The worst part is when I leave comments and still wonder wtf I was thinking.

That’s fair, I did use the wrong word there.

That’s pretty much where I’m at too.

Both Jellyfin and Plex are pretty great currently, I prefer Plex slightly, but if Plex becomes worse then I’ll likely make the switch over to Jellyfin. I’ve liked Jellyfin for years but Plex has still been my main app.

I have both of them installed anyway.

Plex is less confusing to use if you want to share your library, but thankfully I don’t have any concerns about that because I’m selfish with my media and just have it set up for my own personal use.

I agree with most of what you’re saying, I disagree with the last part of what you’re saying.

The self-host movement is about taking control away from companies, and running web services locally instead of having to rely on companies for them and pay for them. Most things you can run locally without needing a server, but there are absolutely good use cases for server-based services. Some great examples of this are cloud storage, code repositories, and chat servers. You could run each of those things locally, but they are each improved by running them on a dedicated server designed for 24/7 uptime and centralized access.

It’s not just media that doesn’t feed recommendation algorithms - I actually like recommendation algorithms (Jellyseerr does a pretty great job with this), it’s more about having control over my media and it not being taken away randomly. So many times an older show I would want to watch would no longer be “available” so I’d have to download it anyway, with no option of paying to watch for it.

I kind of get the idea that code should be self-documenting, but at the same time, there’s so many crazy business rules that comments are basically a necessity if nothing else other than to explain why in the hell the crazed mess that provides the required functionality for the business rules exists.

Oh no… this brings back memories LOL

and the pve8to9 checklist script suggests to run this migration script if necessary

Ah, okay that makes more sense.

This is going to affect many more people who didn’t read it, then.

Although, that seems to only affect guests and not hosts?

The host machine becomes unbootable IIRC, so I think it’s something else?

I took a look but I’m not seeing any command for LVM mentioned anywhere?

It might be safer to wait, one of my IRL friends ran into an issue, and I saw some others post about it on the Proxmox forums: TASK ERROR: activating LV 'pve/data' failed: Check of pool pve/data failed (status:64). Manual repair required!

I think I didn’t run into that error because I flattened my LVM kinda, but if I hadn’t customized my setup maybe I would have run into that too.

I tell myself that every time, but I mean, I still end up doing it every time anyway lmao

edit: Just did it, it went well.

How can you debug it with a TCP dump if it’s encrypted?

Maybe I was thinking of this from back in 2024?

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android/issues/123

“Hacking around with a reverse proxy is strongly discouraged and we won’t provide any support for it.”

Maybe I was thinking of this from back in 2024?

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-android/issues/123

“Hacking around with a reverse proxy is strongly discouraged and we won’t provide any support for it.”

Are you sure that works? I’m pretty sure they mentioned that reverse proxies are an unsupported (and not working) use case with Jellyfin, but I might have to look into authelia some time then.

I thought that you can still access media directly via the URL without any authentication, how would authelia change that?

Security for remote streaming is a harder thing to handle. Most people are capable of port forwarding, But just hanging a smallish public project out there in the open is always a dicey proposition. It honestly needs real fail2ban, probably SSL, 2FA and password complexity requirements.

Yeah.

It’s tough because I get they’re an open-source project, and they’re volunteers, but at the same time, security is something that should be the highest priority.

Though, you could just make it so that it’s not accessible via WAN and instead has to go through a VPN, though that’d make it harder to share with others.

Yeah, OpenVPN definitely doesn’t have light spec requirements 😅 thankfully hardware is unfathomably powerful these days.

Or be like me stuck in the 2000s using OpenVPN still in 2025 lol

It’s more common with mobile-based connections like satellite connections or mobile-LTE data based connections, I believe.