Yup, pretty annoying.

Of all hills, this is the smallest one.

Not the issue, no. Your reply just didn’t make sense. No one, at any point, made an “ad hominem” attack/comment. Also, that term and “poisoning the well” have nothing to do with each other.

Didn’t seem that way since neither the original comment nor their response is an “ad hominem” attack. But ok dude, you do you.

You replied to the wrong comment then ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ why would you reply to the second comment if you were referring to the first?

While that is correct, it’s not what the comment you replied to did. There’s no criticisim to you as a person. It simply says that the argument reads as “whataboutism” so yup, your reply doesn’t really make sense.

I’m not sure you know what ad hominem means.

“They” don’t have to do that. They can just install the jellyfin server .exe in their computer and point it to their libraries, that’s it. As time goes on they couls slowly start adding plugins or learning how more advanced features work. But hey, if you want to pay a thirs party to access your own media, go ahead. We all make mistakes in life xD

If you tell me you don’t have time, sure. Been there, done that. However, “too complicated”? Nah. I’m also not trying to convert people to Jellyfin users. Use what you want to. Doesn’t mean that I can’t think you’re making the wrong choice. I’m as free to think and say what I want as you are.

Uhm, no? I just use the lan IP for my jellyfin server at all times. The only difference between being phisically in the same place and outside is that I enable tailscale when I’m outside. I’m telling you, this is far simpler than you’re making it out to be.

I get subtitles for all the languages I want automatically so I don’t know if it works as “nicely” as plex, but it does work.

EDIT: Damn, you plex users are butthurt af xd

Dude, my “infrastructure” is an old desktop pc with truenas and arr stack + jellyfin apps. I haven’t done anything more than update the apps every now and then for over a year. I think you’re exaggerating how much effort it actually requires. Not to mention that this is all for a setup that manages requesting, downloading and sorting the media as well.

If you just want to view what you already have, you can simply install jellyfin server in the pc where your videos are, point the libraries to the correct folder and that’s it. To use it simply download the app on your device. If you want to get fancy you can install a plugin to use as the subtitle provider. To use outside your house just install tailscale. Doing all of that would take like 2 hours, tops.

Oh and there’s nothing to secure if you don’t expose it to the internet directly.

If you want to be lazy and pay a subscription, go ahead. I don’t think it’s worth what they’re asking.

My problem in the first place is that due to my ISP 's limitations, I can’t run wireguard. If I could run it, I would do that instead of using headscale.

I think having distinctly separate utilities for each part of makes the whole thing work is better. But hey, what do I know? If only been running jellyfin + arr stack for 6 users without them ever complaining for over a year.

If you prefer paying a monthly bill instead of spending an afternoon configuring some services, you do you.

Maybe they should.

Someone doesn’t know how to configure bazarr…

Tailscale is as simplified as it gets and it doesn’t require any knowledge, configuration or maintenance. The fact that you can use it for free makes me wary, but you can’t deny how simple it is to use. Just log in with your account in all of the devices you want to access jellyfin on and voila. It’s as if they were in the same lan.

1. because “free” often means there is an ulterior motive for providing the service (see: search)

Maybe this is true for some cases, but it’s not for jellyfin. It’s simply open source and free like tons of other utilities people work on for the fun of it. If it were closed source maybe you’d be right.

Agree on number 2 though.

No, you cannot. Putting in your emails just redirects to the identity provider you used when signing up. If you try to create an account you’ll see that email’s not a option.

That’s not really a solution.