If you're running TrueNAS, the replication feature was the smoothest and easiest way to move large amounts of data when I did it 18 months back. Once the destination location was accessible from the sending host, it was as simple as kicking off a snapshot, resulting in a fully usable replica on the receiving host. IIRC, IXsystems staff told me rsync can be problematic compared to the replication/snapshot system, as permissions and other metadata can be lost.
News broke on this a few months ago, and I jumped ship. Their failed music app is another reason I ditched their ecosystem. Kept crashing; music would pause mid-song; couldn't play downloaded music offline without a data connection.
Video service had such poor title coverage and nothing compelling for the price. As many others have said, the value proposition didn't work. Enshittification is in full swing. Sail the high seas.
I can't believe its already been almost thirty years since SSH was created! Time to further harden your servers and clients by removing (now) insecure KEX algos.
Didn't the show runner say that the dumb public was to blame for the failure of the show?
Edit: he blamed dumb Americans.
Baginski said, “When a series is made for a huge mass of viewers, with different experiences, from different parts of the world, and a large part of them are Americans, these simplifications not only make sense, they are necessary.”
It seems unlikely that Meta will federate with Lemmy. When/if Meta adopts ActivityPub, it will likely affect Mastodon only rather than Lemmy, given Meta’s focus on being a Twitter alternative at the moment.
The eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has proposed cloud and messaging service providers should detect and remove known child abuse material and pro-terror material “where technically feasible” – as well as disrupt and deter new material of that nature.
The eSafety regulator has stressed in an associated discussion paper it “does not advocate building in weaknesses or back doors to undermine privacy and security on end-to-end encrypted services”.
I so love these magic wand-waving legislators. "Spy on your users and control what they do on your encrypted platform, but in a way that doesn't break encryption or violate privacy..."
I second the recommendation for lineage OS. I've been using it since 2011 with my Nexus S (when it was Cyanogen). Works, defaults to de-googled, but easy to install gapps at the same time (follow instructions because it needs to be done before first boot).
I'll never run a stock ROM again if I can help it, and so far...
You are absolutely correct about how these online offerings work. Its beyond frustrating, and most people would definitely not bother with what I went through. I suspect they'd be discouraged and give up pong before me.
Out of curiosity, how much time did you spend researching as you went through this process of hitting speedbump after speedbump?
That's a great question. It was evening when the download completed, and by noon of the next day, I realized that my intended method would not be sufficient. I think it wasn't until the third evening that I had Picard downloaded. I spent part of an evening learning how the system worked to get better recommendations and grouping. Before I found Picard, though, I bumbled through probably three or four tagger apps that weren't really built to handle thousands of files at once, so reviewing proposed changes was unweildy. To undo the errant changes the apps made, I had to start over from the tarball.
All told, I think I had about 12 hours (over three or four days) into the process before I got it streamlined to where I am now. And Google could have simply preserved my metadata OR sent the files in "artist/album" folders.
All my gear is in storage now. I only have my laptop and my Nvidia Shield Pro 2015. Central America can be hard to get tech, and I need to travel light anyway, so local storage is all I have access to for the next few years.
I knew it couldn't be just me going through this. One folder with thousands of tracks, some with track numbers, but none with artist or album in the title, and most without the same level of tagging that I had uploaded. I'm guessing that something was lost in the GPM>YTM migration?
That's a really good point about Photos. My next move is likely to migrate to Ente(.io), but as a pixel user, I'm still enjoying unlimited storage saver and am dragging my feet.
Since some may want to critique my process, here is how I merged the takeout media into my current library:
Install Clementine and pointed to takeout folder (Didn't want to risk confusing Strawberry with so many untagged media files)
Quickly discovered Clem couldn't ID most tracks properly.
Installed several "Tagger" flatpaks with varying levels of success, which led me to discover musicbrainz
Further research led me to Picard, which I set to work ID'ing all my files, but which quickly became too cumbersome to review all those changes
I then resolved to bring in single artists at a time, and knowing which albums I owned (70% of the time), I could correct the mis-ID's tracks. There were a LOT of these, though. It was often that a genuine studio album's tracks were instead ID'd as a compilation greatest hits album, and I would have to change that.
When Picard had ID'd tracks, I would "SAVE" the change, including a move to my ~/Music/temp/ folder, where Strawberry would pick it up, then I could use Strawberry's "Organise Files" feature to move the files to their final location with the %albumartist/%album{ (Disc %disc)}/{%track - }%title.%extension format.
The hardest chunk of my collection to organize and ID was my collection of Johnny Cash albums spanning the 60's to the 2010's. Picard really wanted me to have fifteen different version of each album in some cases. Track 1,3,7 on one album, track 2,4,5,11 on another, track 6,8,9,10 ... you get the point. It was a shame to find that Acoustic ID is not useful here. I wonder if I did something wrong, or if the database has been made useless by users who misidentified their music and submitted their fingerprints. I don't know. The only solution to this would be for me to have my physical discs in my lap and comparing their catalog numbers to the list of available options in Picard.
That said, Picard was still the best match in most cases, and the flexibility of the interface, in addition to the lack of crashing and errors made it the best tool I found to use.
Kodi has made my setup dead-simple: File server running on TrueNAS serving my library over SMB/CIFS and Kodi does all the "management" on the client side (which really is just my watch progress and metadata), so my server is just a dumb box of disks in RaidZ1. I have only one client, and as for configuration, I just created two media objects in Kodi: TV and Movies, and the rest is default other than the unrelated IGAL setup.
I like what I read about the arr's and Jellyfin, but until my current setup feels cumbersome or insufficient, I'm sticking with it.
Good answer. I jumped ship when they started ramming Plex Pass and required login down my throat, but I had been having issues with their app and server for about year before I switched. Glad you're getting value from them!
Adding my obligatory "why Plex over Kodi?" comment.
Kodi only needs file access, and handles video files more gracefully, even if you keep the filenames as downloaded. Includes sub search addons, all the same meta features that Plex does (watch history, resume from where you left off, ratings, cast and crew, trivia, trailers), and is free and open. Plus, no forced upgrades of server or client app or phone home.
But either way, have fun building out your storage!
You have to LOVE the stance: leanback with spread wings to communicate detached interest. Just like this silly ringneck.