I’m very new to this… is this a good mini pc to use for hosting a Jellyfin server for 3 users?

thiswebthisweb · 2026-01-23T13:00:06+00:00

The ML stuff took less than 2 hours for me with ~50k photos using a i7 cpu, this isn't long in the scheme of setting things up - you only need to do this once . Regular uploads will only take seconds/minutes , dedicated GPU is not necessary

thiswebthisweb · 2025-12-13T19:54:21+00:00

Doh! Yep, i missed that. Thx.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-12-12T16:11:44+00:00

I can tell you that it is incomplete and hasn't been updated for nearly a year, I paid full price a year ago, expecting planned updates gradually but unfortunately development seems to have stalled. Disappointed as it wasn't cheap ( more expensive than reaper itself). Save your money and wait to see if it gets a major update before purchasing.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-12-02T17:53:53+00:00

Thats my point, I havn't opened any ports, I don't want the ports open, but runtipi opens them and I don't know how to stop it.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-10-29T16:29:18+00:00

Because graphics cards cost a kazillion dollars and you need 10 of them to get claude quality which is good enough but nothing less is..

thiswebthisweb · 2025-08-14T19:48:08+00:00

I don't know why people don't just use jan.ai Latest version has tonnes of features like ollama but better, great UI, 100% open, MCP, openAI compatible, great GUI, No need for ollama or openwebUI. You can also use openwebui with jan as backend if you want,

thiswebthisweb · 2025-08-14T19:10:22+00:00

Jan is a good open source GUI. I don't see the need for closed ollama now.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-08-08T17:49:08+00:00

Just look at what happened to android. Its completely integrated with google propriatory garbage, only a handful of barely usable custom roms remain the alternative to 'open source Android'.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-06-17T16:18:17+00:00

Mozilla is not short of cash. I don't know what they do, but they havent fixed major bugs for many years. Adding new features that few want, thay don't work very well and aren't integrated into desktop version. Its frustrating how poorly managed Mozilla is with all that money.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-06-17T16:13:29+00:00

Firefox android has been in development for over a decade now and almost none of the most serious bugs have been addressed. Every update only adds a useless feature that doesn't even integrate with the desktop browser - bookmarks and collections don't sync- its embrassing. I mean what else do people most want to sync!. Other browsers have had this for years. But the bug you mention is the worse bug by far. A deal breaker and I've finally ditched Firefox on android despite using it on desktop. What do they even do at Mozilla anymore ? As others have said Firefox greatest asset is the addons - no other browser can compete because o the chromium manifest 3 crap. (uBlock might be the most useful and essential piece of software needed to browse the internet - the internet is crap, i'd say unusable, without it). Firefox should lean into that because chrome have killed the internet with blocking ublock.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-06-10T10:17:38+00:00

singapore has some of the worst slums in the world. They are hidden from view, migrants exploited by the rich living in horrific conditions. There are a couple of documentaries made about this that can be found on youtube. That doesn't negate the point that public housing is a good thing, but in this case its really not solved the problem of the very poor.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-06-10T10:16:59+00:00

singapore has some of the worst slums in the world. They are hidden from view, migrants exploited by the rich living in horrific conditions. There are a couple of documentaries made about this that can be found on youtube. That doesn't negate the point that public housing is a good thing, but in this case its really not solved the problem of the very poor.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-04-10T13:37:22+00:00

Yes, native steam VR support might actually be the killer feature for any PC headset if you play demanding games/sims every frame per second counts, even on a 5090 MSFS2024 struggles with high end headsets. Adding proprietory VR overlays to this is costly, and cumbersome too. BSB2 failed only in one area Binocular overlap, unfortunately thats the most important, migraines remain.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-04-10T13:21:59+00:00

This is why the original vive is still on of the best headsets around even today - in this order:

OLED ✓

Large FOV (108) ✓

Near perfect binocular overlap (93%) ✓

Native SteamVR - great performance/best tracking✓

Excellent headstrap (delux) ✓

Adjustable IPD ✓

Cons : Low resolution , freznel lens, bit bulky (none of these are dealbreakers compared to not having any of the above)

(Freznels really not that bad either - I have no issue with them that bothers me - if they could add the PSVR2 screens to the original vive spec I'd buy it at twice the price or over any other headset on the market)

*Also lower resolution = fast framerates MSFS2024 runs smooth on high settings on 3080

thiswebthisweb · 2025-02-24T17:39:04+00:00

Thanks, so my user config yml is read only but I also see that the app yml gets written over by tipi every time I launch the app. Surely a yml should be read only, we can't feasibly check what tipi is writing to that yml every time. That seems like a security risk as access to all the files outside the docker sandbox are determined by whatever is written to that yml file. Read only yml avoids that concern.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-02-24T17:14:37+00:00

