I was going to do the pihole thing, but when I looked into it, I was expecting a "Buy this, follow these steps to load this, plug it into this, configure this, done".
Instead it was utterly autistic, infuriating fucking bullshit. It was like if you wanted a towel rack, and instead of just being able to buy a goddamn towel rack, you only had a bunch of faggy insufferable woodworking nerds smugly telling you to just put some wood in your lathe and build it yourself.
I'm still using Windows. My pis are just complementary to my home setup mostly. I run radarr, lidarr, sonarr on them, plex, octoprint, piholes, steamlinks etc
There is a lot of autism surrounding linux, but pi-hole is pretty easy to set up. You probably found one of those guides that required you to use docker, which is a retarded thing to do on a machine that is dedicated to a single task. This is what you need to do to get pi-hole up and running.
Hell yeah, look at that. Yeah it was a couple years ago but for sure whatever I found was way more complicated and was talking about all these custom configs and needing to download weird shit from weird websites and then acting like it was all common knowledge. Thanks man, seriously.
HDR works perfectly in Emby, even tone mapping when transcoding (it was added in a recent-ish update). You'll want a server that can hardware transcode if you're not direct playing 4k HDR though.
I've had strangeness with Dolby Atmos. Seems to depend on the client mostly. Jellyfin on Roku has been great, jellyfin on Kodi and Android have been mixed.
Jellyfin's getting there. Slowly. It serves my needs alright, though I must admit I don't push it too hard, and it does seem to be actively improving, and willing to do what I tell it to. Rather than Plex which seemed to get worse, and change things away from the way I wanted them with each update, prompting me to switch in the first place.
I'd love to use something like jellyfin, but I've got a bunch of technologically illiterate people using my Plex server. They can barely use Plex. And there aren't jellyfin apps on some of the devices they use for Plex.
Yes, the limitedness of well supported jellyfin apps is one of it's biggest weaknesses in my opinion. Making things like this pick up and play is important for people trying to administer it for others.
Jellyfin on Roku was basically perfect and no harder than any other streaming app aside from perhaps slightly clumsy controls during login. Web and computer App were also nearly perfect. Android app worked fine most of the time but occasionally did something weird. Minor stuff easy enough to troubleshoot, but not ideal if your mom is trying to binge watch her British soaps.
It's too bad Jellyfin and Emby are such broken and roughshod competitors. They're also unusable, mainly because they're barebones skeletons with only the most basic functions and don't even run well
Have you actually tried them, especially recently? I run my server with Emby, and have had absolutely no problems at all. Not only does everything work reliably and as expected, I've also been able to share my server with multiple family members that are barely able to use a smart TV. I tell them to install the app and what to type for the server information, and then it's like using any other streaming service for them from there.
I'm curious what features you think Emby is lacking that are necessary, or what aspects of it haven't run well for you. I know Plex has additional features that are unrelated to serving video media (like the game streaming add-on), but I wasn't under the impression it has much in the way of media features that Emby lacks.
I still watch my own media on a plex docker on synology. Not sure what its taken away in the past 4 years I've run it. But they've also been pushing their own content, i just unpin it from my sidebar
Peacock sent me some gay shit email this morning and I immediately unsubscribed, and hope thousands of others did as well. I don't want their spam email anyway but certainly not their gay spam.
These days, "pride" is just a flimsy excuse for exhibitionism and grooming. With corporations using the fag flag and pro-cocksucker statements as PR, their pride is now out-of-control narcissism.
Hopefully a lot more normies will start taking issues with the constant virtue signaling. Is about time some of them grow the fuck up.
Indeed. It’s taking some real effort now to bury their heads in the sand.
Pihole.... It blocks not only notifications but also their ad servers.
They get no ad revenue or "telemetry/analytics" from me.
Yes, I block their ad servers and their cdn servers (that's where the content for their notifications comes from).
Alright, time for me to finally get around to setting up a pihole
I was going to do the pihole thing, but when I looked into it, I was expecting a "Buy this, follow these steps to load this, plug it into this, configure this, done".
