If you end up going with a SFF build, I would recommend a dedicated GPU for Jellyfin. Nothing fancy, just a low profile GTX-1030 or RX 550 to handle the transcoding. Otherwise you’ll probably run into high CPU spikes while watching content from browser or some smart TVs.
If these services want to act like an al a carte service, then their pricing needs to reflect that. If they had a plan that allowed someone to subscribe to 2-3 shows for $5 a month (but only those shows could be accessed), people would flood their platforms. The problem is the service’s greed would take hold and they’d try to find a way to ruin the experience to push people to the higher price plans. They don’t get that people don’t want 100s of janky shows to watch, they literally are only there for maybe 1 to 2 shows and that’s it.
digital piracy remains prevalent and costs the U.S. economy an estimated $29.2 billion annually
That’s based on the false assumption that if pirated materials weren’t available, people would then be forced to buy them. That’s not true, they just don’t buy them. If someone has no intention to spend money your content, you aren’t losing anything when they find it for free.
For my travel devices, I use Tailscale to talk to the server. For raw internet, I use their funnel feature to expose the service over HTTPS. Then just have fail2ban watching the port to make sure no shenanigans or have the entire service offlined until I can check it.
This is the argument that bothers me:
The court also identified a third argument, which the authors didn’t pursue in great detail; market dilution. Under this theory, AI models trained on copyrighted works can generate “countless works that compete with the originals, even if those works aren’t themselves infringing,” Judge Chhabria wrote.
So, even if what you make isn’t infringing on their rights, its still competing with them which should be forbidden. That whole argument is a machine shouldn’t be allowed to compete with a human. So, if I am inspired by another’s work, that’s ok, but if a machine does that we need to ban it.
This is really the truth. Auto-updating is really bad form when you are getting into server management. The first admin position I had back in the day had the rule that no automatic updates are to run, a manual update can only be run after 1 month of that update being released, and it had to accompanying documentation confirmed before it could be approved. The one time we did not follow that we ended up having to re-image the server in question from backup (as that was the quickest solution to getting it back online).