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  • I manage a (relatively small) gitea instance, the software that forgejo was recently hard forked from. The maintenance is incredibly simple, really no problem if you've ever run any sort of publicly facing web service.

  • Running any binary that you can't examine the source of (and confirm it was built from it without modification) is risky. It's mostly a balance of trust and risk. Even developers have been known to insert what we could malware.

    That said, if you get your cracked content from a trusted source, I'd say it's generally safe. Otherwise, exercise extreme caution.

    Is GMG an official reseller? Maybe I am out of the loop, but I thought they operated in the grey market.

  • Jellyfin offers HTTPS, you just need to specify a certificate. It's going to be a lot easier to just setup a web server like nginx and expose that to the internet, probably via port forwarding on your gateway/router. In that case, you can get a free certificate from letsencrypt.

    So, the basic steps are:

    1. Get a domain name
    2. Setup JF server, ensure it works locally
    3. Install a web server and set it up to proxy traffic to JF
    4. Expose the web server ports 80 and 443 to the internet
    5. Setup letsencrypt with automatic renewal

    This might sound like a lot of work, but at least you own your data and service. Plex can and will block accounts, rendering servers basically useless.

  • It sounds like you are having trouble with tonemapping HDR to SDR on the fly. This is a non-trivial task, but not impossible. Both mpv and ffmpeg (which plex and jellyfin use) are capable of this. If you install mpv, it will by default do the tonemapping, you can enable/disable this or force use of a particular algorithm if you like.

    To answer your question: Plex has been pretty shitty for years now, and it's only getting worse. They just don't care for their user base.

    ETA: Jellyfin also already does what you want, I think?

  • Second this. Mailcow very easy to setup, though the docs could use improvement. This might have changed already.

    That said, I found it easier to pay for a domain and email service where they worry about reputation and random microsoft blacklists.

  • Gitlab uses a ton of resources and is a pain to setup. Once you get it going, it's fine.

    Going to echo what others have said: Use Gitea or Forgejo instead if you can. Both have runners you can setup like gitlab, but they instead mimic github actions instead of gitlab ci/cd.

    I run a semi-private gitea instance, and have not had any problems past the initial setup in 2+ years.

  • I think the error is quite verbose and tells you everything you need to know.

    Generally, do not install packages outside of a virtual environment unless you know what you're doing. Given the option, use your package manager version of the same package. Outside of that, use your python environment manager of choice to install stuff. There are lots of options: conda, uv, venv, virtualenv, pipenv, etc.

    The error exists to warn you that you could potentially break critical system installed packages by installing other things at a user or system level with pip.