Tailscale. You don’t even need it on the client device, you can get a gl.inet travel router that’ll do the work.
Edit: i’M nOt GoInG tO aLl Of My FrIeNdS aNd FaMiLiEs HoUsEs AnD sWaPpInG oUt ThEiR rOuTeRs🤡🤡🤡
Edit 2: people who don’t know wtf a travel router does or how to use it, or how nat works at all, but are more than willing to sound off about what they don’t know, keep replying because you’re helping me keep my feed free of dipshits. ❤️
Tailscale is woefully impractical, as is setting up travel routers. You’re adding so much unnecessary complexity that has the chance to fail and frustrate them even more. Doubly so for anyone an appreciable distance from you (having tried this before, it’s just not worth it for me - about the 3rd time their tailscale client lost my network I was done with it). And not everyone wants to buy hardware to setup a remote streaming platform for blue hairs, because that also adds to the administrative complexity of the setup.
But feel free to continue your childish tantrum about how people don’t understand why your genius ideas are really super great.
I swear every single Plex related thread has the same Jellyfin fanatics coming in. Same energy as “my MIL has trouble with her computer” “just install Linux bro!” comments.
I don’t have dozens, but I have 3. Those three are close family members. Do you think people don’t invite their parents or inlaws to their Plex server?
Clearly people do, but I think they represent a vocal minority of Plex’s overall userbase. The expectation that a free project with no revenue stream should provide an ongoing service that’s going to cost them money and seems to be what Plex is using to squeeze its users always strikes me as disingenuous. There are ways to enable remote access with Jellyfin, but you have to do it yourself because nobody’s paying them to run those servers.
Tailscale. You don’t even need it on the client device, you can get a gl.inet travel router that’ll do the work.
Edit: i’M nOt GoInG tO aLl Of My FrIeNdS aNd FaMiLiEs HoUsEs AnD sWaPpInG oUt ThEiR rOuTeRs🤡🤡🤡
Edit 2: people who don’t know wtf a travel router does or how to use it, or how nat works at all, but are more than willing to sound off about what they don’t know, keep replying because you’re helping me keep my feed free of dipshits. ❤️
Tailscale is woefully impractical, as is setting up travel routers. You’re adding so much unnecessary complexity that has the chance to fail and frustrate them even more. Doubly so for anyone an appreciable distance from you (having tried this before, it’s just not worth it for me - about the 3rd time their tailscale client lost my network I was done with it). And not everyone wants to buy hardware to setup a remote streaming platform for blue hairs, because that also adds to the administrative complexity of the setup.
But feel free to continue your childish tantrum about how people don’t understand why your genius ideas are really super great.
Editing your post like this instead of engaging in conversation is so childish, grow up
Can you fly out to my MIL every time her router breaks and fix it for her?
Edit: holy shit, your edits are insane
I’m not going to all of my friends and families houses and swapping out their routers wtf
I swear every single Plex related thread has the same Jellyfin fanatics coming in. Same energy as “my MIL has trouble with her computer” “just install Linux bro!” comments.
Still better than the army of Plex fanboys that all claim to have dozens of senior citizens streaming from their Plex server.
I don’t have dozens, but I have 3. Those three are close family members. Do you think people don’t invite their parents or inlaws to their Plex server?
Clearly people do, but I think they represent a vocal minority of Plex’s overall userbase. The expectation that a free project with no revenue stream should provide an ongoing service that’s going to cost them money and seems to be what Plex is using to squeeze its users always strikes me as disingenuous. There are ways to enable remote access with Jellyfin, but you have to do it yourself because nobody’s paying them to run those servers.
Yeah that’s totally how it works. 👍
Could you explain then instead of just posting a snarky comment that contributes nothing to the conversation?
Holy… you’ve been BTFO in the arena of intelligence I’m afraid…