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  • That sounds like a bit of a ride. I just selfhosted everything. There’s still things tied to my gmail, and probably always will be. However they’re not seeing the important stuff like medical, school, banking and services.

    NGL; selfhosting is quite a commitment too. Especially for email. There are a lot of hoops to get trust as a server, and full text search took me years to get working right. Hosting a keepass database on a personal webserver is not as convenient, but there’s 100% control.

    I inherently don’t trust any company that sells trust or privacy as a product. I’ll only fully trust open source software running on my own metal.


  • I wonder if anyone ever wrote an update aggregator that would find all package managers, containers and git repos and whatnot and just do all of them.

    Some are a right pain to update, such as Nextcloud. Installing a monthly update should not feel like an enterprise prod deployment.

    It’s kinda ironic that package managers have caused the exact problem that they are supposed to solve.












  • Just start listening to dubstep and you’ll stop noticing 😆.

    Maybe run lm-sensors and make sure the CPU/GPU isn’t being thermothrottled? I’d usually look at dmesg and look for red stuff. Any hardware issues are usually pretty obvious.

    Try other apps. If you youtube or VLC behaves the same, the problem may be outside of jellyfin. If not, it narrows it down.

    If could even be the server not being able to transcode in realtime. Try watching a file known to already be in a suitable format. It should direct stream and be much less load on the server. I’ve seen server encode CPU saturation and it does kinda look the same as client decode stutter. If it’s the server, you’ll probably see the same stutter from another device such as a phone.



  • Agreed. It’s an uphill optimization battle. We’re now in a world where you need 6GB RAM to chat on Discord while scrolling Facebook.

    Ubuntu and its apps (particularly Firefox) are incredibly efficient and respects your hardware resources. I can write a web page with a 5MB RAM footprint. It’s when you open the New York Times that your swapfile gets face-slapped.

    Funnily enough, an Ubuntu server will run on a half-eaten potato. I’ve got 16GB in mine, and I’m running servers for LAMP (Nextcloud and Wordpress), NTP, Samba, Mail, Jellyfin, tor, XMPP, CUPS and a few other things. It typically uses around 2GB at idle.