It has been a few years since I last used Plex but I always liked their interface, their tech stack is fairly modern, they have apps for pretty much every device, their title matching for content works really well and there was not much wrong with it back in the day other than it lacking local authentication.
I switched over long ago when they started pushing streaming services to my users that I couldn’t deactivate server side.
To quote Pinsplash, fittingly a Half-Life/Source engine modder:
Some have said I should avoid saying AI to avoid confusion with machine learning.
No. NPC AI may not actually be artificial intelligence but nothing in machine learning is true artificial intelligence either and it was our word first. “Our” being gamers. I will not concede any bit of language to dumb-ass tech bros.
Heads up, I asked their support and it works neither on Linux nor without cloud.
Cool device though.
What about it sucks?
I self-host Collabora Code in Nextcloud and think it’s excellent.
If Caddy works for you, no reason to change it.
I use Traefik because I like how tightly integrated it is with Docker. If the container with the config labels on it starts/stops the corresponding router in Traefik also starts/stops.
Since my services are mostly running in Docker, it’s the perfect workflow for me.
You said it is unsuitable for highways, I don’t consider vehicles that go the speed limit on the highway unsuitable for it. Unsuitable for motorcycle enthusiasts? Probably.
No prizes here for guessing that you’re not into cars or motorbikes.
Define “into”. My car goes 230 km/h and I have driven that speed…once, maybe twice. Does not mean I don’t enjoy accelerating up curvy mountain roads.
If my future car has the same acceleration but is limited to 140 km/h, I wouldn’t care that much.
Lets put it this way… are you going to buy one?
This one? Unlikely, but not because of the 130 km/h limit but because of the price. I consider motorcycles unpractical and unsafe for daily use, so the only use would be for fun. I would love one for sunny days but they have to get cheaper.
Thanks for documenting it for future people! Glad you got it to work.
Can you point to a car that is limited to 130kmh?
Not exactly 130km/h but plenty of cars are limited to 140km/h or very close to it, for example the Hyundai Inster.
You’re not allowed to drive faster than 130 km/h here and more and more highways are switching to 100 km/h, so I’m not sure why my vehicle should be able to drive 280 km/h. Even more so on a motorcycle.
On a track? Sure, but I don’t need my average commuter vehicle to reach those speeds.
Anyway, what I wanted to know is why do people self host?
For the warm and fuzzy feeling I get when I know all my documents, notes, calendars, contacts, passwords, movies/shows/music, videos, pictures and much more are stored safely in my basement and belong to me.
Nobody is training their AI on it, nobody is trying to use them for targetted ads, nobody is selling them. Just for me.
I owned a Prusa Mk3 (bed slinger) and currently own a Voron 2.4 (CoreXY with flying gantry) and a Prusa Core One (CoreXY with static gantry), my 2 cents:
Bed slingers are cheap and reliable. Their layout makes sure the axis are always rigid and aligned or at the very least they are very easy to align if they are not.
They do have a giant disadvantage though which is shaking the print on the Y axis. For small prints that is negligible but as you go higher it becomes a disaster quite quickly. I could never print thin and high support structure along the X axis on my Mk3, it would just tip over or break once it reaches a certain height. Same issue with lithophanes. If I printed them on the wrong axis, they would fail or become distorted as the bed shakes.
I bought and built the Voron 2.4 primarily because Prusa did not release a CoreXY for such a long time and I did not want to have that same issues again since lots of my prints are pretty tall and thin.
In principle, the flying gantry is my favorite. The bed sits totally still and only the head moves, ideal for thin and tall prints. It’s also really cool to see the flying gantry level itself, almost like magic.
There’s one issue with flying gantries that I encountered multiple times on my Voron, which is that it needs very precise calibration in order to produce accurate results.
Due to the flying gantry there are just so many variables that can influence the end result. It’s almost impossible to determine exactly where the issue is coming from without much time for diagnosing. Skewed frame, skewed gantry, skewed Y axis, wrong or uneven belt tension and so much more. It’s a real pain to diagnose print issues. My Voron still has a very tiny skew and I have no idea where it’s coming from.
The Core One has a static gantry, which is in my opinion the best design I have used so far. Compared to the usual static gantry like on the Voron Trident, the Core One gantry has one solid 4 sided steel piece which impacts view a little bit but you can be certain that the gantry is square.
This drastically reduces the amount of possible issues. It still needs almost perfect belt tensioning so the gantry does not skew but other than that the only other thing that needs to match is the alignment between bed and XY axis, that’s about it. It was incredibly easy to get the skew on my Core One kit to pretty much zero.
No more bed slingers for me and seeing the flying gantry once was enough. CoreXY with static gantry from now on until something better comes along.
I don’t use the Solution explorer but I also don’t think it has one.
I usually kickstart a fresh application with a SLN and a few projects in the dotnet CLI and VSCodium picks up the launch project automatically when I tell it to create a launch.json. For existing applications, if the .vscode folder already exists it will just pick it up or I can also just ask it to create a launch.json.
That workflow has been ingrained into me since there were no real C# utilities for VS Code when it first launched, so not much changed for me when going to VSCodium.
If you like Islets, the follow up “Crypt Custodian” is on sale on Steam and GOG right now.
Didn’t play it yet since I need to finish Kingdom Come but it’s next on the list.
Does Hyprland work well for gaming compared to KDE? Can it do HDR, VRR and so on?
Always wanted to try a tiling WM but was afraid of losing features.
Is there something missing in OmniSharp that prevents you from using VSCodium?
I do most of my C# development with the OmniSharp plugin in VSCodium on Linux.
Helldivers works fine on Linux, I play it from time to time.
Ms office windows apps are kind of great compared to libreoffice
Did you give OnlyOffice a try? https://flathub.org/apps/org.onlyoffice.desktopeditors
VS Code (i know it’s still MS but I do C# .NET work and rider is too expensive, I don’t want a subscription for an IDE)
VSCodium is a thing too if you want to un-Microsoft even further.
I use it for C# development on Linux and it works well.
getting a password manager
Bitwarden and Keepass are usually the go tos, depending on your use case.
then a new browser
Firefox or if you want to decouple from Mozilla as well, Librewolf works pretty well.
potentially a Google pay replacement
I’m not aware of any open Google Pay replacements other than taking a card with you.
As soon as you get rid of Google on your phone, you get rid of Google Pay.
I wrote them once because one of the plastic clips on the back cover of my FP5 broke off.
I got a response after 3 days and a replacement part 2 days later. So pretty decent I would say.
Do you think Aurora is a good choice for beginners? A friend of mine wants to switch and I’m still looking for a good match.
It should be immutable, use KDE, have Nvidia drivers pre-installed (or a easy UI for installing them), not be maintained by a single maintainer and should not have non-OS applications like Steam pre-installed.
Aurora so far seems to be the best choice.
I ran Emby for a while before switching to Jellyfin. Still running it today.