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• dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s always Kodi! You don’t have to update your media server software.

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  • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah, I’ll just switch to Jellyfin.

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• victorz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Other server software are available of course. The concept stays the same though. Very much recommend doing this. I’m halfway there, running Plex on my desktop PC and watching on my TV and other devices at home. Very comfortable setup. But I wish I had a small computer like a Pi or something, and a NAS to hold my drives. That way my desktop PC could rest.

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Personally I was a fan of buying something like a Dell optiplex as my my NAS and Pihole but I do wish I had a better enclosure for the drives as any truly good one seems to be hundreds of dollars and mildly defeats the idea of self hosting being cheaper.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I just use an old crappy hand-me-down mid-tower gaming case I stuffed some drives into. As long as you can keep them cool, dusted, and away from vibrations (with HDDs), plenty of (used?)cases will have enough HDD slots to get you started.

      Also old rackmount servers on ebay have plenty of slots I hear, but rackmount fans are waaaaay louder.

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      • victorz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Room is my main issue. Living in an apartment I can’t have large boxes/computers just standing anywhere. So it has to be very small and quiet. 😅 Pi should be perfect. Maybe mount it underneath my desk where my desktop PC is or something. 👍

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• Z4rK@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They hit my threshold of shittiness some years back and I’ve been enjoying Jellyfin ever since. It’s a much better alternative for most!

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• DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The shark’s in the tank and they’re putting their waterskis on

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Plex is a great example of how proprietary software will inevitably become exploitative, and only purely Free Software systems can ever be trustworthy in the long term.

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