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  • It’s not just that. I’m a techie. I’ve been in the industry for decades. I know my way around computer very well.

    I want to like Jellyfin and I want to ditch Plex (even though I have a lifetime license) because of what it has become and where it’s headed.

    That said, the other day my Plex server had some issues that took me a while to figure out. Since when it failed I just wanted to watch an episode of a series and relax, I once again fired up the JF client. I couldn’t get seek to work, I had to manually find and download subtitles (that’s not always the case but when it is, it’s pretty annoying), and ultimately I couldn’t watch my series at all as playback would randomly stop, the player would close and I’d be back at the menu, without the position having been recorded and with no way to fast-forward as seek didn’t work at all.

    I ended up spending 15min figuring out what was wrong and fixing Plex, then watched my series undisturbed.

    Like I said, I want to drop Plex for JF, but in the 3 years or so that I’ve been running both, every time I fire up JF I end up running back to Plex as I just want to sit back and watch a bloody series or movie.








  • I don’t think I’ve ever come across a DNS provider that blocks wildcards.

    I’ve been using wildcard DNS and certificates to accompany them both at home and professional in large scale services (think hundreds to thousands of applications) for many years without an issue.

    The problem described in that forum is real (and in fact is pretty much how the recent attack on Fritz!Box users works) but in practice I’ve never seen it being an issue in a service VM or container. A very easy way to avoid it completely is to just not declare your host domain the same as the one in DNS.













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    2 years ago

    That reminds me of that joke:

    Two economists are walking side-by-side.

    One tells the other: I’ll give you $100 if you take a shit on the pavement.

    He proceeds to shit on the pavement and grab the $100.

    He then tells the other economist: I’ll give you $100 if you eat my shit.

    The other does the deed and collects his $100.

    After walking a few more blocks, one of them says: both of us left our dignity with that work back there and neither of us are any richer!

    To which the other responds: no, but we grew our combined GDP to $200.

    And they both walked away happy, patting each other on their backs.