IMPORTANT NOTE FOR CURRENT PLEX PASS HOLDERS: For users who have an active Plex Pass subscription, remote playback will continue to be available to you without interruption from any Plex Media Server, after these changes go into effect. When running your own Plex Media Server as a subscriber, other users to whom you have granted access can also stream from the server (whether local or remote), without ANY additional charge—not even a mobile activation fee. More on that later in this update.

I guess that’s something.

Gonna be a long slow explanation to my family and friends how to switch to jellyfin. Hopefully there’s an app ecosystem there as well. I was lucky to get a lifetime pass way back in 2009 when I did some work for them. It’s very different now.

Install using the debian net installer. Only add a GUI/Desktop Environment through command line and apt. Don’t use tasksel.

https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/

Do this on a laptop that’s not mission critical. Barring that, use Tails on a USB drive

https://tails.net/about/index.en.html

Plex/jellyfin

If I could do it all over I’d pick jellyfin however plex is on more devices and easier for people to setup…for now.

However you may also be interested in the arr stack. For reasons.

https://github.com/Ravencentric/awesome-arr

CHEF MIKE!