I will make the switch once they revoke my lifetime pass, but in the meantime I’m really hoping that Jellyfin gets a face lift. I’ve tested Jellyfin a good bit and it mostly has feature parity for everything I care about, but it’s UI is objectively uglier than Plex’s

Developers to keep things up to date and secure. Which I wouldn’t mind paying for, but instead they spend it all on making Plex a social media that emails your friends a list of shows you watch? I can tell you right now that other than “watch together” no one is using the Plex social features on purpose

Mate, I’ve worked with government computers. A dacade old, take a half hour to boot up, a lag time of a few minutes to open files. The problem with what Elon’s “expert” said is that 1. 60k rows of data is nothing, even for a computer like that. It wouldn’t fail on that much data, even on decade-old computers. And 2. If something were to fail on that computer, it wouldn’t be that the hard drive overheated. Even if the hard drive got hot, it would just slow things down, not prevent data access or stop a query.

My personal guess is this: The kid started a query on a table of a few million records. Not a lot, but enough to make a very poorly optimized query take a decent bit of ttime to run on trash hardware. Most databases put timeouts on connections as to not let a runaway query run forever. I’m guessing that after like, 20 minutes or so (pretty high for a cutoff, but if they are expecting garbage computers to be running these queries it could make sense) it times out, returning the partial result of the query. “Expert” thinks that his laptop overheated because the laptop is in fact hot.

I’ve gotten 5 messages from Nicole, all with different pictures of the same girl so I know she’s real

I mean this is wrong for many reasons, not the least of which is all the road blocks put in place to dissuade people to vote. Look into how some places didn’t put prepaid postage on mail-in votes, meaning people had to pay for the luxury to vote. Look at how the election is held the evening of a work day, and many people are unable to leave their jobs to go vote without risking their livelihood. Look at how people are randomly unregistered to vote without their knowledge (this happens to me every year, despite actively voting even in local elections and living in the same place.) Look at how they offered a boatload of money to people who voted Republican, despite how that has always been illegal.

You may say that these people are still at fault, and to some degree I agree with you, but if you haven’t been so poor that you couldn’t eat, couldn’t keep your utilities on, couldn’t drive anywhere extra because you have no money for gas or public transit, then you have no idea where a large portion of the would-be eligible voters are coming from.

On top of this, the Democrats didn’t focus at all on how they were going to make poor people’s lives better. While the Republicans straight up lied, they heavily covered how Trump would supposedly lift the working class out of poverty.

I live quite comfortably now, but I haven’t always, and a huge part of what my fellow Democrats miss is just how desperate it makes you not having your daily needs met. Poor folks fall for the lies because the only thing they have a privilege of caring about is getting food on the table.

Sure, there are the bigots and the racists, and if someone voted R because of that, they are 100% the problem. But I’m pretty sure the majority of people who voted R or didn’t vote were just busy trying to survive and hopeful that the lies Trump told would change their lives forever.

It does have it, and I’ve seen different farms for each one that claims to be a different farm. However, it’s not a live feed, it’s a prerecorded video of the chickens on the farm. It does seem ethical, but I would prefer live feed since anyone can take a video per farm and then not let the chickens out ever again.

I don’t have experience on Windows, but I will send you my docker compose files that automagically set up the networking between containers sometime tonight. Basically I’ve got a gluetun container, and all morally ambiguous traffic routes through that container.

Thank you for offering! If we make an effort to pull those around us out from under these monolithic, predatory companies, we will be doing our part to make the world a better place

I agree that Stremio is probably best for less tech-savvy users, but I prefer recommending open source over proprietary, free over paid subscriptions, and self-hosted over relying on some company to remain in service. I also prefer having local copies of my media so that I don’t lose anything to no seeders on old media. Of course, there still is a cost component for me, I have to buy hard drives and maintain the server myself.

However, I just want people to move off of streaming services, so if you can help others with a streamio + real debrid setup, please do!

Sure. If you are comfortable with computers, this should be a breeze. I currently use Docker as my server platform, which can run on top of any OS you want, but I run it on debian. I run a Gluetun container + Mullvad for VPN, qBittorrent as the torrent client, Jellyfin for media, Jellyseerr for user requests, Sonarr for TV management, Radarr for movie management, and Prowlarr for torrent indexers. All of these run on separate docker containers. There’s some trickiness for getting all the sketchy traffic going through the VPN, but there are plenty of guides out there, and in DMs I’m willing to offer support, albiet pretty slowly. If you have used Plex in the past, you can replace Jellyfin + Jellyseerr with Plex + Overseerr and the rest of the system can stay the same (although plex has been making some weird moves lately, and isn’t free or open source, so I’d stick with Jellyfin if you can get past a relatively ugly UI).

The nice thing about this setup is it’s pretty easy to expand to music, ebooks, and audiobooks as well, but for those media types there is less automation for user requests. I haven’t had any issues with scaling up either, I’ve currently got 150+ TB of media.

Hi, if you want to set up a safe, fully-automated streaming service that you can connect to from any device, reach out to me. The only cost to you is the VPN and hard drives if you already have a computer.

You can have your own media server that automatically downloads all the new episodes of shows you want across all streaming services, and your friends and family can even request movies/shows they want to see from a web UI and those will also be automatically downloaded. All using free and open source software. Completely ad free.

Anyone here that also knows how to set this up should also offer to help others, as it is pretty much the only way to break free from streaming services.