CallMeAl

I gave up waiting and bought a new PC on a sale at a local shop back in April and I don’t have the budget for both.

End of 2025 I was super hyped to buy a Steam Machine. It was the only thing I was really excited about in tech for 2026.Watching the prices of hardware just keep going up and up while the Steam Machine just kept getting more and more delayed was too much.

I love my new gaming PC. I still love my steam deck but I’m glad I didn’t wait.

Reading this thread, it seems like two different groups of people are having two different conversations.

For me, self-hosting is just that, running my own stuff at home for myself (and my immediate family). My motivation is privacy and freedom. I want to use services that are free of commercial incentives against my interests whenever possible. That usually means self-hosting my services.

I’ve been a system and network engineer for most of my career and I like configuring and managing stuff. I like knowing how everything on my home network runs, where and what data is shared, etc.

As soon as people start talking about “my users need …” I’m out. That sounds too much like what I do at work. I want to relax when I’m at home. Jellyfin is perfect for me to do that with my content without needing any of my data to go to any companies.

For everyone who wants to be an IPTV operator, Plex is the best choice right now. Jellyfin isn’t really focused on that use case.