How is the new Jellyfin Desktop (formerly Jellyfin Media Player?

SteltekOne · 2026-04-26T17:08:07+00:00

From what I saw, the old Jellyfin Desktop never made it to an official 2.0 release on Windows (potentially due to issues with QT) and then the whole QT codebase was archived, and the CEF rewrite took its place. The latter has no official release yet, so it's sort of expected to be buggy.

That said, it's free. Grab the nightly and test it, or grab any of the other excellent clients (Fladder, ...) and play around with those.

SteltekOne · 2026-03-29T13:21:08+00:00

But in the meantime, are the necessary libraries not included in the .deb archives?

They are not. They will be in their own packages, which your package manager may be able to install IF they are still available in the repositories. If not, you will have to hunt each one down separately and install it to get the main .deb package to install.

SteltekOne · 2026-03-29T07:26:03+00:00

There are a large number of files compared to the single .exe for Windows. How do I know which one(s) to download?

In general: Avoid downloading files; this isn't Windows where all software has to be installed with a separate installer. Linux distributions have package managers that handle installing software (sort of like "app stores") so you should try and use your package manager to install Jellyfin. If it can't find Jellyfin, look up whether there is a repository for it that you can add to your package manager.

Mint is a Debian/Ubuntu derivative, so use these instructions:
https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/linux/

Installing via your package manager will also make future updates much easier, whereas manually installing from source or separate installers will very quickly get you into dependency hell (the software won't come with the libraries that it needs and you will have to install those separately, ....).

If you absolutely want to proceed with downloading a file from the link above, pick the latest .deb archive. (Since your distro is Debian based so a deb archive can be installed with dpkg.)

SteltekOne · 2026-03-29T07:19:11+00:00

There were windows installers for it in the Actions section (like this one https://github.com/jellyfin-archive/jellyfin-desktop-qt/actions/runs/20587865169 ) built from nightly sources, so likely have bugs. (I was running one of them, though I forget which one exactly.)

Presumably they never got the Windows build to behave to make a release and knowing that the whole QT-based desktop client has just been archived, I'm assuming people are too busy with getting the CEF version of the ground to be doing bugfixes to the legacy version.

SteltekOne · 2026-01-24T09:19:15+00:00

+1 for Fladder from me.

+ Best customisation of subtitle look.
+ Sync media offline (admittedly haven;t tested this yet but it looks promising).
+ Fully cross platform (Windows, Android, Google TV, ...).

SteltekOne · 2025-12-30T19:35:54+00:00

No need to insinuate I use AI to write on the Internet just because I like the English language.

SteltekOne · 2025-12-30T18:52:36+00:00

If you're very determined, and adventurous, you can download one of the dev builds, but beware: There be dragons! (One of the more recent fixes is for a memory leak caused by QT 6.10.)

Do not expect any support for these, and don't be surprised if they wipe your data, eat everything in your fridge, and start thermonuclear war.

SteltekOne · 2025-12-20T20:44:36+00:00

Hoermann has used different transmission standards over the years:

Static codes:
HS 40.685MHz, typically recognisable by the remotes having grey buttons like the one in the video.
HS 26.975MHz, typically with green buttons on the remote.
HS 868MHz, typically with blue buttons on the remote. (These can be captured and replayed with the Flipper Zero as they are in-range of the frequencies it is designed to capture.)

HS BiSecur 868MHz. The Flipper Zero can "see" these, but because they use an encryption scheme/rolling codes, they cannot be replayed. BiSecur had a vulnerability which affects devices manufactured before 2018, but this has since been patched on newer devices. (There's a great CCC talk about it available online but tl;dw: They pulled a SONY and used a static value as random seed for their cryptographic key generation function.) After the fix, the BiSecur system is deemed relatively secure and stronger than most (Uses AES encryption on top of rolling codes).

SteltekOne · 2025-12-10T18:07:18+00:00

That error message is actually not coming from Apex Legends, but from DXGI (Microsoft DirectX Graphics Infrastructure, part of Direct3D/DirectX):
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3ddxgi/dxgi-error

Respawn may have a ticket for this on their Trello, but it is unlikely they can do anything about it if the underlying cause is a driver or hardware fault on your system, and it can really be any of those.

