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Plex or Jellyfin for my Raspberry Pi? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi, all. So I want to set up a media server using my Raspberry Pi. It will be used by me and my partner, who is very much tech illiterate. She knows how to use Plex, but I'm tempted by the open nature of Jellyfin. How steep is the learning curve there? Should I just go with Plex and keep it simple? Or is Jellyfin manageable if I set it up for her?

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

eh, maybe. for me it was opening a port and adding a dns record. took me all of 4 minutes

im kinda lucky in that my isp uses 'sticky' ips so while its not static, ive had the same ip for 5 years

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    But now you've exposed your network to the open internet without any sort of security.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    No you haven't. The security is the Jellyfin login prompt, then Jellyfin itself, then the Jellyfin container, and if you're really paranoid, that container won't be in your LAN.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    oh noes! im so ddead!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Peak "bad things only happen to other people" energy here. Ignorance and flippancy will surely protect you!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    yes my world will burn when they crack into my jellyfin instance and magically break out of its docker container and then what? goo nowhere on its vlan?

    literally thousands of self-hosted jellyfin/emby instances and the support forums are just chocked full of people getting hacked via it! so many!

    oh wait, no there arent

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