I’m running a home space with jellyfin and navidrome on a Pi5. Until now it’s been perfectly fine playing local and normally streaming to a single device at a time. The online support and off the shelf peripheries for troubleshooting the pi is also great!

I went to plug a 5TB drive into the pi the other day and it unmounted the SSD that was already plugged in. To me this is a sign that it is not build to handle more rigorous tasks (e.g. streaming to multiple devices, whilat performing a back up).

I probably won’t be swapping the system anytime soon, but I would go for a refurbed mini PC if I could go back in time.

Similar issues were reported with aves libre early this week, maybe it’s related?

https://github.com/deckerst/aves/issues/1802

IMO the obvious course is:

1. Talk with your boss that it’s affecting your productivity.
2. Encourage your colleagues to talk to their boss.

Leading to your bosses ideally addressing this with his boss and if that doesn’t help then your bosses should bring in HR.

Amy idea what it’s like tunneling into a pi based server via the internet? I’m looking to see if I should upgrade before I go further…

You hit the nail on the head:

Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely anti “AI baked into my operating system and cell phone so that it can monitor me and sell me crap”. If that’s what being Anti AI is…to that I say Amen.

Most cases in consumer ai, it’s data harvesting gone haywire and it’s not being implemented to benefit society.

From what I see, very few people are stupid enough to blanket hate it, but it is overhyped and being used maliciously.