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Their SMART UI wasn’t really any good anyways, I always just run smartctl.

IIRC there’s a couple different ways with Caddy to replicate the letsencrypt config between instances, but I never quite got that working. I didn’t find a ton of value in a HA reverse proxy config anyways since almost all of my services are running on the same machine, and usually the proxy is offline because that machine is offline. The more important thing was HA DNS, and I got that working pretty well with keepalived. The redundant DNS server just runs on a $100 mini PC. Works well enough for me.

If I have rate limiting set up (through crowdsec) to prevent bots from scanning / crawling my server, should I be as worried?

You can connect Jellyfin to an SSO provider. It still needs work, and client support is lacking. Ideally I think it maybe should be built in rather than a plug-in (would definitely encourage more client support). But it exists.

https://github.com/9p4/jellyfin-plugin-sso

Feature request for oidc/sso:

https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/230/support-for-oidc-oauth-sso

As it stands, you could enable both the SSO and LDAP plugins, and let users do password resets entirely through your auth provider.

Basically, this is all stuff that comes with Plex out-of-the-box, but you sort of have to glue it together yourself with Jellyfin, and it’s not yet in an ideal state. Plex is much much easier to configure. I wouldn’t allow yourself to believe that Plex doing all this for you will make you totally secure through – there’s been multiple incidents with their auth, and IIRC the LastPass attacker pivoted from a weak Plex install. Just food for thought.

Badge of honor.

U.S. has been complete shit for the last 8 years, but somehow we haven’t collapsed and life goes on as usual. So I’m usually pretty skeptical of specific predictions (though the trends are worth paying attention to).

Absolutely. As far as solar goes, one statistic I like to point out is that China added more solar panels last year than the U.S. has in its entire history.

I mean, scandals like this and “chabuduo” attitude putting health & safety at risk is really nothing new in China. I agree with you in general that certain parts of China are in decline / potential to collapse. Especially economy & environment. But speaking from a U.S. perspective, other aspects are enviable, like public transit.

I’m just saying that I wouldn’t necessarily hold this specific incident up as an example of collapse.

I wonder if it has to do with reusing the transmission lines from the coal plant.

Want to drop some info here, not related to your question since it’s still out of your price range, but just for others who might be browsing, since I see HM chairs come up a lot in this thread and the other one.

A lot of these fancy ergo chairs work similar to other furniture and use a network of dealers. This is important, because dealers often sell for way less than MSRP, especially when they’re buying for clients making big offers for office buildings buildouts. Some dealers can get you a great price by basically adding your chair to a big order for another client. I wanted a HM Embody and talked to 3 dealers in my area. One of them was able to get me the chair for about $1000, and this was also customized with the fabric that I wanted. Really shows the huge markup that MSRP is on this kind of item. Dealers are sometimes also willing to give you a loaner so you can try the chair at home before you buy.

Autonomous has really good marketing and sells a really cheap chair that they probably buy for $80 at an insane markup. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not too terrible. I’ve sat in one before, and it’s certainly better than those stupid “gamer” chairs, but please understand what you are buying.

If you are considering them, tbh I would just go directly to a seller on Alibaba like:

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/New-Design-Ergonomic-Human-Reclining-Chair_60803877142.html?spm=a2700.details.deiletai6.5.7af05cf62MXVpn

Personally if I were you, I would look at buying a used Steelcase Leap. I bought one in leather in 2015 for $430 including shipping off eBay. Bought another one from a local dealer that had a ton from an office closeout and paid like $300. I’m looking on eBay right now and seeing pretty similar prices for used and refurbs.

Best I can do is 45 miles.

I love it.

Nice, I ended up just taping a fan on underneath using HVAC tape applied directly to the heatsink.

The plastic screw thing that holds the heatsink on can become brittle and break after some years. It might be worth picking up some small nylon bolts online before that happens.

Edit: or I guess zip ties would work if it comes to that…