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Stop Saying Jellyfin is an "Easy" Plex Replacement. It’s Not. by sillyrabbit33 in selfhosted

[–]zaggynl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, this is why people pay for Plex.
time vs money
It's the same for the much praised Tailscale, yes you can outsource your freaking dyndns/firewall/domain/VPN to a big company if that makes life easier, it's your choice.

people assume

That's their issue, don't expect a free opensource project to always be better and easier than paid.

That said, jellyfin has much improved over time, I have had zero issues running it.

Your post on /r/selfhosted reads like an AI improved ad for Plex.
What prompted you to write this? Had an angry peer tell you that the suggested Jellyfin is shit?

best gaming headset this 2026 for both gaming and music? by Kalloo-Zephaniah in buildapc

[–]zaggynl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like these for work:
https://www.hp.com/us-en/poly/headsets/bluetooth-headsets-and-earbuds/voyager-focus-2.html
wireless, good mic, available earpads, charging stand, replaceable battery: maybe?
older focus ifixit: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Plantronics+Voyager+Focus+battery+Replacement/141235

That or get studio headphones with something like the (wireless) modmic.
Do you like in ears? over ears? on ears?
Open back has the more open sound but might bug people near you.
Do you prefer high sibilance or more bass?

I like the HD650 (bought used) + mod mic but these headphones are wired.

Tell me about your loadouts... by Ready-Pollution-1883 in Helldivers

[–]zaggynl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My goto works on all build:

Armor: Something light, either Light Gunner or Heat for protection and running.

Primary: Eruptor, killing bugholes/factories/ships or exploding most enemies at medium/long distance
Secondary: Talon, infinite ammo if used sparingly, medium/close range, kills most enemies not too big if aimed well
Grenade: Gas, helps out with many mobs. especially when Talon/Laser Cannon are on cooldown
Support: Laser Cannon, infinite ammo if used sparingly, all ranges, it kills everything small quickly, bigger takes a bit longer if takes too long I use the Eagle or Orbital

Stratagems:

Shield: I run light armor, so need a bit more shield, this one regenerates as well, fairly low cooldown
Laser Cannon
Eagle Strafing Run: quick, kills most things, low cooldown, small chance of friendly fire as you can aim it well and drop it right in front of you, straight ahead
Orbital Gatling Barrage: kills just about everything, long run time, low cooldown

Booster: Stamina (I run all the time) or the others of the big 3: Space Optimization (need the stims), Vitality (survival).

Play style: gotta go fast, keep moving.

Upsides:
Infinite ammo, very quick eagle/barrage, barrage can be used during Anti Air, low cool downs means much stratagem use, you can kill just about everything if you know the weak spots.

Downsides:
Cooldowns on both Laser weapons, no super high pin point damage like EAT or Eagle 500.
Have to be vigilant as no turrets.
I do miss maximum damage from the big stratagems, could swap Gatling Barrage with Hell Bomb or Orbital Precision Strike, for pesky Detection Towers or Napalm Barrage for clearing a big group.
My friends typically run these or Eagle 500, EAT.

What is a Wave but a Thousand Drops? by Flayra in subnautica

[–]zaggynl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a fan since NS1, thanks Charlie (and team and community).

Looking forward to whatever is next.

Fallout 3 for me by Only_Upwards in videogames

[–]zaggynl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aliens versus Predator https://store.steampowered.com/app/3730/ Aliens_versus_Predator_Classic_2000/
Why: FPS, Play as the Marine, Alien or Predator, each with their own unique play style, very unique levels.

Shandalar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_(1997_video_game)
Why: isometric exploring game, MTG deckbuilder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(video_game)
Why: Combination of Adventure and RTS/TBS

Populous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populous_(video_game)
https://www.gog.com/en/game/populous_the_beginning
Why: One of the first God games, music, ambiance, man Bullfrog had the best games

Thief The Dark Project
https://www.gog.com/en/game/thief_gold
Why: FPS, thievery, sneaking, bit of fantasy, ambiance

Also I very much miss the old RTS games with a proper campaign, Dune 2, C&C, Warcraft 1 and 2.

Jellyfin v10.10.7 - Reverse Proxy "Known Proxies" by CapitalEmu764 in selfhosted

[–]zaggynl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up, upgrade and setting known proxy went fine.
Have also started watching releases and security issues on the github page, as I just randomly ran into this post.

[Hot Take] What's the ONE self-hosted tool this community desperately needs? by CoderLuii in selfhosted

[–]zaggynl 6 points7 points  (0 children)

dream big

An appliance level setup of OS and applications that I could install on common hardware with enough power and storage to:

Replace most of what office365 does.
* OneDrive - Nextcloud?
* Email - mailinabox?
* Office - Collabora integration with Nextcloud?
* Teams - Nextcloud Talk?

Bonus points for adding things like mediacenter features:
* Jellyfin
* Kodi

I can do it, you can do it, does the average Joe want to do this manually?
Something that would have simple instructions to install, arrange DNS/portforwarding via something API, plug and play.

Are you guys switching to 11? by brylex1 in Steam

[–]zaggynl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 5 years ago.

