It reduces your available peers. You can’t connect to other people with closed ports, one side needs to be open.

It isn’t a huge deal with popular torrents, but it can cause problems with unpopular/old stuff.

You can get a USB IR receiver and use software like LIRC to map the inputs of basically any remote you have. Setting it up takes a little effort, but it works great when it’s done.

I would sell a few of them to shore up the budget, then use those funds to build a NAS box. You can buy everything other than drives for a few hundred, less if you have spare parts sitting around.

This is the fucking dream. Lidarr is serviceable to get a library going, but we could do so much better.

Lidarr is the corresponding program for music, setup is almost identical to what you’re already running. And if you use Prowlarr to manage your indexers, it also works with Lidarr.

If you go to your torrent client and disable the missing file, it should get reported as “complete” to the *arrs. Manual and annoying, but it works.

Exactly. Doesn’t matter if they’re wired or wifi, or where they are, as long as they’re on the same network you’re fine.

If you’re only trying to use Jellyfin at home, you don’t need any reverse proxy or domain. All you need is for both devices to be on the same network, and for the Raspberry Pi to have a fixed internal IP address (through your router settings).

On the Shield, you just give the Jellyfin app that IP address and port number (10.0.0.X:8096) to connect and you’re good to go.

You don’t even need to purchase a domain, free dynDNS services (DuckDNS or similar) are good enough for Jellyfin and the like.

For a NAS, you’re usually concerned with capacity first. And you can’t buy a 20TB m2.

I’ve had this happen a couple times, and contacting the seller directly has gotten it sorted out. Even if they seem sketchy, they don’t want to take a hit to their reputation. If they don’t want to help, I’d escalate to eBay support.

If neither of them work out, then I’d try contacting WD. A refurb with no warranty is better than nothing at that point.

A Zero would probably be way underpowered for the job. I’ve used a Pi 4 in the past and it worked ok, but choked occasionally.

My actual recommendation would be a small x86 box, something like a Lenovo Thinkcentre Tiny. You can get them used for about the price of a Pi, and they’ll be much more reliable.

It isn’t just the cover art, they also A/B descriptions. And some of them are so different they’re basically lies.

Same here. But on the bright side, at least data hoarding doesn’t take up a ton of physical space.

There are some SFW uses too. I use it when I play things my nieces and nephews like, so they don’t flood me with party invites.

You got a remux, which is uncompressed. You can turn those off in Radarr to avoid those surprises.

If you want to fine-tune your file sizes (and quality) further, you can set up custom formats and quality profiles. The Trash Guides explain it well, the “HD Blu-ray + Web” profile on that page is a solid starting point. It’ll usually grab 6-12GB movies, but you can tweak it if you want them smaller.

They’re also surprisingly easy to upgrade for their size. Swapped RAM, CPU, and hard drive in about 15 minutes total on one of mine.

Yup, it’s called Lidarr. It isn’t quite as nice as the tools for movies/TV, but it gets the job done.

Install them, point them to your media folder, tell them what your preferred quality level is, and they’ll handle everything else.

The Trash Guides are probably the best resource to get running.

I’ve been happy with DuckDNS. Free, simple, and reliable.

If it was me, I’d just go without parity temporarily and grab another drive for that when I could. A new system should be safe enough for a while, just not forever.

Unless you’re also running a torrent client, you don’t really need a VPN at all. The *arrs aren’t doing anything that needs to be hidden, and Usenet is fine with just SSL.

You can interact with a single container if you need to, not just the whole compose group. docker compose restart jellyfin works for your example, and “restart” can be swapped for stop or start as needed.

Splitting compose files can be a good idea, but it isn’t always necessary.

If it’s anything like how the US deals with these things: tobacco is heavily taxed, vaping is taxed far less. They don’t give a shit who uses nicotine, just that they do so in a profitable way.

You could do it on the NAS. Qbittorrent is probably the highest-recommended client right now, and it has a web UI that can be accessed from any other device on your network.

