My perception is W11 is that it’s hella slow. Rainbow Dash should just get like Bazzite or CachyOS.

Same here. Plex just works for my folks with 0 tech literacy. I may try Jellyfin in the future, but I have a few friends that primarily access Plex via Playstation 4/5, and I know there’s no support there yet.

!asklemmy@lemmy.world or !casualconversation@piefed.social probably. But it would be wise to include some basic details, like what country you live in so someone might link you to relevant resources. I know you’re desperate but spamming the same message into unrelated communities won’t gain you any favor.

How are you installing them? I believe you can use something like Gear Lever to quickly “install” AppImage files. AppImages are standalone applications, kind of like flatpaks, but using Gear Lever you can integrate them into your distro’s app menu as if it were an installed application.

Happy Friday!

What file manager are you using? KDE’s Dolphin? GNOME’s Nautilus? You may want to give us your system details so someone might guide you on how to find these things. Dolphin, from my experience, is highly customizable and you might find some of these in there.

I think it’s time to stop taking tips from this guy.

Sounds like a really good way to keep your mind fresh after a traumatic event like a stroke. It’s important to keep your mind busy. Glad to hear you’re doing well, and thanks for sharing :)

If the creator of the video is willing to use AI for narration, what other shortcuts are they willing to take?

No link, no additional information, brand new account, aigen image.

Yup, it’s slop.

I’d like to spin up Jellyfin, but Plex has tv apps for the non techies in my group ;/

Regarding CGNAT and Port Forwarding: I too am behind CGNAT with my ISP, and my solution to this is renting a cheap VPS (I use Contabo, others might have different recommendations) and installing Pangolin. It’s a tunneling software that uses some UDP fuckery to hole-punch straight through the network with their Newt tunnels. I use this so my friends and family can access my Plex and Overseerr requests.

Look, I really only like Pacman because they make the little yellow guy go across the terminal as the download bar. It’s just 😘🤌

Not sure about Ubuntu, but for your CachyOS attempts, I probably would have avoided the DEs you tried. COSMIC is still under heavy development, and might work better on its “home OS” (being Pop!_OS, but this is complete speculation on my part). Hyprland and Niri seem like advanced DEs to me every time I see them mentioned, so I would have avoided them for a new user.

I’ve been using Cachy for the better part of a year now with KDE Plasma and it’s barely given me any problems. I’d suggest something with KDE, or maybe even GNOME. If you like the Ubuntu environment (apt, flatpaks, etc) you might try Linux Mint. From my experience it’s a very easy and hands-off setup. I did not need to use the terminal at all when I set it up on my wife’s laptop and MIL’s laptop.

ETA: Just read your final paragraph and wanted to add about KDE:

Easy access to the launcher KDE is reminiscent of Windows. The Launcher is always visible (unless you tell it not to be).

See all background apps at once (next to the network and audio icon)(important for VPN, steam, discord)
Yup.

see date and time in a convenient place (top of the screen) Yup. Can be placed wherever you want.

working file manager Dolphin.

good package manager CachyOS is based on Arch, so it used Pacman and ships with the Arch User Repo helper Paru (and a graphical installer, Octopi). You can easily install Flatpak if that’s your thing too. I don’t know a lot about package managers but Pacman has been good to me.

Based on not knowing what your system looks like (OS, DE, how you’re moving files, where you’re moving them, etc), the first place I’d try is getting Flat Seal from the flatpak app store. It’s a permissions manager for flatpaks that might help you out. If you’re trying to move files into a folder that has escalated permissions, it may give you some problems. Try fiddling with the settings in Flat Seal.

I don’t really use flatpaks, so I couldn’t tell you exactly the setting to look at, sorry. Never had an issue with drag/drop myself.

I agree with your post 100% I think. Removing oneself from big tech/data services like Google and Microsoft is resisting the regime. It’s especially useful for folks that may not be able to get out and protest, meet with their representatives, etc.

As for me, I’m running my *arr/media stack for myself and my close friends and family. Fuck Disney, Netflix, and Paramount. For our household, HomeAssistant keeps the lights on and SyncThing backs up our files to the NAS.

Mint. It’s so easy my mother in law can use it! Very easy to maintain, virtually no terminal use if you dont want to. Cinnamon (Mint’s desktop environment) is fairly customizable too iirc.

I could very easily, I’ve just only use rsync a handful of times for one-off files or small directories. Thinking of using it for several Tbs scares me 😅

Would you recommend nnn for transfering ~5Tb of media between two local servers? Seems like a weird question but it’s something I’ll have to do soon.

I figured it out!!

It was simple. I just told Plex to allow the 172.18.0.0/24 subnet. It’s always something simple huh.

Thanks for pointing me at the logs. Sometimes it all looks like gibberish when you’re learning, then you stop and read and search. Have a wonderful evening! (and the 10000 years of excellent luck, too!)