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.
This is a $1 dollar increase from what I was paying. But soon subscribers will be $15/month, then $20/month. I wonder how much of deezer’s income actually goes to the artists.
I’ve been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I’m looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will...
Spooky season will be over soon but we still have time to binge some Halloween favorites so share your favorite scary movie recommendations in this thread.
No One Will Save You for fantastic alien abduction with 1 sentence spoken the entire movie. Was incredibly tense!
Evil Dead Rise for balls to the walls crazy good possession that IMO is the best of the franchise. A lot of gore and unnerving creepiness.
Barbarian for something very unique. Don’t watch any trailers, just read a small plot and go in blind. It’s a movie made by an OG YouTube skit comedy channel. It has a bit of everything, including comedy, moments so tense you have to remember to breathe, to uneasy fly on the wall moments.
The night scenes were so good because they invented a new method for filming night scenes. If I recall, it’s filmed at the same time with 2 exposures, the lighter for the subjects and darker for the sky, overlayed.
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.
Recently learned about this stuff on a Lemmy World post and I thought I’d move the conversation here since they’ve been fussy about DB0 in the past....
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.
My solution that took awhile to figure out is fantastic IMO. Docker containers unprivileged, with nobody permissions, with their own IPs on macvlan, with matching vlan and good firewall rules. A docker network proxy container, Traefik, Authelia, CrowdSec, and a CrowdSec Traefik Bouncer containers.
I have a very short equipment rack installed in my server closet. It is only 16 inches deep, fine for most networking uses, but not great for most rack-mount server cases....
I’ve started missing out on events just because I am not in the group chats my friends are having on there. That is where I draw my limit. I need to start using Messenger....
I trust the provider, and it’s a small amount I’m willing to risk. Just don’t want to throw it away, be frustrated, or get involved with shady people....
Do they accept Litecoin? If buying something “shady,” then Monero. Then it’s just searching for an exchange with/out a wallet that charges a fee % that you find acceptable.
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.
Once a pirate, always a pirate (discuss.tchncs.de)
What is the name of your cleaning robot?
What name have you chosen for your robot and why?...
Using the "frog in boiling water" technique (lemmy.world)
This is a $1 dollar increase from what I was paying. But soon subscribers will be $15/month, then $20/month. I wonder how much of deezer’s income actually goes to the artists.
Pi-Hole or something else for network ad blocking?
I’ve been aware of pi-hole for a while now, but never bothered with it because I do most web browsing on a laptop where browser extensions like uBlock origin are good enough. However, with multiple streaming services starting to insert adds into my paid subscriptions, I’m looking to upgrade to a network blocker that will...
Happy Halloween! Share your favorite scary movie suggestions! (prd-rteditorial.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com)
Spooky season will be over soon but we still have time to binge some Halloween favorites so share your favorite scary movie recommendations in this thread.
Those who are self hosting at home, what case are you using? (Looking for recommendations)
TLDR: If you were building a NAS for 8 HDDs and 1 SSD today, what case would you use?...
How do Sonarr / related services work?
Recently learned about this stuff on a Lemmy World post and I thought I’d move the conversation here since they’ve been fussy about DB0 in the past....
How to secure (podman or docker) containers for public-facing hosting?
Context...
Suggestions for Short Rack Mount Case
I have a very short equipment rack installed in my server closet. It is only 16 inches deep, fine for most networking uses, but not great for most rack-mount server cases....
Using Facebook/Meta Messenger on Android
I’ve started missing out on events just because I am not in the group chats my friends are having on there. That is where I draw my limit. I need to start using Messenger....
What's the best way to pay an online merchant using Crypto for someone who has never bought/used it before?
I trust the provider, and it’s a small amount I’m willing to risk. Just don’t want to throw it away, be frustrated, or get involved with shady people....
Least Shitty Version of Windows 8/10/11?
I’m in a rare bizarre situation and this is a desperate attempt to not buy any new hardware....