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[–] mundane@piefed.world 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Can't you just setup a dyndns and port forwarding?

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, and if that falls within your risk tolerance it’s rather easy to set up.

Most of the people in the discussion here don’t want to open a port to the internet.

[–] klankin@piefed.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair Plex also requires open ports (or worse upnp) to remotly stream at full quality, without transcoding.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, 100%. I was just trying to sum up the feelings in here.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Its just a pain in the ass to manage at home and easy to leave your ass open for attacks.

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s just another attack surface. Threat tolerance is up to each person.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Oooof, yeah that would suck.