Then I sign up and verify my email just to find out I need to be approved by an admin. An admin never approves me. I just wasted my time

Jellyfin us easy to run, but then when you are running it it just doesn’t have your files. Are they in the incorrect folder structure? Who knows

I literally just run Kodi and it just works, I can browse my folders and watch stuff

I was about to respond with this, you’re still in college in your early 20s. Most of us don’t get a four year degree done in actual four years

We got junior devs in their late 20s because they were doing grad school until like 28

I actually have a solution for your problem. Change distros:

https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=docker

all kinds of docker versions and you don’t have to do any manual steps

This space definitely needs competition

I like Matrix, but I do run into issues, like messages not being decrypted even though I verified my session. The average user is not ready for it. Or rather, it’s not ready for the average user