That is plan A, I have had buffering issues doing this at various hotels though. This is more of a plan b setup. That probably wasn’t clear.

How would changing dns servers change browsing habits?

That’s fair. I’m already very familiar with jellyfin, so the setup wasn’t much concern, but the other options provided are good.

I had considered that as well. I’m just thinking out loud.

I’ll be taking an android tv box with me, so the tv lockdown is a concern. I’ll be taking my laptop w me in case I need it. I considered just installing jellyfin on that too.

i understand the ‘do vacation things’, i like to watch tv while i fall asleep, so there’s that.

Some good things to think about here.

I would use this more if I could use a credit card instead of a bank account. How easy are chargebacks on privacy? Ease of chargebacks is a major reason I use cc over debit (also points, which I think using privacy might affect).

VLC is an option I hadn’t considered, I’d still have to get the media on the hdd, but something to consider for sure. I won’t be hosting any showings, this is just for personal viewing.

Yes, I’ve used it in the past to download some stuff offline for airplanes, but I think that would be more cumbersome to download that way than automate it using sonarr/radarr, (unless this has gotten better in the past year or so). I’m expecting to have quite a bit of media on the nas since it’ll be for an entire month.

Yes, mostly just to have stuff to watch without commercials.

That’s pretty interesting

Lol what? I’d be curious to know the amount of dns queries required for an ISP to complain about this. I’d think it would have to be massive. Also, unless it’s in their TOS, they wouldn’t really have to comply. The only downside is if they’re the only ISP for the user, which sucks and happens.

You want to to keep modification of the host to a minimum in virtualization. It makes troubleshooting so much easier.

Passwords are cached at the client for a minimum of 30 days as long as you stay logged in. this goes into specific details. (You use the bitwarden client for vaultwarden in case you weren’t aware)

Edit:clarification

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