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Oh, HW works on Plex just fine.

Both are docker containers. It can detect the card, but ffmpeg crashes with an error and that’s as far as I got.

I haven’t given up, life just got busy for a bit as often happens.

I have both. Plex for family and Jellyfin for me. I still don’t have hardware transcoding working (probably a permission thing. It’s always permissions) and haven’t had much time to tinker this year. Plex just… worked.

I can use Jellyfin without transcoding, but only one or two users at a time is all my CPU can handle.

One concern, yes. Others such as parking heads. Don’t want platters spinning down with drive heads hovering. Power spikes won’t do the circuit boards any good.

Doesn’t hurt to show servers some kindness even if it’s a laptop in a closet.

Cheap and dirty solution would be a battery backup for the drive, but there are some big concerns about the setup. Drives don’t like to go dark like that.

Haha YES! Darn autocorrect!

Uhhh… So I bribed a stray to bring her new litter over, trapped them all in my basement, got them familiar to humans for a few months, built a huge 6’ by 10’ kennel in our living room, and kept them locked away for a few more months. They just turned 1 in March.

Guess I’m a total monster. But they are great cats.

Edit: Don’t tell the judge I had them spayed/neutered!

They were in their “AI craze” frenzy with this thing called electricity. That could have been fun.

I used to name systems after Star Trek ships, but switched to Farscape characters ages ago. Now I’m doing more practical names based on function.

Over in those parts “peas” are often red/kidney beans. My dish used red beans. (I like the texture better)

Damage? I hope not!

I just made Caribbean rice and peas using homegrown dried habaneros. Great spicy heat!

Except this time I mixed up my dried habaneros with my dried Carolina Reapers. Breakfast is now half portions with 2 pints of milk. Math says I added the equivalent of 19.5 habaneros to the dish intended for 6 serving. (Now 12)

Oh thanks! I didn’t have the group_add.

I finally got around to installing Jellyfin. Still trying to get hardware transcoding working. I think I have it set up, but it still wants to use the CPU. I’m thinking permissions but I ran out of time.

Fun project.

I use Intel too and had a heck of a time getting things working with portainer. Turns out portainer only worked with Nvidia (at least the version I used when I set it up). If I spun up the container via terminal, it worked.

I think a newer version may have added compatibility because I don’t remember jumping through hoops with Immich.

Q.E.D

It’s the oldest, but not the most powerful. Not everything I host sees a lot of activity. But things like Plex/Jellyfin/Immich found their own hardware with better GPU support, and serious A/V or disk intense processes have a full spec PC available. There is also a remote backup system in place so a couple containers are duplicates.

Server 1: 5 containers Server 2: 4 containers Server 3: 4 containers Server 4: 61 containers

Basically if a container is a resource hog, it gets moved somewhere with more resources or specialized hardware.

It used to be a driver could present a cashier’s check as proof of financial responsibility, but it was a pretty high sum. There is a similar system with some states where you can purchase a bond that satisfies the insurance requirements. It is quite unpopular though and presents a host of other problems and liabilities.

I had an Ubuntu system eat itself Christmas Eve at 1am. I think an update pooched some folder permissions and wiped the firewall settings.

It started with “Huh, the network drives won’t mount”, progressed to containers failing to start with “hardware not found” GPU-related errors -oh yeah, I still have to check that and make sure it is working- and yadda yadda… 13 hours later I got services back up and running.

Oof, today I slept in until 10. Ahhhhh…

Man, I wanted my Zoraxy migration to go smoothly, but it’s been stubborn as hell for me. 80% of my services transfered well, but a couple docker containers don’t like it and never got letsencrypt wildcard dns up and running; always an error. Still working on that in my spare time.