LainTrain @ LainTrain @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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WebUI is streaming though on desktops though and I assume they're also using iOS/Android/TV which all have clients, so I'm trying to get at the difference there.

Oh fair enough, I'd highly recommend enabling transcoding anyway it just eliminates all sorts of issues like this.

You can just download the episodes though? Like right in Jellyfin:

Because yes, you can just copy files from your NAS to your phone's internal storage (assuming you don't care about transcoding and the like)... at which point there isn't much use to a metadata oriented media server/service.

No you do not need to do any of that.

Or you can just set up Plex to always download the next 10 episodes of whatever show you are watching when it has network access. I mean... that probably won't work (see: 40%) but when it does, it is awesome. Which is the "it just works" functionality.

You can download in Jellyfin also, like in the screenshot above.

anyone asking for anything else is wrong and stupid.

I mean, you are asking for things that are already in the app, you tell me if that's stupid or not. I'm just trying to help.

I'd never call anyone even trying to use these self-hosted alternatives stupid.

Jellyfin devs could actually get the "download the next N episodes" functionality to reliably work (even at 80-90%) it would be a killer app

Is there some reason you can't do this manually? I actually can't think of any app with this feature, not even Netflix way back not Spotify.

A VPN Server on the server or home network (look into PiVPN for instance), and a VPN Client on clients (look at openvpn for instance).

Good luck and let me know if you have any further questions - I'm more than happy to answer!

Forget the Auth, use VPN profiles as access controls. Give them to trusted folks and you're gold.

Yeah don't use a cloudflare tunnel for that, it'll get you banned.

Huh? I used jellyfin just fine in the hospital on public WiFi on my ancient busted iPad air [some number].

The only thing I did was install pivpn and upload my VPN profile file to Google drive so I can remote into my network. I legit never even had to set anything up it just worked, didn't even need to know the IP of the server because my locally run DNS server (and failing that, the basic hostname based DNSMasq in the router) took care of everything.

I don't even have any reverse proxy or firewall because I still pretend to value my sanity and my time, nor did I expose it to the internet either, thanks to almighty NAT.

Didn't have to do any caching or anything crazy like that, no idea what you're talking about, but I think there's an option to download the files right through jellyfin.

I watched star trek TAS while having fun with opioids and it was a great time.

Why would you ever bother to use either option when you can just access it via the WebUI on Firefox?

I can't see that comment

So true

Then why does it look like dogshit?

Why?

My parents barely know how to use a computer at all, but they're old and don't have internet. They mostly just watch their own DVD movie collections or tune in to movies on DVDs.

I did teach my dad to find news on YT instead of TV (they are Russian, I'd rather they listen to Meduza than Putinist propaganda channels).

I honestly dunno what content requires live transmission apart from livestreams? I didn't just mean twitch btw I meant sports games etc. None of those require a very high bitrate or quality etc.

Also rights holders dont want you to have an offline copy if they can avoid it, that way its easier to monetize for them.

Well ain't that a shame. I'll weep for them I swear.

Not all content can be downloaded,

Like livestreams? That being the exception but most 'content' isn't live.

and for many people they want to watch what they want to watch right now, and waiting for the download is not something they are interested in.

Bet they use YouTube through the home page too. Some people are animals and it can't be helped. That doesn't mean the rest of us must suffer.

Why not download? Streaming is always going to be dogshit quality unless we find something faster than light. I don't really understand the context. There's really barely any difference between YouTube's """"1080p"""" and Netflix. But throw on a BDRemux or even a decent X265 10 bit BDRip encode from a trusted release group and let your eyes feast.

Not a doctor but I'd love this as well. I've seen various assorted noctors and nurses and other patients spout some shit that was so wildly off base I couldn't even imagine how this came about or was even believable in the slightest.

I remember the one time a really good nurse told me how I "seemed alright" because I was decently informed on my condition and asked appropriate questions and it's been in the back of my head ever since how she thought it was a noteworthy exception to the norm that she could somewhat trust me.

I prefer online learning for sure as a method of actually learning stuff but for BSc the vast majority of what you learn isn't on your course, it's from the folks around you, and I don't mean corporate networking and brown-nosing for jobs, I just mean interactions with folks outside of your bubble.

I did CS and honestly that BSc was just a piece of paper tha helped me get an MSc and a job after that, I don't think I was taught anything there that I didn't know and the vast majority of learning was on my own outside uni for which the actual groundwork was laid during my MSc, which was online temporarily due to covid.

Nowadays I upskill exclusively online on my own and learn far more far more accurately this way. Though you still need folks to talk to about it who are ahead and behind, but it's easier to find that online than IRL anyway.

Why wouldn't you?

I've never lived on campus and idk how it works in the US but when I'd come in for the lectures I still met plenty of people who challenged me and my ideas and helped me grow as a person. Hell even just taking the subway to campus every day got me to actually start adulting and out of the shell of school and home life.

The collective delusions have been there since 2015, not a COVID thing really. In 2020 there was hope that a lot of this would just pass and Biden won with a record number of votes. Can't argue with the rest though, I'm sorry you had it rough.