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.

Last time I did something like this, I grabbed the .torrent file from the completed archive, told it to start downloading it again. It recreated the folder structure and names it expected, then I stopped it, and put the completed files back where it was expecting to see them with the names that it had just created. I started it again to let everything force check. Then I use the torrent client to move the files to where I wanted them.

I’ve honestly given up one having my torrent* client put the files in their ultimate locations. I just have it make copies of the completed files and leave the torrents the hell alone.

*edit: dictation shenanigans

Based on his analysis, Fowler determined the data was captured by some kind of infostealer malware

I’m not really sure why the author would expect the file to have any type of password protection on it it’s just a regular dump of malware gains. Kind of feels a little click-baoty for the technically challenged

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.

Not only do we not own anything, they are free to change the terms at any point.

They’re free to buy up all the competition and raise prices as high as they want. Don’t like it? Guess you don’t want to work in print anymore.

I explained what I did, and how it worked.

generally, this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV1Ab0qWyT8

the numbers came from my experience, ymmv.

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Damn, Mr Bean got doughy.

Rag is fucking awesome, But in its current state it can’t handle unlimited amounts of data. On consumer machines I think you can throw around 100 megs at it before it starts losing it That’s quite a lot of text, but not really a decent collection of books. They might be able to get away with separating the books into categories and adding them as different knowledge bases. They’d have to select which knowledge base they wanted to ask but if they could keep the size down it might work relatively well

I fed mine about a year’s worth of slack traffic from work. I would ask it how many times people had trouble with a certain system. It would say three, meanwhile there were 500 tickets in the system of people having trouble with it.

No if I asked it about those three things it would have great detail. I can even ask it for sentiment of people that were talking about it It would recognize reasonably well if they were upset, understanding or angry.

If you’re not open to the wan, you’re in decent enough shape.

The bar in your situation is that someone would need to shove a ransomware payload into a JavaScript 0-day for a package in your container without anyone noticing it, you’d have to update your container with it, then visit it with a vulnerable internet-connected computer. It’s not impossible, but a really long, long shot.

God king makes up the rules. He’s attempting to set it up so that whatever he writes in an executive order is immutable.

We can look at this now and go God this is stupid, But be careful we’re not very far off it being actionable. He would absolutely love to imprison the competition and anyone that helped them.

Ultra processed, it’s not even a fucking regulated term. It’s whatever they want it to mean. It’s a buzzword to make the study more palatable, easier to get the grant.

We can now detect how much energy you get from ultra processed foods. What does that even mean? Are we talking about carbohydrates here? Do they consider whole wheat flour an ultra processed food?

When you click the link in the article to ultra processed foods they specifically call out frozen pizzas. Now a frozen pizza is not a diet food or a health food item, But they’re not loaded down with artificial ingredients they’re frozen they don’t even need an overabundance of preservatives.

Anything capable of taking down any ICBMs in flight could probably also be used as an offensive weapon.

Hey, Fermi, is this your filter?

I suspect somebody could do some damage if they managed to infiltrate one of the reverse proxy containers. That might net you some useful credentials from the home gamers as they’re doing the HTTPS wrapping themselves.

Any container that gets accessed with a web browser could potentially contain zero day exploits, But truth zero days with a maximum CVE value are rare.

I’m down for paying for a piece of software. I bought a lifetime subscription back in the day I feel like until recently it served me pretty well. And to be fair they are caching the movie database, providing SSL keys, epg, low speed proxy through cgnat for people, there’s quite a bit too there cloud operations that they do deserve money for.

What pisses me off is the mining of my watch habits, and the slow and enshitification of features.

14 years of lifetime Plex pass for $75, they don’t really owe me anything, But I am moving on.

I’m slowly digging my way out of sights with algorithms, clawing my way out of Google is particularly difficult. I’m considering spinning my own Alexa with whisper

Biden did it because he thought it was the right thing to do.

Biden did it because it was the best option available to him at that time.

He either played ball with AIPAC or got shut down by them. He didn’t have the points to oppose them. It didn’t make it right, there is blood on his hands. In hindsight, he never had a chance and could have at least made a showing to stop it.

If he hadn’t done it, he would have assuredly lost to Trump, who would do it anyway (as we’ve seen). He needed to get in to hit the brakes or it would have been for naught anyway. Harris had the same problem, barely enough points to show, AIPAC would have smothered her as well.

I’d like to say that they would definitely have stopped it if AIPAC wasn’t standing at their neck with a knife, but I don’t know that for sure.

I’d also like to say that if they would have stopped it, we’d all have joined to them and voted our asses off in swing states and made the decision work. But honestly, I have less faith in the US people than I have in the Democrats, and that’s saying something.

Sounds like if the courts want to keep running, they’re going to need to allow people who are in danger to attend via video.