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  • Controversial opinion and I say that as someone who started with Jellyfin and keeps that local Wifi only, so I admit a certain bias: going with Tailscale and Jellyfin over using Plex isn’t much better. Instead of enabling remote access via one company that wants to make money, you go via another company that wants to make money. How long is the free tier of Tailscale going to work out? How much do you trust them with your traffic? But I know it is a popular setup, so I am aware saying that here will not earn me any points.




  • It is maybe weird but folks should be allowed to delete stuff again. There is no rule against it either. Make it one if it is something that the broader community doesn’t like.

    Edit: I don’t want to make new replies so I am just editing this in here. I did not say I am ok with people deleting their posts. I found it idiotic when this was done on reddit, and it isn’t much better here. But the option is there, so people will use it. Make it a rule it shouldn’t be done or move to a platform where it isn’t possible, what else do you think you can do about this?










  • You are probably technically right about rsync, and I had used rdiff-backup for many years actually instead. But I do think there is a different use case for each, depending on what you are backing up.

    E.g. if it is files that change a lot, like documents or other text files. Rdiff-backup will be better, keeping old versions of them automatically ready for restoring.

    But if it concerns backing up music, videos and also images (unless you edit them but then you’d probably save a new file as well), there doesn’t seem to be much difference to rsync anymore. Those files do not change, so an incremental backup won’t really add any value.




  • I have a Pi 4B with 8 GB RAM and run Jellyfin plus some other stuff on it. Works great.

    Had it first installed via repo but transcoding did not work at all. After switching to the Docker setup though, transcoding worked ok out of the box. Definitely takes a few seconds before the stream starts when having to transcode but no hiccups afterwards. Unless you jump around of course, and also I never had more than one stream trandcoding.