Plex centralizes authentication at plex.tv
When a user wants to connect to a 'private' plex server, they must first sign into their plex.tv account, which then provides the auth token needed to login to the users server (even if both the client and server are on the same lan)
With this system, Plex can monitor and control every single connection to every plex server; limiting access to whatever they want. Even your own local content.
Plex has an automatic proxy service hosted by their public servers. If you haven't or can't configure port forwarding correctly, plex will route the connection through their own servers.
The problem is, that also means Plex co has total control over your server and the data sent between it and clients if they so choose. Anything from quietly logging the data sent back and fourth, to controlling who can connect and what they can do while they are.
Jellyfin has to be correctly exposed to the internet via port forwarding or tools like tailscale/a vpn; but it's entirely your server under your control. You have ultimate control over how your server can be accessed, but that also means you're responsible for actually setting that up.
If they're willing to go that far, they're not parents worth having. Good riddance.
And I want the Epic CEO to fist himself with a live pin-less grenade in his hand.
We can't always get what we want.
I miss the layout of my neighbourhood from when I was 5-10 years old.
I lived in one of the middle units of a 10 unit townhouse. Each had a ~30'x30' fenced in backyard that opened up to a large field and playground. The u-shaped roads that flanked this field and the houses along them left a large cross shaped grassy alley on either side of the field.
I'm not sure that description does it justice, but this setup created a huge amount of grassy space for the surrounding neighbourhood kids to run around in, while keeping them somewhat contained. There were only 3 entrances/exits to this neighbourhood that were pretty well supervised by parents, so the kids were able to roam a pretty big area without anyone having to worry. Something I've come to appreciate more with age.
It also meant a TON of snow to build and play with in the winter, without playing in the road :D 🇨🇦
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Na, I'm shapped like a shrimp that has scoliosis
I don't mind teaching, in limited doses; but I do not have the patience/temperment to handle a class of students or even regular one-on-one sessions.
Nobody wants their teacher getting frustrated because they don't understand something new, and it's not fair to put students in that position.
DNS is your computers address book.
If you want to go to 'Daves house' you need to translate that into an address first, which you can then travel to.
Your computer does the same thing, first translating 'youtube.com' into an IP address to connect to.
If your DNS/address book is broken or inaccessible, you can still connect to the internet/travel, but you really struggle to figure out where to actually go.
I was so excited for Oculus right up until it was bought by Facebook. I didn't have the funds right away and had been waiting, but I immediately wrote it off the day that news broke.
It may just be my first foray into VR. Stoked. :D
Sounds like you're behind cgNAT, which essentially means there's another router owned by your ISP that's between yours and the open internet, which also requires port forwarding, but your ISP will never do that for you.
It complicates things, but the solution(s) are tools like tailscale, cloudflare Tunnels, or to rent a VPS just to host a proxy/vpn.
Plex solves this by using their own public servers as a proxy for you, but this is part of how they have control over your users/server/data, such as blocking remote streaming... That makes more than a few people uncomfortable.