I gave it a shot as well. Agree, it works great!

In this scenario, your dad just installs Jellyfin and logs in.

You’ve set up the reverse proxy to your server, its transparent to him.

You can update DNS records automatically so its also a fire and forget kind of thing.

But I guess, give your data to the corpos because its easier.

There are a ton of reverse proxy options that manage the cert for you

A reverse proxy is a trick? That’s like standard practice for web servers.

Tailscale would work as another user said. You could run TOR too. I’ve got a TOR service that I can SSH into for “plan b” if my VPN is down. It doesn’t need port forwarding.