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> as a software engineer I know enough to install NixOS and Jellyfin and I even get some kind of masochistic enjoyment from fixing things when they inevitably break, but I cannot imagine my mom going through anything like this, so for her the media landscape has gotten only worse.

Jellyfin supports multiple users, she can mail you some disks ;)

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Now op has to teach mom how to access vpn.

> Now op has to teach mom how to access vpn.

Or OP can just host public; I've got some disks I can send in, too. I'll chip in $/month for OP's troubles.

And suddenly GP's ethics are no longer in the clear.

Yep, the moment money changes hands, things become messy. It is relatively easy to argue 'personal use, fuck off', but it is much harder to defend 'I am only getting $x for this'.

That's your opinion. Anything to back it up?

Why don't you tell me why you think I'm wrong.

And then the OP is back where it all started, only this time, he's the owner of the streaming service in question. Truly, there is no escape :).

Reverse proxy with a dns name via Caddy... you'd need to know the domain name, everyone else gets a 404 on default response.

Domain names aren't secret, that doesn't sound very reassuring.

It's not a replacement for passwords, just an obfuscation in terms of what sites are on a server... you don't know what host names point to a given IP only knowing the IP... you'd need to have a man in tne middle.

Can't you just look up the IP in rDNS? You definitely can, I just tried, but it's not 100% clear to me if you can keep a name out of there if you try.

I don't think you can, I mean DNS is public.

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