I like a lot of what other people have said here (faith backed by a trusted party, representation of debt, etc), but I just want to drive home the point that money has value because we said it has value. Under a system of barter, you end up with people valuing things differently. So we switched to the gold standard, but then that constrained growth. Now we have fiat currency which is based on faith.

The reason why we chose gold was because it was relatively useless at the time, only good for making things look pretty essentially. It was valuable because it was rare, and since it was rare, a central authority could control the supply because it takes a lot of capital to extract and process. Modern fiat is similar, but the rarity (making it a good substitute for value of other goods and services) comes from the government being the only person who can issue it. It’s honestly kind of a weird paradox. It has to be cheap and ubiquitous enough that the supply isn’t limited, but rare enough that we accept it as a stand in for value. In an alternate universe, we could have chosen river rocks (not useful for other purposes, so no one would be tempted to take supply out of the system to use for other means, and pretty ubiquitous), but we couldn’t effectively control the supply.

Similar idea to how the Dao works in Daoism. “The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao”

I went through all this, and it seems Jellyfin was the problem. I added this into my yaml:

ports: - "8096"

And now I can access the server…if I use port 32769…which I figured out by using docker compose ps -a. I also had restarted it once, and before the restart, I accessed it with 32768. Any idea on how to fix this? I don’t even know what’s causing it

UPDATE: For those keeping score at home, I needed to change the mount from /etc/caddy to /usr/share/caddy and now it works. However, I have a new problem:

Once I get all three containers (caddy, jellyfin, and tailscale) up and running, now I can’t access it. All three report as being up and I checked the logs and none list any errors, but when I go to my tailnet address, it can’t find anything. I’ve even put the port number in and it can’t find anything. Any ideas?

Thanks for the info, I’ll try using a different mount point. Which directory would be best?

Do not use /root inside or outside of a container for plain file access. That’s insane.

Yeah I agree, I don’t know where that came from in the initial error. That line in the yaml file had the path as ~/Jellyfin/jellyfin-tailscale/caddy/conf/Caddyfile so it was in my user directory

You also don’t mention if Podman is the underlying runtime managing the container

I’m not using Podman

Idiocy, Actual