I think you are definitely getting into overkill territory here with a server rack dedicated to Plex and a GPU. Most igpus on Intel chips can transcode 10+ 1080p streams and 2ish 4k streams. Unless you have 100 users seems over kill to me.

Edit. I’m on Unraid with about 30 users, and I only give Plex and all my other containers 6 cores from an i7 10700k.

Choosing death by starvation is not a choice. Work or die, slave.

Fucking Lemmy.world is hot garbage. They’re down every day and are constantly defederating with any instance that doesn’t fit their narrow, sanitized world views. It’s also one of the most recommended Lemmy’s with more new users going there than anywhere else. I think it incredibly damaging in the long run to have 50% of active users on this platform to be centralized on one domain. Especially if this domain makes as many boneheaded decisions as lemmy.world

Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps

Holy shit are they doing this for all platforms??? FINALLY!!!

Here is the solution you are looking for: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-for-local-network-access/

Basically you can add IPs (such as your local domain) to bypass authentication. The only caveat is that you must be online when you set this. IE: You can’t do it during an outage.

I present Bonarr. It’s deprecated but the name is hilarious lol

Lemmy is decentralized but completely connected together. I am on lemm.ee but I can still subscribe and comment to Lemmy.world or any number of other communities. The website you type in to visit Lemmy doesn’t matter. All Lemmy instances go to the same place. OP is arguing that a large centralized instance is bad which I don’t think anybody can disagree with. Lemmy.world has been down like every day. Tons of stability/DDOS issues but that only affects communities/users localized on that instance. Problem is that’s like half of the active Lemmy users right now.

Plex Pass has two features which I consider to be invaluable. Intro/Credit skip, when an intro or credit sequence is playing a button on screen will pop up allowing you to skip to the end. This even works well with movies with end credit scenes, it will just skip right to them. The other is transcoding, which if you’re streaming locally is not really required. Personally, I have dozens of users and some require transcoding because their internet connections are slower than my blu ray rips. Join us at !plex@lemmy.ml

Its like the old adage, you can’t get something that is Good, Fast and Cheap. Pick two.

Jellyfin is free, but requires a more technical set up and does lack some minor features that Plex has and client availability is not as good (No Xbox/Playstation apps as far as I know). On the other hand Plex has a more feature rich product that is just that, a product. Plex Pass is not required, but it is very useful for server owners. It’s a tough sell to most people, and as a lifetime Plex pass holder, I would say the lifetime pass is the only one worth getting. Going month to month or evenly yearly is a huge waste of money.

As a server owner for over 5 years with dozens of users I still have to Google problems every so often. Now people are leaving reddit and deleting their comment on the way out, soon reddit is going to become totally useless when troubleshooting issues. We’re all gonna need places like this to keep our rigs running. So thank you for getting this place up and running I look forward to contributing anyway I can!

Wow this looks great! I went ahead and replaced the link in my Plex discord with this. Very nice format, thanks!

AMD GPU support for transcoding is nice, but is anybody still using dedicated GPUs for transcoding? Intels iGPUs do the same job at a fraction of the cost.

lol imagine being so poor you can’t afford 10 dollars a month

Hard agree with Usenet. If you’re doing sonarr/radar stuff save yourself tons of stress and hook into usenet

Do you use a vpn with usenet? Is it even necessary as you aren’t hosting like with torrents?

I don’t use a vpn because it would really slow down the speed and everything is downloading via https anyway so its encrypted. Your ISP will see you hitting usenet servers, but thats all. Milage may vary with how tolerate your ISP is towards this.

Have you found it easier to find less popular titles/things that there just doesn’t seem to be seeded torrents for?

Absolutely. The insane thing about usenet is retention. If it was uploaded 10 years ago to usenet, its still there. Available at max speed. No more dead torrents. I was in the same boat with users requesting stuff I couldn’t find, with usenet its way way better.

This comment is me, last year. Its really not that hard don’t let it intimidate you! All you really need is 3 things:

1. Download Client. Usenet has file size limits, so files are broken into zip archives. A download client such as SABnzbd will automatically unpack for you.
2. Usenet provider. Such as Eweka (Based in Europe) or Newshosting. This will cost about 5-10 bucks a month.
3. Usenet indexer. Indexer is used for searching usenet. Think pirate bay. I personally use https://nzbgeek.info. NZB geek costs 1 dollar a month or 80 for a lifetime membership.

Yeah usenet costs money, but god damn its such a premium experience. Every single download is going to cap out your connection, never wait for seeds again.