Fuck me for wanting to watch movies with my friends I guess.

  • Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    This should not be downvoted. You should not expose anything straight to the internet unless you know what you’re doing. Use a simple service like Tailscale to create a locally accessible VPN.

    • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      “Know what you’re doing”

      And

      “Forwarded a port to jellyfin”

      Surely has some overlap. You want to open other ports, you want to make sure permissions are properly set on the host machine… What else? HTTPS/SSL to avoid someone in the middle grabbing your password and accessing your media?

      Regardless, I’ll look into tailscale. A VPN would have lots of other uses, as there are other applications I would like to use remotely that I don’t want to expose to the internet.

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        14 hours ago

        By “know what you’re doing” I mean “understand the consequences”. Anyone can follow a guide that tells them how to open a port on their router. Understanding that in doing so they’re potentially allowing every malicious actor into their home network is not so straightforward.