Does a Firestick require WAN access? I know my PS4 calls out of the network pretty regularly, but I’m a little hesitant to add more data harvesting into my network. I haven’t ruled it out, though.

I chose the second option after my new fridge got too friendly with my MIL’s phone. Nothing against her, but I didn’t want to give it the chance to do that with a stranger.

The only reason that Plex has survived every service purge on my system is because Jellyfin doesn’t have a PS4 app. Every other device that accesses my media is going through Jellyfin. I have my PS4 connected to Jellyfin via DLNA, but asking my wife to give up the polished (turd) Plex app for the file-picker front end in the media player app isn’t a viable option for me.

Lemmy probably isn’t the target audience for this, here’s the steps to bypass the MS account requirement when setting up W11:

• Configure your keyboard, but before you select your wifi network press Shift+(Fn)+F10 to open Command Prompt.

• Type in the following command and press enter. Your computer will reboot: oobe\bypassnro

• After the reboot, configure your keyboard and location settings, and click the option at the bottom of the page to say that you don’t want to connect to the internet

• Click the link on the next page to “Continue with limited setup”, then follow the prompts to enter a username and password.