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Honest question, because I know multiple people who are not looking to jump ship since they already have the Plex Pass.

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[–] uncooked24@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I’m afraid of exposing HTTPS to the open internet.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 hours ago

Just posted on the top level, should have been here:

Random subdomain, wildcard cert

[–] imhungry@leminal.space 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I'm expecting it to start enshittifying any day now

[–] imhungry@leminal.space 1 points 20 hours ago

Headscale, Netbird, so many alternatives that do the same thing.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Pangolin then.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm trying to build a setup with a VPN

[–] imhungry@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] imhungry@leminal.space 0 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yeah, some smart TVs have tailscale in the app library. NVIDEA streaming boxes usually do, for example. You can also use tailscale funnel and Cloudflare to give you HTTPS if you don't want to have everyone you know download tailscale.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just put it behind a proxy and require a user cert? Bit of a burdon on the client side, admittedly

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And effectively none of the Jellyfin clients support this....

So that's not going to work anyways on your friend's TV or their Xbox or their Roku or something else like that.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 17 hours ago

meh, how can that be :-( I'm still in the process of setting things up with jellyfin, didnt know...

[–] imhungry@leminal.space 1 points 20 hours ago

Tailscale is, as far as I know, the standard way most people access Jellyfin from away from home. I didn't come up with "use tailscale" by myself. Somebody at one point told me to do this too.