That sounds interesting but my services are mostly in lxc container with dynamically allocated dhcp addresses (I do not wish to maintain a list of static IPs)

And that makes it hard to start them on demand based on incoming connection like you would an httpd process daemon.

My services are only refferred to by hostnames, for instance vaultwarden.lan, but this address does not resolve when the LXC is offline. I guess I could make a static DNS entries in the local dns server and point those to a LXC container orchestrator to stop and start them as they are accessed.

But also, just leaving them all running and ready to answer queries is, so much more convenient if I have the RAM for it.

But I’m sure there are cases where this is the way to go, but I don’t know how to start LXC containers based on sockets without creating static leases and static dns entries, I really like how IP address and DNS names are completely automated on my network !

I have a G3 and, this might be counter intuitive, but buy an older model that uses DDR3 ram, old ram like that is obsolete and no one wants it, but more ram is more important in self-hosting than fast ram. Of course that limits how much you can do at once, but if you only have 8gb of ram instead of 32 or 64, the lack of ram is going to be very limiting in the sense that you’ll have to run very few things at one time and that becomes cumbersome to manage services “on demand”, starting them and shutting them down to save on ram, instead of letting them all be ready and idle.

I had something similar when I used XMBC (I think it’s called kody now) and it seems it was because there was some confusion with the scrapper to imdb and it needed some manual override file. You had to create a .nfo file or something like that, that told the scrapper the right imdb number or other exact identifier for it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the people at plex have some way to know of all the custom fixes people do and with that, when you have some issue recognizing some content, they can figure out what most people do.

I would be surprised if jellyfin has any way to to know what the users are doing so that wouldn’t work

What do you mean with glitching UI ? Is it more than just not responding while scanning ?

I haven’t installed jellyfin, I’m never installing plex, I would just use samba shares over vpn instead of that.
I wanted to know what’s the problem with jellyfin ?
Is it more than the weekend-destroying linux-jankiness ?
Because I can deal with that

Actually they are a reduction in complexity, yes I am not using most of the features, they run in L2, but their backbone runs off a x86 single board computer and they run a mostly hardware agnostic OS (Sonic).

This is what I mean by a reduction in complexity, it’s basically running debian os with pcie switchdev interfaces on a PC. It’s familiar and stable, not locked in to proprietary hardware, they’re cheap and plentiful

What are the 3 biggest shortcomings of Jellyfin ?

I get what you mean, I only use L3 top-of-rack data center switches, what a bunch of amateur peasants !

You can do data scrubbing with PAR2 or filesystem level with btrfs on top of LVM (or even in a traditionnal partition)

I think you can ram cache with bcachefs or a ramdrive, and unless you’re in a VM then your file system driver would already do file caching in ram ?

Well, it taints the kernel, probably runs some background processes, it should be removable ?

Except having slightly better deduplication, I don’t the see what justifies the extra complexity and living under the bad aura of Oracle. LVM does almost everything ZFS does, it’s just less abstracted, which I like actually because I want to know on what hard drive my stuff is, not some mushy file cloud that either all works or is all gone.

Is there any way to remove ZFS and Ceph, they cause errors and taint the kernel

https://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-zfs/

Enable hugepage allocation, it will deduplicate memory chunks and save you lotsaram Especially good with an hypervisor desktop

What’s a computer ?

I was wondering because if they use wifi & bluetooth discovery, then a VPN isn’t going to help,. one phone will see a certain bunch of your neighbour’s SSIDs while another phone will see other. Also A-GPS is not technically GPS, it is cell tower triangulation, the name of your cell towers and in what quadrant they’re seeing your phone (that’s how they caught Mitnick).

Also the wireguard VPN acts as a L3 separation, so you still see on your L2 segment, different MACs and different addresses in the broadcast traffic.

I imagine that Netflix would use an heuristics based machine learning system, so while not one particular aspect would out you as part of a different household, an inventory of signals might make them suspect you “enough” that they start harassing you with 2 factor authentications invalidating your session cookies. Not exactly expulsing you from the service but just annoying enough that most will prefer to cough up a few more bucks for a separate account. And of course, as their needs to supplemental revenue increases, they’ll be able to tweedle your knobs until they get just the perfect amount of annoyance to convert “freeloaders” into paying customers rather than defectors or pirates.

How can I spoof EVERYTHING to be identical in all locations using my openwrt routers ? Do they look at my GPS data, or the name and addresses of other wifi and bluetooth devices ? Do they check my traceroute between my device and their servers ?

I think it’s the rest of IT doing computers wrong, they’ve been very wrong for a very long time and getting wrong, unlockable bootloaders, motherboard-locked CPUs, it’s clear where all this “security” stuff is going, they’re building a prison one brick at a time.

Read the scripts ? Why would anyone do that ? To truly understand even a relatively simply 10 page script can easily take an entire afternoon, this is a completely unrealistic demand.

There is a piece of infrastructure missing, whether it’s no place to put ready to use LXC files, software installation script or configuration.nix files, there is a HUGE gap between the software that actually works, and the ability to go from nothing to a working computer.

I have used my computer for my entire life, well over 30 years and even having spent my ENTIRE summer doing linux bullshittery, I still barely have anything working. Everything is delivered in a near broken mostly unusable state and that’s after you’ve spent multiple days to just get there.

Almost nothing works and you simply don’t have enough time left in your life to even try making it work.

So yes, people should pipe scripts into root shells without reading them because that’s what any real person would do. They really really should stop listening to all the nannies telling them to waste all their time re-inventing the wheel and achieving nothing.

Well look, the people at helper-scripts, they have done the legwork, often as groups, the probably that you even COULD do a better installation section is already very unlikely … no more than that it’s implausible. These people are more dedicated, they started earlier and they’re already done, you are not going to do a better job than them, even if you tried, by the time you did, which realistically, unless you’re doing linux for money, you probably won’t even finish, but even then by the time you’ve re-invented the entire wheel, they will have progressed further, and there is more of them than there is of you, you will NEVER catch up.

But listen, I hear you, I hear your paranoia, your belief that there are bad people out there out to get you. Well I’m sorry but I have to tell you, those people simply do not care enough to break in to helper-scripts. Even if they did they’d get found out. It hasn’t even happenned yet even though the effort has been a huge success of people just like you coming together and dealing to put an end to the endless linux bullshiterry and making things actually work.

The odds that someone will manage to infiltrate without anyone figuring it out are so low that they are in fact insignificant.

Unless you have the resources of multiple militaries at your disposal, there is simply NO justification from trying to do your own helper-scripts, by yourself and then keep them for yourself. None, it’s mental illness to even attempt.

I’ve never said a joke in my life

Also read this, https://lemmy.ml/post/35479661/20837334

It is worse to even try to do it yourself, you’re more likely to mess up then if you just pipe those script into your root shells, even if you’re an expect, because even one good expert is hopeless compared with multiple experts