https://turnerwatson.com/2011/09/27/geek-rant-big-bang-theory-isnt-funny/

Now with paragraphs.

Do I misunderstand emby or does it just not seem like a good deal on the basis of it being an ongoing subscription?

I use the free version of emby and it’s really great. There was at least one feature that required payment to unlock.

I like emby already and when I tried using jellyfin, the core features that were on both it and the free version of emby worked far less reliably and the paid feature on emby that was free on Jellyfin, worked extremely unreliably.

Obviously resources and development had been spent to make something that worked very well and their paid feature probably would too.

I use emby to make it easier to cast media locally to my chromecast and to access media on my computer, from my phone in my bedroom, so for me, it’s a fancy file browser and media player.

The feature I wanted was to do with free to air tv streaming and I was thinking I’d be happy to pay for the Emby software to unlock this since they made good software that works. But here’s the thing, it’s FREE to air TV and yet they want me to pay, ongoing, in a perpetual arrangement to use it. I don’t get it.

I use it to play media, but the media is my media stored on my machines. I understand software development isn’t free, I was happy to pay ONCE, but why would I keep paying when they don’t actually produce the media I use it to play? That seemed unjustifiable.

Sure, at an obscene price.

Thank you for articulating what I was trying to get at with OP.

Will QNAP or Synology be enough for my needs and can I install custom software there?

Probably? Most likely yes, today. Next week 2 month / year when you decide to run something else or more, not so much.

I don’t really want to create hardware from scratch.

A desktop running NAS like software will work.

From another comment from op

I don’t want to hear the fans

You put a NAS under load and you’re gonna a hear fans.

I want something that turns on and off as necessary.

Run enough things on your NAS and it’ll never have the time to turn off.

Thanks.

It comes from a combination of working a job where I saw data loss on a weekly basis and then working a job in a highly regulated industry.

How do you do that?

That’s the real story here.

It’s all garbage!

My critical documents that MUST be in print are stored in a fireproof safe. If it doesn’t need to be in print it’s scanned, shredded, and backed up.

Photos are scanned and stored. They’re also backed up.

Doesn’t mean I’ll necessarily go to iOS; more likely completely rethink having a phone at all.

Man cuts off nose to spite face; news at 11

I wish I could find out (at a later date) how the overall vote turned out.

Did the jury decide on 2 days vacation or the money?

I also thought about the 3-2-1 backup rule, but am unsure if that is overkill.

Maybe you shouldn’t be home hosting critical data if you think this is overkill.

Them.

You’re right that if it was supposed to be run in local only mode there wouldn’t be a streaming over the internet option.

Just ignore the security problems with remote streaming.

…and everyone but a single user just hears the ocean.

Amen.

Or if the my Internet goes down, now my relative’s Internet 7 states over stops working.