after almost 15yrs my plex server is no more. jellyfin behind nginx with authentik is running very nicely.

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    1 year ago

    I just wanna get rid of Plex so bad but jellyfin isn’t going to work for my grandma…

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      honestly every explanation probably just ends at ‘this is what i learned on and it works’. same way i religiously use nano and try to do everything in bash first. or how a couple coworkers can’t stop explaining their vim workflow and defending python unprompted like it’s a trauma response for them. my current homelab is also running a r9 with 64gb ram and 30tb storage. if i were paying for remote hosting, still using salvaged hardware or being paid, i’d invest time learning newer processes. but containers haven’t caught my interested and this set up takes basically no effort on my part to maintain, so i can focus my limited free time elsewhere.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve been using jellyfin for years.

    My best recommendation is DELAY UPDATES and back up before you update.

    I have a history of updates breaking everything so you should be careful about them.

    All software recommends backing up before an update, but for jellyfin the shit is real, you really want to back up.

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        1 year ago

        I have it on docker with two volumes, ./config and ./cache

        I back up those before each update.

        A bad Jellyfin update should not mess with your media folder in anyway. Though you should have backups of those aswell as a rule of thumb.