Seriously? I’m subscribed to eweka and news hosting for nntp, as well as nzbgeek and nzbfinder for my indexers. Nzbgeek has a lifetime subscription option. You can get anything you’re looking for. It’s a simple subscription process.
What are you considering as ‘top tier’ that won’t take a subscription?
Some sites for reference:
https://reddit.com/r/usenet/w/indexers?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Here’s my advice. The most important things are that you have a free GPU slot and another PCIE slot on whatever you get. You’re going to want a GPU for transcoding when disk space gets tight. You want the extra PCIE slot for a sas card. Disk shelves are surprisingly cheap, and you can keep adding disk that way. They daisy chain.
As far as the OS, I’m partial to Unraid and Truenas but seriously, anything you are comfortable with will work.
Sure, but the thing is Jellyfin and Plex both work pretty close to what I want without having to customize anything. I’m happy for everyone that likes Kodi, it’s just not for me. I’ve used Kodi on and off from back when it only ran on the Xbox as XBMC. I know what it’s capable of. I just don’t want to put that effort into it.
I think BF hits most of these.
I haven’t done it other than for testing, but you can pair a fire Stick remote to a PC using Bluetooth and it works with Kodi.