Yeah then this might not be a great idea for you, unless you have the possibility to fix a machine if you visit. But I want to make it clear this is not a fix all thing just trying to help :D
Comment on Why I moved my Plex library to Jellyfin after 14 years
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago My mom lives 900 miles away and she can barely turn a computer on
nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 day ago
I set up a free dns from duckdns.org and pointed it to my jellyfin server. All my parents had to do was to use that randomserver.duckdns.org as the server url in the jellyfin app.
hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Doesn’t that mean your jellyfin server is directly exposed to the Internet? The very thing everyone constantly warns against?
I’m still on Plex, one of my biggest hangups with JF is that the remote access is kludgy
nieceandtows@programming.dev 2 hours ago
It’s been running on caddy + duckdns for 5 years or more now. I use a non standard jellyfin port for the port forwarding, so that probably helps. Also, there’s probably an aspect of security by obscurity.