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Thanks man! I think I'm going to let this setup sit for awhile before I do anything else to upgrade.

My hobbyist interests follow my fire making skills. I find a new and interesting hobby (kindling), then I do a little bit of research (stack twigs around the kindling), get started on this new hobby (use a match to light the kindling), discover just how deep the hobby can go(limbs and split logs), explore the advanced portions of this new hobby(toss the best looking wood onto my small fire in no semblance of order), be pleasantly surprised with my results(let the fire burn and go start a new one).

The next step is usually come back to a smoldering pit of ash and half-burned firewood, be annoyed, put the unburned wood in a pile, pour some diesel fuel over it, and flick a match onto it lol.

This would be my preferred option, but: I do applaud OP's enthusiasm and dedication. He's learnt a lot of things about it, whereas because of my setup (as you described) I know fuck all. Plus, having his sort of setup gives you your own library over time (should that be desired).

Convenience at the price of reliance on outside infrastructure.

I get it, thats a really low affordable price but i ain’t paying money to pirate more conveniently.

I see no reason to not use both. Got a show you're watching that has new releases? Have Sonarr track it and auto download them as they release. Want to try a new show but not sure you'll like it or just a single season? Debrid.

I will say, Jellyfin with Infuse on apple tv is rather easy to use for non technical people where they would struggle with stremio a little more.

Still a far cry from the early XBMC/Kodi days where you had to manually try like 20 sources before you could watch both options really are great

Has anyone read their privacy policy?

We may be required to disclose Users personal data in order to protect our legal rights or where disclosure of Users personal data's are required of us by the judicial authorities only when legal procedures are followed.

Files links that Users download are stored in a database for legal concerns and our internal use. All saved links are erased within 1 month for security reasons and service needs. However all requests made on our site are stored for 1 year, the legal retention period.

I would prefer they had a no-logging policy. This sounds fishy af like a honeypot.

This so much. I can't stress enough how much better Real-Debrid is than QBittorrent.

Save your money + hard drive space and listen to this person, OP. Not only can you stream anything you want instantly to any TV or device, you can also download a 50+ Gigabyte file in a matter of minutes (if you have the bandwidth). Hell, you could literally download and install two AAA games, play them both for a bit, and then uninstall them, all in under an hour (I've done it). No more waiting for seeds. Just download and enjoy.

Then setup Stremio + Torrentio, connect it to R-D, and get your family each their own accounts. And then cancel your VPN and sell all that equipment you bought (like the Pi), cause you no longer need it.

Edit: Why are you booing me? I'm right.

It was never about the money.

and if you trust your family they can get login to Radarr and Sonarr such that they can themselves pick out content they want available.

Jellyseerr is far better for this! And if you’re using Plex or Emby, Overseerr and Ombi should work for you.

Or just give them access to ombi which has great granular controls what users can and cannot do.

Well, $180 at Best Buy for a 4TB Crucial SSD. My family is splitting the cost with me though, so really it's like $30.

I know you're just busting my balls, but some people will unironically bring that up as a point of contention. If I really wanted to, I could have just kept using the 64 GB flash drive I had laying around and just had a rotating library, but then it would limit how much time my family would have to watch shows before I had to roll them out for something else. And I didn't like that personally.

Even $30 for a raspberry 😭

Good work ofc 😉

Look man...I finally got it fully configured around midnight last night and was excited to share lol.

• $30 Le Potato
• €5/mo for Mullvad VPN
• Optional $180 for a 4TB Crucial SS
• Some amount of $ to power the Le Potato
• Like 50-60 hours of configuration hell because I am/was a fucking moron when it comes to Linux and networking. So whatever my free time costs in shitty labor conversion.

It works without port forwarding but you will probably have a harder time finding peers which will make it slower.

I used Mullvad without port forwarding before they got rid of it and it worked fine for me. That was over 400↓10↑ coax and now I port forward with ProtonVPN over fiber 500↓↑ and the speeds are better, but you're still bottlenecked by the speed of your peers so it not that big of a deal imo

Not yet, but if I encounter anything I'll try to come back and let you know. I've not used it extensively yet. I'll admit I'm ignorant to different video transcoding formats too. I think I've used AV1, HEV, and x264 so far. If that makes sense? I may be able to answer you better if you walk me through what you mean, but I think it's been pretty stable all around.

For that money I can get 10 to 12tb of HDD storage. So not really useless.

Less power draw, more stable, so much faster...yeah, the only real advantage to actual platters now is capacity, but at these capacities you're likely dealing with very large files, so the convenience of an SSD is worth paying for imo