In todays episode of "Plex enshittifies" Plex employee breaks ToS.
Source: https://forums.plex.tv/t/fake-reviews-on-play-store-by-plex-staff/917736
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Seriously. Someone tried convincing me that it would be an easy lift to send my MIL across the country a preconfigured Pi so that she could have web browser access to Jellyfin. She only has a computer for doing taxes, and watches everything on her TV.
Not only would she get confused every step of the way, even if it was just plug & play, she would also blame me if ANYTHING happened on her network and want me to fly out to fix it.
I'm not about to take that responsibility just so she can watch the latest episode of 90 day fiance. I have enough pain when she needs to sign into Plex.
Yeah I did jellyfin for a while but last time the lifetime pass went on sale for Plex I just said "fuck it," bought it, bought a cheap beelink, booted elementary OS on it, and set several friends/family up on it. I check the beelink maybe once a month for updates/adding stuff. Easy peasy.
I actually kinda did that. Sent a preconfigured thinkcentre to my mum that boots into the jellyfin media player, connects to my server via tailscale. Just had to plug it into power, lan, hdmi. Immutable, atomic system that looks for updates on boot, applies them on next reboot, and does a rollback and ping me if the update fails.
I have ssh access, and my brother lives nearby in case everything fails, that makes things easier.