Instead it was utterly autistic, infuriating fucking bullshit. It was like if you wanted a towel rack, and instead of just being able to buy a goddamn towel rack, you only had a bunch of faggy insufferable woodworking nerds smugly telling you to just put some wood in your lathe and build it yourself.
? There's a one step installation line in raspberry to install a pihole. I've done it several times
Just type ' curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash ' in ssh
Well easier to use portainer to manage dockers and compose imo than compose.ymls
I'm still using Windows. My pis are just complementary to my home setup mostly. I run radarr, lidarr, sonarr on them, plex, octoprint, piholes, steamlinks etc
Most of them on docker except pihole
There is a lot of autism surrounding linux, but pi-hole is pretty easy to set up. You probably found one of those guides that required you to use docker, which is a retarded thing to do on a machine that is dedicated to a single task. This is what you need to do to get pi-hole up and running.
curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash
Hell yeah, look at that. Yeah it was a couple years ago but for sure whatever I found was way more complicated and was talking about all these custom configs and needing to download weird shit from weird websites and then acting like it was all common knowledge. Thanks man, seriously.
LOL!, Yeah, it is not for everybody. If you are the "artsy" "creative" type and not technically inclined... may not be for you.
It's not perfect but Emby is a fine alternative. Jellyfin has its frustrations but it's FOSS and doesn't push this faggotry.
Can't really speak to either. I'd expect Emby to support HDR but I've never tested that.
HDR works perfectly in Emby, even tone mapping when transcoding (it was added in a recent-ish update). You'll want a server that can hardware transcode if you're not direct playing 4k HDR though.
I've had strangeness with Dolby Atmos. Seems to depend on the client mostly. Jellyfin on Roku has been great, jellyfin on Kodi and Android have been mixed.
If you look at the comments in that thread - the top comment just answered it straight up.
At least the cucked mods didn't delete the thread.
Reddit was already on a downhill by then (remember the Ron Paul fandom? I do). GG accelerated the decline.
Jellyfin's getting there. Slowly. It serves my needs alright, though I must admit I don't push it too hard, and it does seem to be actively improving, and willing to do what I tell it to. Rather than Plex which seemed to get worse, and change things away from the way I wanted them with each update, prompting me to switch in the first place.
I'd love to use something like jellyfin, but I've got a bunch of technologically illiterate people using my Plex server. They can barely use Plex. And there aren't jellyfin apps on some of the devices they use for Plex.
Yes, the limitedness of well supported jellyfin apps is one of it's biggest weaknesses in my opinion. Making things like this pick up and play is important for people trying to administer it for others.
Jellyfin on Roku was basically perfect and no harder than any other streaming app aside from perhaps slightly clumsy controls during login. Web and computer App were also nearly perfect. Android app worked fine most of the time but occasionally did something weird. Minor stuff easy enough to troubleshoot, but not ideal if your mom is trying to binge watch her British soaps.
Have you actually tried them, especially recently? I run my server with Emby, and have had absolutely no problems at all. Not only does everything work reliably and as expected, I've also been able to share my server with multiple family members that are barely able to use a smart TV. I tell them to install the app and what to type for the server information, and then it's like using any other streaming service for them from there.
I'm curious what features you think Emby is lacking that are necessary, or what aspects of it haven't run well for you. I know Plex has additional features that are unrelated to serving video media (like the game streaming add-on), but I wasn't under the impression it has much in the way of media features that Emby lacks.
I pray the guys who made VLC will do something to replace plex. I know it's too much to ask but if only...
I still watch my own media on a plex docker on synology. Not sure what its taken away in the past 4 years I've run it. But they've also been pushing their own content, i just unpin it from my sidebar
Peacock sent me some gay shit email this morning and I immediately unsubscribed, and hope thousands of others did as well. I don't want their spam email anyway but certainly not their gay spam.
Pride is a sin.
These days, "pride" is just a flimsy excuse for exhibitionism and grooming. With corporations using the fag flag and pro-cocksucker statements as PR, their pride is now out-of-control narcissism.
Can't wait for the inevitable fall.