EncryptKeeper

You didn’t know that when you posed a question to the community that people would answer it?

So you asked the question in bad faith because you just wanted to whinge about Jellyfin, got it.

I’m not saying you don’t think it’s polished, I’m saying that if Jellyfin is where you set the bar for what “polished” means to you, then the rest of the open source world is going to blow your mind.

Jellyfin being a duct taped mess on the other hand isn’t part of any subjective opinion, that’s just the state the software is in.

I mean sure it would seem polished if that’s the one one you’ve ever used and have no point of reference lol

I wouldn’t call it subjective. The issues that it has are all objectively there, whether or not you’re bothered by them is what’s subjective.

Running your own crypto miners doesn’t make sense anymore because the cost of electricity. Running a crypto miner using someone else’s electricity on the other hand…

Because Jellyfin is an ugly, duct taped together mess. It’s very utilitarian at best, when everything is working. Ease of use is just not there for your non-technical friends and family.

Nah it’s more like all the sites and services that used blocked links that you have to add to the whitelist or in some cases be able to turn the protection off and on. It’s a regular occurrence for me

Because you have to mess with it all the time. It’s easier to get in and get out to make changes with the nice interface. It’d be different if it was set it and forget it but realistically it’s not.

The main way is it has a built in recursive DNS server so you don’t have to duct tape Pi Hole and Ubound together

You shouldn’t put your IaC out in the public internet for everyone to see.

CrowdSec isn’t really for protection against novel threats. It’s just a crowdsourced Fail2Ban that’s extensible with custom rules.

If you and I are both using CrowdSec, and some foreign machine is trying to brute force into one of my services, then when it tries to do the same to you it doesn’t even get the chance to try. It cuts down on the load.

You can also define your own scenarios. Most of the rules it ships with block IPs using a leaky bucket method but I have a custom rule that instantly blocks anyone trying to log into anything using usernames like admin, root, pgadmin, etc.

Hetzner recently skyrocketed the pricing of their VPS offerings.

Linode? You mean Akamai Connected Cloud?

Tell it to your Discord kitten

Yes, back to enjoying your Reddit moderating

No, no moral high ground or grandstanding…just reality

No it’s 100% grandstanding, sorry.

What I’m pointing out is that, at the end of the day, it’s not your lump of clay to mold even if you disagree with the way it’s being molded.

So ultimately you’re adding nothing to the conversation at all. Yes this is the behavior I’m describing lol. VERY reddit behavior.

Hmm seems everyone is living in the same reality is you though, so your comment has no substance or meaning other than some weird self-enlightened moral grandstanding.

Cool, nobody said you did.

Similarly, there’s no binding contract that says when you remove features from your software’s community edition in order to drive more profits without any added value, I’m disallowed from criticizing you for it.

I’m not a big fan of this sort of pseudo-philosophical contrarian fence-sitting.

I mean sure, he’s not technically wrong, but it also implies that while Developers have the freedom to perform these rug-pulls (they do), the author simultaneously wags their finger at the people who have freedom to react the way they have.

Developers (companies) are not entitled to be free from criticism or backlash for acting shitty.

“HugeNerd”

“Ok so that was a fucking lie”

It is a skill much like maintaining a car yourself, or your own lawn/garden.

It’s pretty easy to get started, and there are certain ways of doing things that keep it pretty simple forever, at the cost of some flexibility.

But no matter how you do it, there will be a non-zero amount of work involved indefinitely. Just like you need your cars oil changed, your garden mulched and weeded, or your server patched and cleaned up once in awhile.

This was the peak of human civilization.

That’s why I switched to Emby and only sometimes regret it lol.

Jellyfin can’t even do smart collections of TV and movies

Since Nextcloud stores your actually data on the disk, it doesn’t actually matter all that much tbh

Yeah it definitely does not work in this case. Spent many hours online looking through threads of people with the same problems, but no real solution. I think it has something to do with Unraids MFS implementation. Might be a little older. Only way to get it to work is have a script run every 10 minutes to check for the drive and if it’s not mounted, mount it. Works well enough.

Im using UnRAID for storage and getting another Linux machine to mount a share in boot has been an exercise in futility so I get it.

Because this is the selfhosted community, not the FOSS community. That being said, yeah don’t use Plex.

You don’t need a VPN to trick Plex. Exposing the web ui to the world will likely show traffic coming from your router, which is internal.

This is not the case at all. That’s not how routing, nor port forwarding works. This will work on Jellyfin, but if you do it on Plex without paying, this will be blocked. You are still fundamentally misunderstanding how literally all of this works. And it’s getting to the point where I’m wondering if you’re actually this confidently ignorant, or if you’re just a troll, given the only comments on your account are pro-Plex and anti-Jellyfin.

Jellyfin is also very limiting based on your users devices. There is no Jellyfin app for Samsung TVs (without sideloading) or Playstation. Users there are shit out of luck.

Users there would be shit out of luck with Plex too, because neither of those platforms support Tailscale or any other VPN. More clients support Jellyfin than VPN apps, so if you’re not paying for Plex, then Jellyfin is less limiting than Plex.

The thing you’re failing to grasp is that Jellyfin is not nearly as simple as you’re making it out to be.

What you’ve failed to grasp is that Jellyfin is exactly as simple as I’ve made it out to be. You can forward a port, give your client an address to pop in, and remote streaming will work flawlessly, for free. You cannot do that same process with Plex for free. Only if you pay for it.

You’re saying two completely different incompatible things. In your last comment you said “You can just forward a port”. You can’t “just forward a port” or do any of the other things you suggested with Plex for free. Period.

The second thing you’re saying is using a VPN to trick Plex into thinking you’re local. You may be able to do that, but that’s entirely different from “just forwarding a port” or using a reverse proxy, or any of the other normal, easy ways to remotely stream over Jellyfin. It’s not only more work than sharing Jellyfin, but it’s also very limiting based on your users devices. For example, many people are streaming Plex, Emby, Jellyfin on RokuTVs. RokuTVs have an app for Jellyfin that can just connect directly, but it does not have a Tailscale client. So if you want to trick Plex into thinking they’re local, you’d now have to pay money to get them a new device, and then you’d have the configure the VPN on it, and troubleshoot that when it breaks. A lot of people are going to just opt for Jellyfin which is much easier and doesn’t require buying new hardware.