All I wanted to see is what activity over time was going on with my server and who was doing it. For that, it was clutch. YMMV

It’s so strange, when my mother used to tell me we were going shopping it was just misery. We were going to k-mart or woolworths where she would stop and look at every piece of clothing in the store. twice.

In the end she’d buy nothing, or one thing. Hours of time before devices, I was left alone in the toys section where i’d have seen everything of interest in 5 minutes.

Wife or I go shopping, it’s a surgical strike. The first acceptable item, bought, and extracted.

God let’s hope not, I’d have said that about Winnie the Pooh Blood and Honey too.

Song of the south, there was plenty.

I had a boss in a development job once, post dot com that made the pointy haired boss look like a genius. He wasn’t just uneducated, he was mean and sometimes awful.

One of his favorite games was three options. For every task he wanted three options to do it. Once you gave him three, he would pick what he deemed the worst of the three just to watch people squirm.

One day after a particularly uninspired rant, one of the devs waited till he went to lunch and threw his keys into the recycling shredder box. I never went that far myself, but I fully understood it.

Jellystat isn’t bad for a Taut alternative

You know, there’s probably a market for a hardware solution to do that. Wrap it up in a nice user interface, Family VPN bridge, expose JF servers.

just syncthing it :)

I just wish they’d fucking take their security seriously and we could wipe plex out.

You do then still have to expose JF to the open internet. That’s not without risk. Neither is Plex but they do make it a point to secure all their endpoints before login.

Repectfully, I think you’re wrong.

Making an account and giving it to uncle fred with a website address is a LOT easier than telling him to install an app on his phone/computer, inviting him via email, then trying to explain to him how to turn it on and off and telling him not to mess with the settings and route all his traffic through my home network.

That is still one spot where plex holds an edge.

The next time there’s a zero day in one of their packages you get pwned because their login doesn’t protect their ‘internal’ endpoints.

Keep that thing wrapped up or you will eventually regret it.

Honestly for video I agree, for audio, it’s just me and only in my house or phone so tailscale is fine. If my friends really want audio, they can pay streaming for it.

Yup, I only keep 4k of stuff that was really shot/scanned in 4k and absolutely worth it. 90% of the 4k content out there is 1080p upscaled anyway.

75TB

JF is damn good for video and has a better interface than plex

Finamp is horrible for big collections. As you ask JF for tracks or artists it loads them a handful at a time. I have 2300 artists 26,000+ tracks, if I want to listen to some NiN, trying to scroll through to N’s is maddening.

Finamp just crashes on me now and then. Play -> shuffle… wtf knows, might go 10m might go 2. Samsung Phone with 6GB of ram.

Finamp is rooted to JF features only, eg: it is incapable of cross fading because it has no ability to tell JF the songs were last played easily. If you want to set up a really large playlist, it’s one at a time, but you can put an m3u in the folder. but once you do that, your playlist is no longer editable through the GUI.

I moved over to Symfonium. It loaded my playlists, let’s me crossfade, everything seems ok, until i add new music or modify a playlist and it has to scrape the entirety of my collection to add a song. It can take hours.

I’m big on my playlists. I have exported years of jackfm and 98 rock to recreate real playlists from different eras.

JF audio is just absolutely stuck in the stoneage and any attempt for clients to work arond it and dig them out still have to deal with their slower than fuck database and api.

consults wellerman lyrics

hard pass

The simplest explanation I know: Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. If you ever end up with something that makes the speed of light change, it’s actually time that changes.

That’s a super interesting idea, but I don’t think it’s actually true. I think it’s in appearance only

No, it’s weirder than that.

When you make a difference in potential, it creates an electric field within the metal, electrons in the conductor tend to drift to the more positive side through the path that offers less resistance, thus creating an electrical current.

It’s all about the fields, all the real work happens outside the wire, the electrons are just going for a ride. (not to imply it would work without them)