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Cake day: April 27th, 2024

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  • Haha. Might have slightly exaggerated. But only slightly.

    The Proxmox host in question has a 1Gbit connection to the NAS. (Unfortunately. The other hosts don’t have a GPU, but SPF+… Oh well, can’t have everything.)

    At some point in the last couple of months, it must have been damaged, and negotiated down to only 100Mbit. This must roughly have coincided with the Jellyfin 10.11 update, since I remember thinking that it must be the cause, due to close proximity of update and first issues.

    Anyways. For basically everything in my library, 100Mbit is fine. Streaming an episode NAS->Jellyfin and Jellyfin->TV at the same time basically never saturates the link.

    BUT, from what I’ve gathered by digging through Jellyfin issues and PRs, there’s a separate issue where Jellyfin will pull the episode, and if you need subtitles extracted from the episode file server-side (to transcode them in, if the clients can’t play them), it will at the same time pull the episode AGAIN, and together with the Jellyfin->TV direction, that’s frequently enough that it saturates the link.

    Symptoms is (was) either a 20-30s wait before the episode would start playing, or complete freeze.

    However, I believe this particular issues has been solved for a while. I’m not sure, because I instead opted for the Subtitles Extractor Plugin, which runs nightly and pre-fetches all the subtitles and stores them on the Jellyfin VM itself.

    Where it was still noticeable though was if one of [Library Scan/Trick-play Extraction/Subtitle Extraction/Media Segment Scan] ran while playing an episode, the server would completely lock up.

    Long story short: cable swapped, 1Gbit, all issues gone.




  • Can’t speak to that, I’m not involved. All I know is that,

    • Jellyfin server gets significant upgrades in subtitle capabilities and performance,
    • Jellyfin AdroidTV just released an RC that finally includes direct play for ASS/SSA subtitles,
    • and on Monday, I FINALLY resolved a hardware issue (faulty cable) that made my Jellyfin almost unusable whenever ASS/SSA needed to be played (and only in that situation. Fun!)

    So yeah, I don’t know or really care about leadership change, I just know it’s gonna run like a rocket now 😄



  • It may be initially inconvenient, but you can choose a bank that offers 2FA/TAN beyond the smartphone app.

    Not sure what healthcare apps you mean. There’s lots of categories, so won’t comment without clarification.

    Same for employers tbh. Would love an example. (Besides: work apps can’t be forced on your private phone in most places.)

    I live in “modern society” and do own a smartphone, but I’m aware that it’s a convenience, not a necessity.


  • I have multiple young-ish (30s) friends that don’t own a phone (not just smartphone; any phone), and basically all people I know above 80 years don’t own one either.

    You can absolutely live a perfectly fine and good life without a smartphone. You’re just drawing the line where it’s convenient for you.

    Or let’s put it in more familiar words…

    [Owning a smartphone] is not “participating in society”, this is participating in, contributing to, and directly benefitting from the very thing they’re complaining about.







  • Sorry, but calling the dumping ground for obsolete and outdated packages an “OS” goes a little too far in my opinion.

    “Smaller userbase yet more stable and more and better maintained packages” is not the insult you thought it was, I’m afraid…

    (/s, just in case, hope this is all still in good fun!)



  • Idk it took me 3 attempts to learn (neo)vim, but now every Linux system I SSH in I just go straight for vi(m), because moving around and editing in Nano is just so slow when you’re used to vim keys.

    I swear I’m not trying to proselytize. People should use whatever they want, and these discussions are pointless. It’s all just tradeoffs and getting used to things.


  • I’m not really that purist - I’ll use closed-sourced software when necessary. For example, I have Davinci Resolve and Bitwig Studio installed. Sure I would prefer if those were open, but the target audience here are creatives, who largely won’t care.

    On the other hand, Jolla is trying to sell exactly to those people that DO care, which makes the choice so hard to understand and support.


  • I really like the idea of the Jolla and am seriously considering getting one. I’m also the exact target audience (Linux nerd, privacy conscious, FOSS advocate, want to own MY device fully, hate having to use a US-based duopoly in my current daily life).

    That’s exactly why I don’t understand their decision to keep parts of their system closed. The overlap between people who want a Linux phone and who are OK with that Linux phone not being fully open seems to be tiny.