Pyrosis

Well I use a fire stick with smartube and jellyfin. Works just fine for my needs. YMMV

I remember the old videos of rockets exploding on launch pads when we were first building them. We have come a long way.

I suspect they will just learn something new from this and they will last even longer.

That’s what I said. Cow on top of cow is bad. Pretty sure ext4 isn’t on option on opnsense. UFS or zfs. Which is the only reason I mentioned it at all when presented with that choice.

I have been considering just installing Debian on a small PC then the jellyfin media player application set to auto start. I can think of a few different ways to get this done maybe with a couple user accounts.

I like the idea of being able to change the application that automatically starts. Maybe I want to try Kodi again. I would just change the startup app.

Get your firewall right then maybe add fail2ban.

You could also consider IDs/IPs on your primary router/firewall if this is internal. If not you can install surricata on a public server. Obviously if you go with something as powerful as surricata you no longer need fail2ban.

Keep a sharp eye on any users with sudo. Beyond that consider docker as others have mentioned.

It does add to security because it allows the developers a bit more control of what packages are utilized for their applications. It creates a more predictable environment.

It seems that way but it performs better than zfs on top of zfs. The only os I ran into that with was opnsense when I was playing with a virtualized firewall.

Within guests these days I just use XFS, UFS, or NTFS depending on the os. The hypervisor can have zfs or ceph.

I’m spoiled now. I prefer ubiquiti equipment for my network, security camera, and even door access.

However, if you prefer completely open source I can recommend opnsense and openwrt. Personally I prefer a single point of configuration… So all ubiquiti for me… It makes it easy to restore a complete network configuration as you are discovering is a pain.

Maybe start with the new cloud gateway max as a router if you are interested.