Just to make it clear to any other people reading this, Jellyfin has Group Sync where you can create groups with participants and syncplay media.

I’m assuming you’re just running bare-metal, in which case no GPU passthrough would be needed. From what you’ve mentioned, everything seems about right so not much more to say - But on the UI department I do agree most apps could use some polish. I’d really recommend you try to replicate, get the logs, and forward them either to the Jellyfin Forums or their troubleshooting Matrix room (or both!), as people are generally quite helpful. Best of luck!

Jellyfin + Arr* Suite == chillin’ and singing shanties in the high seas.

Nice to see Matrix’s Element client on there. Has definitely become my go-to and even managed to get friends, family, and my gaming community on there, replacing Discord entirely.

You mention about 3 different issues, but files not playing is definitely a config/file issue, not a Jellyfin issue. I’ve thrown at it pretty much any standard format and it plays it fine. Any specific format and/or codec you’re trying to play? For instance AV1 files play just fine on Jellyfin, but if the hardware doesn’t support hardware decoding (which is the case foe my Nvidia Shield) it won’t play well at all.

Regarding Jellyfin’s themes, not saying no to some improvements, but what stops you(or others) from using it?

I personally use Jellyfin for multiple hours a day (as do friends and family, with zero complaints), almost every day and it plays my media on literally any platform (including remotely), but I don’t find myself looking at Jellyfin per se for any large amount of that time - It’s easy to navigate which from a UX perspective generally trumps looks when it comes to these things. I like how it looks as it’s functional and easy to get to the media you want whilst showing all the nice metadata (images, sinopses, etc). What’s missing?

Been using Jellyfin to share media with family and friends, locally and remotely, for a couple years. Very happy and can recommend.

Odysee did/does something interesting where if one uses the desktop client, the video gets streamed and cached, and then seeded back over a configurable amount of time. I could see creator’s communities being self-sustainable this way.

This sounds interesting. But in that case, how are headers set? From a security and even privacy standpoint the correct headers can be quite important. How do you enable/disable http2 and http3?

Lightning is indeed NOT a fork of a Bitcoin, it’s essentially a Layer 2 for Bitcoin (if you think in terms of the Internet’s TCP/IP model). It solves pretty much every use case created by any Altcoin when competing with Bitcoin, as Bitcoin chose security and decentralization over scalibility in its base layer (on-chain).

As for buying Monero, I only deal with Bitcoin, but I’m pretty sure you can easily buy Monero still as long as you don’t use centralised exchanges (permissioned), and instead use Decentralised ones (permissionless). That’ll be the case for any altcoin that still has decent popularity for the foreseeable.

Not exactly. Lightning makes it super cheap and instant.

Bitcoin is pseudonymous - Transactions are transparent, yes, but the addresses are not linked to any PII - The exception comes in when the user uses a Centralised Exchange that does exactly this, it bridges anonymous addresses with PII via KYC.

Bitcoin can be sold anonymously using P2P DEXs (decentralised exchanges), where the fiat transaction has no link to Bitcoin.

That’s assuming they even would want to sell.

All in all, it comes down to how the user uses the tool. Bitcoin can be as privacy preserving as anyone wants. But if they KYC, they can kiss any privacy goodbye, and really, that’s the misunderstanding that has reached most non-Bitcoin users these days. Experiences based on a lack of understanding.