Tailscale has native clients for all the major TV OS’. And I’m not whitelisting public networks for my friends’ convenience. If they’re traveling, they use tailscale with their mobile device or not at all. If you’re talking about IP spoofing that’s not a realistic vulnerability concern for a home media server.

At least I know the potential attack vectors for my Jellyfin server and can mitigate potential security concerns.

Tailscale and IP whitelisting are both viable options

No, but that’s easy to setup with Tailscale or a myriad of other solutions for free.

How is Plex significantly better than Jellyfin at those things? I can just create a user in 2 seconds on the admin dashboard for Jellyfin, set a temporary password and my friend can log in and change it to whatever they want.

I can even limit the streaming bitrate to the account if I need to avoid bandwidth issues.

Same. I actually built my first computer a year before prices went super saiyan but it sounds like you got an even better deal. My system is:

• Intel 14100 - $98
• 2×16 DDR4 Corsair 3200 - $57
• Asrock B660 - $98
• Corsair 80+ bronze PSU - $70
• 500GB Crucial SSD - $37
• Seagate 28TB HHD - $368

So $728 plus a cheapo case. Today it would be $1171 just casually picking the same parts from eBay, Amazon, and Newegg. That’s a 160% jump.

OP just posting to show off their 64gigs of RAM, 1TB boot SSD, and 26TB of platter storage.