It’s only frothing if you insist that installing tailscale on your grandma’s DSL modem is the best way to share home movies

Also you dont have to be lumped in with the frothing at the mouth Jellyfin users.

At this point if I were to switch from Plex I would go with Emby just because a bunch of sweaty nerds don’t simp over it every time Plex comes up in the news.

The extent of the setup for Plex is to log in with your email and password, pick which shared libraries you want to be pinned to your home screen, and then browse. My parents in their 70s were able to figure it out and all I had to do from my end was grant them access to the libraries I wanted to share with a simple check box.

This.

Securely sharing is simpler on Plex. I can invite anyone with just an email and they have near instant access to an HTTPS encrypted service. I don’t have to deal with setting up a VPN, reverse proxy or ACLs (in the case of something like Tailscale).

i have to scroll halfway down the damn page but i do still get a dictionary response.

Because if I’m watching locally I dont need them, and if I’m watching remotely Plex already offers secure remote viewing 'out of the box`. They give every user an SSL certificate and a public accessible URL at app.plex.tv. They also handle secure user authentication. The new price is stupid, but Jellyfin is not a 1:1 replacement.

A gentle reminder that Jellyin more or less requires you to set up a reverse proxy and a secure VPN to use it outside of your home.

When I lived about 20 minutes away from Washington, D.C. in the late 2010s I was paying ~$1700/month for a single bedroom apartment D=

IMO the point is more that this article IS talking about someone specifically in Shenzen, and a report (PDF) I found shows that the average monthly cost for a 1 bedroom apartment in the city center is just over $800 USD a month with a monthly salary for English teachers of about $2,900 USD a month as of 2020. Sources are at the bottom of the PDF.

I haven’t used TrueNAS but from what I’m reading it has an option to import existing pools. If you have spare SSD I would yank your windows drive out of the system and try installing Proxmox on the spare drive first. There’s a truenas installation script on that community page I linked in my other post, it says to follow this discussion after it runs. That might be a good starting point.

I hope that barracuda was shucked from a Seagate Expansion lol (that’s where I got all of my barracudas).

good bot

Yes, you can. https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Advanced_Migration_Techniques_to_Proxmox_VE#HyperV

Edit: Also yeah you should be able to dual-boot but I wouldn’t recommend it. Linux and Windows bootloaders don’t like to play nice with eachother.

2nd Edit: Added the official PVE Hyper-V migration documentation, but that blog covers it in more detail.

3rd Edit: It looks like there are some important caveats when virtualizing TrueNAS, which I assume you’re familiar with since you have it virtualized already but I wanted to add the TrueNAS virtualization guide just in case. https://www.truenas.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/

You should be able to migrate most or all of your existing Hyper-V VMs to Proxmox, which would be relatively straight forward. My recommendation would be backing up everything to your TrueNAS (that has the dedicated HBA) then you can wipe your Windows boot drive and install Proxmox. Then you could start by migrating your TrueNAS VM over and passing it’s HBA back to it.

Once you have your NAS working in PVE then you could either migrate/rebuild your other VMs, or look into splitting your services into containers (Proxmox uses LXC natively, but Docker is another option.) There are some great helper scripts to get services spun up quickly so you can minimize downtime.

You didn’t mention how much, if any, experience you have with PVE/Debian and I know from a friend recently switching that some things are a bit more “difficult” than TrueNAS so hit me up if you need anything. The PVE admin documents will be helpful as well.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Advanced_Migration_Techniques_to_Proxmox_VE#HyperV

If you have the skills to setup a Jellyfin server you also have the skills to setup wireguard.

They appear to offer a guided installation for windows users.

uhhh did i? https://github.com/ZoeyVid/NPMplus is the link I meant to post for npmplus. its a community fork of npm.

Jeez, so it’s meant to be a literal home media server. Able, but not designed, to be used for sharing.

Primarily for the CrowdSec integration (one less thing to set up manually)

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2025/09/nginx-proxy-manager-vs-npmplus-which-one-is-better-for-your-home-lab/