Interesting thought.
IANAL, but I understand that most successful prosecutions have been for /distributing/ copyright material, rather than /consuming/ it. I think that’s quite a big distinction, legally, and watching a dodgy recording is less clearly illegal in many countries and may be entirely legal - even if they could prove that filename = actual file.
Not going to say you’re wrong.
Good question, good to see how others do it.
Mine: A well specced debian server in the garage running a crapload of stuff, including arrs and Jellyfin with Jellyseer, all in docker containers. Playback via debian laptop or Windows desktop using the official apps, and the tv paired with an Amazon Fire dongle running the Jellyfin app. All works really well.
The only problem is my wife sometimes deletes an entire series instead of the series somehow. I honestly don’t know how but I’ve had to download Young Sheldon for her four times now…
Ignoring first warning as a red herring.
The error though - that sounds like Jellyfin is contacting the right IP for Truenas, but Truenas is providing a cert for SSL using its old IP, and Jellyfin is refusing to talk to it since they don’t match. ~
Fix might be to get Truenas to regenerate its SSL certs, which I assume are self generated.
Or force Truenas back on the old IP - you really want something like that to be on a static IP, or if it must be DHCP, to have a fixed reservation. Or have automatic DNS so that you don’t use IPs at all, but that’s usually a lot more faff. If it’s not set to a single IP, you’ll hit this problem repeatedly.
Choice is good, I guess, although I’m perfectly happy with the official linux and windows clients. Works really well and plays very smoothly on my old laptop and desktop.
It’s fine, but not going to be the cheapest.
Cheap to buy: Any old PC desktop, really. Most will run linux and windows fine, depending on what you want. Anywhere from free to £100. If you have an old desktop or laptop already, use that to start with.
Cheap to run: Any mini PC. I run a Lenovo ThinkCentre M53 for low power duties. Cost £40 and runs silently at 10watts, idle. (I have a secondary, much beefier server for other stuff that runs at around 100w which lives in the garage)
But plenty of people do run mac minis as home servers, often on Linux. They’re fine - just do your homework on the CPU ability, how much ram you can add, and whether you’re okay with external disks if you can’t fit enough inside.