The most cost-effective solution will always be a SBC NAS, as those bad boys just sip on power. However, there is a tradeoff - if your computer is being used as a media server, having higher end hardware means better transcoding performance.

In the bios, there should be an option called “Eco mode”. Make sure you have that turned on, if that is an option. Not sure if it’s different for the Ryzen chips with integrated GPU.

Finally, if you are using Windows, you’ll probably get better power efficiency by switching to Linux. But I’m not sure how much.

I’m what way? You can remote stream on Jellyfin for zero dollars.

Gotta get on a private tracker, bud. They are real quick on it.

You’re right, but still. Reduction of options is never good for the community.

Well if they drop Jellyfin, I know at least one friend that would rather drop their Fire TV than go without. Here’s hoping this backfires and just drops Amazon’s TV user base with no positive tradeoff for them.

Hmm I’m not sure about contributing. You’ve presented yourself as someone too broke to afford a VPN so I didn’t think you were buying CDs and ripping flacs. Sorry if I misunderstood your goals. I was more focused on the goal of obtaining files.

Edit: ps, not sure if you saw yet, but I pm’d you about another possible solution.

Either way, if ruins it for everyone else.

How does it ruin it for everyone else? One slow peer does not ruin the network.

Doesn’t Proton have a free VPN tier? I think it doesn’t support port forwarding so your connections would be limited, but that might still work?

Otherwise, check the megathread and go with direct downloads. Those happen over https so completely encrypted.

No, but they can say that it was all Jim’s fault and then fire Jim.

Rentry megathread is my first resource, personally. After that, fmhy, which others have mentioned.

That makes sense. I’m just not sure how to make that a clean experience, beyond acquiring files and setting up my own server.

Isn’t port binding in the advanced settings? If you reset advanced settings to default, don’t forget to re-bind your client to your VPN to avoid leaks!

I wonder if even VLC could run those streams for you? 🤔 Not sure, but whats the appeal for you over just opening the browser on your HTPC?

Some resources:

• the Megathread
• the other Megathread
• Fmhy Beginners Guide

Came here to say the same. I think this is usually the go-to solution for using controllers with emulators.

Did we ever get an official reason why ComicK 1.0 went down? This feels like a pirate-style publicity stunt lol

Radarr is for movies, Sonarr is for TV. You tell Sonarr which TV shows you want in your library, and then Sonarr automatically searches the torrent sites or usenet sites that you specified in your settings to find the episodes. There are a whole bunch of settings you can tweak to tell Sonarr what you consider to be a “good” file, so when Sonarr automatically searches, it finds the best version available for each episode. When it finds those good files, it automatically passes them to your torrent client (like qBittorrent) for download. When the files finish downloading, Sonarr automatically creates a copy of the file and renames the copy in a way that makes it super easy for Jellyfin to find the metadata. When it creates this copy, it uses a special kind of copying called “hardlinking” which makes it look like two copies, but only take up the space of one file. This has the advantage of having one folder for raw downloads and another for your actual media library, so you can easily keep seeding files while also having a version of the files you can rename for metadata purposes.

Even if you don’t use Radarr/Sonarr for downloading, they are still pretty useful for media management.

What is more privacy friendly than ddg?

How many of y’all actually use Usenet? I was on the brink before getting into a few PTs.

AI is piracy by corporations, kind of makes sense that this community doesn’t care so much.