Plex has the "luxury" of auto-configuring my router and somehow mapping its IP so I can "just connect" from everywhere.

Let's be reasonable. If you're going to be away from home I'm sure you don't need all of your content "at a moments notice".

If you do you wherever you are that's you're new home!

In this instance my advice would be to get a small SBC or RasPi + some external storage which you could load up + rotate your content when you travel.

For me I'd add a "travel router" which provides:

• Expansion of number of devices that can access the internet(hotels)
• Minimization of security + privacy configs across devices as it can be setup on one - the router
• Access to SBC/Raspi(and my content) on the LAN

Apart from gaining relevant experience using these "beefy" boys I can't fathom why pple go for them.

A modern tiny/mini/micro PC, as Patrick Kennedy from ServeTheHome calls them, from the likes of Dell, Lenovo, Minisforums, ASRock, Beelink etc should outperform blades not only on compute but tasks that are now being offloaded such as encryption, media codecs etc

You could break even in 1-2 years on elecricity costs alone(depending where you are)!

Stop trying to access non-related work things on corporate networks! Use you own travelling router/mobile tethering etc

If you're abusing this policy also now anything you do/create on "their" computers is/can be visible to them and in the case of creation they can claim IP!