Sucks that this has been your experience and admitted it does take a bit of work to set it up nicely.

The documentation of how artwork is detected and ways to fetch it automatically from online sources you can find here

The multiple profiles thing happens Because Navidrome is very tag dependent to understand music. I have a few collections where the band slightly evolved their name/spelling where this happened.

The difference between “artist/albumartist” and the “compilation” tag need to be set correctly and uniformly for that to be fixed, which depending on the source can take some work.

My own strategy is to start with a small server And gradually expand it. Make sure the tags are ok, the art is correctly named in the right spot.

I still have a lot of music i haven’t processed

For the music that did get processed, things are stable and reliable as rock, require no maintenance and performs very well.

The removed albums thing Is a weird one though, using the full rescan off all files and data button I have never experienced this.

Thats a super weird question but yes there is someone named Ariana i encountered online this year who I would not be surprised to be a Linux user.

Depends what you consider the baseline to call something “coding”

Plenty of kids dabble with Redstone in Minecraft, there is also stuff like this:

Then not what I said,

Neither do you as a private citizen qualify to be held to a higher standard like the real world examples I gave.

If they are truly so much safer, one could say they have much higher standards for drive safety.

If they have a much higher standards then the times they do fail, it’s reasonable the fine should be multiplied a few times.

There are some current examples where commercial higher standards lead to bigger penalties.

Bar owners can be criminally charged for over serving alcohol to drunk clients. Citizen hosts don’t face that same legal responsibility.

Similar with Financial advisors vs your crypto uncle.

They 100% can verify a linked Minecraft account and transfer it, or provide a new key.

They just won’t.

I also bet if the US intelligence agencies ask those engineers suddenly have ways to help. Microsoft holds the keys.

Immich for photo server ;)

If you are willing to curate your own collection and have a little techical knowhow:

You can set up a Navidrome server and enjoy high quality music streaming with no subscription costs

Honestly not having a static public ip address would be a dealbreaker for me, reason to change isp.

But thats not always an option.

My old isp got a new ip every full modem reboot and a way i used to circumvent this is with duckdns. It’s a free dns service i used before i had money to pay for my own domain.

If i recall correctly they have a desktop tool that connects to your account that scans for your current dynamic public ip and then updates it for your freesubdomainname.duckdns.org which is what you use to connect.

I never heard if twingate but i see no reason why not to selfhost Wireguard.

Its a proven open source vpn.

As far as a little research went. Twingate is proprietary software and caters to enterprises, it has some open source alternatives that have a similar functionality. Most if them using Wireguard under the hood. Look for tailscale/headscale or netbird.

MFs, i liked that song.

Does anyone know if MGMT has commented on this phenomenon?

/s stands for sarcasm in case you are not aware.

But steam isn’t open source? /s

If you can boot an os from usb (basically the same for all distros) you can try proxmox.

There are these incredibly useful helper scripts that setup entire services in 1-2 copy pasted commands.

https://community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

To explain what proxmox is its basicly virtualisation software, it can run vms but also lxc (light linux containers) and share resources very efficiently between all of them

Jellyfin, radarr, sonar. They are all included in the helper scripts, each will be a dedicated lxc.

Its also very easy to setup raid and there own storage format is very efficient.

Its well documented to the point that any decent llm can help you learn whatever you need. In fact its claude that helped me setup my own proper raid on proxmox, also tought me about datasets and how i can make those available to different lxc

Personally i am very hands off with my server, the hardest part is often choosing what ip i want to give a service, i rarely update or mess with it if not strictly necessary.

For hardware i recommend plenty of ram (can Be bought and installed seperatly), more cores is usually better and internal graphics can save you some hassle depending on what you are doing (also allows you to dedicate a Big gpu to some services).

A warning on second hand corporate machines, the performance is often good But quite fans are often an afterthought. I onxe got a beast of machine for free but you could hear it spin from anywhere in my house.

A good practical case is always a blessing when you need to check the insides.

Never heard of this one but i might try it. Looks very clean and practical.

https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

Would probably work better if you pretend You don’t actually now the numbers but instead compare it something else.

About 10 stacked pumpkins or enough to reach things standing on top of my closet.

You don’t need to lie, just find something that is hard to reference to others but sounds tall.

Go to a store and find any double door fridge with your height. Now you are as tall as a big fridge.

Anyway, i find peoples obsession with Height in romance incredibly strange.

The technical term seems to be a JBOD bay. (Just a Bunch Of Disks)

Basic ones are probably usb, ideally you have something that has a SFF port. Modern ones might also have thunderbolt.

Finding a micropc that supports SFF out of the box might be a challenge but some do support pci express cards.

Apparently there also exists something like Oculink which is pci over cable but i know even less about that one.

EDIT: if you look for “Nas enclosure 4bay” you actually do find plenty of options (Jonsbro N3 per example) that allow you to build it all in one unit with a mini-itx board. A nas pretty much just is a pc with special software so this would be what i recommend.

Maybe i miss some perspective here because i never had the spare money to consider a storebought nass. The convenience never sounded like it was worth being locked down to its software.

My server is “just a pc”

I got a case with external drive slots (it also needed to fit a gpu), but i suppose external drive cases also exist that can connect to a micro computer build.

The software is proxmox, which imo is amazing. Its virtualisation and backup software and performs really well and has a proper gui.

I have numerous lxc (linux container that is not a full vm) that each run their own docker with a single service. I can ssh into those from my main system or visit the terminal and other panels in the proxmox gui. Many services host a gui to my network and i could probably make it so cli is minimal but i personally am comfortable with that so…

I also run a few full vms on it, including some windows desktops.

You could probably also host actual Nass software this way.

All of these work well next to eachother and share resources. Snapshots and backups of individual systems or data can be made with ease.

If it doesn’t fit your usecases you can get the off the shelf ones i guess but for others interested here, maybe this helps.

Uplifting in the most dystopian ways.

Can someone remind me, what is the bullshit reason they ban the Palestinian people from fishing in their own waters again?

Continue to self host, create a yearly backup on external harddrive which you keep offline at a trusted family members house.