I haven’t even tried it yet, but just from the video you can tell it’s going to be insanely good. I’m so impressed.
It’s the first bit of software I’ve seen in a long time where I took one look and immediately thought “Fuck me, I need that!”
I use Unraid for my NAS server and just on the off-chance I checked the Unraid community ‘app store’ and someone’s already created a Docker definition for it, published just today! The hype is real
I’ll be giving this a shot
Can claim “It even works with browsers from the future!”
Hehe, you might think that!
In actuality though, I’ve always been the one who had to sort the tech stuff. We got our first family PC when I was 10, and I was the one who knew the most about it. We got the Internet when I was 13, and I was the one who had the passwords, and had to set it all up. Then when we got broadband, the router was actually in my room lol.
So yeah, I’ve always been the Admin, and Dad has always been the one who needed a limited account to protect him from himself.
Yeah. When the cloud has more control over your own files than you do, that’s not a feature, it’s a problem.
I switched my Dad to Linux recently, and set his account up without any superuser access. Updates have to wait until I visit once a week, but it restricts his ability to get himself stuck in any update-related tangles.
Linux has problems, but I’m so glad I don’t have to support my Dad on Windows anymore, because that was far less predictable for me. Like the time it decided to upload all his files to onedrive (despite him having no knolwledge of this, or what it was doing or whether he’d consented or not) and made the Internet unusably slow for 8 hours by totally saturating his meagre connection.
He didn’t even know about onedrive, just phoned me like “The Internet isn’t working, what’s wrong?” and of course onedrive is the last thing I’d have suspected for causing that symptom, which made it so annoying to diagnose.
Much nicer now his OS doesn’t do sneaky things behind his back, or mine.
Lol, brilliant.
At first you are thinking “this is going to be so nice and compact and tidy” and then…
Love it though
Swiftfin is what I’m using for Plex on my Apple TV
It’s perfect for me because it supports direct stream and decoding of the file for playback on the Apple TV - because the Apple TV is capable enough to do that.
This is ideal because my NAS server is a venerable but now very long in the tooth HP Gen 8 microserver from 2014, so it doesn’t have the chops for reencoded streaming anymore.
Reading your comment I got worried about disk writes, so I’m glad this info is on the website:
Replay data is stored in RAM by default but there is an option to store it on disk instead.
Sensible design decision, because writing video to your SSD 24/7 wouldn’t do anything good for the lifespan of the drive.
This is a nice list, but for the novices it’s obviously meant for, it’s a bad learning experience.
Why? Because it doesn’t explain any of the reasoning behind what it asks you to do.
Why are we changing the default SSH port, for example? Someone who is seasoned might identify this is a somewhat limited attempt to obscure our attack surface, but to a novice it’s inscrutable and meaningless.
More important than telling people what to do is explaining why, because it puts the learning in context and makes it stick by giving a reason to care.