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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm afraid you're underestimating the effects of propaganda and nationalism. Those can do frightening things to normal humans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's plenty of reasons why you would not want to have a Jellyfin server be publicly available (even behind authentication). It's simply not a well-secured system at this point (and may not get there for a long time, because it's not a focus).

I strongly suggest keeping it accessed via VPN.

But note that VPN access is not necessarily any slower than "publicly" serving the HTTPs directly, at least not by much.

If you don't already use Wireguard as the protocol, then maybe consider running a wireguard VPN instead, that tends to be quicker than classic OpenVPN.

And last but not least: a major restricting factor in performance of media servers from afar is the upload speed of your ISP connection, which is very often much lower than your download (100Mbit/10Mbit are common here, for example, so only 10% of the speed up than down).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to diminish what Valve has achieved there (it's an amazing PC/console hybrid, love mine).

But a smooth experience without any hitches is much easier to achieve when your hardware variation basically boils down to "how big is the SSD". The fact that all Steamdecks run the same hardware helps keep things simple.

I guess that's also the reason why they are not (yet?) pushing the new SteamOS as a general-purpose distribution for everyone to use. Doing that would/will require much more manpower.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Not OP, but as someone using Ubuntu LTS releases on several systems, I can answer my reason: Having the latest & greatest release of all software available is neat, but sometimes the stability of knowing "nothing on my system changes in any significant way until I ask it to upgrade to the next LTS" is just more valuable.

My primary example is my work laptop: I use a fairly fixed set of tools and for the few places where I need up-to-date ones I can install them manually (they are often proprietary and/or not-quite established tools that aren't available in most distros anyway).

A similar situation exists on my primary homelab server: it's running Debian because all the "services" are running in docker containers anyway, so the primary job of the OS is to do its job and stay out of my way. Upgrading various system components at essentially random times runs counter to that goal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

they just want to enslave humanity by trapping it in a realistic simulation and harvesting their body heat for energy production.

You know... the usual.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Realistically the best bang-for-the-buck is maybe to sell it to some collector and get a new one ;-)

Mostly tongue-in-cheek, though. I don't know if anyone is actually willing to pay for it, but I know some people are quite happy when they find their old Pi 1.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Android does on-device transcription of any Audio source as well in recent versions!

The issue with providing this with open-source software is that it tends to require deep integration into the OS, which needs pretty much the same kinds of APIs that spyware also needs, so they get locked down a lot ...

For example on Android I'm pretty sure that a 3rd party play store app could not provide the same feature without requiring the user to click through some unavoidable, scary sounding warnings from the OS (if at all).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm far from an expert in HBAs and never used one myself. but it is my understanding that the major advantage is that you're extremely unlikely to get a janky one whereas Sata controllers could be bad (they are often cheaply made non brand products). if they work either one is fine in a hone lab setting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

as it has SATA ports

More. PCIe SATA controllers are cheap (even though you'll often hear "get a HBA and flash it", it's not absolutely necessary).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I used OpenHab a few years ago and remember it being way more fiddly with very varying integration quality. it didn't help that it was based on OSGi packages (the complex mess that Eclipse IDE is also based on), which I don't much care for.

i only recently starte with HA and found it much easier to use and tweak.

But I also saw some stubbornness by the devs. In my case related to oauth/third party authentication, which they claimed was "enterprise interests trying to corrupt a community project" (I'm paraphrasing) instead of good security practice of centralising the authentication in a homelab.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't have a simple guide, but it's probably a good idea to reduce the number of moving parts if you're trying to keep stuff simple. So pick something that has all the features in-one (user management, authentication, authorization, ...). They might not be the best at ever single thing (they almost certainly won't), but doing it all usually means that it's easier to configure and you don't need to wire multiple things together.

I've recently moved from Authelia to Authentik due to some features that I was missing/wishing for, but between those two I'd definitely say Authenlia is easier to get running initially (and you don't need external LDAP for it, as others have mentioned).

You'll probably still need a proxy that can do proxy auth because not all services can do OICD/OAuth2. I'm using Traefik, but heard that Caddy is easier to set up initially (can't compare myself).

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