The thing is, he hasn't had to be anything other than what he is. He's experienced no real consequences to any of his shitty behavior. He's skated by, even been propped up, on his brash incompetence.
There are ways to recover deleted files, at least partially. Especially if all you did was remove the directory and not the files themselves.
Re-downloading 32TB would take a while but you'll probably download it faster than you can watch it. Usenet downloads are typically faster than torrenting.
Plex is much easier to setup than Jellyfin and much more user-friendly in general, though it's not free for some of the more useful features like watching from outside your home.
So I don't need to take care to re-mount them in the right configuration? I'll do some googling but I wasn't sure if I needed to do some backup preparation of something.
Thanks, I think I'm coming to the conclusion I should get rid of the TrueNAS VM. I'll need to research the best method for mounting those drives directly back into ProxMox without data loss and then re-share it back to Plex.
She's such a snippy bitch when she answers press questions, as if she's assed out that the press are even bothering her.