1. yes
2. in my compose file, I’ve set the extra variables that (supposedly) pass the GPU according to Jellyfin’s instructions

Jesus dude…was it good?

I’ve been hearing people suggest staying away from flatpaks, but I haven’t heard the reasons why. I guess that’s it?

Thanks for the info! I’ve heard very little about Fedora so I assumed it had a large learning curve. My only experience with Arch-based distros is whatever they put on Steamdecks, and my friend with one has had problems every time he’s over

I’d consider it, got recommendations?

As far as my novice knowledge understands, this isn’t a fixable “issue”. But I’d love to use Debian as my main OS for everything, but I know there’s gonna be issues with Steam/GOG games and GPU drivers. My patience and tolerance with “daily drivers” is much lower than my servers, so as far as I know that pretty much limits me to Mint (which isn’t as cool)

I’m glad its working. When I tried Docker in Windows a few years ago, it was pure pain. So bad that I gave up and started learning Linux. If it’s as simple as you suggest, that’s great news for people getting into it

I spent several hours last night talking about FOSS projects and tech certifications to a guy in entry-level IT. I’m out here doing my best, guys

Fingers crossed for socials skills in FOSS communities, then it’s game over for big tech

Like you’ve already heard, you’re unlikely to feel a difference across most distros. I’ll recommend Debian or Ubuntu, I use both

I’m using Mullvad, its been great for me. I know it’s a fork, I don’t care

Yeah, I got it set up through Cockpit actually

Streamlined VM deployment inside a headless server. Been scratching my head for 2 days now on getting a Debian VM to work as advertised. Every step of the way I keep thinking “surely it doesn’t have to be this difficult, right?” And for some reason, a basic netplan edit to make a bridge broke all my NFS binds. Took all day to sort a brand new permissions issue that shouldn’t be possible

Can someone educate me on why the more common ones like Debian and Arch aren’t on this list? Every single day Linux communities force me to look at computer stuff in a different light

Edit: I learned a lot and accidentally incited discourse oops

Just to repeat what you’re already hearing: if I started over from the beginning, I’d skip a NAS entirely and just build a server with a ton of bays (which I just bought). Funny enough, I came here to recommend Fractal Design cases too

Let the record show that irmadlad saved the day here. I learned a lot about what I needed and no longer have to concern myself with something beyond my comprehension

Thank you, that’s really solid advice. It turns out my efforts may have been misguided anyway. I think I was under the impression that “internet exposure” and “Cloudflare tunnel” had similar setups

I thought my VPN didn’t, but they continue to disappoint me. According to the internet, my VPN is using CGNAT

See, this just shows how much I need to learn…I thought what I was trying to set up *was *the same thing as a “Cloudflare tunnel.” Honestly, don’t care how it gets implemented, I just assumed this was the easy way because that’s what all the youtubers were suggesting. My end goal here is “I’m on my phone 100 miles away from home, open Jellyfin/Nextcloud/whatever, use domain.actually.works” without needing to disable my Proton/Air/Mullvad connection.

But I’ve followed 4 or 5 “you won’t believe how easy Nginx is” tutorials, and they’re not working for me…

Ok, this is an extensive answer (thank you), but also a lot to unpack. Before I go making a bridge network, I wanna make sure I’m following you. I’m pretty inexperienced with self-hosting in general outside of Docker, but I’m especially a novice with anything networking so pardon my ignorance here.

Yes, Jellyfin is accessible locally. Performance is the best I’ve ever seen it too. I uninstalled Tailscale on my Ubuntu server (it was causing networking issues, frankly I didn’t understand how) and removed it from my tailnet dashboard, but Jellyfin is still remotely accessible via Tailscale (which is fine, I guess).

At this point, my users and I are trying to avoid Tailscale on mobile devices when possible. Two reasons: 1. prevents maintaining regular VPN usage (deal breaker for a couple people) 2. switching between home wifi and mobile drops connectivity, required turning networking off and on again (deal breaker for me, I got spoiled by Synology’s reverse proxy and can’t go back)

From what I can tell, there’s no CGNAT trickery at play (actually the internet says otherwise). My DNS is a local Pihole+Unbound, in case that matters. The Ubuntu IP is static. Were you requesting the yaml of Jellyfin or Nginx?

And I believe I was hoping to set up a “Cloudflare tunnel.” I think I was under the impression that this “tunnel” *is *a reverse proxy.