OK, looked at the questions, wondered myself.

Limited support, you can track health/sleep if you tie in gadgetbridge, no voice commands.

base features:

Agenda Alarm clock Calculator Music controller Settings Stopwatch Timer Weather app Up to 48 hours of battery

AsteroidOS 2.0 features:

Always‑on display Tilt‑to‑Wake Customizable QuickPanel Multiple launcher styles Nightstand mode Performance improvements Support for ~30 devices

https://asteroidos.org/ https://gadgetbridge.org/ (with active development for asteroid)

Reverse proxy or configuration in the admin setting

I didn’t say I could recreate Plex in my homelab. I said Jellyfin has short comings.

Not the point of an open source server. That’s your issue.

Moving the goal posts, The point of this exercise is to show how Jellyfin is a direct replacement for Plex. If you say that it is not, my points stand that it is lacking.

caching the TVDB and movie DB.

Every new user that moves from Plex to JF just hammers the fuck out of the free and open services. When one of those services has any issue at all, we’re collectively in bad shape. Plex has protection against this. It would be useful if we cached their stuff and threw it into a DHT, crowd refreshing it.

There is a plugin to do OpenID

This does not work for anything by pc clients. if you feed a roku, appletv, android TV, samsung television, visio… a 2FA prompt, it’ll tell you to get bent. THEN there’s the half assed fail2ban they made instead of surfacing the logs someplace that we could use real fail2ban, but now you have ME complaining that I can’t hack features into it where there’s no reason they’re not already there.

Can’t comment on that. My library is small (<10TB)

Their search sucks balls even for small libraries. They know it and they’ve been working on it for years. There are some crazy hacky solutions screwing with ports and moving traffic through elastic-cache. it’s extremely hacky.

In the end, I’m using Jellyfin as my own personal media server and the media server for my family in my house. It’s not as safely designed as Plex, which itself has had some security issues in the past, but they have a paid team for that, You can’t even hack all the features Plex has into your home lab, I could stick it behind cloudflare and get SSL, some proper anti hammer, anti-abuse, but then I’m selling my watch habbits to cloudflare.

I’m glad we have Jellyfin, I wish I had the skill and time to contribute, if they’d even PR a big-ass change like 2FA, last I heard they were standing on the “that might lead people to port forward it openly which would be less secure”, like people aren’t already doing that.

I’d LOVE to get rid of my Plex, it’s just no where near as capable for my remote users, I can’t force grandma to run tailscale.

I main jellyfin. It lacks:

• default SSL
• Carrier grade nat relay.
• caching the TVDB and movie DB.
• Centralized login and account management with 2FA
• fast search on large libraries.

I end up using it with tailscale, but that’s well out of reach for my friends and family who share my Plex stuff.

oh shit, how the hell did I miss that.

Normal consumers can install jellyfin. At some point they’ll make downloading a crime, they wouldn’t hurt people to have a decent collection of stuff ready for that day.

At home, I have a shit ton of in-wall HD’s behind TVs, a Dream Machine SE Pro. A 16 port and an 8 port POE switch.

At work, I have a Pro Max, a 24 port enterprise switch, and a handful of access points. I also have one of their door controllers with its attached video doorbell.

Their cameras aren’t bad, but they’re overpriced. I went full reolink and haven’t regretted any of that. I use their protect nvr stuff at work, and while it works, it’s not great. If you just want something easy to set up and go, it’s good enough. If you want to do some really complicated, complex things, you’re better off with frigate or blue iris.

Their VPNs a little bit light duty. I don’t know if it’s still the case, but when I did my setups there was no local DNS option. But that’s easy enough to take care of.

It depends.

A 2-5 year-old laptop, you want to web browse, maybe watch some videos, use google docs or open office, you probably never need a terminal

If it’s a really new laptop or you want to get the most out of video drivers and push it harder, you’ll probably need to be ready for some light terminal crap. Gets a little janky if you have a dual-video-card setup. Nothing hard to handle, but if you’re not looking to have to handle anything…

I think the numnber of available packages is better on the Debian side. Mint or Kubuntu run newer hotter stuff, debian runs older more stable stuff.

