u/Aevaris_

Hi all,

I used Plex for 15 years (lifetime plex pass for the whole time) but I finally deleted it today and am now a fulltime jellyfin user and am not looking back (much).

Jellyfin has come a long way, huge shoutout to the developers, maintainers, managers, and all that it takes to maintain FOSS.

Would love to hear if there are any other QOLs or efficiencies that I missed for being new.

What made me switch?

1. The fact that a Plex auth outage can brick software I host, on hardware I own, on my local network is wild.
2. Making Plex work on Docker is harder than it needs to be.
3. When I needed it most, Plex refused to restore from backup so I lost all my metadata (most painfully my music ratings which I had carefully curated). I had daily backups of the DB, the metadata, all of it, but I couldnt get Plex to boot once I restored my backup. All of my other apps restored fine (Immich, Authentik, ABS, NPM, you name it).
   • Maybe its user error, but the fact everything else restored fine points to Plex being harder than it needs to be. I tested a restore from backup of JF (and Navidrome) and they also worked fine.
4. Videos had recently started stuttering / buffering, even on local network. I have hardlined Chromecast 4ks, on 1 gig network, on 1 gig bi-directional ISP, on a server with a 1080ti hardware accelerated GPU and a reasonable (altho old) i7 CPU. There was no reason for this.
5. Plex's continued push toward finding revenue sources without seeing much for it as a consumer

While I am a short time JF user, I am a long long time self-hoster and Plex user. Here are a few things I wish JF did/had:

1. Better pagination (having to manually click next page instead of being able to 'show all' for movies and shows is annoying. Yes, I know I could show all but then JF warns I shouldn't so I don't)
2. Ability to on-demand request subtitles from client apps
3. (Plex did this worse than JF already does but) better audio and digital book support. I'd love to be able to drop ABS and save myself an app

For new users, one of the biggest QOL things that I found that make JF the best it can be is to download the Intro Skipper and File Transformation plugins.

In any case, I love what it is already and look forward to being a part of this community. JF is great, it fixed the active problems I had with Plex, and look forward to its future!

Hi all,

I am a long time plex user switching over to jellyfin. As far as I know, I havent installed anything super custom besides the open subtitles plugin and the tvdb plugin.

I am having a weird issue where items in my library will not update in the library UI until after I restart Jellyfin. For example, if I identify an item or add an item to a collection, those changes are not visualized. If you look at the metadata, it has been updated, but only the GUI doesn't update.

I have tried a ctrl+f5 refresh, tried a new incognito window, library refresh, nada works except restarting jellyfin. I have tried googling for this and came up with nothing that has worked.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Edit: Ok, it looks like if I go to the item I modified and force refresh all metadata on it after adding it to a collection or after I identify it, it will then update in the GUI. I still feel this is wrong though.

Edit2: Ok, weird. I didnt do anything besides force refresh 1 item and now it seems to be working... Very strange.

Edit3: The issue came back and even behaved differently between collections. Some updated fine, some didnt. The issue ended up being ublockorigin. Disabling it resolved my issues,

Hi all,

Long time commenter and I am (likely) reaching the end (start?) of my FIRE journey. My FA is not familiar with FIRE and mostly works with retire age folks and/or folks who are saving but wont FIRE, so wanted the groups confirmation and thoughts on my plan. Looking for folks to poke holes and generate other ideas as I've learned much through this community.

No AI was used here (although if I did it'd probably be more concise, sorry)

Details:

• Age: 35-45
• Family of 2, no kids, no kids planned.
• Planning to move to a no income tax state
• Planning ~120k/yr flexible expenses (includes taxes, healthcare, mortgage, insurance, etc)
• NW ~5m with house, ~3.5 w/o
  • ~1.4m in 401k, ~200k in Roth IRAs, rest in taxable accounts

Investment Plan:

• 360k (3 years) expenses in HYSA (earning ~4%)
  • I plan 0% bonds and plan to use cash as a replacement. Our expenses are flexible and we can cut back to make our expenses last much longer (expecting we could do 6-10yr)
• 35% (~1.2m) in VOO
• 35% (~1.2m) in SCHD
• 30% (~1m) in VXUS

Strategy:

• We'll use 72t to claim ~30k/yr to mostly fill the standard deduction
• Dividends generating ~81k/yr
  • VOO has a 1.05% dividend rate, generating ~15k/yr on 1.2m
  • SCHD has a ~3.25% divvy, generating ~39k/yr on 1.2m
  • VXUS has ~2.7%, generating 27k/yr on 1m
• HYSA interest generating ~14k
• Sum total: 125k generated without drawing down anything
• Sell 1x / year to refill to 360k cash as needed
• Taxes:
  • Married filing joint in a no income tax state means we have a standard deduction of $32,200 and a LTCG bracket of $98,900 for a sum total of $131,100 for 0% tax rate. Most of SCHD, VOO, and VXUS are qualified dividends, so our tax rate would be near 0%

Downturn, bubble, and SORR plan:

• Primarily, spend less. Our expenses are flexible so we would use our cash buffer + whatever dividends generate to live out another lost decade.
• SCHD and VOO give me general protection. Nothing will be immune if/when AI bubble pops, but SCHD by its nature is less tech and more stable.
• VXUS is an international diversification, so sum total achieving a standard 70/30 US/ex-US strategy.
• If the rocket continues to rocket, a hedge in SCHD wont hurt me long term as the total return of SCHD is only ~1.4% point less than VOO over their lifetimes , so I don't lose much in opportunity cost (9.2 vs 10.6 respectively)

By all math, we should be all set to go right? What are folks thoughts? Anything we're not thinking about?