Sucky situation all around. Money ruins everything as always.

Welcome fellow sound engineer! It’s a dream to visit Oregon one day for me. Favourite mixing desk? Big on analog or digital consoles, or are you a “do everything on the computer” kind of guy?

Yeah they’re spamming their AI slop all over

Claude built it, not you, meat proxy

Because I want Jellyfin to do better and people to be aware of its shortcomings so they either come and contribute to it to fix it, or at least so they can make informed choices before circlejerking around it. Alternatives are good. Critique is good. Indeed VLC and Kodi and straight up playing MKV files through a file explorer are also valid options. So is Jellyfin but with the damn caveats I pointed out and got downvoted for many times (cause Plex bad duhhh)

I have a lifetime Plex pass from ages ago when it was way less expensive. If I didn’t I’d rather figure out a way to pirate or crack it - because its clients don’t notoriously suck on every platform like JF’s and it doesn’t use several gigs of RAM when scanning a library. I personally don’t give two shits about the company or the people in it. I’m a pirate, I want the nice enough experience, not a quarterly fight with self provisioned or ACME’s SSL certs and 4 competing clients or a fucking tunnel VPN to let my mom stream Love Island.

When 400 people tell you to “just go use Jellyfin” and then it actually sucks ass because you don’t have 32GB of RAM on your fucking SATA box, it’s just annoying, but when you get shat on for pointing out why exactly it sucks so people don’t step on the same rake, that’s actually just rude. When they actively fail to mention any shortcomings that’s just shilling. All I’m saying is moderate expectations and consider the practical shortcomings of what is suggested, just like you do the egregious bullshit Plex is pulling with pricing, but like, also to everything else 🙄

1GB is egregious for what amounts to a file server that can spawn ffmpeg. Plex uses like 10x less. Last time I tried Jellyfin it ate 9GB and nuked my NAS out of existence, purely because it tried to scan my fairly modest library.

C# on .NET is pretty horrible on resources and efficiency for stuff like this - this also sometimes happens to a lot of the more established *arr software

Here’s Plex currently generating some audio loudness data on an entire season in the background. In a container (it’d be even leaner if it ran bare metal). I’ve never seen it even reach 500MB under the worst circumstances imaginable.

Considering they’re asking for cost effective ways, and Jellyfin has notoriously poor resource management especially in the memory department, no.

I think my frontal lobe is developing and I am not particularly enjoying it

I think a little empathy is in order. A lot of the people using those things for therapy, emotional contact, personal advice, etc. don’t have a lot of choice if they’re isolated, lonely or don’t know any better. All of the things listed are woefully inaccessible to a shocking amount of people for a lot of very complicated reasons. Yes, even friends. All of those people are victims of monetised parasocial relationships.

They think it’s helpful, because it is explicitly trained to deceive them into believing it is, while telling them how awesome they are.

Fuck the overlords for wanting to keep it this way, however. I’m sure Nazi Cuck could just give everyone therapy access if he wasn’t a nazi cuck instead of building another datacenter to generate poorly drawn fetish porn. But no, let’s all pursue some dystopian bullshit instead of fixing any problems with society.

It’s all kind of giving me an AI cultist vibe alongside similar ideologies. I consider it a red flag when YouTubers peddle that crap like Kurzgesagt or “Rational” Animations. Rich people shit.

This source is not amazing but they kind of summarize it here https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-acronym-behind-our-wildest-ai-dreams-and-nightmares/

See, that’s a problem for me, because Plex uses anywhere between 20 and 200MB depending on what it’s doing. Mostly it idles at 50MB which keeps me very happy. When I tried Jellyfin fairly recently, it ate 1.4GB just to initialize and then promptly crashed my system. I don’t like to dunk on languages like that, but Python man… I don’t have that kind of luxury. It’s not just “cache” either, I wasn’t able to configure JF in any way where it wouldn’t crash, it’s certainly not “reclaimable” memory usage, it’s just a chunky program.

I never even got to transcoding, it’s impressive, honestly, how fast it destroyed my homelab lol.

Any changes to the massive memory footprint of JF? I’m basically stuck on Plex because JF eats multiple gigabytes of my very limited RAM.