I’d recommend most people start with the guides (I did, no regrets there). But expect to need to manually search for things sometimes because their restraints, by design, will block some “lesser quality” options. And if some flaw in the system is bothering you, you’ll hopefully have enough experience under your belt to tailor your settings at that point

I enabled all the stock options except the ones requiring accounts to function. My users only need English subs, mileage may vary

Came here to bring up Bazarr. Its the only *arr I haven’t opened up since initial deployment and setup. It’s only failed me on a couple of media items so far so that’s like…99.9997% success without me even touching anything

That sent me down a rabbit hole and I learned a lot, thank you

Hosting isn’t OS specific, and in my experience its more about docker. But as far OS goes, I’d say Debian or Ubuntu with the intent of moving onto something like Proxmox

Gluetun is a great example of “I changed nothing and it suddenly works”. I’ve had to set up this exact docker container several times, and it usually takes me a week of retries until it chooses to work. I wish I had better advice for you

They should be fitting…can I get a visual for what you’re talking about?

So I’m expecting a max of 5 concurrent users, but most wouldn’t need transcoding. The real hiccup (brace yourself) is a 720p CRT and (assuming I get transcoding to work well) a 480p CRT. I’m pretty novice to PC specs outside of the “buy whatever you can afford for gaming” mindset, so any suggestions there are welcome. My budget is…whatever it takes to not regret the hardware years from now. My last build was $2k for reference

That’s my goal: use the NAS as a NAS, use a computer for containers and the like. I’m using Seagate Exos for the NAS exclusively

In hindsight, I didn’t explain myself well enough. My plan is to use my current NAS as a NAS and little more; I’d like a machine with respectable hardware to handle what my NAS is currently running plus more.

My NAS has Jellyfin, arrs, all the stuff that goes with that, Pi-hole, and Homarr. And that’s pushing its limits: everything has been slow, streams freeze, I’ve had containers quit, etc.

I’d like to get into other projects like Radicale, Mealie, ErsatzTV (old PC could handle it, NAS can’t), CCTV, and more. But according to my resources, the NAS can’t handle it

GPU (for the sake of transcoding) isn’t worth it?

Good looking out, I had no idea that was an option

It’s 4 bays, and we’re eating that space up quicker than I imagined

UCMJ says otherwise. But in practice, I can tell you from experience that the consequences for any kind of refusal will be treated as mutiny and could cost you the rest of your professional life

Every bit helps

As someone that struggles with networking, I’d love to hear what you’ve found and how

Just turned a Win10 machine into Ubuntu not too long ago. It took all day, broke several times, and still has issues booting remotely. It is getting easier, but a 30 minute Windows install with a few button presses is still easier, unfortunately

Fair enough

This is the first I’ve heard of Tailscale=/=infallible. As a long-time user, should I switch to a different setup?

I saved the post because I’ve always been interested in aggregating a RSS feed, but I need ideas for what to subscribe to. Thanks for making the post

I was just looking into this yesterday. I’d love to hear if it’s worth the hassle. People seem to be 50/50 on its long-term usefulness, “just use _____!”