That's a problem with many "choosen one" stories, see Star Wars. Only someone coming from the right bloodline can change things, everyone else is just an accessory.
Of course HP takes this to eleven, after all it traces actual British society of recent and past times.
Social contract has been broken, why should they keep abiding by the terms?
Well TBH my familiarity with Jellyfin is rather limited, I installed it, it works, I don't mess with it.
The only problems I've had is when some friends had trouble logging in, which was solved with a cache and cookies cleanup. At least the only problems I know of: turns out my friends don't complain when it doesn't work.
I know that Jellyfin CAN serve without transcoding (you can disable it on a per-user basis IIRC), but as to why it decides you can't, I have no idea. Have you tried filing a bug report? Sometimes it's a bug, sometimes they give you a solution. Sometimes both.
For my first server, after moving on from 2 raspberrys to a Proxmox host, I went with an embedded Asrock MB, passively cooled so you know it wasn't drawing much power, still had multiple SATA ports and with the right sticks I could get 32GB RAM in.
Seems better to me than a minipc where you have no expandability, especially no chance for RAID.
Server to TV should be local, why are you transcoding? I watch 4K files on my 4K TV without issues, with Kodi because I don't need Jellyfin for that.
I use Jellyfin to stream when I'm outside my home, and transcoding 4K is what takes a lot of resources.
I guess
That doesn't stop you from accumulating flatpaks and such
How long until billionaires are powerful enough to start tearing the US into fiefdoms?
Got sciatica a few years ago, it was sudden and excruciating. Luckily it went away by itself, and so far it hasn't come back.
I couldn't even lift my foot 10cm
at least that money won't go into bombing Gaza children
Bear in mind that most production environments here in Italy for example, don't have air conditioning, even some offices don't. Companies sometimes do summer hours, where they begin an hour or two earlier to take advantage of the morning cool, but when the night's lowest temperatures are above 30°C, it's still brutal.
You sure about that?