I was just forwarded this someone in my household who watches our server. That's it folks. I've been a hold out for a long time, but this is honestly it.
They want me to pay to stream content that I bought from my hardware transcoded also on my hardware.
I'll say it. As of today, I say Plex is dead. Luckily I've been setting up Jellyfin, I guess it's time to make it production ready.
Edit I have a Plex Pass. More comments saying "Just buy a plex pass" are seriously not getting it. I have a Plex Pass and my users are still getting this.
The vpn is only needed for if
A. Your behind a CGNat
B. On a dynamnic ip and dont want to setup a dyndns.
C. isolating your network from the outside for security reasons.
Yes, but the point is that if you setup Wireguard then your Plex streaming is now local and free.