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That’s definitely on the low end, at my employer we spend around 20k per server, that’s for 256 cores, 2tb of ram and some nvme.

There is a special place in hell for those fuckers

It’s not great with a family, each with multiple devices. Years ago I used it with a central MySQL db, but it was a huge pain and frequently broke with updates.

As mentioned by others, Jellyfin is an amazing alternative and I’ve been using it for a few years already.