Plex stopped being useful to me in 2019. At the time I had only about 300 movies and the same number of TV episodes. The database kept getting corrupt, causing long load times of video info pages, or perpetual spinning progress indicator. After fixing the database (and losing all watch metadata each time) three times in one year, I moved to a plain file share served from the NAS with Kodi running on my Nvidia Shield.

In seven years, Kodi’s local DB has never corrupted. I now have 900+ movies and 2500 TV episodes. I can handle any file type, any video CODEC, can play thousands of games from the internet game library. The DB can be easily backed up and imported into a new install if needed.

And the best part? I didn’t pay anyone to access any of the media I own, and no corpo gets access to my library or watch history.

Forget Plex.

Pedantic comment of the day

as residential networks are want to do

The word you’re thinking of is “wont” pronounced the same as “want,” which makes it pretty confusing for anyone who might not have read it before, but only heard it spoken.

The hero we needed

I don’t update my Keepass db often enough to need syncing. Maybe every other week or so I just pull the latest backup from my desktop from backblaze b2 to my phone, or if I change something on the phone, I send a copy to myself using signal “note to self.” Then I manually merge the databases.

Pretty low-tech.

Though development seems to have ceased for a few years now

Came to say the same. G’mork!

I get that. Our cats eat on a schedule. The slower eater goes first, and the vacuum cleaner one does extra tricks to delay him more. The we watch them to prevent theft. It only takes about five minutes of our time. Or veterinarian tells us our cats are “lean and healthy; I wish all our patients looked this good.” That, along with seeing them do parkour all over the house is more than enough to keep us on this path.

Poor kittays don’t know when they’re overeating cuz they’re built to eat all they can in case their next meal isn’t for a long time.

That said, belly belly belly bellyyy

Lol! I’m glad you picked on that. I won’t badmouth them, but the user experience does that for them. That guy from the party must hate himself, haha

I was at a party about fifteen years ago. A guy introduced himself and we gabbed for a few minutes. Then he asked what I do for work (IT sysadmin at the time) and I told him and asked the same. He said he was in sales for a tech company. I asked which one, and he stepped close and whispered, “Oracle.” I could see he was prepared for me to bring the hate. He saved himself when he told me he was actually leaving for a gig at Dell. Later, I learned from the host that he made that part about leaving up because he felt bad. I later learned he went to work for Nutanix. Poor guy hated his own employer, and it was obvious.

My contribution

Cute!!! I love when they do this one. I call it the Snoopy, because I seem to remember him looking like that dancing with Woodstock on the doghouse. I’m probably way off base,too, lol.

Good catch. I don’t usually see SAS as /dev/sd* so I assumed. Almost the same cables, though *usually better made.

I second this. SATA cables are cheaply made and can present issues that seem to indicate drive failure.

Bun-bun! 👹🐇

I can relate! All hooman needs are unimportant!

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Lol. 😂 I hear you. I feed at 10am and 10pm (with a 90 minute variance to keep them from getting to good at timekeeping). After almost a decade, I figured out a way to sleep in! Course, they still whine at night starting at 8pm sometimes, but my vet says my cats are unusually fit and a good weight, so I know I’m not starving them like they want me to believe. Their chirps and whines have gotten more and more elaborate and detailed on the last three years.

That fourth thing is hunger. It only comes when the cat is fed on a schedule, as opposed to free-fed with multiple piles of food out all day. Feed in a schedule and you’ll suddenly see (healthy, right-weight) interested felines licking empty bowls.