Cant paywalls be bypassed by just using reader mode?

I’ve tried all the ways, and Bottles was the easiest by far. Make a bottle for games from the high seas, using bottles’ preset for games. Once created change the wine from Soda to whatever you want or just use Soda.

Then inside the bottle look for install dependencies and grab things like vc redist, and dot net. Once that’s done under the bottles’ UI choice “Run Executable” and chose the .exe for the game’s installer. If it doesn’t work as expected, click the cog/gear and select the checkbox for “Run in Terminal” to see where it goes wrong and search online for what fix is needed.

The only time I had to troubleshoot with terminal, was for a mspatcha.dll problem. It was an easy fix: the bottle has a Legacy Wine Tools > Configuration > Libraries, where I found mspatcha listed, then changed it to “Native then Built in.”

Hope that helps.

Any chance of joining a private tracker, or getting started with usenet/newsgroups?

Trash guides is what I used to get set up, very good guides + recyclarr!

Not sure if it’s exactly what you’re after, but Unifi gateways can install NextDNS with a script provided by NextDNS. It’s all the same lists as Pi-Hole, and possibly more intelligent ones, too. Bonus points are it makes every device in your home use encrypted DNS, as well!

I’m using it on a Dream Machine Pro, and the new Cloud Gateway Ultra.

Chiming in to say I’ve had the *arr stack, jellyfin, and jellyseerr combo for about a year now. Definitely worth the time to set it up! Jellyseerr is really amazing.

Oh my god this is disgusting. Which site had it? There’s just sooo many of them, I need to know which one specifically to avoid.

Right click the game in your Steam Library -> Properties -> Toggle include in VR library.

Unraid!

Traefik + CrowdSec + Authelia ftw

Sounds familiar. Unraid? 🤠

Unraid does an excellent job at this. I helped a friend setup a rack mounted server, it runs home assistant, some other containers, and a VM for him to work in, or play games. AMD GPU being passed through.

Same setup minus jellyfin. You can play directly from your server/nas using NFS, and Kodi will scrape for the meta data and match the show/movie. Now I only use Jellyfin for when I’m out of the house. Worth noting it also does Atmos!

Would HIGHLY recommend the oDroid N2+ with CoreELEC!

Bonus, if you use any *Arr programs, they can also sync to Kodi, for notifications on media added, and to sync and clean Kodi’s database for deleted media.

I’ve been rocking recyclarr now for almost a year. Was a pain in the ass to figure out the config, but very nice automate another piece off the Arr machine.

Unraid is the GOAT when it comes to being headless for docker. They know how to walk the fine line of “this is too much. It’s bloat,” and “this is minimal and bare bones.” I seriously can’t hype them enough, and can’t do justice to describing their ease of use.

I just read that email today, and then saw the Lemmy thread. 😭

I have an oDroid N2+ with CoreELEC, which is Linux for the sole purpose of booting directly into Kodi and only that. It plays content stored on my home server locally, without any transcoding. Works with my Atmos setup and can do everything except Dolby Vision.

Odroid N2+ with CoreElec/Kodi

Adguard home is like pihole, but has built in encrypted DNS options. For easy mode NextDNS.

They pretty much all have the same block lists to choose from.

Chenbro makes quite a few ATX shallow rack mount cases. I have one and have no complaints.

I know you said you’re against rack mounting, but JUST in case:

I love the look and tidiness of a nice rack mount system. So I got a Chenbro 4U case. It’s perfect for reusing my old components, and it has a standard size area on the front to install a hot swap HDD cage.

My Tidal Hi-Fi quality with veteran discount hasn’t gone up a penny. It’s like $6-7 a month for the CD quality lossless.

I didn’t say it was the ONLY reason people pirate…

Gaben himself in interviews says all data points towards the best way to combat piracy is by providing a good service/convenience. The biggest reason for piracy isn’t money, surprisingly.

Personally I stopped sailing when streaming services just started. They were reasonably priced, they weren’t fragmented, and I could hop to another one for a month and catch up on their exclusives. Then they started becoming bastards in every single aspect of convenience and cost so back to sailing.

For me, all my programs are on an Unraid server which is where they download to.

An external drive would be fine, but I’m not too sure about a WD cloud one. You’d have to see if they monitor the traffic if accessed outside your home.

