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What can the 'average Joe' start hosting, that will change their life? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by jaackf to c/selfhosted

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I'm already hosting pihole, but i know there's so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I've got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

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[–] dustojnikhummer 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

if you want to share to friend

Not if they need their own Plex Pass for so many features. The only thing Jellyfin lacks is user self password resets and transcoded downloads. I don't really see any other advantages in Plex

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does jellyfin handle audiobooks? For some reason I found the service lacking a couple of years ago, but can’t remember why.

So I got Plex pass and really enjoy it. The Prologue app gives you an audible-like interface for audiobooks that I love. Plexamp for music and Plex Dash to monitor the server. Audnexus matches audiobooks to Audible listings for the metadata. Plex movies and tv match to get metadata, trailers, behind the scenes, cast list, and rotten tomatoes reviews. If Plex ever gets too commercialized/restricted for some reason I’ll switch, but for now I couldn’t be happier.

[–] dustojnikhummer 1 points 1 year ago

As far as I know there is basic audiobook support. But I have no clue, because I don't use it. If I used Audiobooks I wouldn't be using Jellyfin for them anyway

[–] sliceofbytes 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transcoded downloads are a pretty big deal unless you want to stream 4K blue ray HDR to your iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Downloads, not streaming.

[–] sliceofbytes 0 points 1 year ago

Transcoded downloads are a pretty big deal unless you want to stream 4K blue ray HDR to your iPhone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm very bitter about them locking my server users out of features I've paid for, but unfortunately I still have to suck it up as it's more user friendly.

[–] dustojnikhummer 1 points 1 year ago

My sister could use it without any training from my side, with the exception of me creating her account and giving her a hostname to connect to.