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  • Your view unfortunately doesn’t show you how shitty the unpaid experience has become. XBMC used to be a good product. Since becoming Plex, now we have:

    • no local hardware accel
    • no HDR
    • panels that look like local videos that trick you into switching to a paid app
    • rearranged home screen after some updates
    • no downloads on remote devices
    • and now I’ll lose the ability to share streaming with my kid, who lives many cities away

    If this were clear from the outset , no one would be upset. But pulling back features Plex at one time promised “forever” (remote streaming), is complete rug-pull bullshit.

    You can enjoy that warm and fuzzy reverse-fomo feeling now, but you should know that they’ll start limiting your paid experience eventually.



  • I’ve moved to all containers and I’m gradually automating everything. The metaphor for orchestration and provisioning is much clearer in incus than it was in lxd, and makes way more sense than proxmox.

    Proxmox is fine, I’ve used it for going on 8 years now, I’m still using it, in fact. But it’s geared toward a “safe” view of abstraction that makes lxc containers seem like virtual machines, and they absolutely aren’t, they are much, much more flexible and powerful than vms.

    There are also really annoying deficiencies in proxmox that I’ve taken for granted for a long time as well:

    • horrible builtin resource usage metrics. And I’m happy to run my influxdb/grafana stack to monitor, but users should be able to access those metrics locally and natively, especially if they’re going to be exported by the default metrics export anyway.
    • weird hangovers from early proxmox versions on io delay. Proxmox is still making users go chase down iostat rabbit holes to figure out why io_wait and “io delay” are not the same metric, and why the root cause is almost always disk, yet proxmox shows the io_wait stat as if it could be “anything”
    • integration of pass through devices is a solved problem, even for lxc, yet the bulk of questions for noobs is about just that. Pass through is solved for so many platforms, why proxmox just doesn’t have that as a GUI option for lxc is baffling.
    • no install choices for zfs on root on single disk (why???)
    • etc

    Ultimately, I have more flexibility with a vanilla bookworm install with incus.





  • Lots of variables here, we would need to pare them down:

    • architecture of zfs pool? This can be done well or very poorly, zfs gives you a lot of rope, if you know what I mean.
    • memory?
    • have you tuned samba ?
    • are you trying to do anything fancy like jumbo frames ?
    • what networking equipment lies between the two?
    • do you have the correct and correctly configured 2.5gb driver for linux ? Intel 2.5 NICs had some issues for a while.
    • what does the windows net hardware look like?

    In troubleshooting transfer speeds , there are solo many variables, as you can see.

    Start with the network and reduce variables until you have a likely source of the problem.