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I only personally have experience with jellyfin, but the docs of Emby look to support the same remote access as Plex (without the TURN server).

So essentially you can use a login instead of a server IP, but it does require port forwarding or upnp on your router - which you may already have enabled.

I mean containers make the networking pretty easy, everything beyond that is optional based on your threat model.

Same as hosting anything networked, you can do it easy or do it safe.

(but also wireguard is kinda an O(n) problem while exposing to wan is an O(1) problem - at least IT man hours wise)

To be fair Plex also requires open ports (or worse upnp) to remotly stream at full quality, without transcoding.

nginx proxy manager if I had to guess

But also benefits of both, reduced cost with easier remote setup, while simultaneously not being plex

No reason to connect jellyfin to any sort of local network, router will still hairpin for local connection.

With that setup its honestly more secure than 99% of IOT devices, and like 50% of routers.

Ive thought about trying this before, but do you have any experience with how to actually hook up the power supply?

Never thought breaking a drive was worth the risk, but theoretically you should be able to solder a buck converter to the laptops motherboard if the voltage requirements vary.

Rig up the 12v barrel adapter right to the laptops battery

I think you can use the service to remount using the fstab entries/options. (Like “mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/XXX” and it’ll automatically apply the options and mountpoint)

Arguably cleaner depending on your setup