+1 for Frigate, because it’s fantastic.
But don’t bother on an essentially depreciated google product, and skip the coral.
The devs have added the same functionality on the GPU side, and if you’ve got a gpu (and, well, you do, because OpenVino supports intel iGPUs) just use that instead and save the money on a coral for something more useful.
In my case, I’ve both used a coral AND openvino on a coffee lake igpu, and uh, if anything, the igpu was about 20% faster inference times.
Working rootkit anti-cheat, so I can dump Windows.
Stuttering and texture pop-in makes me immediately wonder if your SSD shit itself.
Maybe see if there’s anything in the system logs and/or SMART data that indicates that might be a problem?
Cloudflare tunnels are the thing you’re looking for, if you’re not opposed to cloudflare.
You run the daemon on your local system, it connects to cloudflare, and presto, you’ve bypassed this entire mess.
I think the thing a LOT of people forget is that the majority of steam users aren’t hardcore do-nothing-but-gaming-on-their-pc types.
If you do things that aren’t gaming, your linux experience is still going to be mixed and maybe not good enough to justify the switch: wine is good, and most things have alternatives, but not every windows app runs, and not every app alternative is good enough.
Windows is going to be sticky for a lot longer because of things other than games for a lot of people.
A thing you may not be aware of, which is nifty, is the M.2 -> SATA adapters.
They work well enough for consumer use, and they’re a reasonably cheap way of adding another 4-6 SATA ports.
And, bonus, you don’t need to add the heat/power and complexity of some decade old HBA to the mix, which is a solution I’ve grown to really, really, dislike.
The chances of both failing is very rare.
If they’re sequential off the manufacturing line and there’s a fault, they’re more likely to fail around the same time and in the same manner, since you put the surviving drive under a LOT of stress when you start a rebuild after replacing the dead drive.
Like, that’s the most likely scenario to lose multiple drives and thus the whole array.
I’ve seen far too many arrays that were built out of a box of drives lose one or two, and during rebuild lose another few and nuke the whole array, so uh, the thought they probably won’t both fail is maybe true, but I wouldn’t wager my data on that assumption.
(If you care about your data, backups, test the backups, and then even more backups.)
You can find reasonably stable and easy to manage software for everything you listed.
I know this is horribly unpopular around here, but you should, if you want to go this route, look at Nextcloud. It 's a monolithic mess of PHP, but it’s also stable, tested, used and trusted in production, and doesn’t have a history of lighting user data on fire.
It also doesn’t really change dramatically, because again, it’s used by actual businesses in actual production, so changes are slow (maybe too slow) and methodical.
The common complaints around performance and the mobile clients are all valid, but if neither of those really cause you issues then it’s a really easy way to handle cloud document storage, organization, photos, notes, calendars, contacts, etc. It’s essentially (with a little tweaking) the entire gSuite, but self-hosted.
That said, you still need to babysit it, and babysit your data. Backups are a must, and you’re responsible for doing them and testing them. That last part is actually important: a backup that doesn’t have regular tests to make sure they can be restored from aren’t backups they’re just thoughts and prayers sitting somewhere.
I don’t have a specific place; just some of the private general-purpose trackers I’m on will occasionally have someone come by and dump a pile of STLs from various places on them.
(The private part, unfortunately, means I can’t actually share more, sorry - fight club rules and whatnot.)
There’s some cryptobro projects about sticking distributed file sharing on top of ~ THE BLOCKCHAIN ~.
I’m skeptical, but it might actually be a valid use of such a thing.
There’s a ton of commercial/locked-behind-patreon stuff, usually around things like RPG scenery or figures and such.
Like, an immense library of shit that’s not free.
I use the *arr stack for deletion, usually.
Lots of people have accounts on the jellyfin/jellyseerr stack, but I’m the only one with access to the *arrs, so I just manage it (mostly) from there.
