I just assumed it was because it lined up with them destroying the GUI, the new layout is the hot garbage that finally got my wife to opt for jellyfin.

Could you specify any of those issues? I ask because the only one I’m tracking allows unauthenticated playback, but only if they know the path to the file on the machine which is very easy to change from default.

Thanks for the encouragement! I bought a couple mini pc’s and one server seems fine going from a lot of memory to just 16GB. Now I guess I need to start parting that one out to pay for a more efficient storage server.

Ubisoft appears to have been slowly pulling out of the gaming industry, making the play that people want to play their stuff enough to buy a dedicated computer to play it.

If the game can’t run outside of Windows, even an emulated Windows environment, it may as well not exist. Which sucks because I remember some people telling me this one was good like a decade ago or so…

Definitely have to check this out, thanks man!

It’s much better now, I put off moving from cmd until somewhere around 2015 when I was using ‘invoke-command’ constantly, over the last decade or so I’ve moved to powershell proper cmdlets… Its actually not that bad.

Yet another vote for Immich, I’ve hit a couple bumps along the way but overall think it’s amazingly simple to use after getting it setup.

I sit in almost weekly meetings with some of their engineers for some projects we have going on, it’s painful at times but at least some of the tech is “fun”. I’ve known a couple people that moved to Microsoft to be Customer Success Managers or whatever and they said it was a pretty chill job with lots of benefits.

Meanwhile the Microsoft engineers I frequently work with just give me AI slop then spend the next meeting verifying that our changes didn’t ‘break’ the thing that doesn’t work.

I honestly need to learn your ways and sell the rack of stuff in my basement. Right now I’ve got an old R720XD with 12 spinning metal drives and 2 SSDs, then another old Intel box the local government used for VOIP (I’ve only got 7 spinng rust and 1 SSD in there), then the R610 that I use for homeassistant and a few VMs…

I’ve also got a smaller desktop for jellyfin/Plex and an old MicroServer (gen8) for a firewall…

I could 100% save some power I just need to learn what I actually need.