Not exactly what you asked, but for old-school TV I use Tvheadend and it is not a Jellyfin Plugin. Instead, everything (including Jellyfin) plugs into Kodi in our Household and relatives.

• Oldschool TV (Scheduling, Recordings, Live TV) is run via Tvheadend and a USB TV Cable adapter.
• Youtube runs via a self-hosted Invidious instance.
• My own Music lies on a NAS, indexed by Kodi and Jellyfin.
• Some TV Shows and Movies lie also on a NAS indexed by Kodi and Jellyfin.

Media is scattered over various places and services and Kodi pulls them all together.

• TV via Tvheadend=Added to Kodi via the Tvheadend Plugin.
• Youtube/Invidious=Added to Kodi via the Invidious Plugin.
• Jellyfin=Added to Kodi via the Invidious Plugin.
• Other media that´s on the NAS=Added to Kodi via Library scanning.
• Mediathekview=Added to Kodi via the Mediathekview Plugin.

Kodi serves all Media with a unified interface, no matter what it is or where it comes from. When using the TV we see Kodi and we pick what we want to consume.

Additionally, other family members can connect via Wireguard to my network, have one of those old Ex-Android TV Boxes on the TV on which Kodi (CoreElec or Libreelec) with the necessary Plugins is installed and they have the same unified experience. No need to “learn” how to use different UIs / Software for different Media. For the consumer it is all in one place --> Kodi :-)

I am back playing since a few weeks after bring absent for 5 years. Got myself Odyssey finally and do exobiology and you can build your own Colonies now!

There was a brief, very sad time when Jon left Opera and it started to go down the drain. His Opera Browser was the first and only Browser I was happy to pay money for. I was super excited when he started Vivaldi and use it since day one. It is fantastic and I hope they manage to keep out the toxic Google changes to Chromium, although I do not have high hopes, because Browser engines nowadays seem to be super complex and difficult to maintain. We`ll see… I will stick to Vivaldi as long as possible.

Thanks for pointing out Simplex Chat, I did not know that it exists. It looks very interesting, but reading more about it, they will have to implement some kind of business model in the future. My fear is, that even when self-hosting, some features will be behind a paywall in the future, so it is not a solution I would switch to… switching to a new messenger is a long-term endeavour. It is hard to convince friends to move over too, let alone switching to a new one every few years. That’s near impossible. But the technology of Simplex looks really interesting and reading through the Docs it makes the impression that it is very polished.

Thank you very much for the technical insight. It makes clear why it is how it is and it is good to see that you can host Activitypub services on Subdomains… so the issue I thought that exists is not that big of an issue anymore. Also I love the discussion under your post, very interesting!

Thanks also to everyone else who replied!

Sure, ESXi would have been interesting. I thought about that, but I did not test it because it is not interesting to me anymore from a business perspective. And I am not keen of using it in my Homelab, so I left that out and use that time to do something relaxing. It’s my holiday right now :-)