Einfach, von den Libyern, Doc!

Ich bin auch Amerikaner (also, doppelte Staatsbürgerschaft). Ich bin in den USA und in Österreich aufgewachsen und wähle in beiden Ländern. Ich kann mit Sicherheit sagen, das US-System ist bizarr und niemand in den USA versteht es eigentlich. Das Zählverfahren für jeden Bundesstaat wurde ursprünglich ausdrücklich eingeführt, um der ländlichen Bevölkerung eine besonders große Stimme zu geben. Das gilt auch für den Senat, wo jeder Bundesstaat die gleiche Anzahl an Abgeordneten hat. Idaho beispielsweise verfügt über dieselbe politische Macht wie New York oder Kalifornien, obwohl die Bevölkerungszahl dort nur etwa 1/20 beträgt.

Actually with a Synology NAS you don’t need Plex, they have a built in equivalent called DS Video with apps for Apple TV, iOS, Android, etc!

I’ve had an Nvidia shield in the past as well and it works reasonably well, but the video experience is definitely better on the Apple TV. The Android boxes make more sense if you want a place to install emulators that also occasionally streams.

Keep your Apple TV and use it as a streaming client for whatever you stand up on the backend. Personally I have a Synology NAS that I love and I use the net to get all my content. Use the net. 😉

Anyone know if this work is tracked anywhere? I’m suddenly really suspicious of continuing to run my own instance.

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Glad you found it helpful!

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing your experience!!

Thinking about this a little more: I think yeah the HTTP requests will always hit your VPS, but if what you’re saying is that pictrs is loading from object store and then re-serving them off your VPS, then an NGINX rule might be able to redirect the GET directly to the object store; so that instead of transferring the actual image bytes, it just 204’s the browser through to the object store. I don’t know how feasible this is but I may play around with it to see.

Ah! Noted. That said, it is definitely storing the bytes on the object store. I imagine someone clever with nginx or such could set up some rewrite rules to bypass pictrs entirely for GET requests, but unfortunately that’s beyond my pay grade here.

I assume the larger instances would probably know this already, since they likely have more skilled sysadmin teams than we one-man-show types, but very true - if anything it would save them money to a much greater degree than small instances!