The fact that jellyfin let’s you sort your media exactly the way you want without promoting or hiding content already puts JF miles ahead any commercial streaming services. The ease of mind is unbeatable.

On the home server on the host. I couldn’t figure out how to make it work in a container and still have ssh access to the host, which was my goal…

What you like wearing comfy flannels and grabbing wood? You wanna go listen to the birds like a Disney princess?

Same! I setup a cronjob calling namecheap dyndns API.

This is a global trend not limited to Microsoft. Greatly influenced by trumps election too.

Well maybe it did but I wasn’t aware!

Yes, but the plugin ecosystem really was pioneered by sublime and then ported over everywhere. A big reason atom was so successful is the plugin and themes were compatible.

Didn’t Sublime Text come before Atom?

I still don’t understand how Searx is able to operate for free. Don’t the API calls cost money?

I know, and accept that. You can’t just tell an LLM not to halucinate. I would also not trust that trust score at all. If there’s something LLMs are worse than accuracy, is maths.

Yes, that’s the kind of thing I mean when I say I need to dial it back a little. Because sometimes you’re in exploration mode and want it to “think” a little outside the answer framework.

See my comment above

Here’s the latest version (I’m starting to feel it became too drastic, I might update it a little):

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I use a system prompt to disable all the anthropomorphic behaviour. I hate it with a passion when machines pretend to have emotions.

Haha OK. DIY server is like legos, docker is playmobil.

Maybe I can start shedding some light off docker.

When you start setting up a server, you end up having to setup many things. You install various programs and their dependencies. Sometimes those dependencies can conflict with each other, or you mess up your system by manually pasting some command you found on stack exchange. Then you need to manually keep all the software you use up-to-date and pray they don’t brick your server and force you to start over. And then when you need to update your OS or move to a new machine, you need to repeat this whole dance again.

Docker is like legos. You want to install jellyfin? There’s already a docker imagine for that. You just spin it up with some little configure file and you’re done. You want to setup a firewall? You want to setup https access? Automatic updates? There are docker images already made for it.

So you keep on setting up those docker containers and they all run in isolation but can communicate with each other. If you break something, you just restart one or all the containers and you always start fresh. Docker keeps nothing in memory, unless you explicitly want it (e.g. Your jellyfin config will presist in external config files).

Want to move to a new machine? You can just copy over the scripts that run the docker containers and those config files. Software updates? Just update the docker container and it handles all dependencies.

Also, Jellyfin all the way. It’s open source and free all the way.

We need both, because we will never reduce our energy consumption. It will keep escalating. Historically, the result of reducing how energy intensive our systems are has been that electricity becomes cheap for something else (see crypto, AI). We need to stop sponsoring any fossil fuel extraction, refinement and imports to make it less attractive for energy markets, and instead aggressively fund solar, wind and a variety of storage capacity.

Basically it’s a URL that you call with curl. You can set up a crown job to call every day or as often as you need. The URL contains the domain name or subdomain, you dynamic public IP (not CNAT), and the API token. This way you Domain always points to your dynamic IP.

Namecheap, and I guess other registrars too, has an API that you can call from your server to update your IP address in their DNS. It’s super easy. No need to pay for a static IP address. At least in my case ei already use my domain for other things.

And since when is the easiest way the funnest way? :P

My ISP uses CGNAT but I can ask for a dynamic IP address for free. I sent them an email and got a reply in less than a week. I can also pay extra like 2.50€ per month or something for a fixed IP. I found that quite reasonable.