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The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin (reprodev.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 27 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

Plex is a third party that needs to only look to know what you stream. Imagine that subpoena.

"They're all paid users, lmao, we have their billing addresses and names for you, Uncle Sam."

but Jellyfin!

-can be used over a private wireguard home VPN that only you can see.

but my friends

Teach a man to fish.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I could barely get my 78 year old mother in law to use Linux for web email after theming it like Windows.

    How the heck am I going to get her to understand getting her roku to be VPN into my house for jellyfin when we're 1000+ miles away and trying to troubleshoot over her home phone?

    (She doesn't even have a cell phone - for pictures she digs out her 20 year old digital camera, snaps a few pics, uploads them to her laptop, attaches them to an email, and only then do I get to see what she's seeing.)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Assuming you can remote into her laptop. Setup the vpn on it, set up a portforward rule to point back to your jellyfin over the vpn, set the roku to connect to the laptop.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    Although technically possible - I can't imagine trying to troubleshoot that remotely. Or explaining that she can't watch Escape to the Country because her laptop battery died.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    The alternative is to preconfig a mini pc and ship it to her have her plug it in and forget about it.

    Or you could setup a proxy service and allow list her ip address block. Many ways to acheive remote access without much fuss from non techinals.

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