That's probably the real reason. You can get a Uhaul for $20-30 for the day, a bus would be much higher.

Or if he wants to get fancy, get a mini-fridge to put the TV on. Then he also has somewhere to put the beer.

Unwashed eggs are shelf stable, they last for a few weeks at room temp. Washed eggs, like you'd get at an American grocery store, absolutely need to be refrigerated.

Exactly. Doesn't matter if they're wired or wifi, or where they are, as long as they're on the same network you're fine.

If you're only trying to use Jellyfin at home, you don't need any reverse proxy or domain. All you need is for both devices to be on the same network, and for the Raspberry Pi to have a fixed internal IP address (through your router settings).

On the Shield, you just give the Jellyfin app that IP address and port number (10.0.0.X:8096) to connect and you're good to go.

You got a remux, which is uncompressed. You can turn those off in Radarr to avoid those surprises.

If you want to fine-tune your file sizes (and quality) further, you can set up custom formats and quality profiles. The Trash Guides explain it well, the "HD Blu-ray + Web" profile on that page is a solid starting point. It'll usually grab 6-12GB movies, but you can tweak it if you want them smaller.

Install them, point them to your media folder, tell them what your preferred quality level is, and they'll handle everything else.

The Trash Guides are probably the best resource to get running.

If you're just looking for a music solution, check out Navidrome. It'll run on basically anything, and there are plenty of compatible apps for playback (Subsonic API).

Jellyfin can handle music alongside movies/shows, but the music side isn't as feature-rich. Great for basic playback though, I run both.

It's just Chromium with a layer of Microsoft on top. It'll have the same extension issues from Manifest v3 that mainline Chrome does.

For laptops, I've been using EndeavourOS lately. All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too. It's as close to "just works" as you can get while still having pacman + AUR at the end.

I still love raw Arch, but I leave that for server installs.

If a sysadmin expected me to use vim for every minor config tweak, I wouldn't want to be on their machines either.

I only have one machine that's still running Windows. This would convince me to finally make that zero.