.

Is your username a piano keyboard?

That was an incredibly interesting read, and I learned a lot! Thank you for posting it!

It’s genuinely infuriating that so much labor is simply stolen, in so many different ways, from people with a passion for what they do, and turned into profit for some mega corp, with the vast majority funneled to a few people completely unrelated to the any work.

Have you ever had a renfaire-style roast turkey leg? That’s what I always assumed they are, and that’s easily one of my favorite things of all time, to the point that I keep turkey drumsticks in my freezer quite often.

I’m curious how you have it that you feel that way. Do you bake it, broil, steam? Do you cover? Uncover? How long for each? What bits do you have?

I mean breast skin is not great skin so if you like that cut I get your dislike but if you do legs and thighs, baked or fried or anything where it crisps and a lot of the fat cooks out, that’s not to your liking?

I still have ps2 games in my backlog (physical collection)… won’t even say how many ps3-5 games I’ve got sitting… but it’s a lot.

Replaying botw for the dozenth time tho, then probably horizon zero dawn, I only need to do the hardest mode on that and I’ll have done it on every difficulty to 100% at least once.

I would do both of those activities relentlessly.

I’d start with the books giving strength because I could use more of that asap, and then when the reps with the weights are easy, swap to those and super-genius myself.

Frankly some exploit like this would make real life -so much easier-! I hate doing things that are super hard and a lot of work, only to make that same thing slightly easier later. I’d love to get unrelated skills from activities.

Shit I’d even take random stats. +1 int, then +1 cha, then +1 sta etc. just gimme all the buffs!!!