Interesting,

If it’s raining outside and it’s raining men come from the same base concept… “It” has a definition closer to the current state of the environment around me. Though admittedly the still breaks slightly for it’s raining men.

I think the primary reason is that it was designed to be a larger install than what most of you are using.

If you’re doing a giant k8s, with a bunch of pods that come and go dynamically, portability, consistency, and management are key. And for the most part you’re not handling long-term persistent data the same way as you do when you’re just installing containers on your home lab or development environment.

But since most people don’t have this constraints, blind mounts make a hell of a lot more sense if you were only running one server in one location.

Unless we figure out how to open source, distribute and maintain an indexer, we’re going to suck on the AI tit for the foreseeable future.

All these meta search engines are eventually doomed to be shut down is the tech companies that maintain the handful of actual indexers that exist slowly shut down streams that don’t provide them revenue.

Yeah, It wouldn’t be so bad if the toilets weren’t completely covered in pee.

Not OP, I’ve kinda had a middle of the road experience with it.

I run JF and Plex on the same shares.

I dropped 10k tracks on it and a bunch of audiobooks, my stuff is 100% tagged.

I use tailscale to get to the server because here’s no Nat Holepunching going on.

I try to use it as much possible for audio, but some days, I just give in and use plexamp (like a guilty pleasure)

cons:

• It has issues with displaying some of the songs, they’re tagged right but you just can’t find some of it. They’re all Discogs coded, so there’s not even a lot of extra characters.
• It doesn’t always remember where in a book I am,
• It has no idea about collections of book files.
• Search is very slow, (yes there is a plugin for this, yes it’s complicated enough I haven’t tried it yet)
• Scrolling a large list is stupid low, it should just stream everything text into ram and bring thumbs in on demand
• Finamp: Finamp is barely a wrapper for the JF engine to the point that they can’t implement effects or crossfade without the feature being added in JF first. But JF is just using a ready-to-go library to play music, so changes to JF require upstream library updates. Audio development feels stagnant.
• Finamp scrolling loads one letter at a time. Scroll to Z? you get to wait, A…B…C…D…E…F…G…H…I…J…K…L…M…N…O…P…Q…R…T…U…V…W…X…Y…Z, no skipsies. It literally takes me a couple of minutes to go to songs that start with Z.
• Plugin installs are complicated and poorly documented, and compatibility with versions is dicey
• Finamp: If you lose the network in the middle of a song, you can soft-lock the app.
• Finamp: occasionally crashes if left for a long play session on my late-model Android phone.
• No options to cast.
• No listening through a NAT without port forwarding (which is dicey without a security team)
• No 2FA
• Finamp?: Shuffle is too random, you can get the same song to play twice in a couple of minutes. it needs to pull at least a couple of hours of list and shuffle that, rather than random play.

pros:

• It’s free
• It works good enough-ish for a daily car ride.
• It has some form of limited home-grown fail2ban
• The developers are super nice people.
• I exported my Plex playlists and used some Python to turn them into m3u lists, which worked fine. (Would be a cool feature to import from Plex)
• Playlist and Shuffle work mostly fine.

There are a LOT of pros and cons.

Pros:

• Developed by a professional, multi-disciplined full-time team with some security oversight.
• Hosted caching of The Movie DB for faster lookups
• Provision of SSL communication to and from your server without any special setup
• FREE EPG data caching
• Centralized server management from the web
• Low-speed relay for those stuck behind CGNAT.
• A REALLY solid mobile audio*** player (sorry, but plexamp beats the pants off the JF alternatives)
• Centralized Login for your friends and family with email-based password reset
• 2FA already set up
• A nice reflector gauge to see if your* ports are open and what your limits are
• Great client support on a LOT of devices
• Search is fast out of the box, even with extensive collections
• Their clients tend to do a better job supporting all the decoding features on every player
• Very reasonable Tuner support (but somewhat ugly) **

Cons:

• Not free
• Not Open
• They have a lot of your historical data and will eventually sell it when they sell the company. This is not going to be optional. That data is worth a lot and they likely already have enough EULA rights to sell it to whoever asks. Imagine if the MPAA gets in on the fun.
• Their security history is quite dicey
• The lifetime membership will eventually be enshitified as it’s not economically sound in the long run
• They constantly change the terms of the agreement.
• They constantly remove features people are using
• They constantly push to share data between users
• They constantly push Ads
• They are making previously free features pay.
• Their investors are starving, which makes them a liability.
• Their clients are generally slower.

edit: * a word ** forgot to shout out for the tuner support *** replaced media with audio for clarity

Aww come on guys, my JF boner can only handle so much /s

Seriously though, why did they even give you the option to disagree, you know they’re just going to force it 3-6 months.

He’s def got a thing going on. One hell of a drummer. Wonder what the band dynamic is off stage. Do they all just stay apolitical? do they grief each other? They’re still working in some way that I can’t fathom, good for them i suppose.

https://www.metalsucks.net/2023/10/25/system-of-a-downs-john-dolmayan-finally-recognizes-his-rhetoric-cost-him-friends-and-fans/

What’s more interesting is how Left Wing their song are, their drummer is a deep right winger

Their population is poised to half by 2100 leaving them with something like 80 or 90% less young people.

South Korea’s set to implode by then. 96% less young people.

https://youtu.be/LBudghsdByQ

The average age at death was much-much lower.

We need financial and quality of life incentives to pump the gas and brakes on babies.

We need to match the death rate with the birth rate and move that disparity super slowly.

Too many geriatrics, worker class gets f’d

Captialism can cause low birth rate, but no economic system can survive the decimation of the prime-aged working class.

Even china’s seeing low birth rates, but they have a bit more padding.

What always pissed me off is the indentation/codeblock style. Most languages you can write in notepad and be fine, if you don’t use a proper editor in python, you’re going to spend time hunting down indent issues.

Vista was either magic or crap depending on your hardware/software needs. Almost no middle ground. I was supporting about 100 PC’s at the time, and it was a nightmare for work, but I enjoyed running it myself.

From a corporate standpoint, skipping it for win7 was a serious win for IT.

On the upside, the latest Samsung UI on android has something pretty close to Vista’s old task manager.

SystemD is pretty decent. I think the logging system needs some serious work, especially for server apps. NGL, I kind miss the console just shitting out files and letting me deal with it. I had to make a lot of changes to make really chatty stuff stop using system logs and handle it on their own.

I’m glad to hear you got it worked out.

You can use copilot for free, you don’t have to install anything just creating an account, you can do it in a vanilla browser They don’t even really get that much good information off of you.

For learning something that you’ve never done before it’s honestly pretty damn good of all the horrible things AI is used for this is one of the least detrimental.

Just remember if you do use it for anything don’t just copy and paste willy-nilly read it, use it to understand things. Some of the data it’s trained on are jokes telling people to delete their hard drives.

I’m running NTFY at my house in a container.

Then I have a cloudflare container that gives me HTTPS through a tunnel to that NTFS

In my scenario I would probably just spin up my own container, write a little application in Python or maybe NodeJS that subscribes to an NTFY topic and makes web calls based on the data that comes in.

This is actually a simple enough thing you could ask and AI to help you with the exact code. There’s no harm in using it as a learning tool.