Are you OK? I didn’t realize my comment was so inflammatory. I just love Jellyfin and don’t appreciate Plex’s actions over the years. You love Emby. That’s cool! Use what works for you.

If it works for you, great!

I haven’t looked at Emby in a long time. Last I checked, it wasn’t as capable or feature rich as Jellyfin or Plex

I only need my server to work locally so I haven’t messed with that part personally. But I’ve read that setting up tailscale is straightforward and works fine. There are many other solutions to the problem. I would definitely invest a lot of effort before paying for Plex.

You’re not wrong. I would just rather learn Headscale or nginx or any other option than pay that Plex subscription. But I’m sure there are people out there who have extremely valuable time and wouldn’t hesitate to fork over 750.

I have not personally experienced any issues with hardware transcoding. My server is an old Dell Optiplex and I use clients on Linux, Android, Roku and Shield.

Yes you are correct about remote access and if that was a priority for me, I would happily learn that part instead of paying for Plex.

I don’t know why anyone would pay that instead of using Jellyfin. I’ve had my server up for years now and it works great.

Great read! I wonder what his perspective is now. That article was written in August 2024 and a lot has happened since then. For example, I cannot fathom the agreement to Sundar’s latest pay package. Another example of failing up the corporate ladder.

Also, it feels like competition with China was an overlooked wildcard in his argument. It would not surprise me if the bubble continues to grow just to try and beat China.

For real. Last year we finally got some competition against Spectrum and their customer service is actually worse than Spectrum. I didn’t imagine that was possible

Since Windows ME, a system update was always a risk. You never know when some BS like this might happen. It taught me at a young age to turn off automatic updates and only update when necessary and ready to do some troubleshooting.

I was frustrated by this also and decided not to put the effort into rooting the device to get rid of all that crap. Instead I decided to use Flauncher together with Button Mapper. Using that tool, I map the homepage button on the remote to point to Flauncher. It isn’t a perfect solution but it was done in a few minutes and I can now mostly avoid the bullshit ads

To expand on this, I have witnessed small, indie channels have their content copied, processed through AI so it is stripped of audio, watermarks and re-edited. Then it is posted as a new video. When it is reported as a fake, or pirated copy, or not original content, Google then puts the burden of proof on the small indie channel that originally created the content, often requiring them to lawyer up and file a legal complaint, before they will take any action to remove the AI slop. It is fucking absurd. It would only take a real person about 60 seconds to compare the content and dates to determine who is the theif.

I used Ubuntu on an old Surface Pro and it worked really well.

I trialed several distros on my Precision 3550 and settled on Garuda. No regrets!!

I don’t know anything about that but it sounds interesting. If you have any sources for further reading about sandboxing vs paravirtualization, I’d like to read up on it

I find it odd that the author didn’t mention secureblue at all. I wonder why they didn’t consider that option?

I like notebooks like OneNote, Obsidian, etc for this purpose. I can keep things organized, broswer plugins to send direct to the notebook and even save a PDF or screenshot of the page if I want to.

Thanks for this! I’m looking forward to trying this. Would you have any recommendations for implementing this on an existing Arch system that’s already LUKS and BTRFS with snapper preconfigured?

I’ve been looking for something like Macrium Reflect for Linux and this sounds like the solution!

Currently I’m just using Clonezilla to image the entire drive on occasion. Your solution seems much more elegant

With great power comes great responsibility

I do too. Though to be fair to OP, Garuda didn’t advise about the vlc problem either. I had to go hunting on my own to figure it out. But anyway, still loving Garuda and it is much less painful than any other OS I’ve ever used.