I have been far luckier than that all my life, I never had a drive fail on me, and I keep them a looong time.

Maybe once, 20 years ago, a drive failed? Can’t really remember, but probably it did happen. Being on a Linux software RAID 1, just remove and plug a new drive, run an attach command and forget.

I have 4 6Tb HDDs which I got new from work: been running 24/7 for the last 6 years.

The 4Tb drives they replaced where running for the previous 10 years (bought new as well) and are still in a drawer, got replaced only for the opportunity to upgrade to 6tb.

If your refurbished last only 4 years, to be that is not a positive gain, you lost money. New drives should last 10 years in my personal (and debatable) experience. But I think those drives you bought will last more than 4 years.

Restic or Borg. For restic I use the great Backrest web GUI.

I mounted an USB drive to one of my OpenWRT access points and backup on that one.

Rclone or fuse can mount/access Google Drive and can be used as back end for your backup choice.

Simplest backup ever: restic/Borg on a folder on the same PC. Not very recommendable, but indeed a good starting point.

Zfs/brtfs seems a complex solution for a simple problem. True is that once you start eating you get hungrier so maybe worthwhile.

Their box is not going to play those videos, so AV1 is game.

Anyway software playback of AV1 is a thing, and works, you know.

I do it on daylight when my FV pumps out Wh…

A little bit day by day.

I have been hosting my mail server for over 10 years. You need to study dkim, dmark and all the other stuff, but it can be done indeed and its not scary at all.

If the price is right for you, go for it. You will run containers and or VMs, so doesn’t really matter what your bare metal is.

I would choose something where I can install Linux easily and nice and I am sure at the Mac mini price point you can build yourself an assembled mini-pc with beefer specs, but indeed it’s more work and hassle.

YMMV

Recode to AV1, free and open codec with a better compression and quality than 265.

Its future proof and more and more supported out of the box everywhere.

Either go tdarr, or check https://github.com/gardiol/media_fixer for a neat bash script capable of find and convert your videos automatically

I do. I find it very useful.

Is it safe? No idea, but its read only, so seems that they cannot operate on your bank account in any case. That feels safe enough for me.

The OS needs access to the keys accepted by the bl. Pixels have that, so graphene can relock. Other vendors don’t give this opportunity, so Roms like los which support many devices, better be safe than sorry.

Try relock on a xiaomi device and you have unrecoverable hard brick.

A locked bootloader looks for official ROM signatures, which a custom ROM doesn’t have.

That’s why this is impossible. You can hard-brick your phone, that’s why LineageOS doesn’t allow you to relock.

These blog posts might seems a bit nahive, but making fun of them is not nice.

I still appreciated reading them and the raised some questions in me, even if maybe not the ones the author was aiming for.

Still interesting.

Whats wrong with people just criticizing everything around here? Are we getting toxic like “the other site”?

Not a bad take per-se, but a bit condescending. While I agree and like the KISS paradigm, remember that no solution works at a lower complexity level of the problem itself.

So, define your problem clearly, find the simplest possible solution. Don’t overcomplicate, I agree, but don’t be fooled by false hopes.

Is it really simpler? Yes. Will it scale if I need it to? Maybe not, but will I really need for it to scale?

And so on.

Nope!

Just wasted 3 days debugging an IP assigned to two devices… Not fun, don’t do it…

There is no “write and forget” solution. There never has been.

Do you think we have ORIGINALS or Greek or roman written texts? No, we have only those that have been copied over and over in the course of the centuries. Historians knows too well. And 90% of anything ever written by humans in all history has been lost, all that was written on more durable media than ours.

The future will hold only those memories of us that our descendants will take the time to copy over and over. Nothing that we will do today to preserve our media will last 1000 years in any case.

(Will we as a specie survive 1000 more years?)

Still, it our duty to preserve for the future as much as we can. If today’s historians are any guide, the most important bits will be those less valuable today: the ones nobody will care to actually preserve.

Citing Alessandro Barbero, a top notch Italian current historian, he would kill no know what a common passant had for breakfast in the tenth century. We know nothing about that, while we know a tiny little more about kings.

Fellow Gentoo user! Kudos.

Well, here is the relevant part then, sorry if it was not clear:

• Jellyfin will not play well with reverse proxy auth. While the web interface can be put behind it, the API endpoints will need to be excluded from the authentication (IIRC there are some examples on the web) but the web part will stil force you to double login and canot identify the proxy auth passed down to it.
• Jellyfin do support OIDC providers such Authelia and it’s perfectly possible to link the two, in this case as i was pointing out, Jellyfin will still use it’s own authentication login window and user management, so the proxy does not need to be modified.

TLDR: proxy auth doesnt work with Jellyfin, OIDC yes and it bypassess proxy, so in both cases proxy will not be involved.

This is my jellyfin nginx setup: https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services:jellyfin#reverse-proxy_configuration

currently i don’t use any proxy related authentication because i need to find the time to work with the plugins in Jellyfin. I don’t have any chromecast, but i do regularly use the Android Jellyfin app just fine.

I expect, using the OIDC plugin in jellyfin, that Jellyfin will still manage the login via Authelia itself, so i do not expect much changes in NGINX config (except, maybe, adding the endpoints).

Never found a service that don’t work with nginx reverse proxy.

My jelly fin does.

Don’t run photoprims tough…

You might use LDAP, but its total overkill.

I have not yet worked jellyfin with authelia, but its more or less the last piece and I don’t really care so far if its left out.

A good reverse proxy with https is mandatory, so start with that one. I mean, from all point of views, not login.

I have all my services behing nginx, then authelia linked to nginx. Some stuff works only with basic auth. Most works with headers anyway, so natively with authelia. Some bitches don’t, so I disable authelia for them. Annoying, but I have only four users so there is not much to keep in sync.