ShellMonkey
@ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com
- Comment on Looking to offload Plex from my gaming PC 3 days ago:
Well if you don’t have 1GB in your server and want to pay for a lifetime pass instead I guess go nuts? It’s odd that people seem to get so upset over not paying a subscription in a self hosting comm. Functionally if you don’t mind a less polished interface you could just do something like stream via VLC from a NAS too.
- Comment on Looking to offload Plex from my gaming PC 6 days ago:
Might have to spin up a JF instance to check, right now I’m using Emby that JF was forked from some while ago and don’t see anything horrid. About 1GB memory for one that’s been up and running for a good while.
- Comment on Looking to offload Plex from my gaming PC 1 week ago:
It’s not so much a question of one vs another. It was asked the most cost effective way to accomplish such.
Last I knew Plex required an ongoing subscription for some aspects that Jelly has for free, so that consideration is part of cost effectiveness.
Personally I have Emby simply out of inertia since I bought a lifetime licence before there was a Jellyfin spun off, but didn’t propose that because it would be an unneeded cost.
- Comment on Looking to offload Plex from my gaming PC 1 week ago:
It’s basically a web server to play media on the front end and a metadata manager and conversion engine on the back.
Pretty well the same as Plex but there’s less reliance on external services, more truly self contained and less subscription. There are client apps for most streaming boxes that I know of.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/202526943-plex-free-vs-paid/
- Comment on Looking to offload Plex from my gaming PC 1 week ago:
Avoiding Plex for something like Jellyfin is a start.
Past that, it doesn’t take a lot to run such a service unless it needs transcoding which is where it gets dicey for realtime streaming.
If you have a standard expected output you might get away with bulk stranscoding ahead of time and then run things on some little nuc or an old laptop.
- Comment on Discord servers are set to become more public for web searches 1 week ago:
More public fo AI training as well then
- Comment on What is your self hosted power draw? 3 weeks ago:
If I recall right off hand it’s 92 cores, 64+8+8+12 between them. Been looking to merge a couple of the smaller ones into the others but it’s not a small task.
- Comment on What is your self hosted power draw? 3 weeks ago:
Way too damn much, around 700w between 4 rack servers and associated gear
- Comment on What do you use for alerting? 4 weeks ago:
Mostly Zabbix and my own email server. Way I figure if there’s something broken enough to take out the email internally I’m probably already dealing with a broader issue.
- Comment on Trump dirties up 8-bit classics with cringe revamp 2 months ago:
Nope
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There are on podcasts, but not on regular music
- Comment on 4chan has been fined $758,223.20 by OFCOM. 4 months ago:
They’ll pay in rare pepe cards…
- Comment on UK | Labour 'doesn't understand the internet', tech giant 4chan’s lawyer tells LBC 4 months ago:
‘Tech giant 4chan’s lawyer’ is a series of words I never thought I’d read
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Steam and GOG remain largely what Netflix once was, a one-stop shop for their media landscape.
When the TV/Movie industries all decided they wanted to hold onto their own properties it wrecked the value to the end user and resulted in the clusterfuck that video streaming has become.
These game publishers would do well to not repeat that same mistake. That so many of the launcher front ends allow you to interconnect with other services speaks to people wanting that unified portal, it just happens to be that Steam was one of the first to get it right.
I’ll still stick primarily with GOG for their DRM free stance, but if that wasn’t available I’d take Steam over a dozen different vendors to keep track of.
- Comment on California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns "doesn't reflect how games actually work", ESA assert 5 months ago:
Funny, I have a pile of games that work just fine without a server. Multiplayer might be a truck bon-locally, but no reason it needs remote calls to work otherwise.
- Comment on Kevin O'Leary says opponents of his Utah data center are 'professional protesters' — and some are powered by AI 5 months ago:
My AI won’t be used for nefarious manipulative purposes, it’s just all these other people that do that, I’m the good guy…
- Comment on Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good 5 months ago:
More realistic is previewing to see if they should keep it for themselves.
- Comment on The US Patent Office have rejected a Nintendo Pokemon patent for summoning subcharacters 7 months ago:
So many software patents are nuts. The idea of owning rights to a specific game mechanic is just as bad. Abstracted to the Nth degree you could read this request as char A told char B to do a thing and they comply. That’s hardly a unique enough thing to merit any kind of legal protection.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness' 8 months ago:
Haven’t been there in a couple decades, but that kind of 1984 BS would put them from passively skipping to actively disliking.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 9 months ago:
It’s a mouse, they used to just be a simple thing you plug in, get a basic driver from the OS and it makes a cursor move.
