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You don’t need Linux for Plex or Jellyfin, both have prebuilt server installers for windows. If you want a general guide, Jeff Geerling has a video from a couple years ago about setting up Jellyfin on I think his NAS. But honestly I would just go read the docs for the project you choose and follow their install guide. You’ll need to ensure your media is organized on your drive, but you should do that anyways. Other than that you’ll need a PC that’s essentially always on (or at least is on when you want to watch videos), and a client at your TV like an Apple TV, Android stick, or FireTV. I have run both, and Plex is probably the easier, just works, solution, but it is closed source and needs a subscription for some features (though you can use it just fine without one). There are some hiccups I ran into primarily around streaming to an Apple TV, but honestly it was super stable for me. I switched to Jellyfin recently and the setup was a tad harder and the UI is IMO significantly worse than plex, but it’s open source and fully free. I may switch back to Plex here soon just because their AppleTV Live TV (from my antenna) is just much better supported than Jellyfin.

The services often associated with these media servers that are designed for searching and grabbing content are the *arr stack (radarr, sonarr, etc). You will often see them talked about in the save places but you don’t need them to run Jellyfin or plex.

Something like LPS/TENS would fit your needs exactly, but it stopped being supported in 2021. It was essentially Tails but was built to be run from a wide verity of sources (we used to network boot onto PCs that had no hard drives at all, but had local network share access).

Another plus one for Proton with your own domain.

Self hosting sounds good, but it’s fraught with mines that if you don’t know what you’re doing can take from “can’t send email because my domains been back listed” to “everything in my network is now sending spam to the entire world”. Sure, many folks self hosting sounds with no issues, but the price for configuring something wrong can be steep and IMO is just not worth the trouble and risks when there are good options for encrypted, privacy protecting email services for a reasonable price.

Our local police are really good, we call them a couple times a year for accidents in our front yard (we live in a fairly busy road where a 35 mph speed limit means read your phone while doing 50…). They are always really professional and helpful to both the drivers and us. It helps that our borough has I think 8 officers total.

I have also called when a driver got mad at me for turning towards our old apartment while he tried to pass us which caused him to spin in the middle of an intersection somehow. He then followed us to our building, and started beating on my window and cussing me out while I was on the phone with 911. Drove off before the cop showed up but I got a blurry picture of his plate as he drove away. Showed the cop who read it no problem, found out it was the guys wife’s car. Asked if we wanted to press assault charges (we didn’t, just asked him to go talk with the guys wife, figure that would be punishment enough when he got home from the bar he was at). Cop called me later that evening to check on us and let us know the guys wife was livid when the cop stopped by to chat with her.

Overall, our local police in the various boroughs around Pittsburgh have been pretty great, can’t say the same for the ones downtown though.