ProtonVPN?

Pivpn was discontinued just a heads up. I switched to just plain wireguard when I heard the news.

But no p2p on free. Honestly, OP, for this one you may just have to drop some cash on a reputable VPN

Bruh

Jellyfin is also a fork of Emby so there’s some continuity there for OP

Heads up, pivpn is now unmaintained !

Ugh right?! Nothing at all like this Shakespeare guy from 16th century England!

You can install smarttube next on your shield. It has sponsor block as well as regular ad block

I did this or something close to it years ago when running windows server. Was a bit of a hassle, but I got things running ok. Now I’m on Linux server with the same machine and it’s not a problem there.

Linux has been better for my server needs generally anyway, but I’m happy to be reminded of yet another reason to stay off windows

Careful because kubuntu still silently installs snaps and I switched off it after having to do the whole ppa thing just to install Firefox correctly

When I was a kid and Facebook was new, I remember everyone wanting an account. The way I see it, Facebook just kept those users who wanted it when it was new. Who’s to say that the same won’t be true of TikTok later?

Yes, but as TVDB is 1) not as open/free as TMDB and 2) blatantly incorrect about some metadata information, the problem does not here end. I’d like to use TMDB as my metadata provider.

It’s a real shame, a huge problem, and user-configurable metadata sources would solve it

Pokémon is the absolute worst. Have you ever tried to organize the Pokémon show?? It’s a mess. Without being able to adjust what metadata Sonarr uses and consequently how it organizes the file structure, Jellyfin doesn’t understand what is happening and none of the metadata is correct. It’s insane. It completely goes against the main reason I use *arr, and I will not manually be organizing over 1,000 episodes of Pokémon manually.

Whatsapp has been owned by Facebook since 2014. It was created in 2009. That’s 5 years without Facebook, 10 with :/

I can’t find it now, but there was that one text post that went something like “1. Copying a movie costs the studio money, 2. Download a movie, 3. Make 1000 copies, 4. Studio goes bankrupt”

Paracetamol and ibuprofen are not the same drug, and ibuprofen is not the name brand as far as I’m aware

I’ve never used the qBittorrent search function so if everything mentioned in my earlier comment is included in qBittorrent directly, then I don’t know. Use what works best for you. As I understand it, the main appeal of the *arr stack is that it does everything automatically and without you having to intervene to get what you want.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I imagine that qBittorrent doesn’t automatically search for better versions of your media, automatically rename and move files to your specification, automatically evaluate search results to choose a download that matches your desired quality, automatically search for desired media when it is released (like new episodes of a currently running TV show), automatically import subtitle files or extras to your library, or automatically grab metadata for all your media.

Thanks

Sonarr and Radarr are just some apps that handle the searching, download queueing, and organizing for movies and shows respectively.

You can tell them what media you want and in what quality/file size. They then use another app (Jackett, Prowlarr) to search a list of your preferred websites. They analyze the results and pick a download that best fits your quality specifications. They then send those results to your download client and move/copy/link the finished downloads to your specified media directory. They also rename your downloaded media files according to a scheme that you can define to your liking. In this way your media library stays clean and organized.

Basically you set them up once and then whenever you want something you just add it to your library on either Sonarr or Radarr depending on if you want a movie or a show. The apps handle the rest of the process for you. Additionally, they will periodically search your list of websites for media you already have and can replace what you have with versions that better align with your quality preferences.

To make things even simpler for the end user (presumably you), you can also set up apps like Jellyseerr or Overseerr that act as a front end to Sonarr and Radarr. You can search in a quick and convenient way for the media you want, and these front end apps will add them the appropriate Sonarr or Radarr library. Coupled with a media server like Jellyfin, the pirate’s workflow essentially becomes this: 1) navigate to your request page, 2) select what you want to watch, 3) wait for it to appear on your media server, 4) watch it.

Edit: fixed a subject-verb agreement problem.