Similarly, I have a Plex lifetime license.

I think my biggest hurdle for Jellyfin is setting up a VPS for all my self hosted services. Currently I use Cloudflare Tunnels, which is easy but I'd like to get away from it because Cloudflare and it doesn't allow for streaming services to run on it.

I'll spin up Jellyfin and see how Swiftfin is on the Apple TV. If I feel it has minimal friction I'll try and make the jump.

With regards to spreading the good word of self hosting, I've had the best luck just offering good services to those around me. Spliit, HomeAssistant, and Immich have been easy to get my partner to use. Then I just happen to say "oh yeah, this is running on my server btw". The holy grail would be to convince my friends to use Fluxer or something instead of Discord.

Yeah, that's a potential solution, but then my sister's starting college soon so she'd need to VPN into one of the networks when she's not at home; which brings us back to square one.

Then there's whenever they're not home and want to watch something on their phone or laptop.

I really would like to use Jellyfin, but the remote access is quite useful to me personally. My immediate family lives far away and they can access my library remotely quite easily. They just want to watch their requested shows and don't need 4k HDR 7.2 surround sound for their cooking shows.

I guess I could set up tailscale or some other vpn access to my network but I don't feel like explaining that to parents and siblings. Even my partner, who lives with me, has little patience for all things electronic. They're an Apple user and I'm aware enough not to constantly pester them with my ideals and preferences. Plex works on our Apple TV and is easy so it's the best solution right now. Am I in the minority? Probably, but different strokes for different folks.

TLDR: Jellyfin is awesome, but Plex currently makes more sense for my needs.

I've been using Baikal but KashCal looks interesting!

Perhaps they are not?

All FOSS nerds that joined after 2020 only know OBS, charge they phone, distro hop, eat hot chip, and GUI.

What hardware are you running?

Not sure about settings but I just tried on my Pixel 6 Pro and it wasn't slow.

I've got one. I've tried using it as a travel monitor but it's kind of a hassle to set up.

I can see it working if you just need to open up a word editor on it, but not much else.

Apple's TVOS has zero ads and is very simple, but it's also Apple.

My other choice would be a good Android TV box on an NVIDIA Shield or something since you can use third party youtube launchers and third party apps. I haven't personally used it though so YMMV.

PC prices are crazy right now, but if you can find a used Lenovo ThinkCentre, I'd go for that.

I'm running an m720q and it's neat because you can get a riser board and install an extra PCIe NIC of your choosing.

If you don't want to go that route try to find a mini PC with 2 intel NICs, since they're historically the most reliable and well supported.

Depending on the firestick you may be able to jailbreak it.

A towel!

You may be able to run a wire out to an outdoor thermometer so your thermostat can just read the temperature outside.