The AUR is unsafe by design. It’s not intended to be something you just install from willy-nilly. It’s intended to be a helpful way for arch users who know what they’re doing to exchange a convenient way to install arbitrary packages. But you should always be just as wary of it as copy/pasting shell code from a random person on the internet.

At first I was going to say, the 3 2 1 Backup rule won’t stop the planet from being destroyed by a meteor. But then I remembered the data on Voyager1.

Pros:

• I never have to worry that my OS is working for someone else by design.
• Never surprised by ads.
• Never surprised by updates that move/remove something in the UI.
• Never have to be worried about some new feature that windows is forcing everyone to use that accesses all my data and might go rogue and delete it all or upload it somewhere.
• BTRFS feels decades ahead of NTFS
• package manager makes it easy to try new programs
• I can try multiple desktop environments
• I can write scripts to customize my experience

Cons:

• Occasionally there is a program that only officially supports windows and I have to figure out how to get it working in proton or a VM. This happens much less now than 10y ago.
• A game might say it works on Linux, but I hit some issue that my friends on windows aren’t hitting, and have to determine if I’m just unlucky or if it’s something to do with proton/Linux.
• there are still some remaining kinks being ironed out with the x11 to Wayland migration.
• sometimes there’s a bug in a package and I have to downgrade it. But that’s not really even an option in windows.

All in all, there is nothing from windows I would say I “miss”. And it feels refreshing to know I’m out of the line of fire of msft.

Curious what went wrong with your Reolink run. That’s what I’ve got. Doesn’t require an app or account, and works with home assistant.

It’s not a matter of privacy vs UX. I actually think Plex has ruined their UX. But if you have friends and family, some are tech-illiterate, some have their own media servers, and you all want to share with each other quickly and easily, Plex is the only viable option. Same if it’s just you, but you travel a lot, and want to watch something from your home server without lugging around a device that has access to your VPN and a screen/hdmi-out.

Jellyfin is really only viable if it’s just you on your own network.

To add on to the top post: with Plex you only need 1 account and can exchange access to multiple servers. I can browse all the media my account has access to with ease.

Jellyfin needs an account per server. If the client multiplexed between them seamlessly, that would probably be fine enough. But it would be nice if they supported some method of federation.

And Jellyfin has a list of CVEs that they haven’t addressed in years, which makes not want to make it visible outside my network.

I want to ditch Plex, but this is the primary sticking point for me. No criticism to the Jellyfin devs btw, they’re doing the lord’s work, I have nothing but respect for them.

Another minor one is that the Plex app works with a controller on my bazzite HTPC, but the Jellyfin one was hit or miss. I could get it to work once, and then the next day the controller would do nothing and the UI would be acting weird. I will go back and try it periodically to see if it’s ready, but last time I checked it wasn’t.

Do you mean Librewolf? Librefox looks dead.

This is unfortunately easier said than done. This defcon talk from 14y ago comes to mind.

If 100% of the game state is server authoritative, then there are always exploits in the netcode. Because either you have netcode that is so rigid that the first time a packet is late, or some floating point math doesn’t add up right, you don’t know what to do and break; or you have netcode that makes up for little discrepancies, and hackers eventually find them and abuse them.

It would be nice if the client isn’t told about player locations they don’t see yet, but now the server has to calculate occlusion for every player vs every opponent on every server tick. And let’s say you find a magically optimized way to do this, now how do you attenuate sounds like footstep or gunshot dynamics?

Anticheat is always an arms race. There is no “just do X, and you’ve defeated the cheaters”. Contrary to popular belief, hundreds of very smart people have been working at solving these problems for literally decades, and the arms race always ends up on the client.

yawn

Call me when it’s implemented in redstone.

As a lifetime owner, the number of features they’ve deprecated is probably the worst part.

• Photo support (luckily Immich came along)
• Tidal integration (no idea if that was Plex or Tidal’s decision)
• Plugins (god forbid anyone add the functionality they keep removing)

It’s close between that and the last app overhaul that removed a bunch of functionality.

