Selfhosting may not be your thing if you don’t like learning and researching new products.

Agreed, sure scaling is one factor, but I don’t think this person has ever really dived into why containers are slick. Why you aren’t tracking down what dependency hell caused your app to crash. Conflicting cuda versions. Two apps using the same port. Trying to decipher a language you’ve never used before

Whenever I hear “containers are too complex” or “I don’t like containers” I read it as “I don’t understand containers”. There are some real flaws to them, but no self respecting ops engineer would ever say “containers have no value beyond scaling”

second to this, and to add on that while it’s gotten easier (and yes, even with this guide, it’s much easier than it used to be) back up your system. Hopefully nothing goes wrong, but you are messing with the kernel, make sure you’re mentally prepared to have to build it all from the ground up.

Best thing i did was creating a git repository just for my local environment and set up.

Granted I did switch over to kubernetes and helm, so that was good. Kick start where everything is laid out and simply YAML files, but even more important than that was setting up readme files for all my major systems.

I want to say it’s now hundreds of times. I’ve gone back and reread those read me files, the random fixes I had to come across, common error codes that I needed to fix, setting up new boxes, the list goes on. On. Having one central place where I can edit and update those readmes has been a godsend. Plus I run gitea so it then formats those in a nice way for me automatically.

Not to mention the dozens of scripts and random snippets of code I’ve needed to save to help me run my local lab.

I’ve never even heard of Orange Pi, thanks for the heads up to them!

I can compare specs on my own, I’m looking for opinions here. I heard rpi wasn’t completely on the up and up recently, shipping problems, overserving corporate clients, etc. If people have had bad boards, bad customer service, things are overpriced for what you get, etc.

Right now it looks like the rpi5 is the best option, but $80 is a lot, and if I can get a couple of lower end boards for half the price with a better company rep, then I’d probably seriously consider those.

text-generation-webui is kind of the standard from what I’ve seen to run it with a webui, but the vram stuff here is accurate. Text LLMs require an insane amount of vram to keep a conversation going.

Windows for no, but going to switch it hopefully to chimera

Straight rip from disc. Bandwidth was never a problem with Plex. However another comment got me up and running.

Literally was setting this up yesterday. Good thing I didn’t finish yet …

So far this is working pretty well! Shame it’s such a pain doing the extra step

Should that matter for direct play? On Plex I never used hardware acceleration and focused on my media player being able to play everything. My client is a full PC, with an Nvidia GPU on Windows. The client doesn’t seem to be using it from what I can tell.

Am I misunderstanding this? Is a client setup here different from the server?

Yeah, there have been posts saying “They’re going subscription!!” and that’s why I made this one. They’re not going subscription. It makes me hella nervous that they might go subscription, but for now they’re not. I’m alarmed and watching, but my pitchfork is still in the shed. …for now.

I’m hoping security updates are always included, but new features could be gated by lifetime/subscription. But no word on that yet.

That move by them is what makes me so nervous about things like this. I will never not be angry, I left that company the second they announced our lifetime memberships were useless. “You get 3 whole months of the new subscription because we’re nice like that.” No way, I was out.

I hope unraid treats us better, but I’m nervous as hell.

This is where I’m conflicted. Software development is hard and it’s expensive. I completely understand that the old model was unsustainable.

HOWEVER - I’ve seen this a dozen times before. They make a move that’s not great but it is understandable with the community. It’s the next move that I worry about, when all of a sudden there is a subscription, or those old “lifetime” plans suddenly aren’t lifetime. I remember PlayOn TV suddenly saying “Well now it’s PlayOn Home. That’s a new product, so you did get the lifetime of the old PlayOn TV! So we didn’t really reneg on our deal!” Immediately in the garbage.

So, I’ll be staying on for now… with a big “we’ll fuckin’ see” in the next few years.

Okay no, if you’re going to post on it at least get your facts right.

To be clear, I’m not happy about it, but that doesn’t mean we need to only present half the story.

There are THREE levels. Starter, Unleashed, and Lifetime.

Starter and Unleashed are both full lifetime keys, but only offer one year of updates. Verbatim from the post:

These will function similarly to the current Basic, Plus, and Pro licenses, with the main difference being that the Starter and Unleashed licenses will come with one year of software updates. After that, customers will be able to pay an OPTIONAL extension fee, which makes them eligible for another year of updates. If you choose not to renew, no problem.

However all current licenses are grandfathered

Again, this change does not apply to any current license holders. You will still be able to access all updates for life, as promised. Lifetime is the same lifetime as before.

https://unraid.net/blog/pricing-change

I don’t like this, and I definitely have been burned with grandfather clauses before, but you might as well report what is actually happening if you’re going to make a post.

I urge you to delete this post as it only contains half the story.

EDIT: OP I’m an admin of my own instance, I can SEE you downvoted me. Why because you decided to leave out half the information and I pointed it out?

Container should have negligible overhead, the main problem you’re going to see is where the in/out files are located and shared. Another plus there for docker, can map that volume to anywhere.

If you need a GUI, then handbrake with a web version sounds great, when I did it years ago they didn’t have it.

Since then, I’ve learned ffmpeg and use that regularly and can schedule jobs well now. Definitely more advanced, but more built for server applications.

Literally the opposite of the point of the whole community there bud

Yes you can just spin up a container just like jellyfin.

Yes it’s nice for a one stop shop buuuut trust us, just audiobookshelf. You’ll thank us later