Same. I would definitely be one of the people complaining if I wasn’t getting it for free.

Here here!

Silo was really good! Can’t wait for season 2. I got hot for downloading Pretty In Pink for my wife. Hahaha!

Awesome! Seems like none of this is too difficult. I was also looking at Plex but I decided to go with Jellyfin because it’s FOSS.

Thanks!

Thanks. I’ll consider that. I used to run Ubuntu on a laptop but it’s been years since I’ve done anything with Linux.

Also…I’m wondering about that guide you linked for setting up Chromecast, because the Android app has a chromecast button on it. That guide says “Chromecast requires that HTTP traffic be encrypted into HTTPS with a valid certificate.” but I can cast media directly from my phone with an app called Local Cast and I can cast directly from my laptop with VLC. Are those using HTTPS with a cert? I will test this out once I get it up and running.

Yeah I’ve been doing the same way for so long and honestly I don’t have any problems other than the couple of times I forgot to enable the VPN and got a slap on the wrist from my ISP. The shows I like to watch are spread out across so many services that it would cost me a fortune to subscribe to them all, so I do use eztv a lot and before that RARBG (RIP).

I seriously need to learn all of this stuff. For years I’ve just been doing the same thing. Turn on my VPN, find the movie or show I want on whatever torrent site, download it with qBittorent and then hook my laptop up to my receiver and play it with VLC.

Yep. I’m paying like $11 a month and I can play nearly any song I want at anytime from anywhere I am. I haven’t pirated music in years. On a side note, I would happily pay some reasonable dollar amount to do the same with TV and movies and never pirate anything again!

That’s pretty easy to imagine based solely on statistical data.

So should I run it directly on the potato or run the portable version from a thumb drive inserted into the potato?

“Private Internet Access has verified in court multiple times that we keep no logs.”

If they’ve gone to court on multiple occasions and proven they keep no logs, that’s pretty compelling evidence that they’re telling the truth. I guess you could never be 100% sure though.

I’ve been using PIA for years. I didn’t know about that. If I were to switch to a new company, any recommendations?

If the native app was better, you wouldn’t have millions of users using 3rd party apps. Apollo alone had 1.5 million users.