This was an unknown unknown for OP. Again, it’s completely fair for a new user to see the alias feature, think “ah, that’s built for aliasing one thing to another, let me try it for this directory name”, and be confused when it doesn’t work. OP can’t know what they don’t know.

And the open source community is just that, a community. Asking questions in forums is the accepted practice. And “basic” is hard to define. What is basic for you isn’t basic for someone else, in the same way that what is basic for someone else isn’t basic to you.

Yes, the tech industry has a new hammer and everything looks like a nail, but the reality is, LLMs are finding far more purchase than blockchains did. I wholeheartedly agree that you should not be forced to use an LLM when you don’t want to, much less have any app run one locally without consent, but to suggest LLMs have similar usefulness to blockchains is just ignoring reality. This isn’t the crypto bubble, this is the dotcom bubble. It would be more like replacing all the instances of “AI” with “the internet” or “computers”.

Highly recommend remapping common characters to easy-to-access hand movements. The keyboard is a tool to make things easier. I never use caps-lock, but I use esc all the time, so I regularly swap them (or just have a second esc bind).

It is worth acknowledging that this probably seems unintuitive to a new user. Makes it look like the shell has two different aliasing systems.

It makes sense the more familiar you are with bash, though. If you ever tried to cd /some/other/path-with-docs/in/the/string you’d end up accidentally running cd /some/other/path-with-/media/docs/in/the/string.

Which would be confusing at best, or a security issue at worst. Better to see that $ in the cmd and know you’re injecting a var’s value.

I knew the article was going to mention NTSYNC, but is that really it?

I get that we don’t want the argument for compatibility to effectively allow windows to define what the linux kernel has to looks like, but afaik this is one instance. The headline makes it sound like a systemic issue.

Could you maybe elaborate on the feature parity?

1. I travel often. There are a lot of devices in hotels, bnbs, and friend’s houses that have native plex support. Not so much for jellyfin.
2. Casting to cast-compatible devices is very hit-or-miss, but mostly miss. I know the casting ecosystem is already a mess, but as far as user experience goes, Plex has spent more effort ironing it out.
3. The native Plex client works with a controller on my bazzite HTPC when launched from the steam ui, while the native jellyfin client doesn’t.

I keep trying jellyfin out every few months, but so far keep hitting enough friction that I can’t reliably make the switch.

as in separate jellyfin account per each different jellyfin server?

Yes, if me and 5 of my friends have jellyfin servers, we all need accounts on each other’s servers. I then need to juggle accounts to access their content.

Jellyswarrm is a reverse proxy plugin I could run to mask the problem for myself, but it’s not a solution for mom who may have access to my server, and one other friend’s server that I don’t know.

The correct solution is federated accounts, but the devs have already stated that they don’t want to do that.

Why would you host it openly rather than in a VPN like Tailscale or whatever wire guard is?

Then friends and family have to be on my VPN to stream anything.

To me this means they know they don’t have a viable business model. It’s possible they took on a lot of debt years ago, and now they have to enshittify to pay it back. I paid for the lifetime membership years ago, and I would say I’ve more than gotten my money’s worth and I’m mostly still happy with Plex, but I would drop them in a heartbeat if jellyfin was a viable alternative.

People don’t like to admit it, but jellyfin doesn’t have feature parity yet. I think they could solve a lot of the issues if they went the federation route, but until then, it’s just easier for my family and friends to each have 1 plex account instead of N jellyfin accounts. Not to mention the jellyfin vulnerabilities that prevent me from considering hosting it openly.

I have a TrueNas system locally with periodic cloud sync jobs to backblaze B2.

I don’t think they’ll have any difficulty convincing Disney to put out another installment.

This is just the nature of buying things that are in high demand. It’s been this way my whole life. People used to literally camp out in front of best buy.