non native here

girl, world, rivalry

in ascending difficulty, i generally find soft Rs hard to say, tho after a few years, it became easier

dank and niri is a pretty sweet combo ngl

i would try yt-dlp with --cookies-from-browser

no problem

afaik, caddy is similar - at least in principle - to nginx, so use whatever floats your boat

Youre welcome. I assume there should be a way to stop nginx logs getting generated, or at least make a script to automatically delete them

I may have misunderstood how you had your ports open, do you have them open locally and accessed through your wireguard private network? if so, and you dont mind having others connect to your wireguard server, then youre good to go.

Nginx explained:

let me clarify what nginx and nginx proxy manager are, nginx is the proxy service, nginx proxy manager is nginx with a web dashboard for configuration

as I understand proxy services, they open ports 80 and 443 i think, which are for http and https respectively

from that you can redirect traffic to any local service nginx has access to

you need to host nginx proxy manager on a server and forward http/s and certificate ports (or maybe just http/s) to the server, the server needs local access to jellyfin

you also need a domain to easily get https encryption with letsencrypt, i recommend duckdns

open port:

client > ip:port > your open router > your vpn router > jellyfin

direct access, no filters, no encryption (unless you make your own certs which you need to trust on each client or have all connections from client to server go through wireguard)

nginx/nginx proxy manager:

(subdomain is how nginx knows where or which local ip:port to send incoming traffic)

client > https://subdomain.domain.duckdns.org/ > public network nginx > local network jellyfin

no direct access, nginx filters, encryption

so only a few open ports, lead to as many local services as you want

Jellyfin

to answer your questions (to the best of my knowledge):

Who creates accounts: You create the accounts and give it to them, simple admin dashboard

How access works: its a web server, you configure listening port, that goes through your public facing router to your vpn router then to your torrenting rig that is hosting jellyfin once you can access it, everyone else with access to thr public facing router can by simply entering the ip:port or domain.

There are also clients for some devices, iOS needs a little work last i heard (a few years ago) Android is good to go TVs it depends, some have some dont They connect the same way through ip:port and then login

Rotating ports might be a pain, as you have to input the server ip:port then login on the client every time that changes, if i were you i would setup nginx/nginx proxy manager or something to keep my ports local and put only nginx at the front.

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it handles my anime, tv show, movie, and music collection pretty well, I have tens of thousands of songs, thousands of episodes, hundreds of shows.

Now to the issues; most recently playlists (as in i faced the issue yesterday), theyre finicky as fuck if you want to migrate from the instance they were created on to a new one.

Performance, the ui lags (usually when managing watched status or editing large numbers of items) I saw their focus for v12 was performance so that might change

jellyfin mpv shim (if you want to use mpv on desktop) sometimes just stacks everything you click, so you want to seek forward? no, it waits until something then replays all your seek commands

I havent tried Plex nor Emby, but I heard Plex handles remote sharing so you can access your server from outside the home network, but they have an expensive sub/lifetime payment.

true dat

it ain't that far back for early gen z to not experience

real

1. then why am I, a normal user, using it?
2. mac is shit, just wanted to say that

eating up that propaganda like you're in a famine

China is way better.