Best way I can describe them is piracy automation, and man do I love them. Been using an arr suite for almost a year now. Prowlarr -> Sonarr/Radarr <-> Recyclarr <-> Jellyfin <-> Jellyseerr -> Kodi player in my living room.

Jellyseerr pulls info from a ton of databases to give you show/movie recommendations. They show ratings from 4+ sites, all the info, links to trailers, etc. Best part is the request button. Find what you want? Press request and I have options for 720/1080 or 4k, depending on what I want.

That passes along the request to Sonarr or Radarr, depending on if a tv series or movie, respectively. They have an insane set of presets to give me exactly what I want in the best quality. You set for file sizes, filtering bad release groups, 265 vs 264, HDR, Atmos, etc. It grabs the best it can find and sends it to it’s downloader.

For me, that’s Sabnzbd. But I started usenet, and wouldn’t recommend it to someone new. For you it would be qBit, which is an excellent choice. Once downloaded it renames it to show all relevant info, like a tag system, but in the file name.

Once done, Radarr or Sonarr tell my Kodi and Jellyfin immediately that it’s complete, and with the new file name, they scrape online to find the content, get posters and pictures, info, trailer, and display attributes like HDR or atmos.

My Kodi player is a SoC oDroid N2+ running CoreElec. Minimal Linux meant only to boot into Kodi. The hardware’s only limitation is Dolby Vision, which is proprietary and requires a license to use on hardware you build.

Jellyfin is for if I want to watch something outside of my house. Like a personal, private Netflix.

Recyclarr is a Sonarr/Radarr settings sync. There’s a guide for them called Trash Guides, and it’s his arr app to sync his settings on a cron schedule. I found his settings/preferences to be perfect for me, and I just tweak Recyclarr settings for 4k downloads to prefer HDR and Atmos.

Prowlarr syncs with Sonarr and Radarr to tell them where they are going to search for releases. This is where you would put your Torrent Galaxy info.

That’s probably a lot for you to process and look up. Just comment if you have any questions. I’ve been running this setup overall issue free the entire time. All of them docker containers, and they check for updates nightly.

Lmao, crappy bootleg? It’s a guy modifying iso’s and removing all the bullshit or disabling it. I’ve used all the LTSB/Cs. X-lite is way better imo.

Windows X-lite is amazing, they have 10 and 11. All telemetry disabled, can install w/o defender, Cortana, and edge. Windows updates disabled, they provide update files to install themselves on their website. No ads in the start menu or anywhere. No bloat like Xbox or Store. Programs to help customize the UI a bit more.

It feels like a time machine back to XP, fresh install with nothing but bare bones Windows. You even have to install .net runtimes and c++ redists yourself.

It’s the only reason I haven’t rage quit Windows yet.

This got me curious since I never heard of people uploading Blu-ray iso. What do you need an iso for over the ripped movie? Burning to your own Blu-ray?

My Kodi has a built in scraper, and the few addon’s I need have been hassle free to install. 0 complaints.

I know android TV and Roku have jellyfin apps. But I would stay far away from LGs WebOS, and I haven’t heard of Tizen.

Id honestly buy w/e tv you think looks the best quality wise, then add a media player. For ease of use Nvidia shields are fantastic and run android TV, and work wonders with steam link.

What I did was a Sony OLED which has android TV and is fast enough to use streaming apps with little annoyance. And then I bought an odroid n2+ and installed coreELEC to use Kodi to stream media locally without needing to transcode. Then use jellyfin for if I want to stream outside the house.

Sadly my setup doesn’t have a solid Steam Link option, as the Sony TV isn’t powerful enough and there’s a delay in controller input and what you see on TV.

^ Hopefully some good ideas for you ^

Them defederating piracy communities was the nail in the coffin for me, just deleted account.

First was some weird shit about a porn community with petite girls and how it invites pedophiles. Even though that one doesn’t affect me, it’s still like uhhhhh, petite women exist…

Now this piracy shit. It’s like they’re pushing their morals and “concerns” onto every member without consent. Reddit still has piracy and petite subreddits, which paints somewhat of a picture of how non issue they are.

Hopefully shitjustworks is fast, stable, and doesn’t pull that shit.