I can’t access my Jellyfin library right now because the backend is apparently too old (wtf).

Are you using the binhex image by any chance? I had this same problem, just had to update it from the apps/community center page instead of from the docker page.

Going on 6Tb of movies and tv

Smarttube next has a fix for now

Unless I’m misunderstanding, I do believe it is that simple, yes.

Eh fuck it, what are they going to do, call the FBI on me? Employer certainly doesn’t care.

However I would prefer if there was a way to route the traffic through VPN.

It would almost certainly depend on what VPN and what TV you have, but I believe I’ve heard of native VPN apps that can be installed on Android TVs.

Jellyfin certainly has a little bit of wonk to it, but as far as basic functionality I find it just as easy as Plex.

I think the first decision to make is pre built vs DIY. The most common pre built solution would be something like Synology. You may start researching there and see if that would fit your needs, or what people do as alternatives.

I personally built one with a similar use case and use Unraid for my OS. The other normal option is TrueNAS.

With that budget you’ll be able to get a good result.

Honestly the reason is I thought that it was an easy way to fit my use case- I just may have misunderstood what it was capable of.

Just hoping private torrent sites and Usenet remain relatively unscathed. Honestly I’m surprised about how many of the big private trackers have lasted so long.

For project A, I’d look into tailscale. I’d advise against having home assistant open to the internet otherwise.

Don’t know anything about your other project, sorry.

Do not buy random TV boxes off AliExpress, like 80% of them are malware

“It’s like relying on unpaid labor when the company has nearly a billion dollars in revenue,” he added. Reddit reported revenue of $804 million in 2023, according to an earlier filing.

It’s not like that, it is that.

How do you handle discovering new music? That’s a big sticking point for me

Not so much refuse, but I don’t currently pirate games or music. The systems available to me are too convenient for me to waste time fucking around with piracy.

The download page for qbittorrent says that MacOS is “barely supported”. Is docker reasonably accessible for Mac? You could use that to get qbittorrent.

Assuming you’re watching on a smart TV, can you just screen share/screen cast from a phone or tablet?

This is the way

Yeah it’s relatively easy to reuse most webcam cameras, you just have to get them connected to a USB cable, then most computers will immediately recognize them as cameras.

I usually just harvest usable parts like the hard drive and camera and call it a day.

Alternatively, if you’re able to plug an external monitor in and get it to work for setup, you could install some sort of Linux distro on it and run it headless for lots of different purposes.

1. I think telegram is more secure than discord. Could be wrong.
2. I wouldn’t get torrents off discord either.

It depends on a lot of things. On your end you can make sure you’re “connectable” and have the right ports open, and have a decent internet connection. Beyond that there’s not much to do.

I’ve had problems with various anime due to disagreements between the metadata and how my indexers choose to package “seasons”. It is what it is, nothing is perfect.

Card based roguelites are one of my favorite genres and StS is maybe the best one. Wish there was more content.

Lately, I’ve been having a bit of fun with Monster Train on steam.

My two cents, piracy is not necessarily more complicated than it ever was at its simplest, but the potential for enhanced automation and security is MUCH higher than it used to be. That’s the complex part.

I’m one of the lucky private tracker people. If I wasn’t in there, I’d go all in on Usenet.

I mainly use torrents but do have Usenet as a backup. I solely have a 4tb block also from NewsGroupDirect. I got it for like 7$ a couple years ago and am still working through it. It’ll last a while. I’ve been pretty satisfied with availability and retention, although YMMV. if I could give advice it’s that a lot of places do really good holiday/black Friday deals.

It is not a joke, as one of the most recent posts by this user uses the K slur for Jewish people. I don’t know why you’d assume it’s a joke in any case, anyway; it certainly wouldn’t be a good one…

I’ve got a homemade NAS running unRAID and my arr suite/Jellyfin/qbittorrent, and an orangepi running the orangepiOS (flavor of Ubuntu I think?) Which handles home assistant and associated containers .

*arrs / Jellyfin on a custom NAS running unRAID

For my daily driver tv, it’s an android TV with the projektivity launcher (maybe spelled that wrong, but I’m pretty sure there’s a k in there). It is a huge improvement over the stock launcher.

I’m also working on a media TV for my wife that’s actually a NUC running mint. Suboptimal distro choice but I want her to be able to use it as a desktop if she needs. On top of that is flex launcher to launch Jellyfin, YouTube, steam link, etc.

I had tried to make KDE bigscreen work but just could not get installed for the life of me.

Yeah do it there is basically no downside. I agree with others that you may have trouble with the ads in streaming services. On my android TV, YouTube ads, for instance, aren’t blocked by pihole.

I use a fractal design node 304. It’s pretty cool, but has all the limitations and problems you would expect from a case that size.

I think most people will tell you that there’s no need to use a VPN with Usenet. I personally do not. However, if one was to put any of the containers behind the VPN, I think that SABnzbd would be the one to do it with.

I’m not a Usenet expert so feel free to correct me.

Another place where this view falls short is that a person doesn’t need to have NPD to act like a narcissist on a regular basis, the same way a person can be volatile and not meet the criteria for BPD.

A lot of people use The trash guides

The Servarr Wiki is useful as well

I had a similar problem recently on windows. Qbittorrent (version 4.5.3 ish? Don’t quote me) bound to paid proton VPN. Torrents would be added automatically by sonarr, but remain “stalled” until I restarted qbittorrent with administrator permissions. It would work for a day before it stalled out again and I had to manually restart it. Happened for months. Never figured out why.

If one wants the NAS functionality then yeah unRAID is great. If not I think they’d be served as well or better with Ubuntu and docker (ideally with portainer UI)

Why not proton drive?

Yeah I have an orangepi5 running pihole and a suite of home assistant related docker containers and it’s been working flawlessly. Even has an m.2 slot

Edit: actually read the OP lol. For Jellyfin I think I’d opt for something a bit more powerful than an SBC.

Newpipe is pretty effective for me on Android.

I’m 32 and this thread has started to make me crumble into dust.

Lol glad you had a good experience with the PS2 OP.