Ah assumed when you said VLC, you where just plugging the laptop into the TV via HDMI or something.

I also read you mentioned you where able to login but not see files, so wrong route to go down.

If you don’t wanna run a server all the time for movies then vlc might be the better option, though I don’t see why jellyfin shouldn’t technically work.

If your libraries aren’t populating after being setup, maybe check file permissions for the ‘jellyfin’ user?

Oh yeah no I’ve seen as home servers with a built in UPS. Their usecase sounded like they where using their daily driver laptop though.

Why are you trying to run jellyfin server from a laptop? I mean you can, just seems like an odd choice.

Also make sure ufw isn’t getting in the way. Wouldn’t be shocked if Ubuntu keeps that enabled for security.

Yes but enterprise LTSC (and others) isos can be harder to obtain legally.

Massgrave has mirrors of retail and OEM isos, and the other site I provided has checksums to verify their integrity.

Sure.

You can verify windows ISO’s with file hashes from here if you’re paranoid.

*won’t

I very seriously doubt most people are physically or mentally incapable of taking an hour or two once to teach themselves how to preform a basic maintenance task on a machine they use daily.

Just as car owners should know how to put on a spare tire or replace a headlight, you should understand basic computer maintenance if you’re an adult who relies on one.

No you should install your own OS.

Even if you’re using windows you should at least be using a cracked version of LTSC so you can stay away from win 11 while still catching sw updates.

Mostly the ones about the age of consent.

No, my point was that people don’t need higher resolution TV’s, they need good transcodes that don’t look like shit.

Streaming services run at bitrates/codecs that look like dookie compared to bd rips even on my shitty $100 sceptre 1080p Amazon special TV.

Who the fuck is gonna buy an 8K oled panel when no ones willing to conveniently provide content that looks good on it, or even content that pushes their current TV to its fullest extant?

Its not like anyone can afford a GPU that renders modern games at a playable framerate to that either.

That’s because the answer isn’t higher resolutions, it was legally enforcing h.265 to be open source. Now the solution is AV1, but video codecs shouldn’t be locked down like that.

To act like that was ever in favor of “protecting the sciences” is a fucking joke.

I’m aware what a vps is. I’ve rented vps servers to run custom VPN servers to port forward through before. I’d just rather not have to host something myself to get a second IP that isn’t associated with me, and can be port forwarded through.

Especially if I can get it for dirt fuckin’ cheap.

I have an entire as rack at home and a 1gigabit connection.

Why waste money with renting more storage and time by moving the data again?

I’m not looking for a seedbox because all I need is an IP that isn’t associated with me.

I have storage and speed, I just want an IP that isn’t mine, and I don’t want to have to maintain another box to do it.

Eventually I’ll rent out a vps and setup wireguard…

I don’t leech entirely but it takes forever to get ratios cuz I can’t port forward through my VPN.

Any good options other than renting out a dedicated VPS and setting that up as a VPN server?

I mean, what serious political action did the US have between the civil rights movement and occupy wall street?

My fault for not being more clear, I blame my countries national main character syndrome for that. Especially since it just hit me OP is technically from a Canadian instance, though I’m not sure the lived experience up there was THAT different.

Once again Gen X is doing all the heavy cultural lifting.

Okay, I really don’t buy into the generations bullshit, but I think something needs to be said here:

Its apt gen X was the generation to invent the term poser because it applies so well. Say what you will about everything boomers did after they hit 30, they did some important shit when they where young. You don’t get a Kent State without pissing the right people off.

The MTV generation’s symbol of youthful rebellion was a cable TV channel owned and operated by Viacom with the express purpose of selling music which was pre-packaged by one of three major record labels.

It was a way for boomers to sell them fake rebellion because they remembered how bad for profit the real stuff from their youth was.

I mean, what serious political action did the US have between the civil rights movement and occupy wall street? The early 00’s anti-war movement? Arguably attributable to early millenials since those where their college years.

Gen Xers like to say they where “working in the shadows, doing their own thing”, which is code for sitting around, letting billionaires do what they want, and doing nothing about it since everything still kinda worked out alright for them up until now.

Yeah I’m not shocked the major car company with the least amount of experience in mechanical engineering had that issue.

Give that to a team of 90’s Honda engineers and they’d have it done by lunch with a price tag a 1/3rd of the Tesla mechanism.

Is it really that hard to make one of those recessed handles with a mechanical linkage instead of an electric one?

Seems like the real issue is the electric door latch itself, not the style of handle.

This depends how far away where they want is. I feel like down the block is impractical for a heli.

Interesting times (positive) vs interesting times (nightmare)