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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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[–] 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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