i remember when you could get disks from netflix… 7 at a time! i would turn them around same day. it really helped fill out my movie collection

oh wow, not in a long time…well over a decade…almost 2! i gave up on live tv around then

im usin kodi/jellyfin (plex is proprietary) mostly for the ‘pseudotv’ plugin… so i can have a cable-like system from my local storage

ha, yeah… always keep a burner just in case. i installed a lot of these things. i remember having dozens of those white/blue ibm server disks

pretty damn reliable once up and running. i only ever had wear and tear failures… fans/drives

holy crap does that bring back memories

i would prolly try and get some kind of linux variant installed for containerized nonsense

oh look, its the same time as that stopped clock.

if youre using Emby/Jellyfin you would just need emby to access the folder with your music. users would be authenticated through emby.

i think you should groom your media before you drop it into a media broadcasting solution like emby. i use MediaElch for video, you could use picard for music management. im fairly certain picard has dup detection and rename abilities.

so you get all your music tagged, renamed and encoded the way ya want. then get them organized into files/folders… then drop that into your emby library.

lidarr is for obtaining media files and creating a process that automatically injects it into your library. you would want emby running correctly first.

i used to care about windows… i had to use and support it at work, it was easy to crack and maintain. then something changed and i walked away into linux land.

i still need to care about windows at work, but instead of getting all anx-y i just laugh it off. my employers are getting exactly what they chose.

its HILarious when shit doesnt work… a new version breaks all inter-company communication, all that nonsense is just pure entertainment now.

my canned response is ‘were all beta testers now, buckle up’

you can hardly tell you had that tbi awhile back. congrats!

100% agree. gluetun solved my vpn bleeding/failure problems.

friends dont let friends host email. its just become too top heavy (complexity-wise) if you want it to be fully functional and secure.

at some point the stock motors will just evolve and the slow ones wont be available anymore. the supply chain will upgrade even if they dont require speed

sounds like your issue isnt with the number of networks, but how youre addressing them. fix that.

if youve got a container that only needs a single or a few ip’s then its defined network should reflect that.

docker, persistent shared storage

yes!

so the way this works is, you only pay for the lift from your EC2 instance to the s3 bucket, then cloudfront serves the bucket directly to public, which is far cheaper than EC2-> public

i dont think ive even triggered the non-free tier of cloudfront yet.

yep

theres the SMTP sending/relay service, and then theres your management of the email domain.

for example, i use Amazon for my hosting services including SMTP. so when my instance emails outbound, its using amazon’s service as a relay for my domain. my domains are entirely run/manged through other services… mostly Proton.

so you’d setup a domain with email on an email provider somewhere, then set your instance to use that domain when sending outbound, which could require auth by your local hosting provider, or special provisions at your email service to accept the relayed email.

youre going to run into issues authorizing the relay needed to send outbound from your instance. amazon was a bitch

saves me a ton on storage costs. the bucketing for the cdn is orders of magnitude cheaper to store/deliver than from the web server itself. this would be on amazon hosting.

just my 2 cents, if youre going to do raid, buy a thing that will do it…

a nas or enclosure where the hardware does all the heavy lifting. do not build raided system from a bunch of disks… i have had, and have had friends have many failures over the years from those home brew raids failing in one way or another and its usually the software that causes the raid to go sideways… mayvbe shits better today than it was 10-20 years ago.

its just off my list. i bought a bunch of cheap nas devices that handle the raid, and then i mirror those devices for redundancy.

you get that sweet playback, sometimes, plus all the instability of windows. win win!

yeah, re-encode to a lighter encoding like 264. might be slightly larger, but less work for the cpu