homeserver - lesser daemon

Apr

The Boring Stuff Is Worth It

I've spent the last few weeks setting up a Plex server on a Synology NAS drive and I have finally gotten it working reasonably well. I haven't set up the arr suite or whatever yet because I can really only tolerate spending so much of my free time debugging docker containers but I'll get there. This was a long and mostly tedious process, but now I have a self-hosted media library I can access anywhere through Plex.

I struggle a lot with making myself do stuff like this. If I'm not working on a project obsessively (which I've been trying

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Apr

Setting Up A Plex Server With Hardware Transcoding on a Synology DS423+

For the sake of full disclosure, I started writing this guide with the intention of making a clearer version of the NASCompare setup guide, but over the course of a few days of work discovered that guide didn't work at all and ended up pretty much directly following the instructions from Dr. Frankenstein's guide, which is thorough and probably does a better job of covering all your bases than this will. I put enough effort into writing this that I figured I'd publish it anyway but if you get lost or need more info Dr. Frankenstein's site is significantly more

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