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Conversely, letting friends use your Jellyfin is complicated.
eh, maybe. for me it was opening a port and adding a dns record. took me all of 4 minutes
im kinda lucky in that my isp uses 'sticky' ips so while its not static, ive had the same ip for 5 years
Sadly, my ISP charges an arm and a leg for anything other than dhcp
Dynamic DNS has been around forever. A program monitors your public IP address and updates the DNS record when it changes. You can even use a service like FreeDNS if you don't want to pay for a domain.
This was news to me, I will now be spending an afternoon trying to fix my self hosting setup in the near future