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• Hardware strategy discussion for setting up a Home Assistant system at a distant location
• Lady Joupes' lithium ion battery bank malfunctioning due to cold temperatures
• Power outage caused by a series of electrical hits affecting a home's Wi-Fi network
• Frequent dropouts and losses of Wi-Fi connectivity despite hardware remaining online
• Decision to replace existing Wi-Fi system with a new TP-Link EAP 245 version 3 unit
• Comparison of TP-Link and UniFi systems, including self-hosted control centers
• Troubleshooting efforts to identify cause of Wi-Fi dropouts and losses
• Discussion of Linus Tech Tips video on Wi-Fi issues caused by Z-Wave devices
• Use of SDR (Software Defined Radio) for troubleshooting Wi-Fi and radio frequency interference
• Personal experience with using Android Wi-Fi analyzer tool to improve network performance
• Description of neighbor's strong printer AP causing interference
• Plans for a giveaway of a Western Digital 10TB hard drive
• Promotion of Linode hosting services, including $100 credit offer
• Supporting the show through Linode
• Jellyfin January challenge: disabling Plex servers and switching to Jellyfin for a month
• Raising the profile of Jellyfin and creating a viable alternative to Plex
• Criticisms of Plex's business model and its impact on users
• Discussion of cloud connectivity, authentication, and ad-supported media features
• Concerns about Plex's shift in focus from core streaming functionality to more extensive industry positioning
• The user is frustrated with Jellyfin's automatic startup behavior
• Concerns about data ownership and linking to Plex servers
• Invitation to Brent, a Jellyfin user, to provide feedback on his experience
• Discussion of the user's past experience with Jellyfin, including setup and potential improvements
• Review of Jellyfin's GitHub activity, showing 90 PRs accepted in one month and 800 contributors in total
• Interest in testing the Watch Together feature and reporting back on its performance
• Ground rules for the challenge, including Plex servers being offline and no switching to other apps during the test period
• Jellyfin devs mentioned in chat for adding feature requests
• Audiobook playback and spousal approval discussed as important features
• Discussion of switching from Prologue to Jellyfin and potential continued use of Plex for audiobooks and music
• Hardware transcoding issues on Linux server, including Intel GPU and NVIDIA usage
• Monitoring and metrics, specifically using Tautuli to track streaming activity and device usage
• Integration of Tautuli with Jellyfin or rewriting Jellyfin server metrics
• Importance of hardware acceleration and its benefits (e.g. quick sync)
• Strategies for achieving hardware acceleration (e.g. Linux server IO image, project image, packages)
• User experience issues with Jellyfin (e.g. skipping intros, subtitles/audio tracks/video quality)
• Comparison of Jellyfin to Plex and its performance
• Lack of Apple TV app support and potential limitations
• Jellyfin's default functionality does not include intro skipping
• A community plugin can skip intros, but has limitations and is not elegant
• Native Jellyfin client Swiftfin for iOS and tvOS is under development
• Hosts plan to test Jellyfin on their servers, including one in England with live TV capabilities
• Listener Brent has multiple options for running Jellyfin, including Raspberry Pis and a NAS server, and seeks advice from the hosts
• Discussing the goal of trying Jellyfin media server
• Comparing the ease of use and administrative burden of Jellyfin versus Plex
• Considering using a Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu LTS for running Jellyfin, with pros and cons discussed
• Evaluating the performance and potential issues of running multiple streams on a Raspberry Pi
• Exploring options for network storage and setup
• Weighing the decision to use a Raspberry Pi or an x86 system for running Jellyfin
• Suggesting a two-phased approach to deploying Jellyfin, setting it up first on an x86 box and then transferring to a permanent home
• Introduction of CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale for log management and observability
• Description of LogScale's index-free architecture and benefits, including fast search capabilities and lower cost compared to other platforms like Splunk or Elastic
• Announcement of CrowdStrike.com/LCE as a free trial for LogScale Community Edition with up to 16 GB/day ingestion and 7 days retention
• Discussion of the Matrix Project's financial struggles, including layoffs of core team members and funding issues due to lost value in tech stocks
• Support for the Matrix project and community
• Financial contributions to the Matrix Foundation
• Criticism of the foundation's approach to fundraising and sustainability
• Comparison with other projects, such as Linux
• Ambitious goals and scalability challenges for Matrix
• Personal opinion on the effectiveness of current methods
• Discussion of Matrix's goals and relevance in the market
• Comparison to Linux Foundation and its business model
• Analysis of Patreon revenue and credit card processing fees
• Concerns about Matrix's funding strategy and transparency
• Patreon income is not sufficient to cover Matrix's costs
• Matrix needs a sustainable membership program to support its development and maintenance
• Running and managing Matrix is a significant cost center for the organization
• People conflate "free" and "open-source" with "no cost"
• Development, management, and maintenance of open-source projects have financial and non-financial costs
• Log4j
• Shucking Western Digital drives and SATA power connector issues
• Potential damage to hard drives due to incorrect power supply usage
• Troubleshooting steps for drive connectivity problems
• Importance of visual inspection of connectors after shucking drives
• Using Capton tape to block electrical contact on a drive
• Comparison of using Capton tape vs cutting the voltage wire
• Troubleshooting methods for non-functional drives, including testing in different setups and isolating variables
• Concerns about drives being used in a NAS and not functioning properly after switching between devices
• Location-based notifications in Home Assistant
• Using Slack module to send messages to family members
• Concerns about triggering false notifications on repeated routes
• NFC tags and their potential uses for home automation
• Tasker as an alternative to Home Assistant for automation tasks
• Nix OS integration with Home Assistant and Tasker
• Successful use of IKEA Trådfri plug to resolve modem disconnection issues
• User's internet connection kept dropping and they created a home automation script to reset modem power and send notification when it comes back online
• Similar issue with ESP home devices, user reboots them daily due to memory leak issue
• Discussion about ntfy.sh (notify.sh) for server notifications and its integration with Graphene OS
• User is considering self-hosting their notification server and exploring options including Nextcloud integration
• Self-hosted notification servers and their benefits
• Anonymous user sends in stats using Albi Umbral setup
• Boost CLI is praised as a self-hosted setup
• Upcoming feature: per episode split setup for podcast index.org
• Future plans to self-host and generate own RSS feed
• Discussing the benefits of supporting the show, including an ad-free feed and post-show special content
• Mentioning self-hosted.show/SRE for SRE-related content and jupiter.party for whole network support
• Hard drive giveaway submission methods (email to Alex at self-hosted.show/contact)
• Email sob stories submissions and reading them on the show
• Mastodon presence discussion, with one host discovering they had an account since 2017
• Discussing where to find hosts online (Linux Unplugged, Office Hours, Jupyter Broadcasting's Matrix server, Discord)
[0.00 --> 5.54] It's episode 87 of the show, and this is going to be a fun one because we have a challenge that we're about to get into.