For some reason they recommend against directly forwarding Jellyfin’s ports, but reverse proxies are fine. I expect this is because the default configuration doesn’t use SSL.

This smug mentality that security is unnecessary when exposing ports to the open internet reminds me of people who think its fine to drive drunk because “I’ve done it dozens of times before and nothing happened!” It also reminds me of the mentality of tech company VPs right before they have a massive data breach. It’s quite absurd to read.

I think you’ll find without exposing ports to the open internet we would not be having this conversation right now. Which, I suppose, wouldn’t be such a bad thing.

It does not say that in the documentation. What the documentation does have, however, are extensive instructions on how to make Jellyfin accessible on WAN: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/networking/ https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/networking/reverse-proxy/

I’m not sure if you’re joking or not, but you can remotely stream from Jellyfin without using a VPN.

Abandoning streaming services only to become a serf of another commercial subscription service seems like such a bizarre move that I really don’t understand how Plex users even exist.

If there’s complex life on one of the ice shell moons like Titan or Enceladus, it’ll be way weirder than anything in the ocean could ever be.

Half the problem with capitalism is that we aren’t allowed to bash in the heads of the people who took all the resources.