I don’t understand this argument.
I paid once many years ago. I’ve never been asked to pay again. Why would I switch before they make a change?
In the meantime, jellyfin is getting better and better. Plex will probably be dead to me at some point, and when that happens, I’ll hop over.
I had a bad NVME drive that caused that on two separate computers.
One of them I slowly replaced every single piece of hardware except the NVME, still crashed about once a day. Finally sucked it up and bought a new drive and magically everything stopped crashing.
Started happening on my server so I just immdietely replaced the NVME drive and magically no crashes anymore.
Zero issues in the logs, no failures on bootup, no issues with any hardware scanners, just hard freeze randomly.
Paid also helps if you share passwords with multiple people.
If you need to update them, you just reprint and replace.
If you need to recover on the road, well that depends on your risk tolerance. I’m never away from home so long that it’s a problem, and pretty much every service has a way to bypass 2FA in case of emergency.
Print out all the QR codes on a sheet of paper and keep them secure in a fire safe. That’s really the best way to keep them backed up and secure.
NPM, Nginx Proxy Manager also has a UI and certificate management.
FYI, you can still dedrm Amazon books. Even ones you buy today.
Edit: Not going to lie, it’s a lot more complicated now. But it actually works for Amazon borrowed books too (i.e. - Libby library books)
You have to use KindleForPC 2.8.0. You download the books you want, then run an app called KFXKeyExtract28 to pull out all the keys.
You have to have DeDRM installed in calibre and point the plugin to the keyfile that gets generated (you only have to do this once)
Then you can import the books into calibre and everything will work as normal.
https://github.com/Satsuoni/DeDRM_tools/discussions/25
Don’t get discouraged, it works, you just have to figure out the right workflow that you’re comfortable with.
Also, I have no idea why they don’t just update the ReadMe, as it seems like this discussion thread is the only actual place this is documented.
FreshRSS has an API that can be called by different apps in the app store.
I use FreshRSS web interface on my computer, and then use the Readrops app on my phone.
The point is, if the certificate gets stolen, there’s no GOOD mechanism for marking it bad.
If your password gets stolen, only two entities need to be told it’s invalid. You and the website the password is for.
If an SSL certificate is stolen, everyone who would potentially use the website need to know, and they need to know before they try to contact the website. SSL certificate revocation is a very difficult communication problem, and it’s mostly ignored by browsers because of the major performance issues it brings having to double check SSL certs with a third party.
Why not Gee-IMP?
I use rsync to backup, I can delete and restore the whole drive if i want at any time.
I use watchtower to keep things updated. If you schedule the rsync and watchtower correctly, you can get the backup done before the upgrade and there’s basically no lost data with the rollback.
I use uptime Kuma for monitoring, and it shoots me an email with details on what failed.
I automate my upgrades, but I also automate my backups, and monitoring.
If an upgrade breaks something, my health monitor lets me know and I can roll back to the previous day.
I run it. It’s good if you want to just host the books. Share my 2k size ebook library with my group of friends.
Get two external hard drives and swap them into a fire safe occasionally.
That way if there’s a need to evacuate you can just grab the fire safe and run.
Steam Big Picture Mode allows you to install non steam apps.
Powered off it uses almost twice the energy of my server.
That’s insane.
I have Plex running alongside Jellyfin.
When transcoding video, Plex uses an extra 5 watts of power. Jellyfin uses an extra 55 watts.
Jellyfin also has security holes for accessing videos via URL without being authenticated.
I don’t feel like Jellyfin is ready for being exposed to the internet.
I had a 212j for about 10 years before I got a 720+.
The j series are so underpowered the dashboard took literal minutes to load.
The + series is extremely energy efficient, but still powerful. I was running a Plex server along with a Terraria server on it and had no hiccups.
Now they were designed nearly a decade apart, but still. The + series is the way to go, don’t get anything else if you go with Synology.
I did that for a bit, but there was a noticeable increase in power usage on my server for something I’m not using.