If that documentation was awful, I’d REALLY like to see your take on NixOS :)

Hey I drove to the library, picked up all these things you needed, got dinner here ya go, free!

You drove? man that’s lazy…

He used AI to clean up translation and save time after he spent a fuck ton of time curating and delivering us a helpful product. Calling him out as lazy is an awful take.

Yup, if there was ever a decent use for AI, this is it. Lemmy can (and will) hate the shit out of it, but it took a little burden off the shoulders of someone doing us a great service.

Maybe.

I think the pushback stems from a bunch of different things.

It’s genuinely bad at some things. asking it to make a clock out of CSS and HTML is mostly awful.

Historically, it’s been really bad at everything. So if someone hasn’t done a serious dive on it recently, they’re going to have the impression that it’s even worse than it really is.

A lot of people don’t understand how to use it, a lot of times it’s like working with a monkey’s paw. You’ve got to pre-guess all the things that could go wrong and keep adding detail until it has no choice but to do it right. And even then, you have to come back and do iterations sometimes.

It’s making a bunch of oligarchs extremely wealthy, for no good reason, on the backs of the working class, while we can barely buy RAM. At the same time, they’re burning through a hell of a lot of natural resources.

They’re shoving options and features down our throats and making us pay for them even if we don’t want to use them.

Some people are genuinely scared that corporations will use it to replace skiled labor with unskilled labor, which they are.

I have seen advanced versions rewrite an entire cross-platform basic interpreter in a couple of tries.

I lost a rather complicated Python program I wrote to manage projectors for my Halloween display. I had it make a framework. I went through all of my different options and modes one at a time and explained exactly how they needed to work. I recreated a couple of weeks of work in a couple of hours and added a significant number of features.

It’s crap like make that admin page look good on a cell phone that’s absolutely bananas. That’s a feature I would never have the time to sit down and work on because it’s not that big of a deal. But it would literally be a day of trial and error on multiple test devices for me to write it myself.

Would it be better received if it were marketed differently? Probably a little bit. But not beyond the things that I wrote about. It would be a subtle improvement in visibility I feel.

I run a pi-hole on a pi 3 and another in a container in docker. Something rarely goes wrong with both and I have a script that sync them.

I replaced their google with searxng, but in the end, they needed ads for their free to play games, so I had to turn it off for them.

I have a Dell with UHD+Nvidia, took me a while to get Prime working to switch video cards. Even on UHD, it could do basic Steam games and Minecraft if you didn’t have high expectations.

damn good idea, good on you!

I didn’t think you could amp-up pretentious at this rate. Do you eventually level off or just keep going further in hopes that people ban you?

If you wouldn’t have been grumpy about downvotes, i’d have left it be :)

The community is speaking to you.

No, we read part three, it just comes off pretentious enough that we think it still deserves a downvote. It’s not a foreign language anxiety; you’re posting in English. It’s just the next rendition of l33t speak, and no one is really in a hurry for that to catch back on again, those were dar days. I did eventually block the last guy that was hot on thorns, might get to you eventually, but it would be a shame, because outside of the ridiculous way you said it, your point isn’t wrong.

I think it’s more likely that 29 people feel pretty strongly negative about your writing style.

Can’t crossfade, developers won’t add the features the server doesn’t support it. I get a random crashes at least once a session. Search sucks because I don’t feel like wiring up elastic. Doesn’t stream large lists, browse to P? With 5000 artists and 20K tracks? Forever.

The beta is a little smoother but doesn’t address any of my issues with it.

Symphonium is 100 times better, never crashes, solves lists/streaming by downloading the lists and handling them locally.

I just want my AHK stuff to work again. They’re dragging us kicking and screeming into un-avoidable security that breaks software that noone is up for fixing.