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  • It sounds like you are having trouble with tonemapping HDR to SDR on the fly. This is a non-trivial task, but not impossible. Both mpv and ffmpeg (which plex and jellyfin use) are capable of this. If you install mpv, it will by default do the tonemapping, you can enable/disable this or force use of a particular algorithm if you like.

    To answer your question: Plex has been pretty shitty for years now, and it’s only getting worse. They just don’t care for their user base.

    ETA: Jellyfin also already does what you want, I think?



  • Gitlab uses a ton of resources and is a pain to setup. Once you get it going, it’s fine.

    Going to echo what others have said: Use Gitea or Forgejo instead if you can. Both have runners you can setup like gitlab, but they instead mimic github actions instead of gitlab ci/cd.

    I run a semi-private gitea instance, and have not had any problems past the initial setup in 2+ years.














  • That’s a good article. From my observation, there are a few things:

    • Necessity. I’m active in communities with people who don’t use the terminal until it’s an absolute necessity. Like people running unraid, docker, or whatever containerized server. Eventually they need to type commands.
    • The prettiness. Yeah, I run oh-my-zsh. It’s nice having a setup pretty environment. Some people’s only experience might be opening up the powershell default display to run one command… And that is a bad experience.
    • Niche commands/programs. Take ffmpeg as an example. It’s probably the most powerful media tool that exists, but has no official gui. And it’s expansive enough that no GUI really covers what it can do. There are a bunch of other things like this.

    Edit: And yeah, git. I’ve never used a graphical client. Seen a handful in use and don’t like it.