Also Bandcamp.

In Switzerland it technically is legal. Only hosting for others is illegal.

Ah, didn’t notice the two. There was a short period the subtitles on Plex had the warning the API was going to change backed into them.

And Plex’s on-demand subtitle download.

I was OK with the ads. Just a message before the dialogue and a message after the movie dialogue was over.

But paying for subs? Good luck.

No no, I can read the audience. He can get a pre-built NAS from the likes of Synology or QNAS with a nifty simplified web interface. They are very low maintenance and there are detailed, step-by-step guides to turn them into streaming monsters.

Can you get better hardware for less money? If you go the DIY route without a doubt. But sometimes you want a box with a bunch of drives to store your movies and serve them without a hassle and you can buy that.

My only complaint is Synology skimps too much on the RAM.

Unless you’re running a full network setup like Linus

I’m not sure I understand what that means but yes, a NAS is not indispensable, but it’s a great convenience. Pre-NAS that’s how I rolled until I didn’t want to have to run my full-powered gaming PC all the time.

I got that but wondered if he knew what an NAS can be. It doesn’t need to be complicated but you are right: he can just add a bunch of HDDs to his current PC and install the necessary server apps. But I doubt someone who doesn’t want to bother with an added NAS has a PC that can host a bunch of extra SATA drives.

Get a Synology NAS, put HDDs in it, easily install Torrent client and media server software, and enjoy.

A NAS is a box for HDDs, a low-powered computer to drive them, an OS, and some bits of software you choose to run on it.

In my country, they are surprisingly conservative socially-wise so meh.

Mostly right. Microsoft showed off how .NET 1.0 worked on FreeBSD but it was absolutely pointless since they didn’t provide commercial licenses to run it on anything else but Windows until .NET Core.

And C# now can be taken off the donkey and mounted on a penguin and works rather well.