TechAdmin

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[–] TechAdmin 5 points 5 months ago

I swapped out delta fan a few months after release, agree fairly straightforward. Upgraded the nvme ssd to 1tb sometime before replacing with OLED model.

[–] TechAdmin 1 points 6 months ago

I'd recommend using distro you know best and/or most prefer to work with. I use the flatpak install of Jellyfin Media Player but there are also deb files available.

I'm currently using minipc with Intel n5105 (or something similar) for 1080p HTPC. Debian 12 OS with auto-login & Jellyfin Media Player starting at login. I control it with pepper jobs RF remote but also have a logitech wireless keyboard+touchpad for it. Keyboard+touchpad come in handy when browsing media sites on firefox but some might restrict quality. Some of the newer minipc's I tried required adding backports repo to install newer kernel for wifi to work. I had been playing with Debian a lot when I set up first one & been using clonezilla to image them so it's stuck.

Ordered a gmtek n97 minipc to play with and should have it in about a week. Going to test it out with 4k but it's not a deal breaker for me if it cannot handle that well enough.

[–] TechAdmin 3 points 6 months ago

I think it's because Steam compresses the data before sending it and limits CPU usage. I still use local file transfer between desktop and Steam Deck because rarely in much of a rush.

[–] TechAdmin 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yep, asking for something I'm sure a lot of us would love to have, a ready to go TV remote control style usage, but rather than having discussions about why those options aren't viable just downvoting.

[–] TechAdmin 2 points 6 months ago

Create a backup image from the working SD card. Write that backup image to a spare SD card and verify it works. Then try to do 'apt update' and see if anything breaks. If it breaks you got a spare SD card ready to go :)

[–] TechAdmin 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To find the numerical user ID (uid) and group ID (gid) of an account or group you can use the 'id' command such as: id root

As for which one to use on ownership and docker, that will vary widely and would require knowing more about how things are setup. I'd try to use the same one that is running the docker commands.

[–] TechAdmin 1 points 8 months ago

I had issues with DNS checks and traced it to my pihole. I changed that container's resolv.conf to use cloudflare DNS and it has been working fine since. It was with Caddy so needed to change over to use IPs.

[–] TechAdmin 3 points 9 months ago

Sometimes I'll lower resolution or quality just so a game loads quicker.

[–] TechAdmin 3 points 9 months ago

Another thing to remember is the client needs to support decoding the video in hardware or have enough CPU to handle it in software. I have intel i7 (3rd gen) with no hardware HEVC/x265 support but it has enough CPU to power through.

[–] TechAdmin 1 points 11 months ago

Plex still wins on client compatibility, ease of server & client setup, and at least has the 3 commonly used oidc login providers available.

Jellyfin you may need to point external clients to your server manually as well as setup everything so they can actually connect. There are so many ways to do this that it can be paralyzing to actually decide which to try as a beginner. Local clients can usually use discovery if the firewall and container are setup correctly for the jellyfin server. Accounts have to be created manually unless you use something like jfa-go. For oidc, there's only 3rd party plugin in alpha state and looks like people use it so guess it works well enough.

As others have said, you can have both running on the same system pointed at the same content. If you're following the plex naming scheme should match pretty well in jellyfin, nfo files work really well for jellyfin metadata too. Lets you get an idea of it and whether it could meet your needs.

I mostly switched to Jellyfin over 3 years ago, shutdown my plex server 2 years ago after many tiny annoyances over the years. I had tried to get my family switched over but it is too much hassle for them and myself still. Been working on setting up some cheap htpc's for that purpose but it's not a priority for me.

[–] TechAdmin 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

2X speed was impressive for the time too :)

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