Billegh

One, so that it’s already ready if I ever need to use it seriously, and two, so I can continue to observe its progress and dependencies.

I suspect Plex will not give us a lot of warning if they decide that old lifetime passes aren’t good enough anymore. Money grabs like that are best as a surprise.

I have two Plex servers I maintain, for myself, friends, and family. Both also have jellyfin serving the same sources. It’s trivial to maintain them side by side. Since it’s there, I can easily use it occasionally and see if the things I don’t like about jellyfin have been fixed.

VPNs are not trivial to use for normies.

Same here, but I am also maintaining jellyfin alongside it. In case Plex decides that “lifetime” means something other than what I expected it to mean. I’ve long ago gotten my $80 of usage out of it.

Jellyfin is… ok. It works, it works consistently, and it is consistently almost great. But I provide “cable replacement” and “streaming supplement” services to family that doesn’t live in the same house, and will all likely break a box that managed a VPN.

Given the above, we’ll ride out Plex until they go nuts. Hopefully jellyfin will be polished enough for child use by then.