This mentality is understandable, but it only benefits Kash Patel and people like him. As a society, we need to hold people accountable even if they only hurt our enemies. The existence of a bad actor means that anyone or anything else could become a target, too.
Chinese mini pc / mac mini knockoff + enterprise-class external drive array is how I typically handle my media server, I sometimes backup to another drive or a cloud (I know, I know)
Well, I don't know. Cloudflare seems to be the standard, again with that one exception, and the only reason PTB has a different situation is because the founders had a connect.
Wow, Cloudflare is against piracy? Every single site I've ever seen in my life is registered with Cloudflare and uses their DNS with the exception of PTB I believe.
With tailscale you either have to 1) download an app and click a button on every device you want to watch Jellyfin or 2) click a few buttons once, and then access your Jellyfin on the open internet forever with HTTPS
Plex is the most plug-in-play, I understand not wanting to go through setting it up, but you're not accurately portraying how difficult it actually is to access. It is not difficult to access, but you have to set everything up yourself.
Tailscale is, as far as I know, the standard way most people access Jellyfin from away from home. I didn't come up with "use tailscale" by myself. Somebody at one point told me to do this too.
Yeah, some smart TVs have tailscale in the app library. NVIDEA streaming boxes usually do, for example. You can also use tailscale funnel and Cloudflare to give you HTTPS if you don't want to have everyone you know download tailscale.
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