• cm0002@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      Jellyfin (Or Plex if you have to deal with the “Spouse Factor”) + Radarr and Sonarr + Usenet

      Perfection, no annoying physical media to worry about, but you still get to keep the data you…uhh…“acquired”

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          12 days ago

          It’s alright, but definitely needs a real good polish for more non-technical people.

          Unless it’s changed recently however, it’s been maybe a year since I last looked

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          11 days ago

          Biggest upside of Plex for me is the fact that you can set up secure streaming from anywhere with basically a single click. With Jellyfin, that is much more manual. Besides that, I think some people may like that Plex has its own set of TV Shows & movies to stream, though I’m certain that those are ad supported. (Haven’t used that feature & have moved to Jellyfin)

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          12 days ago

          Just a more polished interface, solid stability, real good transcoding and a client on just about everything that installs an app lmao

          If you and everyone you care about being on it have been fine with Jellyfin, then there’s absolutely no reason to switch

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          If you like Jellyfin, stick with it. Plex kept screwing up requiring me to wipe the database. And the people who run it keep adding shit nobody wants.

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          One reason is that if you ever have an issue with RealDebrid, you can expect them to post your name and email publicly online while talking a boat load of shit about you.

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            Why would you sign up for a piracy service with your government name and email address? RealDebrid thinks my name is Bizzle McLastname and my email address is [email protected]

            Still, bad business like that is definitely a compelling reason to switch regardless

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          12 days ago

          Those are dependent on the relevant torrent being available and seeded

          Jellyfin/Plex and Radarr/Sonarr + Usenet, you’ll have said file once downloaded for as long as you want, but requires considerably more storage space and torrents suck for older, more obscure stuff. Usenet doesn’t depend on seeders, and the big boys have something like 15+ years retention and you’ll always download them at full speed (no tons of seeders but slow upload speeds to worry about either)

          So it’s a matter of personal preference

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            11 days ago

            Can the storage be regular ol slow ass HDDs? That sounds pretty sweet honestly

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              Yes most people use HDDs for this because their speed doesn’t matter when they’re just serving up a single (or even a dozen) huge files at playback speeds. They’re slow for hosting your OS because of the quantity and speed of reads and writes but this isn’t an issue with movies, TV, or music.

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              11 days ago

              Yea absolutely, people have ran it off Raspberry Pis and external USB drives lol

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              11 days ago

              I store my entire Plex library on an old Dell t420 server which has an old spinning disk raid array and it performs well enough. And if you’re able to direct play the files they you don’t even need a strong CPU when hosting Plex, you can run it on a raspberry pi.

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          11 days ago

          I use same solution as you having tried emby and sonarr etc. the biggest problem got my family and me was searching what to watch and adding it rrr services, we wanted to have netflix but quite instant, not just to watch ( as you might have to wait a while be at 5 or 10 mins on torrent) but also browse, there is so much to watch what should I download, so streamio helped me there, now how to get there media, well debrid services gave us instant access, so it was quite a easy solution.

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            11 days ago

            That’s what I like about Stremio, it feels like any other streaming service. Maybe I need both…

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        12 days ago

        i dont have a desktop or a server that can run this stuff constantly yet. but is usenet still good for the “discussions?” i thought there were better free versions.

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          If you have the time to seed a lot then private torrent trackers can be just as effective for finding your ahem… linux ISOs without the cost. Usenet is most useful for people who are worried about repercussions from their gov for seeding (as many count this as “distribution” and it carries more weight than simply downloading)

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            I would be torrenting with a VPN with multihop, and seeding is a bit iffy in my country becuase you cannot be charged here for downloading, but you can be charged with seeding.

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              Usenet is a bit more work to setup than bittorrent, but you will be able to find lots of movies and TV shows there without having to seed anything. Unfortunately, you have to pay for access to good indexers if you want to download more than a few files per day.

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          As far as I know, there’s still a strong but small community on Usenet for discussions still

          As far as server/desktop stuffs, many have had decent success running them on things like old laptops and raspberry pis to decent success. Won’t be as powerful, but if it’s just you and a spouse and maybe kids or something it should be just fine

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            12 days ago

            someone was actually selling some older dell blade servers on kijiji for 120. if it doesn’t go down i might buy one

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              12 days ago

              You sure you don’t mean rack servers? The blade chassis is pretty expensive and power hungry.

              If it’s an Rx30 or newer that’s fine. Rx20 or older is meh. M anything is the modular blades, and that needs the big chassis to be useful.

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                sorry i meant rack. I was looking at a blade as well and got that messed up. i have to check the post again.