I live in a country where making copies of movies and having them for private consumption isn’t illegal.

I wouldn’t blame the Jellyfin devs for this situation, they inherited a lot of bad code from Emby and are still cleaning it up.

I don’t have an issue with Plex. I don’t use it

Most of these require some form of random id to exploit, which leaves you either brute forcing ids or brute forcing a user account

I think Amazon and Qobuz both offer some music for purchase.

You need something other than your ISP provided router, otherwise you’ll be constantly limited by a few basic settings they allow you to change. Check with your ISP if you can use your own router directly, if their routers have a bridge mode or if you can buy an alternative modem that does bridging.

If you want a simple and cohesive ecosystem, Unifi is the one to beat. They offer routers and switches and you can manage them all from a single dashboard.

For an open source router, the best option is OPNsense. Get one of the multi port x86 boxes from Aliexpress (e.g. Qotom) and install it on that.

Personally, I don’t like OpenWRT, but that would be an option to flash a cheap consumer router.

TP-Link offers some great switches, look at their JetStream series. They’re usually a bit cheaper than equivalent Unifi switches as well.

As an anti-recommendation I’ll mention Mikrotik. Their hardware is great and they provide great value, but the UI is extremely confusing for newcomers. It’s all well documented (in the form of terminal commands, but the UI is basically built like that), but you need to know networking before you can find what and how you need to change settings.

I’d assume you need an admin account for every server and it uses that to create the users.

OP mentions antennas, presumably for WiFi, so forget about OPNsense, PFsense or most other BSDs.

I run mine on a separate server in containers (using Podman). For architecture, the server just connects directly to each agent, using my VPN network

How do you handle certificate renewals?

I only half remembered; it wasn’t really layoffs, but a large management change without much apparent plan for oCIS.

Ex-ownCloud devs seek new start at OpenCloud – Owncloud owner wants to sue

Owncloud laid off the whole team working on that. They went to create OpenCloud instead.

Upgrade notes for 10.11 RCs

https://notes.jellyfin.org/v10.11.0_features

Their reasoning is literally the second sentence on that page.

Note however that the 10.Y.Z release chain represents the “cleanup” of the codebase, so it should be accepted that 10.Y.Z breaks all compatibility, at some point, with previous Emby-compatible interfaces, and may also break compatibility with previous 10.Y releases if required for later cleanup work

Any 10.Y.Z release is cleanup and can include breaking changes. That’s been the case for 10.9 and 10.10 already btw.

Yeah, I also use that, but it’s not quite as easy as the others. Either you’re open to the whole network or you need some form of external key management to add/remove peers from your network.

A bunch really, Headscale with Tailscale client, Nebula VPN, Netmaker, Zerotier.

This is the database rework that’s been in progress for a while to remove all the bad inherited database code from when the forked Emby. No more SQL statements in code or plugins, any DB access now goes through the core library. There are a few blog posts in their website with more details.

Oh, that’s disappointing. I was thinking of eventually using Storj as a second s3 endpoint for backups in addition to Backblaze.

They’ve been putting ads on your home screen for years

I had the opportunity to check out a bunch of S3 servers for work. For a quick summary, Garage was much faster than Minio in my tests but lacks advanced S3 features like object locking, versions or retention. Be sure to check what you need before switching.

Also, it’s CLI only as far as I know, so the same as Minio will be.

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-auto-update.1.html