I think you are definitely getting into overkill territory here with a server rack dedicated to Plex and a GPU. Most igpus on Intel chips can transcode 10+ 1080p streams and 2ish 4k streams. Unless you have 100 users seems over kill to me.

Edit. I’m on Unraid with about 30 users, and I only give Plex and all my other containers 6 cores from an i7 10700k.

Fucking Lemmy.world is hot garbage. They’re down every day and are constantly defederating with any instance that doesn’t fit their narrow, sanitized world views. It’s also one of the most recommended Lemmy’s with more new users going there than anywhere else. I think it incredibly damaging in the long run to have 50% of active users on this platform to be centralized on one domain. Especially if this domain makes as many boneheaded decisions as lemmy.world

Change default remote quality from 4Mbps to 12Mbps

Holy shit are they doing this for all platforms??? FINALLY!!!

Here is the solution you are looking for: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200890058-authentication-for-local-network-access/

Basically you can add IPs (such as your local domain) to bypass authentication. The only caveat is that you must be online when you set this. IE: You can’t do it during an outage.

I present Bonarr. It’s deprecated but the name is hilarious lol

Lemmy is decentralized but completely connected together. I am on lemm.ee but I can still subscribe and comment to Lemmy.world or any number of other communities. The website you type in to visit Lemmy doesn’t matter. All Lemmy instances go to the same place. OP is arguing that a large centralized instance is bad which I don’t think anybody can disagree with. Lemmy.world has been down like every day. Tons of stability/DDOS issues but that only affects communities/users localized on that instance. Problem is that’s like half of the active Lemmy users right now.

As a server owner for over 5 years with dozens of users I still have to Google problems every so often. Now people are leaving reddit and deleting their comment on the way out, soon reddit is going to become totally useless when troubleshooting issues. We’re all gonna need places like this to keep our rigs running. So thank you for getting this place up and running I look forward to contributing anyway I can!

Wow this looks great! I went ahead and replaced the link in my Plex discord with this. Very nice format, thanks!

AMD GPU support for transcoding is nice, but is anybody still using dedicated GPUs for transcoding? Intels iGPUs do the same job at a fraction of the cost.