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  • Jellyfin is a home media server. it is great for that use case. It is easy to setup and use. Most importantly its not sending data about everything we watch to some company.

    Stick to plex if you want to run a free internet tv service for your cousin and their kids and whoever else and you aren't concerned with their or your privacy.

    I'm into self-hosting because data privacy is my primary concern.

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  • My wife has no problem starting the tailscale app and then starting the jelkyfin app. Its really that simple.

    She also uses the tailscale exit node I run whenever she is on a public wifi. Its really a well designed simple to use app.

  • Distro for a new user

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  • If your use case is to have a nice media sever at home and while traveling (via tailscale or similar) without exposing your private data, Jellyfin is great.

    If your use case is running a pirate tv service for other people, then you probably want something else.

  • When did you start working around with Linux?

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  • I started using linux Slackware in 1996. First time I was paid to install linux on a server in 1998. It was Red Hat 5.2 way before they switch to Enterprise Linux.

    Been my desktop daily driver since 1999.

    Yes, I'm old.

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • The updates are automatic. They seem to have rolled their own desktop environment. Not sure which distro. The main selling point was that I don't need to maintain it for him. I am registered as his "tech buddy" so they contact me if something needs to be done hands on. In 3 years no issues/calls so far.

  • Installing Linux Doesn't Need to Change. The Experience Does.

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  • The vast majority of people have no experience installing an OS and likely never will.

    The typical user uses whatever is preinstalled when the get the hardware.

    My father-in-law wrecked his windows pc with malware over and over so I bought him a Wow PC https://www.mywowcomputer.com/ and he loves it. I don't think he has any idea its running linux.

  • SSH managers on Linux?

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  • you are managing 20+ remote systems by hand?

  • This happened to me at least 3 times.

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  • Yeah its a tough crowd sometimes. Especially when doing that training with our customers.

    I'll never forget the time I was explainging how something worked and one of the customers interrupts me saying, "I don't care about this -- can you just show me where to click?"

  • This happened to me at least 3 times.

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  • you can easily avoid it by making your files 400 and then using mv instead

  • This happened to me at least 3 times.

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  • I used to do some linux training for new hires at my old job. The company had a training room with a rack of servers for lab work.

    It was a training on how to deploy the product on a customer server. I personally wrote the instructions and tested them on the lab machines after a fresh install.

    I had others test the lab instructions. I even had people from non-tech roles verify that they too could do the labs by following the instructions.

    Still I get a guy in the training complaining that "this doesn't work" and I can see from the error on his screen that he must have skipped one of the steps in the lab instructions.

    He's not even trying to figure it out. Even though others are finishing, he just decided that it doesn't work and gave up.

  • Allow traffic only through tun0 via wlan0, ssh, and localhost in and out

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  • Yes it has a web ui to connect to wifi. For cable you just plug it in.

  • Allow traffic only through tun0 via wlan0, ssh, and localhost in and out

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  • Its simple and I can easily put a laptop or phone or whatever behind the microrouter and have confidence its only using the vpn.

    When I travel I take a second microrouter with me to connect to the hotel wifi. All my devices are set to use the microrouter wifi so they never touch the hotel network, only the vpn. Easy, private, and avoids any filtering the hotek is doing.

  • Allow traffic only through tun0 via wlan0, ssh, and localhost in and out

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  • If your concern is ensuring a killswitch type vpn setup, I do that but in a different and simple way.

    I have a GLinet microrouter configured to join the vpn and active killswitch mode. This is 2 clicks in the menu. I connect it to my network via its wan port.

    Everything I want behind the VPN gets connected to the microrouter lan port and job done.

  • Ideal Business Stack?

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  • OP listed the apps they want to run and none of that was on their list

  • Ideal Business Stack?

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  • A gaming rig is a waste of money because you don't need a fast gpu on a such a server. You want a boring server box and even better one with built-in "ilo" remote management.

  • [meta] is your post discussion or user support?

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  • I understand! For most of my career its been the same for me.

    The "big" switch I'm currently contemplating at the moment is moving to FreeBSD on my home file server.

    I do sometimes consider switching my workstation to OpenBSD when I get nostalgic for the early struggle days of linux. Like when you had to be really careful with hardware selection and what not.

    But then I remember I had a lot more free time in those days!

  • [meta] is your post discussion or user support?

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  • Linux feels so mainstream to me now. Some days I'm temped to switch to OpenBSD or something ;)

  • [meta] is your post discussion or user support?

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  • Seriously, as someone who has been using linux as their daily driver since 2000, I find it pretry amusing.