bktheman

I've never heard of this before. I was on IRC in the oughts, probably a bit late to see it happening. Neat.

I don't know about proton, I don't think they do. PIA works fine also

That sucks. Unfortunately I've never run it in Windows. I've run mostly Linux on everything for years now, I'm down to one never-used Windows desktop, and a VM on proxmox that I keep up to run a handful of critical windows-only programs.

I'm not sure I'd be much help to you

Ah gotcha, no worries.

You can get away without port forwarding if the Linux ISO you're trying to get has a lot of peers who DO have port forwarding. But your speed could be slower because of it. And if you want a more obscure ISO that doesn't have a lot of support, doesn't have a lot of peers, then your speed will likely suffer, and might not be able to download anything at all.

It's something to research. If you don't like PIA, proton also has port forwarding 👍

So crazy to hear this, I literally recommend PIA to everyone who asks. It's cheap and hasn't given me issues in 8 years of using it.

Plus it actually supports port forwarding still, unlike mullvad, unfortunately.

That's a bummer. I've had PIA for almost 8 years straight, it's been rock solid. I can count on one hand the number of issues I've had with them.

Granted, their headless Linux program, piactl, is finicky and not well documented. But once you get it dialed in, configured right, it just works.

Use it on my phone, laptop, several connections open at once, no problems 🤷‍♂️

Edit: Just read the second half of your comment. What's your problem exactly? Maybe I've ran into it before, no promises haha

I agree with this. But also, it's hard to beat the convenience of music streaming. It's getting more expensive, which is sad, but for awhile there it worked great. Almost any artist or music you wanted, just, available.

Well that's annoying.

Forgive me for my ignorance, I know a lot of services are bundled in their domain registration. I haven't looked into it at all. But I'm assuming I can just bypass all of that and host ngnx?

Remote access, primarily.

And not with a VPN, but properly exposed to the Internet. I'm learning now that it can be done, just has to be done carefully. It's on my list of things to look into.

Thanks, I'm hearing similar things in this thread. I'm gonna look into it

I haven't used jellyfin, only Plex. I hear they are similar in features, with Plex pulling ahead both in features and polish, as well as the variety of apps that can access it.

Jellyfins main problem, for me, is its lack of easy remote access. Lots of configuring to do to make it work safely, or safe but clunky to use with a VPN.

Thanks! Someone else said video streaming is against their TOS, so I may have shot myself in the foot