My setup was about 500 USD if I had to guess:

Used i5 9500 (mainly for QSV but you can use any modern CPU as long as the iGPU is relatively recent)

32GB RAM (more RAM = more cache for file IO)

4TB HDD

256GB NVME boot drive (recycled from my steamdeck)

Node 804 case.

TrueNAS SCALE for the OS.

I’d recommend to get double or even triple the drives I did, maybe 3x 2TB or 3x 1TB depending on your budget. Only because that unlocks RaidZ1/RaidZ2 which can give you better RW speed and redundancy should anything go splat, and you can’t retroactively convert your drive into a Z1/Z2 pool without manually transferring the data later which might take a looooong time for you.

I dont think my route was the cheapest: IMO youd do better going AMD even despite the poorer support for HW transcode only because the motherboards are insanely expensive and hard to find, whereas that money couldve given me a better CPU and later you can add an intel iGPU if you’re really struggling.

Jellyfin supports HW transcoding on Rockchip too, but the issue with the Pi5 specifically is that it doesn’t have a hardware media decoder so it’s actually worse than the Pi4 if you can get HW transcoding running on it.

I have an i5 9500 and for what its worth Nextcloud always seems to be the least responsive web app I’ve used. I think it’s just the nature of Nextcloud.

Another thing to note is that extra RAM is super useful with ZFS since it will use extra RAM as a cache to speed up IO. 16-32GB will let ZFS keep significant amounts of data instantly accessible to services like Jellyfin - Eg. a new movie or tv show that multiple users will watch simultaneously.

Appflowy is a self-hostable notion replacement that’s a bit more mature than this project atm. I hope this can spur some more development away from Notion though, I’m not a fan of the always-online element

You might want to try appflowy which is a lot more mature than this atm.

not crazy at all. assuming you’re careful and back up your data !

It’s a clever solution but I did see one recently that IMO was more elegant for noscript users. I can’t remember the name but it would create a dummy link that human users won’t touch, but webcrawlers will naturally navigate into, but then generates an infinitely deep tree of super basic HTML to force bots into endlessly trawling a cheap-to-serve portion of your webserver instead of something heavier. Might have even integrated with fail2ban to pick out obvious bots and keep them off your network for good.

Usually they give users points of credit to download more torrents: Users that don’t seed will burn through their download credits and won’t be able to download.

Other trackers will also give you points for every hour you seed a torrent (usually X points per gigabyte per hour) which encourages seeding even if the given file isn’t as popular, or so popular that other seeders choke you out of uploading to other users.

rsync over an SMB share was pretty seamless.

hmm that’s concerning. we really need a roku/chromecast equivalent that isnt some proprietary mess (home assistant is finally getting into those with voice assistant units)

Roku does it well enough. not perfectly but it’s still not as shit as my Google tv

Before now I was on the sunk cost fallacy of not wanting to teach my extended family how to use Jellyfin instead of plex but after this I’m already mid-way through setting up a Jellyfin docker container on my server and I only found out an hour ago

Of you use docker plex and jellyfin arent gonna be messing with your media unless you delete/modify them within the respective clients (but then again thats what *arr is for)

Old capabilities that don’t even work as well as free alternatives because AMD transcoding support has been “”“experimental”“” for years.

Fuck this. What the absolute fuck lmao they just decided to kneecap their entire business model.

I was even going to get a lifetime subscription later this year when they usually put the price down. Not anymore

rocketchat seems decent

True, any software can be vulnerable to attack.

but the difference is a technical team of software developers can mitigate an attack and patch it. This guy has no tech support than the AI that sold him the faulty code that likely assumed he did the proper hardening of his environment (which he did not).

Openly admitting you programmed anything with AI only is admitting you haven’t done the basic steps to protecting yourself or your customers.

AI is yet another technology that enables morons to think they can cut out the middleman of programming staff, only to very quickly realise that we’re more than just monkeys with typewriters.

I never got solvarr to work sadly but your mileage may vary. I ended up stalking /r/opensignups til decent trackers came through for my media