Gotcha, thanks for taking the time to humor me. I never would have guessed.

Maybe you said so in some lingo that’s foreign to me, but what upsets that reputation? What kinds of configurations do they not like, and why is it not set and forget? Sorry for asking for a dissertation, but I never had any idea e-mail could be more complicated than set and forget.

What is your reputation in this context? And what does losing it cost you?

Would you care to give some additional context here? I haven’t had the itch to host my own e-mail, but what kinds of misfortune do you encounter when you’re not in the good graces of Google of Microsoft? And what could land you in that situation?

One of the best lines from that entire series.

Thanks. I’ve been doing a lot of research, and the beginning of it took a while to stick, so it’s good to hear I’m not a complete idiot. What “multiple purposes” are you referring to that would make the VLAN setup less effective? Because I’ll acknowledge that this could lead to two devices being completely compromised if I’m breached, but that will only cost me time to get set back up, as opposed to compromising personal devices on the main VLAN.

I’ve got a firewall. I also have two managed switches to route the VLANs that I’ll be setting up in the coming days. I’ve got a handful of guides I’ve visited and will be revisiting in order to do it the way I want, which I believe will be a reasonable level of security. Acknowledging that you were just trying to be a friendly neighbor, does this plan still hold up to your wisdom thus far?

Again, still learning, but my understanding is that that’s what VLAN rules can protect against.

There is no personal information on anything in that proposed VLAN currently, and in the future, the most personal stuff it will include is a chat program to replace Discord. In all, I’m assuming I can run the reverse proxy and most services (not even a dozen) on a mini PC, and then somewhere between 1-4 on a NAS. Two devices total on this VLAN, unless I learn of something that would change this plan.

I’m learning a lot of this as I go and have not exposed any services to the internet yet, but would VLANs not contain the damage to a limited portion of the network? Because that’s the plan I’m working toward. Not just for Jellyfin but a handful of other services.

A lot of people would consider the period just after 2005 to be a lot of the best TV ever made.

Gotcha. I hear you can run a utility outside of Plex to do the conversion, but I do have the luxury in this case of starting from scratch, myself.

I meant in the use case of ripping my entire Blu Ray library for a new Jellyfin install, the only thing that’s been difficult for me to match has been the special features. So I guess the friction you’re running into is that you’ve already got these files named for Plex, and the migration is the hard part?

The metadata matching on jellyfin is complete ass, so I have to manually match up like a third of my library

Does Plex somehow do a better job of figuring out special features metadata? Because other than that, you follow the naming schemes, and Jellyfin has had a 100% hit rate for me.

If the other two cost money, and I’m happy on Jellyfin, maybe ignorance is bliss.

Unity somewhat fits that description, but it was definitely net negative for their business, and with how long it took them to walk back from it, I don’t think they had any plans to walk back before the backlash. Microsoft has been slowly making Windows worse for a long, long time; it wasn’t something they did all at once and then issued a “we hear you”. They are legitimately scared of losing their market dominance right now.

I am not aware of any company that has reversed course on enshittification once it has begun

It happens when they’re punished for it in the market. Microsoft finally realized they’re bleeding Windows and Xbox users, so they’ve got major initiatives to improve both. Unity tried to make the worst business pivot I’ve ever heard of, and their customers were very clearly and vocally jumping ship in response, so they undid that pivot. Plex’s only competition is an alternative that doesn’t have a business model, so if they bleed enough users to Jellyfin, they’ll either reverse course or stop just shy of some threshold where people leave Plex; or their business will die, which is also an option on the table.

I’m still learning what I need to do in order to get up and running on the internet, but I think my plan for my dad to connect to my Jellyfin is to build him a Raspberry Pi and just hand it to him.

Thanks. Do you have any sense as to why those linked firewall devices even need to hit that $500+ range when there are $200 options? Is it just for some advanced use case that normies like us are unlikely to need?

It’s all fun until my wife or I can’t connect to the internet for work or leisure! But I’ll definitely run my experiments on a weekend where there can be the least disruption. Thanks for the tips. Do you have links to a handful of devices you’d recommend in place of what I was shopping for based on this guide? Also, I picked one of the ones from that Amazon link at random, and it says it only pulls 6W; dedicated devices can beat that?