That said, I run one of the tiny Thinkcentres as a dedicated torrent and *arrs box. I think I paid $30 for that one, and it has more than enough power for the task.

Given the recent issues with ads, I wouldn’t recommend anything Android/GoogleTV based. A USFF PC will give you better performance for less money, especially if you buy used. You can find 1L X86 boxes for $30-60 on eBay that are perfect for the job.

Jellyseerr doesn’t do music, but Ombi does. I run them both, with Ombi set for music only.

Readarr goes through fits of not working very well, usually linked to issues with the metadata provider. My tip would be to ditch it entirely and use LazyLibrarian instead. It’s a lot more reliable, and has all of the same functionality.

I prefer private, but only a few that aren’t to crazy with the rules. Ratio is easy enough to maintain with some freeleech torrents set to seed forever, all other torrents get set to whatever the minimum seed requirements are. The selection, quality, and speed are so much better that I don’t mind putting in that little bit of effort. Public trackers are my last resort.

That said, any torrents are secondary to Usenet. That subscription is worth every damn penny.

The easiest/safest way would be to adjust your plan, even though it would cost a bit more and feel kinda shitty. I’m pretty sure they offer an unlimited bandwidth “upgrade” for residential plans at like $10-15/mo, and all business plans should be uncapped.

You could try to spoof your traffic somehow, but I could never get that to work reliably when I had caps. And the overage fees were worse than just paying ahead of time.

FileBot isn’t really necessary, the *arrs can handle renaming just fine with custom rules and formatting. It’s just turned off by default. The only thing you’d need to add is subtitle downloading, and Bazarr does a better job of that anyway.

Frequent enough that I’ve gone back to LL, even though I like Readarr better when it works. Goodreads isn’t going to change the API, Readarr probably isn’t going to change providers.

You have some options here. Your new internet doesn’t mean you can’t torrent from home. If you’re using a VPN (you really should be) then your ISP port forwarding doesn’t even matter. You just choose a VPN provider that offers port forwarding on their end, like Proton, and use that port for qbit. The only real advantage to setting up at your parent’s place would be if their connection was faster or more stable.

As for the server, the arrs can handle everything. They have settings (off by default) to rename and tag all of your files, based on rules you define. It’s pretty easy to set it up to fully automate all of that processing busywork, so you just request things and wait for them to show up in Jellyfin.

Look into Caddy instead if you just need something simple for outside access. All you need is a DynDNS service (duckdns is easy), a few lines worth of Caddy config to point that address to your internal ports, port forwarding 80 & 443 to the machine running Caddy, and you’re good to go. If you follow the documentation, you’ll be running in 10 minutes.

Yes, that’s how it’s supposedto work if they’re all on the same Docker network (same yaml). In practice, it can be flaky and you’re much better off using ip:port.

Docker is a cleaner solution for split tunneling. Container for the VPN (gluetun), and container for qbit bound to the VPN container for network access. You still need to manage the listening port when Proton changes it, but that’s easy enough.

If you set it up right, it also doubles as a bulletproof killswitch since qbit can’t see any other network.

You can get Usenet very cheap. I pay $6/month (less than my VPN for torrents), but there are cheaper options available. And it’s worth every penny. Downloads are much faster, more content is available, no dead links, no share ratios to worry about, no VPN needed, the list goes on.

It does feel kinda silly paying money to pirate, but you get over that as soon as you start using it.

None of that applies here, FC6 is just going into maintenance mode. Online services remain up, no degradation of service, the game is available and playable.

Yup. For the server admin, maybe 10 minutes of reading and another 10-20 for setup. For the users (if any), they just need to input an IP or URL along with logging in.

And it doesn’t rely on external servers to connect like Plex does, which is always a bonus.

They’re also adding an API version check on devices, which will affect old apps that have gotten around the store checks. Only affects devices that can upgrade to 14, but it’s a solid step.