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  • It’s a perennial thing with Jellyfin that it doesn’t have the app / remote access support Plex provides. By itself it’s a fully functional network media server, but by design it doesn’t have the ability to reverse tunnel and it doesn’t have the corporate infrastructure that gets it’s app onto devices.

    Yes you can set up wireguard / VPN access. Yes there are workarounds that can get Jellyfin streaming to most devices.

    None of that matters when trying to talk someone on the phone through connecting to your server through the internet.

    Plex is an account, it looks like a streaming service, it requires zero knowledge. I’m fairly certain some of my relatives have no idea it’s streaming from a server in my basement. Jellyfin they have to trust you enough to setup separate other apps / configuration and have the patience / attention span / ability to follow directions to do so.


  • The podcast Blank Check goes into it while talking about the movies, but that’s admittedly “long form”. Wikipedia has a good summary.

    In short, George Miller was an Australian ER doc horrified by what cars can do to people. So he got some funds together with some other doctor buddies and made Mad Max. He and Byron Kennedy wrote and filmed it because they couldn’t afford to have someone else do it. Mel Gibson was a local guy in film school. Most of the cast doubled as crew and basically made their costumes from scratch themselves. It became a bit of an indie darling in the US and Miller went back to Australia with more money and more expertise and made Road Warrior. More or less the same happened with Thunderdome. His work partner died, he made the Happy Feet and Babe movies, and he retained the entirety of the rights to Mad Max so he decided to make Fury Road and Furiosa a few decades later.





  • Former healthcare IT, holy crap do all digital health records systems seem to suck. Some of them suck in different ways, but none of the big ones anyway are great.

    I get that there’s a lot of semi-special use cases and regulatory requirements and so on, but at the end of the day it’s text and images and a record of the changes to them. And it’s not like this is a surprise problem. People have been trying to digitize stuff since at least the 90s. And yet every single system seems like it’s only been in development for a few months and usually has trouble working with itself, much less any other record system.