Ha! I bought a plex lifetime pass years ago while on sale. Maybe one day I’ll switch to jellyfin- maybe sooner than I think.

On a positive note synologys brtfs is pretty cool. If anything, it’s one less thing I don’t need to worry about.

They’ve been implementing this for a while with some of their models. There’s an excellent script that is actively maintained to get around their shit policies.

I’m only using a Synology (ds1823xs+) because I got a killer deal. (Sometimes I still wish I went with unraid.) I’ve never encountered any issues using unapproved hard drives with this script.

https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db

This is what I do. I sleep better at night knowing I costing them a few cents by only using them as a search engine.