I’m in a very similar situation but more jaded. AI has made updating my aging system impossible which isn’t a total loss because I haven’t seen a new game I’m excited for since valheim.
I was dreadfully in love with nightingale, enough to buy it in early access. It’s the very edge of what my system can handle. It’s now no longer being developed, so I guess it will never be more than that.
I’ve had some issues with it here and there actually. Most recently, teen titans loaded into jellyfin as a different entry for the series for each season and it didn’t get any of the names or order right. After the first two entries it just became easier to copy paste SE01EP and type the two numbers than it was to try and save the episode name. Jellyfin finds those itself anyways.
I’m kind of standing on the opposite side of the crowd in an identical soggy ditch as you. I set up the arr stack because I thought it was the next line of progression, instead I find out that the problems I was hoping to solve are endemic to the system and not the method. Using youtube-DLL to get all my music back left me with about two thousand files that MusicBrainz can’t identify which means I’ll have to play memory match annually for each one because I’ve never been good with remembering band names. Lidarr also doesn’t recognize them and the ui is yet another list of steps I have to learn.
I was hoping prowlarr would be an upgrade to torrenting, I haven’t had my finger on the pulse since 2013 and everything I knew is gone. Instead I only have access to trackers from the two torrent sites I already knew. If I couldn’t find it myself then a bot looking for me isn’t going to do better. Trusting a bot to not expose me is an even harder sell. I know the science, I know the method, but I’m old enough to remember all this being unreliable and that’s a hard view to shake.
Sonarr and Radarr worked fine out if the box, but they didn’t have anything to do as I already curated all my movies and shows. All they managed to do is rename a few obscure things to the wrong name. Try as I might, Sam and Max: Freelance Police doesn’t exist as far as these things and jellyfin ate aware. I don’t blame them, I’m still not entirely sure they’re not some cognitohazard pretending to be a show myself.
I’m sure the vast amount of my problems are user error, I’m practically a luddite and I’m only getting into this to escape the corporate spying and endlessly fun tax our society has agreed is ok. If I could pay someone to set this up for me in homemade pickles, home repair, and DIY reptile habitats I’d do it in a heart beat.
Do you need a premium account for spotizerr? I’ve been looking for a good way to expand my music but all my old avenues are lack luster in the new digital age.
How’s navidrome? We’re currently using jellyfin and finamp to stream our music and it’s not really meeting the needs of the house.
I’m very new to self hosting, would you wanna tell me about some of the things you have going? I only really recognize the arr suite, spotify, and jellyfin here.
Everyone else has the real details, but from my very amateur perspective thee big part is that it’s not connected anywhere else and it’s open source. I have to have an account with Plex to use Plex, so no matter what I do I always have to have there permission to get in the building. Jellyfin runs on my own box and stores its files in that box. I even know the exact directory my account is in. If they decide to push an update that doesn’t jive with me, I just won’t update my machine. If it goes off the rails at any point, there’s at least thousands of jellyfin users that actually know what they’re doing and we’ll have a new jellyfin with black jack and hookers in less than a fortnight.
I may not be using the right lingo, I mean I bought a domain set up a tunneling service so that I don’t have have to struggle with keeping it online or teaching the family to use VPNs and stuff. I just give them my website, tell them the account info, and it works on the jellyfin app.
The other guy gave a better explanation than I could have, but l will chime in emphasis that learning curve. I’m not great at computer stuff but I know my way around Linux and how to find a tutorial, home assistant is just not very user friendly. The ui is really pretty but not intuitive. Of wasn’t clear when I got into it that there’s a software and an OS version and they aren’t identical, the software is missing a lot of the things that the OS gives but the OS apparently isn’t great if youre running other things on your server, mine is set up primarily for jellyfin and I only wanted home assistant to take the stress of constantly dogging my kid about chores off my workload. Don’t let this dissuade you of you’re interested, I genuinely feel like it’s a great thing if you have the time to learn it, but it’s not something to start if you’re already struggling to juggle all your plates.
I have home assistant running on my home server. It’s default use is managing your smart home but my house is too poor to be smart so I use it to push notifications about chores to my kid.
I got Plex set up for my media server literally the day before they hiked the prices. I was weary about the $150 lifetime and couldn’t afford the new price when they changed it so I went to jellyfin.
Turns out jellyfin was everything I wanted and free. Bought 5 years worth of unlimited hosting and a domain name for less than a month of Plex and now I’m well on my way to a pirate media empire.
Just wish I had anyone other than my spouse to share if with… Or that I could figure out fucking MusicBrainz…
3d printed actually, I’m not that talented lol
Thank you, her name is Teana. You can’t tell in this picture but her ankles and feet are creamer pitchers and tea cups respectively. Some day I’ll find the right fabric to make her a little dress.
This
Among a lot of other things.
Gowlfing. You go bowling, but you put the bumpers up so no one can gutterball and you play for the lowest score. Everyone is equally bad at it, it’s hilarious to play, and it confuses the shit out of other lanes.
Speed minigolf. It’s minigolf, but if your ball comes to a complete stop you have to start back at the tee with all the swings you’ve already taken. The ball and the club have to be in motion when they collide or you start again. So it leads to everyone galloping through the course, shouting numbers as they swing and desperately trying to get the right angle on a moving target. Do not play when there are other guests.
Monopoly deal is remarkably fun for a monopoly spin off. It’s even more fun with two decks and everyone plays for 5 sets.
For a short while I had a ttrpg version of magic the gathering. Not the d&d tie ins, it was commander, but your commander is a character sheet with stat based rules to allow you to pick any card that meets the requirements. You start off with only a 2 drop rare, and as you level up you get perks that change that. Every game you play with that deck earns experience, and once a month we’d do a dungeon crawl as our characters, using our signature noncreature cards from our decks. It was fun while it lasted but life always gets in the way.
Twister. It’s twister, but you have to get up and spin around for 10 seconds each time.
Hand of Glory. It’s played with tarot cards because French tarot an poker aren’t intractable enough. Each player has 7 cards in hand, you have to make a set of 5 in classic poker values, with a 6th card that’s a major arcana and a 7th spare. Each turn you draw a card and discard a card. You may take the top of the deck or the top of the discard. A player may discard a major arcana when another player draws a card to trade it with the drawing player for the card they would’ve gotten. When you have a winning hand you declare your clutch, and the other players may play a major arcana that’s higher than yours to block you from winning. You may in turn block this by playing a higher card from your spare. If you don’t you discard your hand and draw 7, they take your losing major arcana. If the fool is played to block a winning clutch, all players discard their hands. If the World is used to block a winning clutch, that is a hand of fate and the blocking player is allowed to immediately play a winning clutch if they have one. If the world is played as the arcana for a winning clutch, that’s a Hand of Glory and can only be blocked by playing the fool. Conventionally, the game is repeatedly shuffled up and dealt until a Hand of Glory is played, at that point the player with the most wins is the Victor.
This is looking to be my best option, it looks like I can send text notifications through email to sms and I like that
What set’s Gotify apart from ntfy?
What sets SimplePush and Kuma apart from the others?
Ideally for things like upcoming calendar events or notes on Homehub, maybe spec updates or added media, though jellyfin already gives us updates on that. Really just a reliable software that will send us a text or notification popup on our phones that I can connect other software to.
Oh man, I’m only just getting into home servers and I pinch my bytes harder than my pennies these days. I can not afford anything I actually need to improve my rig.