I set up a Jellyfin server on a 10 year old laptop that sits closed in the corner and I have access to play the content from my TV in the living room and bedroom, and any other device that I connect to my network and it was fairly simple. Finding content is likely the hinge that holds more people back. My lazy ass didn’t want to have to go to the corner to acquire content so I set up rustdesk on my phone so I can remote to the laptop from my phone, turn the VPN on to hop to Madrid or so, and acquire what is wanted then remote to it later on to take it back off the VPN. (Allows me to do such when out and about, say someone mentions a movie or show when at work)
Was going to see if I could punch a hole with tailscale so I could leave the Jellyfin server local and just share the drive so I could write to it from “Spain” while read from it on the TV without having to switch the VPN on and off but haven’t had a a few hours to spend on that yet. The shared drive is an old 5400rpm drive and it’ll play movies at 1080p in 2 rooms without issue. (I don’t bother with 4k, my eyes really aren’t good enough to find the storage space use worth it)
I’ve been self hosting for many years. Including mission critical data for my consultancy.
It’s a great hobby and I’d encourage anyone who’s interested to get involved.
That said, for people looking for a way to “fight against tech billionaires”, migrating their google drive to a self hosted nextcloud instance from a cold start with no experience in self hosting is inadvisable.
They were talking about cutting down on $200 worth of subscriptions every month. I figured they were referring to Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Spotify, Paramount or whatever other steaming services charge monthly.
I was getting at it isn’t that hard to do. Could knock it down to ~20 a month pretty manageably.
I set up a Jellyfin server on a 10 year old laptop that sits closed in the corner and I have access to play the content from my TV in the living room and bedroom, and any other device that I connect to my network and it was fairly simple. Finding content is likely the hinge that holds more people back. My lazy ass didn’t want to have to go to the corner to acquire content so I set up rustdesk on my phone so I can remote to the laptop from my phone, turn the VPN on to hop to Madrid or so, and acquire what is wanted then remote to it later on to take it back off the VPN. (Allows me to do such when out and about, say someone mentions a movie or show when at work)
Was going to see if I could punch a hole with tailscale so I could leave the Jellyfin server local and just share the drive so I could write to it from “Spain” while read from it on the TV without having to switch the VPN on and off but haven’t had a a few hours to spend on that yet. The shared drive is an old 5400rpm drive and it’ll play movies at 1080p in 2 rooms without issue. (I don’t bother with 4k, my eyes really aren’t good enough to find the storage space use worth it)
I’m not really sure what you’re getting at?
I’ve been self hosting for many years. Including mission critical data for my consultancy.
It’s a great hobby and I’d encourage anyone who’s interested to get involved.
That said, for people looking for a way to “fight against tech billionaires”, migrating their google drive to a self hosted nextcloud instance from a cold start with no experience in self hosting is inadvisable.
They were talking about cutting down on $200 worth of subscriptions every month. I figured they were referring to Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, Spotify, Paramount or whatever other steaming services charge monthly.
I was getting at it isn’t that hard to do. Could knock it down to ~20 a month pretty manageably.