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I run both concurrently, but Plex has had a rash of outages recently that led to it and any services relying on it completely useless. It's insane that an online service outage would cause me to be unable to stream media locally, so yeah Jellyfin has been all but essential, recently.
That's a big red flag for privacy imo
Oh, I generally couldn't agree more. In this specific case it was actually their authentication service that was down, but it meant if you use multiple accounts with Plex or have a pin on your singular account that you were essentially locked out. But I agree it's a bad look to have remote dependencies at all.