This Week in Self-Host (selfh.st)
from westingham@sh.itjust.works to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 15 May 21:44
https://sh.itjust.works/post/60238707

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slazer2au@lemmy.world on 15 May 22:04 next collapse

Plex is once again increasing the monthly price users must pay to stream their own media (if this is you, why haven’t you purchased a lifetime pass yet?)

Better yet, why have you not migrated to Jellyfin. Why are you paying someone else to view your own stuff?

jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works on 15 May 22:20 collapse

The hard part about Jellyfin is that it requires your own domain and some more self-hosting knowledge that a hobbyist might not have yet.

It’s not a super hard transition, but it took me a few months on/off to learn the basics of hosting a website from my house.

I’m still trying to figure out headscale on a VPS so I can mask my home IP

ikidd@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 May 22:36 next collapse

Most people should be using a VPN and not exposing these things to the internet at large via proxies or port forwards.

jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works on 15 May 23:06 collapse

Right, but if you’re hosting Plex then you’ve likely shared it with friends/family. Jellyfin isn’t as easy to share.

Reannlegge@lemmy.ca on 15 May 23:23 next collapse

I have my own domains, but I do not use them for Jellyfin. I use Jellyfin on my lan or over my personal VPN.

jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works on 16 May 00:04 collapse

That means it can’t be shared (easily) with others. That’s the appeal of Plex and the reason why switching entirely to Jellyfin is not an easy thing to do.

roofuskit@lemmy.world on 16 May 01:08 next collapse

It’s also pretty insecure so host over the web at your own risk.

frongt@lemmy.zip on 16 May 01:11 collapse

Give Netbird a shot. I set it up in like two hours. Much easier than my failed attempt at headscale+tailscale.

drkt@scribe.disroot.org on 15 May 22:17 next collapse

What is that picture? The blogpost doesn’t elaborate on it…

justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 15 May 22:35 next collapse

Looks like the razzia image, but somewhat hard to see on mobile

MisterDeutsch@lemmy.world on 15 May 22:52 collapse

It looks like the educational website Kahoot. As a teacher, I hoped this was some open source version of it that I might more easily catch the cheating students in my classes.

wagesj45@fedia.io on 15 May 23:45 collapse

Razzia, formerly Rahoot. Self hostable.

civ@lemmy.civl.cc on 16 May 00:20 collapse

Lol, seems like they had some trouble over trademarks or something

Disclaimer: Razzia is an independent, open-source software project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any third-party quiz platform or service. Any resemblance to other quiz platforms is purely incidental

Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz on 15 May 22:40 next collapse

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
IP Internet Protocol
Plex Brand of media server package
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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melroy@kbin.melroy.org on 15 May 22:58 collapse

🤣 Its not working! 🤣