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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Perhaps its been made easier now as i don’t think i did much more than running the installer. My pc is on windows though, my server will likely be using some version of linux. I want to learn linux but need my main pc too much to make it a daily driver.

    I used these instrctions for the windows installer

    https://jellyfin.org/docs/

    (Click the windows link there)

    Run the installer (can set it as a service but thats only necessary if you want to run it on boot instead of after login. Afaik.)

    Once installed you can access it via your local ipaddress:8096 (eg http://192.168.1.100:8096/)

    From there you can head to management in the menus and set up your folders for movies/tv shows etc. You just make some folders somewhere on your pc and point it at those. Download all your content and organise it in there. Jellyfin is quite good at dividing things up into individual series and uses meta data to fill in names and thumbnails etc. And you can select the 3 dots when hovering over any thumbnails to edit the metadata or add custom thumnails etc.

    I just tinker with it though. Decide what settings you want to use. I still need to set up https but need to look into self signed certificates and stuff first.

    Hope that helps.






  • I always thought of anyone that works on a game as a game developer. I dont thing that title isnintrinsicly linked to coders. Coders dont decide the genre or the story, or the direction or gameplay styles etc. They only write the code that makes it all work.

    I guess apply the logic somewhere else. If i say i design shoes, but all i do is pick the fabric to be used on shoes, someone else designs the shape, another person works on the comfort and another does drawings and sketches etc. Am i not a shoe designer?

    I think when a term becomes an industry like game development or footwear design or film maker or anything, it is fair to say you are that thing despite being a single cog in the machine.

    What gives the artist less value than the coder? I cant play the code. Need a character on screen and a world for them to move around in. I need story, i need objectives, i need dialogue and music and sfx etc.