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  • Plex has a few more features with plex pass.

    However I switched to jellyfin a few years ago because I found everything to be too limiting and dependent on them. Including the necessity to pay for codecs / playback on some of their mobile apps.

    Jellyfin is a lot less polished, but it works well and you’re in control of everything.

    I would recommend trying out jellyfin first. If you encounter some deal breaking issue or aren’t happy with it, check our plex.




  • That sums it up really well.

    I generally tend to try to use containers for everything and only branch out to VMs if it doesn’t work or I need more separation.

    This is my general recommendation as containers are easier to set up and in my opinion individual software packages are easier to maintain with things like compose. I have limited time for my self hosted instance and that took away a lot of work, especially when updating.


  • That sums it up really well.

    I generally tend to try to use containers for everything and only branch out to VMs if it doesn’t work or I need more separation.

    This is my general recommendation as containers are easier to set up and in my opinion individual software packages are easier to maintain with things like compose. I have limited time for my self hosted instance and that took away a lot of work, especially when updating.


  • I get what you’re saying, but I wouldn’t say it was pointless as a whole. Maybe it’s because I’m looking at it from a slightly different perspective.

    Karma did help push engagement, in fact, the system worked.
    People cared about this number, and started to optimize their behavior such that they receive the largest amount of karma in the shortest time.
    Since being active by posting / commenting facilitated getting karma, it helped produce a lot of content and made people interact with each other.

    The problem with that is that it wasn’t tied to quality (and couldn’t be). As you said, that encouraged regurgitating the same meta over and over. It never incentivized good content, just quantity.

    So my conclusion would be more like: Karma was pointless for animating users to create good and thoughtful content.
    Instead it helped driving engagement forward, but at the cost of somewhat turning people into bots.

    Posts receiving upvotes / downvotes is okay, but I’m not sure in what way reputation - or karma - should be displayed for a user account, publicly or privately.




  • For context, I wasn’t very excited about Skyrim when it came out, but then had lots of fun playing it once I picked it up.
    With Starfield it’s even “worse”, because I don’t even consider playing it at the moment. The game’s setting doesn’t really suit me that much.

    I think the state of modern games has slowly changed over the years.

    A lot of them have a set formula that we’ve all become accusomed to over the last decade. Especially with AAA games it’s all quite streamlined. Every major studio has some sort of game design style and there hasn’t been that much wiggling room.
    I was able to enjoy a few newer games eventually, but only because the game universe interested me in the first place and I sort of forced myself to start playing.

    There are also lots of indie games, but to some degree I feel like they also follow some kind of gameplay style patterns.

    Very rarely do we get something new and super exciting. I believe the era of 2006-2016 was an outlier, where a lot of new ideas were technically viable for the first time due to excellent console and, at the later stage, PC performance, which skyrocketed a lot of innovative ideas. Both for AAA studios and indie developers.

    That being said, we still get new exciting games every now and then, but they’re harder to find, harder to finance while retaining creative liberty, and it’s more difficult to convince players to start picking it up in a sea of games.

    So I wouldn’t say that you’re getting old, but more like the gaming industry is getting old similar to the movie / tv show industry, where we’ve had this pattern of usual mediocreness for quite some time.