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Plex operates TURN servers

Axios coverage: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/05/trump-iran-strait-hormuz-bombing-threat

Proprietary standard that’s worse than modern DisplayPort specs. Adds cost without adding features.

Everyone knows Jesus was born one 0001-12-25

I ran gluetun + proton for 4-5 years. v3.41 broke the integration completely and I could never get it working. Tried both wireguard and ovpn setups.

My best advice is pin to the 3.40 release or change providers. The maintainer hasn’t address the specific problem with proton in over a year. There was some discussion recently about improvements to the healthcheck endpoint, so he is working on the project. But it’s slow going and proton is the only provider I know about that is having consistent issues

Preheating makes a big difference

AudioBookShelf + Prologue (iOS)

I ran ABS + Plex for a while, but the latest major release from Prologue broke Plex libraries and it was faster to switch to ABS than it was to wait for a patch.

Performance is comparable with ABS, but sessions are stored on the ABS side so client switching is easier than it was with Plex

Similar to how the US started enforcing fines for late arrivals of airplanes. So the airlines just extended the “duration” of their flights to include the expected delays and now they’re “99.9% on time”. You can see this in action when the pilot says “well we’re waiting for something before we leave. It’ll be another 15 minutes but we’ll still get you there on time.”

Oh, I also want to look into using a tailscale exit node to use a proton vpn wire guard route so I don’t have to switch between two separate VPNs

So much has been going on

I moved recently and had to change ISPs. I went from 2 Gbps symmetrical fiber to 90/3 Mbps satellite behind CGNAT.

Fastest place to get the WAN cable into the house was through the attic and into my guest room / office. But that caused some serious heat and noise issues.

Ran some structural Cat6, installed new electrical outlet, put in some keystone jacks, wired a new patch panel, then moved the rack to the basement.

Bought and installed a UPS which has already saved me twice in a month.

Up speeds were too slow and the high latency to the satellite constellation was causing issues, so I spun up a small VPS. But that means I have to sync content back to my local.

I’ve been wrestling with rsync for over a month… fiddling with flags to get the best results. I think I finally settled on a config yesterday and the service and timer are working well

CGNAT is messing with remote access, so I set up cloudflare tunnels. But the tunneling is not well suited for streaming. I was only getting ~100 Kbps on remote connections. Ran some iperf3 testing over tailscale and was slightly better.

My preferred audiobook app Prologue released a major update to v4.0 which broke Plex libraries on launch, so I had to quickly pivot to AudioBookShelf.

To achieve remote streaming and access for Prologue, I had to explain Tailscale set up and create new user accounts. Only halfway through my user base. Not looking forward to explaining it to my parents

Finally, I’m trying to set up Claude to run on my server rather than my locked down enterprise laptop. That’ll allow more tooling access like git rather than before when I was spending a lot of time downloading and uploading files manually. I need to figure out how to keep my session open. I’ll probably run tmux inside a docker container then run claude inside the tmux window. Hopefully that works

Pretty sure Richie used a train on Mikey

DVD Studio Pro was legit.

I did the full Final Cut —> Compressor + Motion for menu animations —> DVD Studio Pro then burned a stack of discs and applied labels

Completely unnecessary, but fun

How much did a company spend to product the widget?

How much is the widget worth?

The difference of those two is productivity