I got my dead internal display to work with an external display on mirrored mode, and I got it to reliably boot past Apple‘s incredibly finicky AMD graphics drivers.
I ordered a bottle of Jim Beam, and I’m going to bed. I’m fucking exhausted.
If anyone wants to offer further advice, go ahead, but any Apple bashing will be firmly ignored because I just don’t have it in me to take it
I’m running three different servers that service about 15 different users. And I’ve been running those servers for many many many years. And each of those servers have had lifetime passes since they were between 50 and $150. That was a long time ago.
I get where you’re coming from. If I were just starting out, and or if I just had myself to serve, I’d probably just be on jellyfin. And I fully support open source software (which Plex used to be), and I fully support an open source alternative to Plex. Remember, Plex used to be the open source alternative too… In fact, Plex was based on XBMC, the open source alternative to… Itself! So is kodi, so is Emby…
Plex is the project that made it to commercial success, but has, at this point, grown a bit beyond even what I want to do with it. But it’s just, currently, the best solution for my current needs. But jellyfin in its current state is about 10 years behind where Plex is today. I would switch to it in a second if it could meet my needs right now, but it just can’t. I know this, because I keep a very close eye on it, and I fiddle around with it from time to time. It just can’t do what I need to do. Not yet.
But the second i can, I’ll switch.