Ah gotcha, no worries.

You can get away without port forwarding if the Linux ISO you’re trying to get has a lot of peers who DO have port forwarding. But your speed could be slower because of it. And if you want a more obscure ISO that doesn’t have a lot of support, doesn’t have a lot of peers, then your speed will likely suffer, and might not be able to download anything at all.

It’s something to research. If you don’t like PIA, proton also has port forwarding 👍

So crazy to hear this, I literally recommend PIA to everyone who asks. It’s cheap and hasn’t given me issues in 8 years of using it.

Plus it actually supports port forwarding still, unlike mullvad, unfortunately.

Well that’s annoying.

Forgive me for my ignorance, I know a lot of services are bundled in their domain registration. I haven’t looked into it at all. But I’m assuming I can just bypass all of that and host ngnx?

Remote access, primarily.

And not with a VPN, but properly exposed to the Internet. I’m learning now that it can be done, just has to be done carefully. It’s on my list of things to look into.

Thanks, I’m hearing similar things in this thread. I’m gonna look into it

I haven’t used jellyfin, only Plex. I hear they are similar in features, with Plex pulling ahead both in features and polish, as well as the variety of apps that can access it.

Jellyfins main problem, for me, is its lack of easy remote access. Lots of configuring to do to make it work safely, or safe but clunky to use with a VPN.

Amazing thank you, when I get time to sit down with this I will probably have more questions!

At all? Even just using their reverse proxy?

For starters, they say “you MAY be affected” only once, maybe twice, and everywhere else they say you “will” need to buy the upgrade.

The whole thing could’ve been worded more carefully and cautiously. They know how their service is used, they know the majority of people with accounts are not hosts and never have been, and probably don’t even understand how it all works.

Not only could the whole message have been worded better, more softly. They could’ve used two templates. They have usage metrics, they could see that my user has never ever connected to any other library, only mine, and mine has always had Plex pass. They could’ve sent him a softball message, informing of the lost feature, sure, but assuring him that his service should remain unaffected because the libraries he’s connected to already have Plex pass.

But no. They sent one message, full of FUD, trying to scare people into buying what they don’t need, because money.

They do not care about users, they care about money. It’s been getting more and more clear over the years with no effort put into fixing bugs on the self hosted side. But now it’s crystal clear, to me anyway.

Same