If you have the skills to setup a Jellyfin server you also have the skills to setup wireguard.

They appear to offer a guided installation for windows users.

Thanks for sharing! Will watch later tonight.

Jeez, so it’s meant to be a literal home media server. Able, but not designed, to be used for sharing.

fair, fair… i think i’ve even seen it on a couple of lists of the “best” star trek movies lol.

holy crap, let me google that for you still exists?

this is the “i’m making a sci-fi show and i need an edgy security officer” haircut

Yeah I had to convince them to try RustDesk so they would stop using RDP. Like I said, a lot of people just know enough to be dangerous.

also fyi starlink has public ipv6 available if you DO wan’t to set it up. been hosting a minecraft server off a starlink connection lol.

I had to explain to one of them why RDP is a bad idea lol. Thats kind of my point - average people tend to only know enough to be dangerous, not to do things safely. Or as Shakespeare said - "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

When I set up wireguard it was just more complicated when one side didn’t have a public IP. Whyyyy can’t we adopt ipv6 already.

I’m talking average enough to see an article, or hear about it from a friend/coworker, then follow the insanely easy setup directions for Windows. I know plenty of people who aren’t really “computer people” but know enough to open a port because they had to to get a game working at some point or another. Those people probably wouldnt notice “hey this thing is going to http maybe i should rethink this…”

Sure, but being mostly secure by default isn’t one of them. One advantage of running a service that offers optional subscription services is that they can offer security features like built-in SSL and AAA that just work. Any average user can install it and have a reasonably secure service running. Hell, until a few months ago you didn’t even need to open a port to have remote access to your content, whether you paid or not. Now they’ve made that a paid feature though.

Sounds like a great reason to use Plex instead!

edit: to add something constructive to my snarky comment, what kind of attack surface are we talkin here? Multiple ports? Lots of separate services running? No authentication?

I can set it up, and you can set it up, but for the average user?

I think you’re missing the point - that’s neither simple nor easy for most people. I’m a network engineer and I don’t wanna deal with setting up and (being responsible for troubleshooting) a bunch of VPNs! Nevermind the additional power/CPU usage from the tunnels. My parents just got fiber and they don’t even have a public address (ipv4 or v6) which just adds another layer of headache. thanks west virginia…

Huh, TIL. I thought every Roman god had a Greek counterpart.

bc i havent seen anyone else post it… Galaxy Quest!

yeah okay let me just connect grandma’s tv to a vpn.

edit: gas is $5/gal ya’ll, I’m not driving to a different state each time a new family member wants to watch something from my server!

Is it possible she’s a medieval dungeon master?

the pubmed article is like 5 years old so it’s entirely possible that it isn’t used anymore, but at the time they found it in JUUL pods and all sorts of other nicotine-based vape fluids (as well as yeah the grey-market thc vapes). I think the best advice is probably what someone else down below said, try to get pharmaceutical-grade which means it only has chemicals deemed safe for human consumption.