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  • Unfortunately, that’s probably not gonna happen without some new hardware.

    You could setup a wire guard at the router (can you setup tail scale on a router? idk). If she’s renting the ISP router, replacing that could save a 100+ a year, depending on how much the isp is scamming her for it.

    or you could repurpose a minipc/nuc from bay and set up a jellyfin streaming box with tailscale.

    If you have the extra hardware, you could also setup a local server with her jellyfin and use wiregaurd/tailscale to remotely connect to it and run backup/sync during off-hours.



  • Arch is a challenge, be prepared to spend more time learning and tinkering than using your computer for the first few months (and forever). It’s not impossible, but you will most likely have to reinstall a few times as you learn. If thats what you enjoy, great. Go for a distro made for the lay person like Mint or Bazzite. There’s a backup program called Timeshift, it will replace windows snapshots and can help you recover from mistakes without having to start over.

    If you put your home drive on a separate partition/drive it will be easier to distro hop as you try different ones. Still, make sure your data is backed up, ideally put the backup on an external drive that you can unplug while installing new a OS.