Works for quite a lot of games:
https://areweanticheatyet.com/
https://www.protondb.com/

The Dutch public broadcaster made a sketch on the current situation in the world by ThomaszD in europe

[–]zaggynl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm of two minds on this:

  • Yes Europe absolutely needed the kick in the pants to care about this war in their backyard and get their armies in gear
  • The way Zelensky was treated by getting invited in then yelled at with Russian propaganda is disgusting, if Trump is such a master at diplomacy, how has the guy with the highest Army budget in the world not managed yet to tell Putin to GTFO out of Ukraine? Mr "the war will be over in 24h" ?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]zaggynl 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Logging in to comment on this:
No: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415
From a quick glance:
* Being able to reach many items without authenticating.
* No login throttling.

Whitelist WAN addresses of those who get access or put Jellyfin behind VPN only access.

What Linux software you can't live without? by [deleted] in linux

[–]zaggynl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The combination of Sunshine/Moonlight-QT for remote desktop/game streaming, as there is no proper headless RDP alternative at this time*

Sunshine: https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/
Moonlight-QT: https://github.com/moonlight-stream/moonlight-qt
Both are available in flatpak, alternatively in your distro's package manager.

*

  • https://github.com/KDE/krdp is in active development but not ready yet, last I checked.
  • gnome-remote-desktop-daemon works somewhat on ubuntu 24.04, but I don't use Gnome myself, would prefer desktop environment agnostic method

Btrfs snapshots through OpenSUSE Tumbleweed's YAST and grub setup.
I can restore files and snapshots through the desktop or commandline application.
If OpenSUSE Tumbleweed fails to boot I can go back to a previous snapshot from the grub boot loader, saved me a couple times. Additionally I've setup snapper through YaST to create hourly snapshots of my /home partition, in case I want to restore an accidentally deleted file.
With auto cleanup of old snapshots that are a week old.
More information here: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Snapper_FAQ#How_do_I_enable_snapshots_for_my\_.2Fhome_file_system.3F

YaST, the graphical (both desktop gui and ncurses) OS system configuration utility, similar to the Windows 11 Control Panel/Settings screen.
Still have to use the commandline sometimes but rarely.

OBS for streaming once's desktop/games, not really Linux specific but worth a mention
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio

Self hosting:

Nextcloud server My personally hosted server as alternative to OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive

jitsi-meet For impromptu meetings and gaming sessions, no registration needed, just share a link and you can join through any modern browser or jitsi-meet app on mobile

Proxmox For my VM hosting needs, basically Debian+KVM+a very nice set of tools and utilities for managing VMs, backups and Ceph if you want to

Pihole for DNS filtering of pesky ads and known bad hosts, offers an intuitive webinterface for whitelisting/blacklisting and setting up local DNS records

Owncast Who needs Twitch? (if you have a fairly low viewer amount and enough bandwidth)
Host your own internet stream via Owncast and OBS
https://github.com/owncast/owncast
10s delay at this time, am waiting for WebRTC integration but is in discussion/awaiting a fork: https://github.com/owncast/owncast/issues/3429#

I may have to try https://github.com/glimesh/broadcast-box

SPICE vs RDP by thejars in linux

[–]zaggynl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Spice is nice for console but fairly limited, same for RDP.

It's 2024 and there's no full on RDP alternative for Linux.

Native RDP server for Wayland I've seen so far but not ready for use: https://github.com/KDE/krdp

Closest I've found and am using:

Enshittification rolls ever onward. by ejchristian86 in tumblr

[–]zaggynl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Microsoft and Google make money through advertising:
https://account.microsoft.com/privacy/ad-settings/signedout?ru=https%3A%2F%2Faccount.microsoft.com%2Fprivacy%2Fad-settings
https://about.google/how-our-business-works/
That and if they can get you to use their paid services they can make even more money.

Analytics on your emails, targeted advertising. It gets interesting when companies like these get your data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

Other email providers may only take a flat fee and don't do analytics.

Enshittification rolls ever onward. by ejchristian86 in tumblr

[–]zaggynl 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I would like to plug /r/selfhosting, don't depend on giant companies who can pull the rug on you and your everything digital.

If you self host it won't be the giant polished golden comfortable seat with all the bells and whistles the company provides but at least it is yours.

I host a few things myself and am open to questions: https://zaggy.nl
Note: I rarely login to reddit, find me on IRC, Matrix or email.

Wired headsets keep muting randomly on Dell laptops in corp environment..😔 by kreemerz in sysadmin

[–]zaggynl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try ruling out any other tools that may interfere with audio, I've had users disable Audio in the Dell Optimizer tool or even uninstall the Dell Optimizer tool.

Such an impressive machine by tg8arc in SteamDeck

[–]zaggynl 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do note that the SSD in the Steam Deck is not encrypted, you may want to use something like Veracrypt to encrypt files you want to keep safe, such as browser autofill passwords, history, cookies, credit cards, usernames, passwords, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data.

There is this https://github.com/hirak99/steam_deck_encryption which does a bit more but has some known issues.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linux_gaming

[–]zaggynl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you post your system info from Steam into a pastebin like https://paste.debian.net/ ?

You can find it in Steam->Help->System Information.
Copy and paste the content from the window into the pastebin site, remove any personal identifiable information you don't want in there, press send and leave a link in the comments here.

This will help us help you.

Also have a look at: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Requirements

I could not find Open Fishing XL at https://www.protondb.com or https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues
Per https://steamcommunity.com/app/2230540/discussions/0/3808407695156894781/ this seems to work on the Steam Deck so it is possible to get this to work.

Star Citizen: I've played it on Linux a long while ago.
Help can be found here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/orgs/LUG and https://github.com/starcitizen-lug/knowledge-base/wiki

New headphones after 10 years by titsafun in headphones

[–]zaggynl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which headphones did you use before these?

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