Its not even the easiest to setup the default configuration stack most people use with Plex or jellyfin. I mean if you’re techy its not hard, but it definitely takes time to set up. I see why people use Plex as the media player, it is stupid easy for everyone else to use. Its like a Facebook invite for media.
Its just a pain in the ass to manage at home and easy to leave your ass open for attacks.
Has that been happening a lot here?
I guess they really meant it when they said 4Chan style
Damn I’m lucky I just run small game servers cause the old way still works for me, aside from piehole that needs to be updated but it squeels at me when it needs it so I dont have to remember.
My pi 1b handles the internal DNS for my game servers, which at this point is actually just minecraft because PSO:BB was way harder to setup than I thought. It works and it is extremely easy and it still holes all the tracking stuff too.
Run some jellyfin on it just for your house
It just widens your attack surface for the ghost army of bots that roam the net knocking on ports, you don’t want to be someone else’s sap. I would imagine most home attacks fall into three categories: script kiddies just war driving, targeted attacks on someone specific, or just plain ol’ looking for sensitive docs for identity theft or something. Its still the net, man. If you leave your ass hanging out someone’s gonna bite it in a new way every time.
I found it annoying at first when I started because I didnt know about any management tools. I was updating the firewall rules everywhere myself to allow each remote IP at the router and machine level lol