You’re not paying for software maintenance, you’re paying a subscription service to a private company that has already decided to cut back on features that others also thought they were paying to maintain.
If you want to actually pay for software maintenance, migrate to Jellyfin and pay them instead, rather than filtering your payments through middle managers and shareholders first.
No matter how bad someone might think Jellyfin is, it is a million times better than subjecting yourself to endless ad slop on one of these ““free movies”” websites.
What version do you run?👀👀
to medicine > to crack
You’d download legit trial versions of adobe shit and use GenP to disable the trial and call home functionalities. Brilliant bit of kit before I moved to Linux.
It’s surprising how slow open source is on replicating Roku. So many manufacturers could be using Linux to bypass androidTV and RokuOS bullshit. I suppose AndroidTV is good enough even despite that.
There’s a bunch of technical debt passed off as features, too. Like, Nextcloud runs background tasks as a cron job which is something I’ve never seen with other hosted services. It’s probably a holdover from before containerised applications were ubiquitous but honestly it comes off as jank.
Also, I wonder if there would be an argument for a Nextcloud fork that doubled down on PHP by utilising something like Laravel to put all the rendering on the server side. Right now it uses VueJS which is fine, but PHP is really best suited for server side rendering that you just can’t leverage when using a front end framework in JavaScript.
the new name is pretty slick so not all that bad
Private trackers usually have a request mechanism that you can use. I currently use seedpool and digitalcore which let you request media after you’ve spent enough time seeding media
I wonder if Facebook will be quietly watching this considering their very public consumption of AA recently.
Cloudflare is known for being unreliable with how and when it enforces the ToS (especially for paying customers!). Just because they haven’t cracked down on everyone doesn’t mean they won’t arbitrarily pick out your account from thousands of others just to slap a ban on. There’s inherent risk to it
Even just basic API versioning would be sufficient. .NET offers a bunch of ways to handle breaking changes in APIs
the thing with DMCA is that it’s super easy to issue one but potentially more costly to challenge, especially if your appeals to the host fail and your only option is court.
Hosts are scared of facing liability for approving appeals so they’ll just ignore them (unless the victim is a big name that can muster popular support) so as the DMCA victim you’re usually fucked
MergerFS and SnapRAID could be good for you. It’s not immediate parity like with ZFS RAID (You run a regular cronjob to calculate RAID parity) but it supports mismatched drive sizes, expansion of the pool at any time, and some other features that should be good for a media server where live parity isn’t critical.
Proxmox and TrueNAS are nice because they help manage ZFS and other remote management within a nice UI but really you can just use Debian with SSH and do the same stuff. DietPi has a few nice utilities on top of Debian (DDNS manager and CLI fstab utilities, for example)but not super necessary.
Personally I use TrueNAS but I also used DietPi/Debian for years and both have benefits and it really matters what your workflow is. OMV supports everything you want too (incouding SnapRAID) but takes extra setup which put me off.
Docker or LXC containers won’t hurt your performance btw. There’s supposedly some tiny overhead but both are designed to use the basic Linux system as much as possible: they’re way faster than on WSL. For hardware acceleration it’ll be deferred to the GPU for most things and there’s lots of documentation to set it up. The best thing about docker is that every application is kept separate to eachother - updates can be done incrementally and rollbacks are possible too!
I use nginx proxy manager and expose it behind a subdomain entry on cloudflare (though you can use any DDNS service i bet). NPM handles the security so I get HSTS and HTTPS on Plex and Jellyfin without either needing it set themselves.
From there anyone can access Jellyfin/Plex via my subdomains (plex.mydomain.com or watch.mydomain.com at the mo)
You may have to use port forwarding or a reverse proxy but the end result is functionally identical to plex. IMO the server detection feature of Plex is overengineered for what it is, and I just sit it behind my reverse proxy and connect to it that way.
As for music and apps yeah Plex is pretty nice, but even for audio you could use other services if Jellyfin didn’t fit your needs like Navidrome
not crazy at all. assuming you’re careful and back up your data !
Usually they give users points of credit to download more torrents: Users that don’t seed will burn through their download credits and won’t be able to download.
Other trackers will also give you points for every hour you seed a torrent (usually X points per gigabyte per hour) which encourages seeding even if the given file isn’t as popular, or so popular that other seeders choke you out of uploading to other users.
I never got solvarr to work sadly but your mileage may vary. I ended up stalking /r/opensignups til decent trackers came through for my media
sportsurge.net does f1 and many other sports, listed 30mins before start time usually.
diet pi counts right? most of the software in their managed repo is a straightforward install and largely preconfigured for daily use. It was my first server OS and im very fond of it