You want to avoid it everywhere possible of course.

But when the GF tries to use Jellyfin on whatever random device that doesn’t have the codec support to play it, it is nice to have.

A mini PC is a good middle ground. Mostly for the video transcode and machine learning power.

To be fair he was also a dumbass in that regard and repeatedly refused to get actually treated in favor of holistic bullshit.

Iirc he’d have lived quite a lot longer if he had.