For non-Americans, poster above me is talking about the deductable, co-insurance, and then max out of pocket.
The one thing I’d argue is inaccurate is the 10% co-insurance rate.
If you have an insurance with ONLY a 10% co-insurance, you have good insurance. 25-50% is far more usual.
The only thing I’d mention on the cache is to be a little careful, because depending on your actual use case you can use a LOT of transcode cache space.
If it’s just you, doing one stream, it probably doesn’t matter.
If it’s you, and your 20 closest friends, well, uh, it can be quite a lot and maybe you won’t want it in RAM.
As for the media, a bind mount is the way to go, and I’d also recommend doing it as a read-only mount: Jellyfin doesn’t need the ability to modify that data, and in the event of a security oopsie (or a misconfigured user, or a 6 year old that gets 5 minutes alone with your mouse or…), it keeps someone from trashing your entire media library, assuming that’s something you wouldn’t want to have to spend the time gathering again.
For the user, I just have a ‘service’ account, and run the vast majority of my containers under that UID. Sure, maybe that’s not the MOST secure, but it’s worlds better than root, and container escapes are not exactly common so it’s probably sufficient.
…and if you get DLNA working let me know, because I never have. I just use Jellyfin clients everywhere because that at least does what you expect in terms of showing the media in a usable format and playing it.
What, you mean you don’t play games and go “Well that looked great! Well worth my time!” like an awful lot of the AAA game industry appears to think gamers do?
Huh.
Seriously though, I’m curious how we ended up in the make-shit-prettier race and not a make-the-writing-good, or make-the-game-actually-fun, or even things like make-more-than-two-dungeons (looking at you, Starfield) race.
Especially given the cost to me, personally, to keep upgrading my GPU has reached an untenable level: I’m sure as crap not paying $2000 for a new GPU just so we get a few extra frames of hair jiggle or slightly better lighting or whatever.
$5 says the problem is the ad revenue they were living on has dried up and/or dramatically shrunk.
This has happened to a LOT of sites, and a more niche site like newgrounds probably doesn’t command high rates, so they have to figure out how to fund themselves now.
Edit: Also, I don’t think sites asking you to donate/pay for features is “enshittification”. If anything, getting revenue from you, the user, is a hard counter to enshittification.
Enshittification is exploiting you for the benefit of capital: you become the product, and are pimped out to anyone who wants to pay.
If you’re the one paying for the service, you’re maintaining the relationship as a customer, and you keep the power in that dynamic, which is a power ‘free users’ on enshittified platforms don’t have: you can take your money and leave, and that will actually hurt them.
This isn’t globally true, of course - what is? - but telling you they need money to keep the site up and offer you a method to pay and provide something for your money is very very honest compared to what most of big tech pulls.
I’d also argue it makes it harder to use, period: something that takes me 10 seconds to read somehow ends up being a 5 minute video, of which 90% is fluff that’s not related to the problem.
I’ve yet to land on a tutorial video that gets to the point and doesn’t feel the need to waste a ton of time introducing themselves, a paragraph about what we’re doing, asking me to subscribe, talking about their sponsor and so on.
I lament the death of the text-based tutorial and strongly dislike the youtube format video.
Man, I wish this had been a thing ~8 months ago when I was building these for my stuff.
…mine are awful, and these look awesome, so maybe it’s time to re-do that.
What platform would you perhaps be interested in?
Timely post.
I was about to make one because iDrive has decided to double their prices, probably because they could.
$30/tb/year to $50/tb/year is a pretty big jump, but they were also way under the market price so capitalism gonna capital and they’re “optimizing” or someshit.
I’ve love to be able to push my stuff to some other provider for closer to that $30, but uh, yeah, no freaking clue who since $60/tb/year seems to be the more average price.
Alternately, a storage option that’s not S3-based would also probably be acceptable. Backups are ~300gb, give or take, and the stuff that does need S3-style storage I can stuff in Cloudflare’s free tier.