The Introductions thread

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Hi folks! First off, thanks for putting together something to get us off of the other platform. I'm finally social media free, but was bummed because this community was one I spent countless hours browsing looking at the cool and weird things people would do and trying to help people solve problems. It has been probably 15+ years since I've engaged with an actual forum, so this is going to take some getting used to...

I've been using Jellyfin for 3-4 years, switched from Plex early on as I was just getting into self-hosting a bunch of different things on a Raspberry Pi. My current setup is a two server shelf in my office, but my media server is a custom i7-13700k w/ 64 GB DDR4, 16 TB onboard storage, that I built over time as I could afford the parts. I just pulled together some money to pick up an Arc A380 that I'm really excited to put to the test! The other server is a SFF OptiPlex running various additional micro-services and acting as a home-rolled NAS: 2x 4TB, 6 TB, 10 TB, 14 TB. As you might've inferred, everything runs via Docker (docker-compose, specifically) as that has been a lifesaver for me in a number of ways. It saves time and energy and after an initial investment in learning, the payoff is huge.

With that A380 coming, I'm staring down the barrel of shifting from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (with a non-standard 6.0.19 kernel) to something with kernel 6.2+ for better support, which I'm guessing will mean a pretty full reset. Not super excited about that, but it'll be a test of what I've learned over the last year. Any tips for that kind of quantum leap, let me know...