Google actively blocking Aurora Store would be much worse than them simply changing their backend. The latter can likely be quickly resolved while the former might lead to a cat and mouse game, where it gets increasingly difficult for Aurora Store to continue to work.

LTT was not the only ones ditching honey at the time, long before the 2024 honey scandal.

The only real news was that honey was/is only showing/setting their own worse coupons, even if another coupon would provide a better deal.

I keep a single bill in my phone case for emergencies (be it an actual emergency or I just want to eat at some place which only takes cash).

If my phone battery runs out I’m stranded anyway, since I can’t call anyone or use my public transport ticket.

From a quick glance I can imagine many of those services don’t need much maintenance if any. E.g. RickRoll likely never needs any maintenance beyond the initial setup.

I’m pretty sure I was at the same point years ago. The good thing is, next time you look into containers it’ll likely be really easy and you’ll wonder where you got stuck a year or two ago.

At least that’s what has happened to me more times than I can remember.

The dev constantly worked on it every few weeks over the last year, but just didn’t build an official release, until they reimplemented all features.

Interesting, maybe they check whether it’s a domain/remote IP on the client side to prevent usage of a reverse proxy.

didn’t have to

Now you do have to, unless you pay for Plex and its convenience.

You need to properly name your media with a proper scheme (including tmdbid/imdbid).

Yes, after I set up the server properly (reverse proxy). With this change the same setup on the server side is necessary for remote streaming with free Plex.

My mum puts in the domain, username and password and starts streaming.

I don’t think Jellyfins focus is currently to support irregular naming schemes. Naming media correctly with a proper scheme is the way to go.

Just so you know I wouldn’t hold my breath.

Yes. There’s AudioBookShelf for audio books.

Roku is also a thing in Europe.

Though I also gave up trying to set up Tailscale for people and just exposed Jellyfin (behind a reverse proxy).

“Good luck setting up remote streaming with free Plex.”

Yes, Jellyfin does not forward ports for you. Same as free Plex. With this change both are the same difficulty to set up for free, the only difference is with Plex there’s a shortcut: Buy Plex.

Jellyfin does not host anything. With this change free Plex users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) and Jellyfin users behind a reverse proxy (or VPN) work the same for remote access.

The only difference is that Plex no longer provides expensive services for free, while Jellyfin never provided them.

Roku is really simple and locked down. There’s ads on one side but nothing else. My 80yo grandma uses it.

Otherwise Projectivy is an Android TV launcher that can be configured to be really stripped down. It takes a bit of time but if you do it right it’d show less options than even Roku (it’d show only the apps you select, no launcher settings etc).

As a box I’ve heard good things about Onn (Walmart) if your in the US. If not, Homatics is great but pricey. Kick Pi KP1 is more affordable (but still way more expensive than Onn).

This. The blue line is the watched progress and the orange line is the transcoding progress.

Unless the media also uses HDR in which case the server will still be required to transcode.

Ugreen NAS support other OS. You could put TrueNAS or Proxmox on there, so no, there’s no security concerns (beyond all computer hardware being partly manufactured there in some way).

Emby also seems to be able to automatically merge different versions of shows/movies.

I’ve asked someone and MergeVersions does not change the file/directory structure/naming.

Though the same person also mentioned issues with duplicates even after removing the second library with UHD.

In general plugins like IntroSkipper and PlaybackReporting work flawlessly but I’ll stay away from MergeVersions for now and handle movies with mergerfs for the moment.

You’re right, it’s possible to login without internet if local network access without login is enabled in settings beforehand.