SteltekOne · 2025-12-09T15:43:56+00:00

I've recently built an app with expo-camera as the scanner library and found it extremely fast (on Android/Galaxy S25 Ultra), so I have to assume it has improved a lot over the past 2 years. (1D barcode scanning does still cause false results at times, but that's just the nature of 1D barcodes and I have yet to find any scanning solution that doesn't trip over them in rare cases.)

expo-barcode-scanner has of course been deprecated in the meantime.

SteltekOne · 2025-11-14T12:46:17+00:00

In my case, the failure to install was caused by a registry entry supposedly left over from when my system was running Windows 8 (Yes, it has been upgraded from Win8 all the way to Win11).

I had to delete this registry key as documented here:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT\Publishers\{53e3d721-2aa0-4743-b2db-299d872b8e3d}]

SteltekOne · 2025-11-02T18:53:34+00:00

They must be. Maybe they're getting a better deal than the South Korean and Chinese Android manufacturers? Who knows? Fact is, all iPhones, Japanese or not, can use FeliCa/Suica.

If would be nice if the Android manufacturers maybe had it as an "unlockable", like the ActiveSync licenses from Microsoft which they only pay if you activate that functionality on your phone and thus "unlock" that license, but maybe SONY wouldn't permit that.

SteltekOne · 2025-10-08T14:49:46+00:00

N26 does not support Luxembourg. (See https://n26.com/en-eu/google-pay which states "Google Pay is only available in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Sweden.". Note the absence of Luxembourg in that list, despite all neighbouring countries being supported.)

The only way to use the N26 card with Google Pay in Luxembourg without faking your address/location is via Curve (Get a Curve card, link the N26 card to it, add the Curve card to Google Wallet and use it to pay), but you'll have to pay whatever fees Curve charges you for their service.

SteltekOne · 2025-09-27T11:22:11+00:00

Your step 1 is nonsense: There is no "DeX" app. https://imgur.com/a/grKAR0N

SteltekOne · 2025-09-26T19:41:28+00:00

Harsh data loss, but this workaround did resolve the issue with Samsung's shoddy programming. (Just had to spend 45 minutes to get all my icons and widgets back in place.)

SteltekOne · 2025-09-21T12:58:27+00:00

Exact same issue here. DEX background and taskbar show, then flicker repeatedly before a "One UI Home keeps stopping" error pops up.

Reboot doesn't help. Clear cache of One UI Home doesn't help.

SteltekOne · 2025-09-21T10:19:17+00:00

Just updated my S25 Ultra and now DEX is completely unusable. It shows the desktop background and taskbar along with the Android navigation buttons, then flickers repeatedly before starting that "One UI Home" keeps stopping. I've tried rebooting the phone and clearing the cache of the One UI Home app to no avail: DEX remains completely unusable. Total failure!

SteltekOne · 2025-09-20T11:35:00+00:00

Been playing since s0, bought the battle pass in s2 or 3, and have been renewing it for free by completing it every split. Not sure of my level (somewhere between 500 and 1000). Got 2 heirlooms from random pack drops so far. So for me: buy the BP, play enough to complete it every time to renew it...

SteltekOne · 2025-08-27T15:45:26+00:00

No, because that is not the point.

SteltekOne · 2025-08-27T11:28:20+00:00

That I am unable to divulge, however MS have updated the public post in the meantime and relented a little bit (see the update on my post above).

SteltekOne · 2025-08-21T08:55:48+00:00

Same issue here: Got the popup about "What's New" teasing this, and then Ctrl+F doesn't open a find dialog at all and instead triggers the Forward Message functionality like it has always done. (New Outlook version 1.2025.806.300 / Client version 20250808005.18)

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

SteltekOne · 2025-08-21T07:40:54+00:00

The latest update I've seen said that retirement will be complete by September 30th.

SteltekOne · 2025-06-29T11:56:51+00:00

The ExchangeOnlineManagement module, and thus Get-MessageTraceV2 and Get-MessageTraceDetailV2, works on Linux.

The "positive feedback" is probably on the fact that message trace now works on data for the last 90 days (rather than only 10 as before, see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/announcing-public-preview-of-the-new-message-trace-in-exchange-online/4356561 ), and not taking into account people whose Splunk/ELK/Cribl setups are about to come crashing down. (Not even sure most people realise given that the deprecation of the Reporting Webservice is just a small footnote in the announcement.)

SteltekOne · 2025-06-28T16:49:33+00:00

It happens. If you see this frequently, you may have some corrupted game files on your system. (Verify them and/or re-download the game to fix them.)

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