13 blocked users, 10 blocked communities, 2 blocked instances.

The blocked users are just trolls looking for arguments.

The blocked communities are mainly ones on my home instance that have no interest for me, but were appearing in “Local”. Nothing against them, just no interest.

The blocked instances were ones that brigaded sensitive topics with political fanaticism. I was finding myself trying to have discussions with people who weren’t open to it, but would fiercely respond to any criticism of a viewpoint.

FOSS does not mean:

• Community owned: Linux is owned by the Linux Foundation, a legal entity of the United States and subject to it’s laws.
• Obliged to accept all contributions: The owner is free to accept or reject contributions for any reason.

Nothing changed except some people are no longer responsible for maintaining parts of the source tree. Their delegated power to accept contributions was removed. They can still propose changes, but they will be reviewed by others who aren’t subject aren’t at risk of Russian state influence.

This isn’t saying they’ve done anything wrong, or that they are currently under state influence, but now that they no longer have maintainer privileges the chance of the FSB knocking on their door has probably dropped 90%.

Stupid or not, it is the state of the world. It’s not down to Linus to do anything but live and work within the situation constructed by the governments of nation states.

The cold war is reborn and this time it’s warmer. Do people not understand that before 30 years ago no communication occured with countries behind the iron curtain. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put us on a path back to those kind of relations.

I don’t think anyone is saying it isn’t public money. More than Ukrain isn’t on the hook to repay the loan after the war like the UK was to the US after WW2.

Kodi isn’t commercialised. I’m not sure what you’re referring to. It’s open source and always has been.

I also have the *arrs running on that same box so new episodes appear automatically. They require a browser or other client, so I didn’t include it in my list. They just run in the background.

But you live in a world where there are few union jobs

I live in a country where ¼ to ⅕ of all workers are in a union, anybody can join a union and the current party in power receives major funding from the unions.

Maybe that gives me a different perspective.

That explains why chesticles appear to change in size from one day to the next.

So that one doesn’t talk to the Jellyfin process. It just understands the way Jellyfin organises things on disk. Right?

You then access the files via NFS, SMB or WebDav (the horror!)

Just checking I understand.

A few things for me:

• I had most of the parts to build a low power machine that’s passively cooled. No noise whilst watching video.
• I can have a locally stored library so don’t need a NAS running 24/7 elsewhere in the house supping power.
• I can have multiple things running on it like games as well as media giving me a PC gaming console (fans come on at that point).
• Never have to drive it through my phone or a tablet. It’s just on the TV remote. Ease of use is great.
• No money to Amazon, Google or similar companies that just want to data farm me.

Kodi works very well for me with a local library. Serving it from Jellyfin was a mess (Jellycon). I think primarily this is a Kodi problem as really it should support DLNA servers much much better, and then a add-on wouldn’t be needed.

I was asking the op what desktop environment they’re running, in response to their question

…and I was informing you that, given they are looking for an alternative to Kodi, they may not be running a DE.

There are differences in pronunciation, at least for my southern British dialect. “Your” is said “yorr”. “You’re” is said “yeur” and is far closer to the “you are” it comes from. It’s just said at speed blending the words.

Unions.

Generally I’m in favour of them. Workers need to have a voice in how the companies they work for are run. It’s far too easy for management to screw people over otherwise.

However, sometimes companies need to take drastic action that could have a high impact on workers. Unions can stand in the way of such change because “They are protecting their members”, but undermining modernisation or causing wages to be higher than necessary can destroy a company.

At that point everybody has lost.

None.

If somebody is using Kodi they’re probably running in a kiosk style. On my install I don’t even have XOrg or Wetland installed. Kodi is just running on kernel level graphics buffers (GBM).

Yes jellyfin is a server, and the question asked was what to replace Kodi with. Kodi is a frontend. Jellyfin doesn’t solve the problem.

Kodi is a frontend.

Jellyfin is a server.

Jellyfin is not a replacement for Kodi. Jellyfin would replace OPs WebDAV server, but that’s not the question being asked.

To be fair I didn’t know that existed because I don’t use windows. I would expect it would be fine if I did. However, I use Linux.

Fire stick is not a HTPC

…and it’s unusably buggy in my experience.

So recommend a client suitable for a dedicated HTPC? I’ve yet to find one, as the Kodi add-on for jellyfin is buggy in my experience.