I think the easiest way would be to have two vlans on your local network. One that is connected to the internet and another that is local only. I think you’d have to switch networks when wanting to access the jellyfin server in that instance, but would negate the main issue, which is your VPN.

Edit: that’s about the most secure you can get I think. If you bought a different physical router to host it, you’d have about as secure a setup as possible.

I keep expecting something, the lifetime pass has more/less paid for itself.

That being said, they do still offer the lifetime pass, so clearly they see it as worth it.

Samba Bamba!!

Plex and plexamp is the best music hosting setup I’ve found too. Users can have their own playlist and there is some smart playlist generation.

They also had (maybe still have) tidal integration.

However, you’ll still be relying on other services (probs spotify/etc.) to find new things.

The power bill side is also not even clear cut. The longer processing time for slower chips sometimes ends up resulting in higher costs. It’s surprisingly not as simple as lower wattage chip is cheaper to operate.

Are some of them redundant containers? That’s just a lot of services to be running.

The download feature is always in some state of broken, but it has gotten a lot better over the past couple of years. If you haven’t tried it in a year or so, you may have better luck now.

I’ve used Ubooquity on and off for this. It has some nice features, but isn’t open source.

I don’t like Ubooquity, but Calibre somehow seems worse.