Unless you jump through a crazy number of hoops, your domain just gets blacklisted by every spam filter under the sun.

I mean, ever tried hosting your own email server in ${CURRENT_YEAR}? Might as well write those mails to a thumb drive and throw it out of the window.

Arch user should be an aeropress: people can’t seem to shut the hell up about how great it supposedly is

why linux will never be a viable solution on the desktop

Has been pretty viable for me for the last 7 years or so.

why self hosting will never take off

Literally who cares, the community stands to gain nothing from another few million novice users who don't even know or care to learn how to formulate a question or usable bug report.

I have a Chromecast Ultra connected by ethernet to my network. There’s an android app with a cast functionality which we both use with our respective accounts. I also hear good things about the Android TV and roku clients (but have neither myself)

Agreed, as long as you handle the HTTPS or VPN setup, and set up any automatic media downloading ( jellyseer, sonarr and radarr and jackett) the end product is certifiably wife approved and works nicely out of the box

and an industry grade internet connection if you plan on sharing your library with a few friends. Otherwise, fully agreed

edit: if you have mostly full HD stuff it might be pretty feasible with regular internet

flatpak mask org.mozilla.Thunderbird until the “hide title bar” flag works again. I’m not losing two lines of display space to eye candy.

Docker containers usually have a negligible performance overhead compared to bare metal. Certainly it won’t make or break jellyfin usability whether it is running in a container or not.

Some further advantages in addition to the ones you mentioned:

• trivially easy to up and downgrade versions (in case of a broken release for example)
• nearly 0 chance of incompatibilities stemming from your other installed packages or versions
• If your server is open to the public internet and you get hacked due to a flaw in jellyfin, any attacker finds himself inside the container. One typically mounts all media as read only into the container - so at that point all they can do is mess with your playback history and steal your home videos but a ransomware attack against your actual data is off the table.

edit: obviously you should still practice good security practices like requiring HTTPS, geoblocking etc. if you are open to the internet. Luckily there’s a fantastic container which pairs perfectly with the (imho preferrable) linuxserver/jellyfin container which provides this: linuxserver/swag. Just FYI

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