Docker Is Dead, Apparently

Alex (0:00)

So Stephen, you upgraded to Mac OS 27 on the day of a recording? Are you a madman?

Stephen (0:06)

I did it the day before, and I didn't touch it, and then everything's logged out, and I've had to reset up everything, and that makes me a fool, and I know that, but as a official nerd, I like hitting that upgrade button because I want all the fancy new things, and in perfect Mac order, nothing really seems different. And so, alas, I just went through a bunch of effort.

Adam (0:27)

Do you get the kind of the annoying part of an update in Mac? Because I get all the, you must re-authenticate every single damn thing that you've ever done on this computer.

Stephen (0:36)

Literally what I mean, yeah, 100 percent. Yes.

Alex (0:39)

Mac OS these days is very reminiscent of Vista, and how that used to be of like, are you sure? Are you sure you're sure? No, no, but really, are you actually sure?

And it drives me insane, and so I've been going through a little bit with my robots lately, trying to get codified into my Nix config, disabling Gatekeeper, disabling system protection utilities, like, I am so cheap, like, in Windows, at least despite all the other flaws, you can just turn off UAC and make all of that noise go away. Apple, you're not watching, but if you are, which you're not, please turn it off, or give me a way to turn it off.

SPEAKER_4 (1:17)

Please, I sign Batman Beard. Or you could just move to our Lord and save your Linux. I mean, I haven't had that particular problem when I've updated my Fedora image.

Alex (1:27)

But dude, let's just not go there about updating Linux boxes, which by the way, I did just before we recorded this show and it broke for about 10 minutes, our recording setup.

Adam (1:39)

Everything. So.

Stephen (1:41)

On Arch, by the way.

Alex (1:45)

What is it really? I can't remember. I think it's probably Debian.

Adam (1:48)

Is it Debian? I thought it was an Ubuntu box.

Do I need to go figure this out now? I don't know. Kind of.

Alex (1:53)

I'm not sure.

Right. Should we get into the topic doc that we have right here in front of us? I found a new media server this week. You know, I've been all about Jellyfin lately.

Stephen (2:04)

So version 12 is out then? Have you upgraded? Did you try?

Alex (2:08)

Well, I actually, I think, upgraded to version 12 quite by accident because I was apparently running the latest tag, which is, you know, YOLO, whatever.

But I found a new media server. We'll come on to Jellyfin in future episodes. I think you're probably bored of hearing about it. It's a perfectly adequate media server if you're doing videos, if you're doing music, use something else. If you're using audio books, it's fine, maybe.

And the clients have gotten a lot better with Jellyfin. Right, with that out of the way, I found a new one called Silo. And no, I'm not talking about the Apple TV show, the media server is literally called Silo. It's written in Go and it uses Postgres on the back end. And unlike Jellyfin, it's fast, like actually fast.

SPEAKER_4 (2:56)

It really is. I mean, you posted a tease in our Discord for the host chat and I spun this up and it was relatively easy and painless to spin up. And yeah, I was immediately struck by the UI is clean, but it's got metrics on feedback for who streamed what, for how long, what's next, all that stuff. It was responsive when I was clicking on things. It's a pretty slick interface. And I think you missed the ultimate hook of it is that it speaks the Jellyfin API.

So any Jellyfin client can work with it on the back end.

Alex (3:34)

Yeah. Because I was actually talking with Wimpy about this the other day. And he and I were going back and forth about like, well, should we just build a media server of our own? And then Martin threw this into my DMs and I was like, oh, well, why do we need to build anything? And so Silo has a bunch of clients for all of the main OS's, you know, the iOS, the Android, TVOS, et cetera.

But it also, when you think about what the problem's been with Jellyfin for the last five plus years, it's been the clients. And so Silo not only has a perfectly functional and pretty decent set of clients already baked and official clients out of the box, it also, like Jeff just said, speaks the Jellyfin API. So like I could point Neptune at this thing and boy, how do you like I hope you hear it in my voice. Like this is really exciting.