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Cake day: March 19th, 2024

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  • Efficiency still matters very much when self hosting. You need to consider power usage (do you have enough amps in your service to power a single GPU? probably. what about 10? probably not) and heat (it’s going to make you need to run more A/C in the summer, do you have enough in your service to power an A/C and your massive amount of GPUs? not likely).

    Homes are not designed for huge amounts of hardware. I think a lot of self hosters (including my past self) can forget that in their excitement of their hobby. Personally, I’m just fine not running huge models at home. I can get by with models that can run on a single GPU, and even if I had more GPUs in my server, I don’t think the results (which would still contain many hallucinations) would be worth the power cost, strain on my A/C, and possible electrical overload.










  • It’s much easier for me to manage if it’s a file issue though. It’s much more difficult to manage an actual network 3000 miles away, especially if something actually goes wrong. Basically, “it won’t play” can be checked locally. If it doesn’t play locally, I’m happy to fix it. But I’m not about to troubleshoot her network issues for her.

    Saying I’m “supporting a chunk of her network” is like saying Netflix supports a chunk of their users’ networks. It’s just not true.



  • You replied to someone and said “my wife has no problem using tailscale”. Is your wife not another person? Sure, same household, but if you’re not running a pirate TV service, why does she need tailscale, and how is that different than sharing with my MIL?

    Also, why do you keep using the terminology of “pirate tv service”? Why is it suddenly not a home media server if I want my mother in law to be able to use it? I don’t share with people outside of my family.

    You seem to think that because you’re using Jellyfin, it’s automatically not piracy. But you certainly can do piracy with it, it has tools purpose built for it like Jellyseerr. So how is that not a “pirate tv service”?

    Do you not know that you can also upload your own media rips to Plex? Is that still a “pirate tv service”? At what point do you assign the (fairly negative, at least legally) connotation of piracy to a service someone is hosting out of their homelab?




  • I do NOT want to support my MIL’s network which is 3000 miles away. It simply will not happen or work for either of us. Until Jellyfin has a decent way to support remote users, I simply cannot change her over.

    If Plex folded or somehow forced my hand, I would just kick off all of my family and use Jellyfin on my local network. They’d hate losing access, and I’d hate them paying $$$ for a thousand streaming services, but at this point, that’s what would happen.