Can you give some more details on the redlib instance and it’s usage for doing as much? I am in the same boat as you and would much prefer being able to have some kind of redirect if I have to look at content under some reddit link.

Thanks.

Tell him to learn how to code?

Optimally yes, the OP should learn some code before doing so - this task doesn’t seem that difficult to do with a script if you wrote it yourself, and it’s even less work to learn enough to just verify what the script is doing.

I have no idea how a car works at a deep level. However I know enough to know how to drive, and if I see its mirrors are broken off, the seat belts are missing, or there is gas leaking out of it onto the ground, I probably shouldn’t get in and drive it.

If you don’t understand code and run generated code, the problem is that you are stuck with a result that you may or may not have wanted. You may also just think it worked correctly when in fact It might have done other stuff as well that can’t be seen plainly - this is the inherent risk of running generated code where you can’t actually verify what it’s doing.

Maybe it performs the requested function correctly but is sourcing the original code from a use case where someone also wanted to delete every other kind of file that wasn’t a pdf in that directory. Maybe not. But this is a difference of one line of code which can have major ramifications if it gets left in.

The point is that if you aren’t certain what something does before you use it, you should at a minimum go through the necessary steps to be able to make an informed decision, otherwise it’s just reckless.

Pre-made tools have reproducible and known functionality that has been tested whereas LLM’s when generating this across 100 different users may come up with 100 different untested results in which someone who doesn’t know programming won’t really know what complete result to expect from the code it generates.

In short, pre made tools don’t require programming knowledge because someone has handled all of this for you previously, but LLM’s do require programming knowledge to make sure what it made is going to work safely and correctly.

I see, thanks.

UpNp or port forwarding is the same way both Plex and Jellyfin work.

I don’t know what makes Jellyfin less secure since they both work the same way for this as far as I can tell…

Can you be more specific about what makes Jellyfin less secure when it comes to UpNp/port forwarding?

In the case of port forwarding at least Jellyfin is open source and has more eyes on it so it’s less likely for someone to zero day it and have at it unless I have misunderstood how each can connect off-network.

Furthermore the hash for your password is stored along with many others at a single (or relatively few) attack point/s on a Plex business server since it’s a centralized business whereas this is never the case for Jellyfin.

Also this thread is about Plex literally selling your personal data so I don’t really consider Jellyfin worse for exposing your personal data.

I’ll take my chances with a single idiot who want’s to compromise my poor asses tiny network versus an actual hacker who wants to compromise an enterprise businesses network that is storing thousands or hundreds of thousands of user credentials, data, and payment information (Which Jellyfin doesn’t store even half of).

If someone hacks Jellyfin on my network -> They have my… media files? Maybe the hash of the one password I use there?

If somone hacks Plex on my network or anywhere - or the people they sold that data to -> They have my password hash, credit card number and probably my name that is associated to it, personal data that Plex is selling, etc.

TL:DR I think Plex is more likely to be hacked rather than myself and the outcome of Plex getting hacked is worse than if my personal Jellyfin server gets hacked.

I went to the Jellyfin landing page, went to the install instructions, copy pasted and ran literally one command, opened it in a browser, made my local account, clicked a button to point it at my media folders and then I was done.

What isn’t easy?

I’ve heard a lot about Kubernetes, but haven’t actually had to interact with it once incredibly. Interesting, thanks for the recommendation!

Wow thanks!

Awesome, thanks! It didn’t occur to me that IKEA could be an option!

Personal system but I work in technology, so learning solutions used in industry is always handy.

I want spinning disks as they have shorter life but a wider mean time between failure, which should be better for the RAID I want to configure.

Since SSDs have a definitive number of writes in their lifetime, as I recall it can be kind of dangerous to install several new ones at the same time in something like a raid 1 configuration.

That’s great to know, all four of my other machines are running Debian right now so I should have a pretty good idea of what’s up!

That probably is what I will do for some time, leaning it gently and securely against a wall somehow, but in the future rack would be nice - especially if I find some enterprise firewall for sale or something.

Also really happy to hear ebay might have iLO licenses - I have grabbed a couple one-time licences off there for windows machines before, but I didn’t know they sometimes had stuff like this too.

Thanks!

Thanks for the tips and the link, that’s super useful!

Unsure about the iLO, but I do recall powering on one of these remotely in school using it. I’ll have to wait until I find some power cable to take a look I believe, but I do see a sticker with the default user name and password for it on the side, so here’s hoping haha.

I have a PLA 3d Printer, but I fear PLA has too low of a melting point to use for server components. It would be neat if there were a caddie model out there I could test with though - will have to look around.

Thanks for the insight on the rack as well, that will be good to know in the future I am certain.

Mine are liking Mint quite a lot. They say they feel its easier to find stuff than windows.

I used to perform data analysis of robotics firmware logs which would generate several million log lines per hour and that was my second job out of college.

I don’t know how you fuck up 60k lines that bad. Is he nesting 150 for loops and loading a copy of the data set in each one while mining crypto??

This is too bad to hear. I installed Debian stable and have no issues gaming despite also using NVIDIA hardware at present.

What issues did you have with your games?

At the minute, a true open source and free browser/web engine, though I know this is nigh impossible to maintain without thousands of people. Some part of me is hopeful though given recent events.

The problem with Element as it compares to discord in my experience of showing it to discord-heavy users is that it does not contain the feature set that they are seeking.

Discords roles and permissions abilities, multiple channel types, streaming capabilities, public bots that are easily joinable, profile customization features, moderation capabilities, and more have no real equivalent in Matrix/element. Hence, when I have shown it to discord users before, they have 0 interest in using it because for them it is like reverting to an IRC.

but I also read some comments about doing kind of bad design on purpose. Like keeping things plain, boring, “function over form” kind of design. Is that a thing in the scene?

Not for most projects as far as I have seen. You are right that for a lot of things, UX/UI can be a bit of an after-thought, but for some projects it can get a lot of attention.

I feel as though a lot of projects have recently reached a point where they have time to begin thinking about how things look though, and it’s nice because I think it has made Linux and open source as a whole much more appealing to a wider audience.

It used to be that you would show someone a Linux desktop and they would recoil from it because of how things looked, but now when I show friends screenshots of customized window managers and applications in their current state, so many more people are attracted to it because the aesthetics now crush a lot of what the proprietary stuff has.

Even my parents in their late 60’s when I put them on Mint with Cinnamon felt as though they could more easily find where things were compared to Windows, and felt as though it is the embodiment of what an actual modern OS should be.

All in all, if anyone claims they don’t want a better UX/UI because they are focusing on “function”, it usually just means they don’t understand the meaning of the word. People like you who want to contribute on that end are very welcome.