I too would like to know more. Jellyfin has been something that I am still hesitating to expose online without a VPN.

I have Plex behind a reverse proxy (HAproxy) with Crowdsec and firewall rules all behind Cloudflare. My firewall rules in HAproxy block access a few different ways, like if request are higher then 60 requests a second, or if there is strange path traversal. Used the following guide as a start.

https://www.archy.net/building-a-native-fail2ban-with-haproxy-stick-tables/

This is why you keep devices like this offline and never update. Like a “smart” TV for example. Use it until the display panel dies.

https://homebox.software/en/

Honebox a simple home inventory management software

One option is to use a older version of TrueNAS until some alternatives start to show up.

I would probably keep my NAS offline so it does not phone home.

That can be installed on any hardware, as opposed to just a TV directly. That I could get behind.

Dont look up…

If a website requires a photo of a person ID or something like a drivers license, this is not “age verification”, it’s “identity verification”.

That leads down a whole other rabbit hole of being tracked online.

Also if something like a website or pc starts asking me to upload documents with personal identifiable information on it (that not related to banking, healthcare, or a government service, I will straight up stop using it and block at my network level.

Older tech can generally be more privacy respecting, a old VCR for example won’t collect analytics on you.

This is how a proper grown up adult would handle this situation.

This reminds me of this video I watched recently talking about “digital ghoats” and how everyone really dies twice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHd4zsIbXJ0

How many germans do you need to change a lightbulb?

One. We are efficient and have no humour.

Time and Space is so vast that alien civilizations may have already come and gone in that time span.

Humans have only been around for a blink of a eye in the timeline of the universe. It could be some alien civilizations are only starting to evolve from bacteria at this very moment, or another few have already gone extinct thousands of years ago.

Phrases like the the West or Middle East make sense when all relative to Great Britain in geography.

The British had colonies all over and the terms like middle east and the west stuck. It’s also a reason for the most common world map, the Mercator projection.

Gemini is a hot pile of garbage.

When I ask Gemini for directions it starts to give me a definition, as opposed to opening maps and showing me the way. If I ask to turn off the lights I get a conversation and I end up walking to the light switch myself.

I do, most countries are a unitity of states, counties, or provinces.

It would be so confusing if Mexico never settled on a name for its united states and called themselves the United States of America

To add to the confusion. The Americas (or America) comprise the landmasses of North and South America in the Western Hemisphere

People living in North and South America (or the Americas) can also be called American or Americans if the were referring to the landmass.

Strangely the United States IMO is the only country that seems to indicate the landmass its situated on when using the full name, the United States of America. Not to mention the indication of a union of individual states as well.

Several single-word English demonym alternatives have been suggested over time, for example Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater.

Saying someone is a United Statesian or Statesian is probably the closest to how other countries like Canada (Canadian) or Mexico (Mexican) refer to themselves. If we forget that pretty much all other countries are a unity of states, counties, and or provinces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonyms_for_the_United_States

Try mixarr

https://github.com/aquantumofdonuts/mixarr

It’s almost like all these things line up to push for consumers to want a cloud hosted Desktop

He does, he essentially says don’t put your faith in me as doing so signals you have already given up.

Its not a single one-worded answer of course, and that’s because it’s understood a question like that requires some explanation of why you would come to the end conclusion.

Hello fellow human I too am asking this same question.