Those issues were related to Covid. It made perfect sense for them to focus on their corporate clients, who are their largest revenue source. I’ve also never heard anything bad about their customer service, nor the quality of the products or pricing.

Now that those supply issues have been solved, there’s no real reason to be wary of them. They make an incredible product at a fantastic price.

Open Source or Die!!! /s

My music is stored on my real-debrid account, and I use Lidarr and Debrid Media Manager to manage it. For a player/streaming server I’m currently using Jellyfin, but I’ve used Navidrome and Plex in the past and found them to work great.

All my local music is stored on a NAS which Jellyfin also has access to.

edit: For the lazy there’s always SpotifyX for Desktop, and XManager for Android.

But then how would they get all the tech blogs to write about them?

A cheaper, albeit less secure alternative, is purchasing a domain and setting up a Cloudflare tunnel.

Does this still require you to get the Windows App from the Windows Store? Thats the main reason I ditched.

I just use Beeper. I had my own Matrix server up but getting all the bridges to work was cumbersome.

Plex isn’t allowed on Cloudflare. Itll work, but you’ll get your account flagged.

Use Tailscale instead.

Is it particularly different from LibreX?

Im all for continuing communities 9utsideof Reddit, but porting posts/content is like putting up pictures of your ex everywhere. Why is everyone still so obsessed with this?

To point your domain to your machine you can use Cloudflare tunnels. If you don’t want it publicly available, you can use a VPN.

I would actually suggest buying one of Netgate’s prebuilt routers. They’re pricey, but it brings the peace of mind knowing that device is handling it exclusively, and with appropriate hardware. It doesn’t come with a Switch or AP though.

Good. The less Google does the better the internet will be.

3 years actually. Which is the spec for the batteries.

I’ve had my APC 1000-UPS for 5 year and have only had to replace the battery once, though I think I may need to again by the end of the year.

I just ordered a Netgate SG-1100 and I am beyond excited to spend the next few days seeing what this thing can do.

You also get access to their other products too, like their VPN.

Probably Apache? I’ve been running web servers since the early 2000’s.