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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Jellyfin is hardly a no-brainer. I set it up out of curiosity a few weeks ago and my first question was how do I give access to my friends and family. So I searched, and all of the results were talking about setting up a VPN or a reverse proxy or whatever. Man, I just want to tell my mom “install this app on your tv and log in”, which is exactly what Plex does.

    I get that Plex is enshittifying, but pretending Jellyfin is a drop-in replacement is delusional.














  • Great explanation. Quick follow up question.

    One thing I necessarily will want to install is Proton VPN*. Per their website,

    Our app officially supports the latest stable Ubuntu LTS version running the GNOME desktop environment. It should work on most distributions based on Ubuntu, but we haven’t tested them and therefore do not officially support them.

    This makes it sound like it will only work on gnome DE and implies it won’t work on Ubuntu with KDE (for example)

    *ok, so I’m also aware that you can use Proton VPN through open vpn somehow but for the purposes of my understanding of distribution vs DE, let’s just ignore that for now.