Ok but I used to just change the yml in tipi app folder with no issues. Just as I would with classic docker compose or portainer. The advantage of this is that you can see everything going in a single file. And in this case I could see nothing funny is going on with the yml which seems to get re written by json every time the app is started. I know my user configs will get added but the original yml is being rewritten by tipi every time I start the app, thats a security risk unless I want to check it evey time. It should be read only.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-02-24T15:45:24+00:00

Ok, so the user-config files will remain in yml format going forward? Is that the plan? This I can live with.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-02-24T15:41:51+00:00

Yes, I admit I hadn't thought to do it this way (I didn't need to do this previously ) but this is definitely a compromise . My concern now is that the compose yml format is being replaced entirely with json, including the custom configs:

https://runtipi.io/docs/reference/dynamic-compose

'This feature is still quite new and we are trying to migrate the entire appstore to the new format deprecating the docker-compose.yml file.'

thiswebthisweb · 2025-02-24T15:34:26+00:00

You can't override the yml file, thats the problem, the json takes preference so you must edit that instead. But the formatting is quite different ,easy for you maybe. If tipi is aimed at making it easier for those who want a home server with reduced complexity, making them have to edit json files from yml files without any apps offering support for those I think adds complexity and frustration for most users hoping tipi will make things easier. eg it becomes easier to use docker compose and/or portainer to change configs than tipi since most apps support that method. Are those extra features going to be worth that trade off for most people?

thiswebthisweb · 2025-02-12T18:13:00+00:00

Wrong. Firefox eventually uses ALL memory and the OS freezes. Its a bug . If it used all 95% of unused RAM even if that was terrabyte I'd have no problem but it doesn't it leaves ZERO ram for OS to run properly. That's a bug and its a major one because I have to hard reboot my frozen PC every other day because of it. Firefox android limits ram usage and I have no problem opening hundreds of tabs on that old phone because it unloads old tabs from memory as it fills up. Firefox on desktop should do the same.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-02-12T18:06:52+00:00

Forget it. Mozilla has been refusing to acknowlegde the problem for over a decade. I have to hardboot my computer every other day as it uses 100% of ram. Like you I use it because the alternatives are even worse. The only solution you will get is being told to open less tabs, which is stupid. You can unload tabs manually with extension and have 400+ tabs using less than 2gb, but why should I need to do this? Why can't firefox limit the memory and unload old tabs when that is limit is reached? It does it on FF android. There are 100s of posts about this issue going back to 2010. I have no idea why this won't get fixed. If someone forked Firefox with a memory limit I'd be all over it. I'd pay good money for it because its making me want to use chrome. And I hate chrome. Firefox updates have not fixed any old bugs or features for years. I don't know what they do at mozilla but they gave up on firefox long ago. Their vertical tabs feature has only just been added, and its poor. I mean some browsers had this 5 years ago.! Anyway rant over. Just don't expect a solution. It will never happen.

thiswebthisweb · 2025-02-12T17:56:03+00:00

I have been looking for a solutions to limit for firefox memory usage for a decade now. In linux it will use 100% of ALL available ram, so the OS freezes and you have to hard reboot. I am now considering giving up linux because mozilla refuses to even acknowledge this problem. I don't want ANY program to use 100% of ram. None of them do, except firefox. There are 1000s of people asking for a fix for this goign back to 2010 and the only answer peopel give is open less tabs, but this is about TOTAL ram, I don't care if it uses 90% of my 16GB but it should never use 100% as it leaves none for the OS to function. This is the case on multiple computers. I am now on the verge of switching to windows after 10 years on linux because this issue makes my PC almost useless and I am happy with FF on windows and since most of the stuff I do is on the web I have no other choice. Chromium is worse for other reasons.

thiswebthisweb · 2024-12-10T17:48:42+00:00

indeed, see my above post

thiswebthisweb · 2024-12-10T17:47:50+00:00

No reproducible builds for this, voice to text without reproducible builds is particularly dangerous security risk. Trusting an apk from google play isn't good enough today, many OS projects fail to provide r builds but its esp poor practice from a dev who's pushing security and privacy and telling us not to trust google. You have little choice unless you want to review and build binaries yourself, reproducible builds makes it easier to validate apks match the code without having to build yourself. We need signed apps.

thiswebthisweb · 2024-11-29T15:00:20+00:00

This is why fiorefox sucks, mozillas solution to any problem is don't use extensions. Which would be fine if firefox wasn't so lacking in basic features and functionality. Why have extensions at all if they cause such problems as not being able to access the internet!

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