Can’t say I disagree.

Yeah; Emby was originally called MediaBrowser and was a free open source project. ‘MediaBrowsers’ developers decided to move to a closed source paid model to establish some more consistent income and support the dedicated developers they have. Thus Emby was born.

Some users were really unhappy with this decision and forked MediaBrowsers last release to create Jellyfin. Their development has been quite a bit slower, but they’ve made some significant strides in recent years. It’s a more and more attractive option.

One of my biggest reasons for sticking with Emby (besides already having a lifetime premier license) is the dedicated clients available on more platforms. Xbone is my primary streaming device, besides android: Emby has a dedicated xbox client you can install that will take full advantage of the the hardware(more content direct plays, HEVC video for example), where as Jellyfin you’ve gotta use the web browser which is cumbersome and forces the server to transcode media a lot more.

In the case of plex, it’s not 100% selfhosted. There’s a dependence on plexs public infrastructure for user management/authentication. They also help bypass NAT by proxying connections through their servers so you don’t have to setup port forwarding and can even easily escape double NAT situations.

I can understand paying for that convenience, but cost keeps rising while previously free features continue to get locked behind paywalls.

Tbh, having users required to authenticate with plex.tv was enough for me to look elsewhere. The biggest reason to self host for me is to remove dependency on public services.

I got the same email.

I haven’t had plex installed for over 7 years, and I’ve NEVER used the shared libraries feature.

We noticed that you’ve accessed libraries from friends and family in the past

They’ve apparently noticed activity that’s never occurred.

Nature is healing

You could setup a user account like the share you’re describing. There’s a setting to prevent the user from changing their password.

Just pass out those credentials to anyone you want to collaborate with; they don’t need their own individual accounts.

Yup:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14488877/Elon-Musk-trans-daughter-Vivian-Wilson-IVF-shock-claim.html

“My assigned sex at birth was a commodity that was bought and paid for. So when I was feminine as a child and then turned out to be transgender, I was going against the product that was sold”

I’ll try the unsubscribe link, if that fails I’ll directly email addresses like [email protected], info@, support@, service@, hr@, admin@, abuse@ requesting I be removed from their mailing lists.

If all those fail (I’m still getting spam later), I whois lookup the domain and send a complaint to the listed abuse address for the registrar. That typically goes through AWS who follows up asking for the email source headers to investigate.

It usually ends there.

I use https://filebrowser.org/ for this.

Nice lightweight filebrowsing/sharing with user management. Users can have their own dedicated directories, or collaborate.

You can also create share links that allow anyone with the link to view/download files. Optionally password protected.

Here’s a demo you can mess with: https://demo.filebrowser.org/ User: demo Pass: demo

And I though stepping on a modern mousetrap sucked…

That interest charge is gonna suck…

Used to ship auto parts from a company called ‘Specialty Products Company’.

“what’d you guys sell”

“IDK… ‘Products?’…”

Still not convinced they aren’t a money launderer.

168 of 172 needed for a majority.

They won, but it’s a minority govt.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11095128/canada-election-live-results-2025-vote/

A dashcam is always a good idea; it can quickly pay for itself when you’re able to prove you weren’t at fault for that parking lot fender bender.

Project Farm on Youtube did a comparison of a bunch of popular ones a month ago.

Sometimes I wish people were that direct, lol. At least I’m not guessing.

Most of my web services are behind my vpn, but there are a couple I expose publicly for friends/family to use. Things like emby, ombi, and some generic file sharing with file browser.

One of these has a long custom path setup in nginx which, instead of proxying to the named service, will ask for http basic auth credentials. Use the correct host+path, then provide the correct user+pass, and you’ll be served an openvpn configuration file which includes an encrypted private key. Decrypt that and you’ve got backdoor vpn access.

Maybe, but the homeless crackhead shambling through the lot at 3am like a zombie doesn’t give a fuck and will kick that thing as hard as he can muster.

Move it anyway; at least it will have a chance instead of painting a massive target on it with those cones.

I keep vaultwarden behind a vpn so it’s not exposed directly to the net. You don’t need a constant connection to the server; that’s only needed to add/change vault items.

This does require some planning though; it’s easy to lock yourself out of your accounts when you’re away, if you don’t incorporate a backdoor of some kind to let yourself in in an emergency. (lost your device while away from home for example)

My normal vpn connection requires a private key and a password that’s stored in my vault to decrypt it. I’ve setup a method for retrieving a backup set of keys using a series of usernames, emails, passwords, and undocumented paths (these are the only passwords I actually memorize); allowing me to reach vaultwarden where I can retrieve my vault with the data needed to login to everything else properly.

Usually that does the trick for me too; but this morning it just would not cooperate no matter what I tried.

Seems to be playing ball again, for now.

I have a feeling this is more to do with Android/Google not wanting to give up control more than anything. If googles stuff always works, but third party stuff is mysteriously always glitchy; users are going to gravitate to google and their ever growing monopoly…

Glued on panels and a skeleton like Swiss cheese.

I wonder how quickly you could break into one with your bare hands. Just rip a panel off and reach into the interior to open.