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The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin (reprodev.com)
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[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Assuming you can remote into her laptop. Setup the vpn on it, set up a portforward rule to point back to your jellyfin over the vpn, set the roku to connect to the laptop.

[-] plateee@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Although technically possible - I can't imagine trying to troubleshoot that remotely. Or explaining that she can't watch Escape to the Country because her laptop battery died.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

The alternative is to preconfig a mini pc and ship it to her have her plug it in and forget about it.

Or you could setup a proxy service and allow list her ip address block. Many ways to acheive remote access without much fuss from non techinals.

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