I already have a Chromecast but want to move away from google stuff.

Btrfs used to be easier to install because it is part of the kernel while zfs required shenanigans, though I think that has changed now.

Btrfs also just works with whatever drives of mismatched sizes you throw at it and adding more later is easy. This used to be impossible with zfs pools but I think is a feature now?

The extra storage might be cheaper to come by than h265 hardware (or the cpu grunt to live transcode on the cpu). Depends how much you want to hoard I guess.

Yes you need at least 2 hard drives. You can put video you don’t care about on a single drive, but backups etc should be on a redundant disk array (e.g. btrfs, zfs, other options). And an offsite backup while you are at it.

I have 8gb ram with immich, jellyfin, home assistant, prometheus, grafana and a few other things running, but it is constantly butting up against the ram limit. If you want to add nextcloud etc to the mix then you’ll definitely need more. As it is I had to turn off some services I used to run and I’m looking at upgrading the ram.

I use debian, it’s fine.

I don’t see the comments from here on there…

It’s possible I misremembered and got the apk from their website or github. Doesn’t change anything though.

I just went back though my emails, I got a reply email from their CTO promising to look into it and they would get back to me, but they never did.

It used to be

If you just have to talk from many devices to the one server sure, but Tailscale sure makes it easy for many to many. Also if a direct connection is impossible (e.g. firewall of china, CGNAT etc) tailscale puts a relay server in the middle for you.

I can’t. I tried it first and installed it on my phone from f-droid. After opening it up, it connected to an already existing network with other people’s old machines from years ago on it. I was horrified.

So then I tried to delete my whole account and couldn’t due to an error. I sent them an email about it and they took like two weeks to respond.

Punchflat is good, but i’ts a bit of a cpu and ram hog when indexing. I had to disable it because it kept bringing the server to it’s knees, but if you have more ram headroom you’ll prob be fine.