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Sorry, I meant “Plex took away free remote streaming”.

You’re being really, really snippy. Either have a coffee or take a breather, but calling strangers liars is way offside.

I’m not lying, I can show you my Fw config. My son called me yesterday saying he couldn’t watch Plex, something about the Plex pass. WO I just changed the Fw rule DST nat mangle port and told him to use jellyfin. The user is local, so that’s dead easy. Done in 10 minutes.

And yes, most users don’t have this kind of experience, granted. But Plex comes with its own stupidities, like in 2020 when my wife had to pay $5 for the Plex app so she could access our library. Or the exercise of sharing libraries if you don’t have a Plex pass, which is a real pain.

But that wasn’t my point. I was trying to relay that jellyfin isn’t as buggy and difficult as a lot of self hosters claim.

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Catpuccino@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t mean to add fuel to the fire with Gentry or anything but I can speak towards my experience with jellyfin here. When I started with jellyfin I didn’t know a lot about networking or even self hosting, I pretty much jumped in blind. Although it’s fair to say I am not new to technical concepts/troubleshooting so my experience is definitely going to be smoother than a non technical user.

For context I am using truenas scale to host jellyfin and I was able to install it, configure it, and get my library going on the first try and it was definitely under 20 minutes. Once I decided I wanted remote access to my library it wasn’t super crazy to figure out tail scale (maybe 30 minutes?) and have that available too. It might not have been under an hour total but coming from almost nothing as a newer user I didn’t really experience a lot of turbulence.

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- non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s valid.
  
  When I first got whiffs of Plex becoming not-so-great, (maybe 3 years ago?) I struggled to get jellyfin up and running. It felt less polished.
  
  But as of last month when I recently installed JF in an incus container, it has come a long way. Very easy setup.
  
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LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I don’t appreciate the “calm down” portion of your comment, however yes I am getting irritated and I’m probably just going to stop responding to people. I have made my point. How folks don’t understand why people use Plex is beyond me, but either you get it or you don’t. Have a good one

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- non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Well, I didn’t appreciate your “frankly I think you’re lying” comment, so I guess we’re even.
  
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  - LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    If you need to play tit for tat and “get even” then all the more reason for us to move on man.
    
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    AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You called him a liar and then got pissy when he fired back. Grow a thicker skin or don’t start shit.
    
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borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I just changed the Fw rule DST nat mangle port and told him to use jellyfin.

Are you also a fellow MikroTik/RouterOS user?

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- non_burglar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Haha, yes I am. I think I’m on my 8th year moving on from pfsense, still rocking the rb4011.
  
  Learning curve is something else, but mikrotik just sits there and works.
  
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