I can’t say I agree but I see where you are coming from.

Yeah that’s not how that works.

You need a network level solution. You could pickup a few cheap single board computers and setup Tailscale or Netbird to route traffic back to your server.

Honestly I really don’t like how self hosted streaming services have been lumped into the same category as piracy. I have no issue buying media. If the law says I can’t share it outside my household I will comply without arbitrary software locks.

My concern is that media companies will go after Jellyfin. They don’t really need to win all they need to due is bankrupt everyone involved.

For me personally systemd is much better especially for services and logs. It creates a consistent environment and provides lots of features like sandboxing and failure detection. I really don’t like how some software dumps random logs everywhere and having a proper database is nice. Journalctl is tricky to learn but it is nicer than trying to manage text files.

“Systemd controversy”

I think the controversy ended 10 years ago. It is crazy this is still something people will bring up from time to time.

All of them are worse in my experience. In a embedded context I use busybox init and if I need something more I used systemd. Systemd actually has a fairly small footprint. A few years ago I ran it on a system with 32mb of ram.

Systemd is actually way more reliable than other solutions. Forget things like cron and startup scripts. Systemd can monitor and automatically try to restart software.

Systemd hate mostly boils down to hating change

Systemd is great

I love Podman Quadlets

Windows used to have great battery life. Microsoft apparently thinks updates, malware scanning and AI are more important.

It isn’t bad depending on what you are doing. I think part of the issues with Windows is software.

They don’t seem to realize that you can run whatever software you want internally.