You should see the Tizen version…

Though neither are made by the Jellyfin tram, and they’re both dealing with the constraints of the underlying dogshit hardware/software

I have a lot of stuff self-hosted.

Just no outside access. Well, that’s not quite true, I do have a Tailscale VPN for remote management, but only certain machines are allowed to join, joins require my authorization, and access to the account is via two-factor.

The big thing with external access is to never permit it directly through your local connection. Do it though a Virtual Private Server (VPS) - let it get hit with access attempts. And then only allow specific traffic from the VPS to a specific service in your network using a VPN of some sort.

Really depends where you are.

I’ve lived/worked all over the US. Since Walmart is everywhere, you get to see how different regions behave, or even different areas of a city.

I have 2 Walmarts nearby, one is like this, the other isn’t.

And interestingly, the major grocery store next to the police station (so not the best part of town) is usually pretty good about carts. And I suspect the ones we see left out are because the wheel locks there are notorious for locking for no apparent reason.

Two approaches:

Network isolation/DNS blocking - put the TV on a VLAN and only permit specific ports through to a media server (whatever the TV will support). If you lack VLAN capability, run PiHole as your DNS server (it works best as DNS and DHCP, but that’s just my opinion for things I like, such as proper name resolution for all devices).

Second option: (your idea with a Pi) disconnect TV from network entirely, then run something like Kodi (or whatever media center you prefer) on an old laptop, mini-PC, whatever, and have that device connect via HDMI. HDMI can passthrough the navigation controls from the TV remote (not guaranteed, but it’s part of the standard). I looked into this a long time ago but the performance wasn’t there yet. Today I’d probably try any distro and run Kodi on it.

Even my POS Samsung passes through enough of the controls to navigate Kodi on a 2017 laptop, while retaining power, volume, settings, etc for the TV itself.

My current setup is a Jellyfin server and Jellyfin client on the TV. I run PiHole with a blocklist for all the Samsung BS which has had the side effect of making the TV menus faster as it doesn’t retrieve any “what’s new” info from Samsung. Its actually kind of fun to monitor the FNS log and see the domains the TV hits, click Deny and see what breaks in the TV. On average about 30% of all DNS requests on my network get denied, and nothing of value has been lost. That’s how much crap is being sent all the time.

Hope that gives you some ideas.

Ah, you luddites amuse me.

The horses left the building a long time ago, and here you just now noticed and decide to play Don Quixote.

Don’t pay for Windows antivirus apps. It comes with it’s own.

None of it is any better than Defender. When Defender came on the scene, every enterprise I’ve worked in stopped buying AV licenses - they have that little value.

Video and audio are unlikely to contain a virus that Defender wouldn’t catch (say an executable renamed as an mp3) which just wouldn’t launch anyway.

The one thing you can do to improve your security is to stop running as admin on Windows (which the first user account is by default and necessity). Create a user account just for doing this stuff - a regular user account, which means it can’t make changes to the system itself.

Even better is to test anything suspicious in a VM.

Using Linux for this is the best approach all around. Get an old laptop, run Linux. Most tools are developed for Linux first anyway.

Plus the entire realm is about emergent care: lots of trauma shows up there.

Not in my experience.

Forced Subs are just that - substantial are always forced on.

Now which ones are forced on depends in the video and player.

I mean it’s a commercial product - if stability issues were a common thing, that would be well known and published.

It’s a mesh VPN so it generally has the same stability challenges as any other: Hamachi, Nord, Meshnet, Wireguard (which is the underlying protocol that Tailscale uses).

If the Tailscale client is running on the NAS itself, I’d consider that the first thing to troubleshoot.

NAS’s generally don’t have much extra processing power, and in my experience apps designed to run on them aren’t the most robust. In this case, the VM/dock client has to consume all TS traffic, perform the encrypt/decrypt, put it back on the net (even if it’s only with the virtual net) over to Borg, which then has to write to the NAS. The NAS hardware has to do all this, with whatever little bit of ram it came with, also while writing all these changes, managing stripes, etc.

While they advertise these things can run stuff like this, it just seems like an opportunity for performance issues when the processing power design was for a NAS/RAID.

I have an ancient NAS on my network that could probably run the TS client, I just don’t bother. TS runs on all desktops and servers (for general access), but connectivity to non-TS devices goes through the server running as a TS router. That can be run on any device running TS - it’s just a feature to enable and configure.

I don’t think new stuff goes to microfiche, and the old stuff has probably mostly been scanned by how and just sits in an archive somewhere.

Of course I’m sure that depends on the size of the library.

I can’t imagine not using a proper internal DNS with split anymore.

I’m a big fan of Pihole (currently running it on a DietPi VM).

Being able to manage DHCP and DNS in a single place makes for much better control than the crappy DHCP from consumer routers. And almost any real DNS/DHCP server combo is better than those things.

Just rebuilt my PiHole over the last couple days, and it’s currently blocking 45% of DNS requests with no ill effects on any system - it’s a lot of Android app nonsense and a smart TV.

I’ve lost the Samsung TV service on the TV, but I never used it anyway, and the TV is so much more responsive now.

Yea, smart TV… Bad news. It’s next on the list to get a Kodi box on it.

Where’s the begrudging upvote button?

Haha, so bad. A real Dad joke

I haven’t used either of these since forever.

And here MS is working diublr-time to push people to Linux

I do hope a lawyer makes the argument about that kind terminology, that you’re not purchasing something but renting it, and using “purchase” is deceptive.

It’s just a good argument against the stupid “you wouldn’t download a car” nonsense, and the arguments about piracy being theft that are often made.

It’s a good clarification.

Silly take, but I’ll give you the upvote because it’s humorous and a well-chosen community for such a thought.

Haha

How do you know what your file transfer speeds are (network speeds)?

If the switch thinks links are 1G, then the links are 1G.

Where are you seeing slow network performance, and how are you measuring it?

Never worked for me, which explains your confusion.

Still don’t get it.

I mean I think I get what DadOP is going for, it just doesn’t work at all.

Something about how it’s all pronounced. But it doesn’t make any kind of joke, pun, or anything.

Best part is all these payment methods, including checks incur the same processing fees since 2006 with the Check21 regulations.

This made all transactions - debit card, check, transfer, function the same way through the same processing.

So a check genuinely costs them more - from not charging thebfee, to requiring at least some manual oversight.