I've been using Technitium for about 3 years and I'm with you.
Whenever I think I get it, I search for the solution to a problem I'm having and see the developer respond and feel like I get less than half the things in the explanation. My setup definitely works and it has never failed me... but there are a lot of things where I don't understand why at all and yeah I am also using maybe 10% of the options available. I'm not sure I'll ever get past the intimidating phase.
Are you trying to serve higher than 1080p? I have heard that 4k can be rough, but I avoid that personally because it also dramatically limits the amount of media I can store. Not sure of your actual bandwidth, but the raw bandwidth required on regular 1080p streams should be relatively light while utilizing modern codecs and you can also limit the per-stream bandwidth in your remote access settings.
I'm in the US, but I have pretty shit upstream bandwidth and I've served 7 people at once before. It pushed it a bit, but plex managed it. If you are doing 4k content though, yeah, that's going to be rough with anything and I have no good advice.
There are some cluster based experiments with Plex, but they're mostly focused on distributing transcoding. There's also a lot of projects around clustering locally with kubernetes/etc but I think that would be painful with your setup. Closest option I can think of is jellyswarrm with multiple discrete servers 'swarmed' together, this is also super beta and very new. You'd have to combine it with something to move files between the local servers, it's going to be weird.
Why do you feel like you need more than one media server? A singular server can serve quite a lot of content for a good sized quantity of people.
I mean, we've all known variations of this guy. He's got some batshit crazy ideas and it's amazing he's not in a mental ward for something but damn if he's not a good hang.
This is actually a problem a lot of people are working on, they used to call the resulting failure 'model collapse'. Training AI on existing slop does tend to deteriorate and is overall a bad time for AI.
Curious about your problem. I'm using NFS instead of samba now, but legitimately never faced any problems doing what you're describing previously.
I think what's happening now is the revolution for the most part, this might be what those citizens would be pushing for. It's hard to find objective data on 'popularity of the taliban in afghanistan', but you can find a thousand articles on how unpopular every other possible idea has been there. The Taliban are seen as the only option for stability and security for some in the region. There are still protests against the taliban going on, but the numbers are kinda scary when you compare it to the size of the Taliban forces...
Have to remember that priorities as to what constitutes a successful society can be radically different in other countries and sometimes it feels very unhinged and short sighted.
Blah blah blah, 'Quantum Realm'.
This part should have been a lot more visible and not just hidden as part of a generalized forum post. The error the individual users got doesn't do anything to make it clear what the user or server owners need to do.
As an intentional change by Plex, presenting basic guidance as to what the error theyve caused means should be the absolute bare minimum. This is the piece that annoys me most.
Like... You should probably get to work organizing then because they're already doing it.
HR doesn't use AI? Where are you working, as someone with firsthand knowledge, our AI acceptable use policies had to be rushed because HR was already there before anyone else even realized it was going to be a big deal.
When it comes to webapps, HR is real rough as far as shadow IT is concerned anywhere I've worked and same with anyone I've talked to.
In my experience, majority of therapists are garbage. I've experienced the same, but once you get one who actually shows up and is actually good at what they do, it's worth it.