I thought I’d give this a shot, but the metrics/data collection flag was turned on by default and when I added a command to my docker-compose to turn them off, it was ignored. Then, I created an account and looked for a way to turn them off in the settings and there was none. You expect people interested in self-hosting OSS to be cool with sending data out of their network every time the server is started, a memo is created, a comment is created, a webhook is dispatched, a resource or a user is created?! Also, the metrics are collected by a 3rd party with their own ToS that could change at any time?
Holy hell, hard pass. I’d rather use a piece of paper.
Saved me the effort, thanks. Although, couldn’t you just block the container from talking outside your network? I can’t see why I’d need a memo app (server) to have access to the internet.
That’s not good enough in my opinion, it should be opt in, not opt out. They’re marketing it on their site as being more secure because you can self-host. It all just seems really skeevy.
It would appear that blocking app.posthog.com on the host/network resolves this. But I got the parameter to work, too, as per www.usememos.com/docs/advanced-settings/metrics use ‘–metric=false’ and bam, no DNS queries!
Yeah, I’d assumed it would respect the —metric=false flag when building with docker run, but docker-compose is ostensibly supported and easier to work with. I was able to successfully change other configuration options (such as setting the db to use MySQL instead of the default SQLite) using the docker-compose ‘command’ block, but the metric flag specifically was ignored. It’s entirely possible that this is a bug and not an intentional attempt to hoover up user data. Either way, data collection should be opt-in by default (by law, imo).
I was trying to think how Plex thinks this is going to play out, knowing that this move will piss off their customer base. Then I realized, this isn’t a play for Plex’s existing customer base. This is a play for their customer’s “friends and family” that are enjoying shared libraries already.
Their ‘customer’ base has for many many years been developing a large user base of technologically naive people with Plex apps installed who could never run their own server. If Plex knows, for example, that for every paying customer there’s three other users pulling from someone’s library, that’s a huge opportunity for them to convert those users to paying customers.
Everyone that set up a Plex server and then shared it with your tech-phobic parents, cousins, friends, etc… We made this possible.
I don’t like it but I can’t argue with the logic from Plex here.
Well maybe not. Without the shared libraries I doubt the tech-phobic users will stick around for movies they can likely find other places, especially since I doubt Plex gets very good deals for content.
I wouldn’t be so sure if that. It’s possible, yeah, but if my theory is right they see the library sharing as the carrot to get normies to download the plex app onto their roku or apple TV.
Pivoting to a streaming only app would close off that avenue for user acquisition permanently.
Is that bad though? I don’t mind renting a movie I really like even if my friend has it on their Plex. Especially if it’s from a small studio. Currently I do that via Google TV. Plex Inc being a small private company might use the money better than a publicly traded giant. I wouldn’t mind my friends and family spending a few bucks on it either.
Of course if Plex starts enshitifying existing private streaming features to push this, that’ll be another matter altogether. Which would not be unexpected.
It’s worth donating if you have the means to. I paid for a lifetime Plex subscription. So, I felt uncomfortable not donating to Jellyfin. They take donations on open collective.
I don’t need, but wasn’t sure am I using full capacity of what I’m paying for and want to learn more. This is my hobby, I enjoy setting up things more than using the server lol edit: and yeah feels like CPU capped
I enjoy setting up things more than using the server lol
Also me in life, in games… I like min-maxing, making it as efficient as things will allow.
So I asked chatgpt what professions would be best for a person like that and from the 10 answers it spat out, surprise surprise, I’ve worked as 2 out of the top 3.
My journey has been similar yet distinctly different. I went from “put it all on one server” to running servers in AWS. But the cost was preventing me from doing much more than run a couple of compute nodes. I hated the feeling of “I could setup a server to do X but it’s gonna cost another $x/month”. So I’ve been shifting back to my own servers.
I do like devops and automation though. Automation is brilliant for creating easily reproducible and stable environments - especially for things you don’t touch very often… Proxmox was what let me start moving back “on prem” as it were. There are “good enough” terraform plugins for proxmox that let me provision standardized VMs from a centralized code-base. And I’ve got ansible handling most of the setup/configure beyond that. I’ve now got like 20 VMs whereas before I only had 2 EC2 nodes due to cost. So much happier…
I’m just getting started on Proxmox and had no idea plugins like that were available. Anything in particular that works well for you? I’d like to try it out.
The telmate one seems more popular but the bgp one worked better for me (I forget what wasn’t working with the other one). They use the proxmox API to automate creating VMs for me.
But yea, the plural of code in the context of programming scripts is just code, but if you were to talk about codes like a code to get into a door pin-pad, it has an “s” at the end for plural. To be honest, I’m sure there’s plenty of native English speakers not in the tech world that would likely also call it “codes” when talking about programming.
I don’t know how I managed to log in after some troubles and now it added the SSL certificate without problems… I’m confused, but it worked so it’s good ahahaah
I don’t know about you but I want the companies to take self hosted and Foss solutions seriously. The fact that they are wanting to work with him is a major step in the right direction. It would be dumb to discourage companies from supporting foss.
Are they supporting FOSS, or looking to buy out the project to make it a closed in-house solution and avoid the bad publicity they created this last week?
Now you seems to get MySQL permission issue (or wrong database password, but your issue is probably not that). When using docker compose, MySQL won’t see access coming from linguacafe’s container as coming from localhost, but instead it’s coming from a different IP address inside docker subnet. So make sure your MySQL user has proper privilege, e.g. by granting all permissions to ‘user’@‘%’.
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