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Hi there! This is a video that I made that I'm hoping can act as a beginner friendly entry level point to the world of self hosting and running a homelab. Just thought I'd share in case anyone is interested, and I hope it can be a resource to share with noobies. I don't claim to be an expert at all so I'd also love some feedback. Thanks!

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[–] Reygle@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My entire life is Linux and self hosted, aside from Email. I may get to that one day too. Love my Plex server, even with the more recent baloney the company's apparently been up to.

I should be using Jellyfin but once I get home from work I don't want to tinker any more, I just wanna play a game or dick around.

Agree with the message in the video, these companies should be told to pound sand the minute they do a single anti-consumer thing.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a way around the problem that plex only feeds from ex fat/nt drives but Linux has permission issues networking such a drive? I wanted to have one computer where I’m doing all the formatting and the other being the standalone plex server with them both connected. Samba is being a pain.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Curious about your problem. I'm using NFS instead of samba now, but legitimately never faced any problems doing what you're describing previously.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

I set up jellyfin recently. Haven't tinkered with it any more than plex to be fair