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  • It’s still in active development, but you might want to keep an eye on Plasma Bigscreen. I’ve been looking for a similar setup to you, and it seems to tick all of the boxes, at least for me.

    I only learned about it recently, and I’ve been too busy to try it in that time, but I’ll edit this post with my impressions once I get the time to have a play with it.



  • Well this thread is an absolute shitshow.

    Jellyfin is great, but if you refuse to let yourself understand that Plex’s ease of setup for remote access is a point in its favour - especially when sharing with non-tech savvy people - then you’re just as bad as the supposed “Plex shills”.

    Plex is well on the enshittification train, and I’ve always been a bit concerned about how private it may or may not be, but there’s absolutely no way I’d have been able to share a Jellyfin instance with my grandfather, especially as his dementia got worse.




  • DigDoug@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlShare your partition scheme!
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    I’ve tried some weird and wonderful partition schemes in the past, but I think I’ve settled down and just go for simplicity. Half a gig for /boot, and the rest for / (in ext4). I’ve tried btrfs, but I’ve never been in the position where I needed snapshots, and ext4 is a lot more simple.

    I also like having the flexibility of not having a separate home partition. I back up my super important files, so it doesn’t matter if I lose home (not that I distrohop much anymore, anyway). And I don’t have to stress about whether I’ve made my root partition big enough. For the same reason I use a swapfile rather than a swap partition (though I do need to look in to zram and zswap) - I like knowing that I can resize it easily, even if I don’t really plan on doing so.