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Yes totally a personalstyle choice. To me, using a semicolon to save a line looks more ugly ; then ;)

My wife and I hardly ever watch TV outside the home. Certainly not with our phones. The only time is when we travel However she does use tailscale daily. That was my point, that tailscale is easy for non-tech people. Sorry if that is confusing.

No shit. Is that not exactly what I have been saying over and over?

My first comment in this thread says clearly that if you want to run a pirate tv service for other people then you'll want something other than Jellyfin.

Where did I disagree with you?

I've repeatedly pointed out that Jellyfin is great for a self-hosted home media server. If you use it as intended then its security is not an issue.

Its not for running an internet tv service for others.

I don't really understand why this causes some people to go off on a rant about how hard it is to explain a vpn to their grandmother. That's not something I've ever suggested.

Thats the concise help text to keep it short and easy to read.

The first line in the GNU Bash manual section on loop constructs says "Note that wherever a ‘;’ appears in the description of a command’s syntax, it may be replaced with one or more newlines."

You want to run an internet tv service for your MIL then do it. Thats just not want Jellyfin is for. Its a home media server.

Is this that hard to understand?

Plex clearly scans your media collection and does upload the metadata and they can add more data collection any time they want.

Privacy won't matter if a major studio catches wind of this type of vulnerability and decides to start scanning for jellyfin instances. The subpoenas will come shortly after.

How are they going to scan a server on my network thats behind my firewall with nothing open to the internet?

Serious question, why use a semicolon to put do and then on the end of the previous line?

Especially when do/done are the open and close control directives for a block.

Don't you think bash looks much cleaner when you use it how it was designed?

Jellyfin is a home media server. it is great for that use case. It is easy to setup and use. Most importantly its not sending data about everything we watch to some company.

Stick to plex if you want to run a free internet tv service for your cousin and their kids and whoever else and you aren't concerned with their or your privacy.

I'm into self-hosting because data privacy is my primary concern.

My wife has no problem starting the tailscale app and then starting the jelkyfin app. Its really that simple.

She also uses the tailscale exit node I run whenever she is on a public wifi. Its really a well designed simple to use app.

MX Enlightenment Respin has a unique and excellent look. Add some Propaganda Wallpaper Tiles to further enhance the vibe https://github.com/BenjaminHCCarr/PropagandaTiles

If your use case is to have a nice media sever at home and while traveling (via tailscale or similar) without exposing your private data, Jellyfin is great.

If your use case is running a pirate tv service for other people, then you probably want something else.

I started using linux Slackware in 1996. First time I was paid to install linux on a server in 1998. It was Red Hat 5.2 way before they switch to Enterprise Linux.

Been my desktop daily driver since 1999.

Yes, I'm old.

The updates are automatic. They seem to have rolled their own desktop environment. Not sure which distro. The main selling point was that I don't need to maintain it for him. I am registered as his "tech buddy" so they contact me if something needs to be done hands on. In 3 years no issues/calls so far.

The vast majority of people have no experience installing an OS and likely never will.

The typical user uses whatever is preinstalled when the get the hardware.

My father-in-law wrecked his windows pc with malware over and over so I bought him a Wow PC https://www.mywowcomputer.com/ and he loves it. I don't think he has any idea its running linux.

you are managing 20+ remote systems by hand?

Yeah its a tough crowd sometimes. Especially when doing that training with our customers.

I'll never forget the time I was explainging how something worked and one of the customers interrupts me saying, "I don't care about this -- can you just show me where to click?"

I used to do some linux training for new hires at my old job. The company had a training room with a rack of servers for lab work.

It was a training on how to deploy the product on a customer server. I personally wrote the instructions and tested them on the lab machines after a fresh install.

I had others test the lab instructions. I even had people from non-tech roles verify that they too could do the labs by following the instructions.

Still I get a guy in the training complaining that "this doesn't work" and I can see from the error on his screen that he must have skipped one of the steps in the lab instructions.

He's not even trying to figure it out. Even though others are finishing, he just decided that it doesn't work and gave up.

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, unless I'm missing something, it doesn't solve the work flow issue as my goal is to get my written text into a modern format that works with everything else I use, such as ascii or markdown.

Word Grinder hits all the marks.

Yes it has a web ui to connect to wifi. For cable you just plug it in.