First of all ignore the trends. Fuck docker, fuck nixos, fuck terraform or whatever tech stack gets shilled constantly.

Find a tech stack that is easy FOR YOU and settle on that. I haven’t changed technologies for 4 years now and feel like everything can fit in my head.

Second of all, look at the other people using commercial services and see how stressed they are. Google banned my account, youtube has ads all the time, the app for service X changed and it’s unusable and so on.

Nothing comes for free in terms of time and mental baggage

How is the 3ds archive so big? SWIM’s archive is a few tens of GB and it’s every title listed in various game dbs

In the past I used airsonic. It has the best support for different music files and good support for albums ripped as single track, like most classical releases.

The problem with airsonic and its protocol is the lack of good android clients.

If you need to listen through the phone for most of the time, go with jellyfin + finamp. Otherwise try airsonic + its web ui.

For music acquisition:

• torrent for the mainstream stuff
• niche trackers for niche stuff
• nicotine+/soulseek for everything
• bandcamp to support the artists

Why is it taking so much space in compressed form? I think text compresses very well so you should be able to save tons of space compared to db tables

I started because I wanted to get around censorship in my country. I also wanted to view stuff in the original language and here we dub everything.

The only good reply in the thread. Thanks for saying this

Can someone explain to me how this movie stand in the whole godzilla franchise?

Suppose I am a guy who only watched the original godzilla movies from 85

yeah, I would redownload all of those instead of transcoding. They are all available with very good encodes publicly

Are those your own blurays? Then share them before compressing.

Transcoding is hard. There is no way that your transcoding settings are going to be a one size fits all. I am currently encoding the famous iKaos Dragonball release and I did 48 samples before deciding what configuration to use.

You are better off downloading stuff from torrent, especially for newer media. You’ll find a community that put 100x your time collectively on transcoding. That will also save from your tremendous electricity costs.

Also look into vmaf for quality metrics. Consider that switching to uncompressed 1080 might bring you close to your goal with very very low effort.

Btw, can you share the title list?

nope, can you resend?

could you link the article?

Can you give me more informations on Near and cyberbullying?

Fellow italian pirate here, using Gentoo for servers and laptop since 2014. Very interesting, thank you for sharing. Would love to have a chat someday

152 GB in my drives

qbit manage

that is an interesting advice. Regarding containers, they don’t fit my use case.

Your question is so generic that it is difficult to reply. I’ll tell you about my use case then so that you can try to figure out yours.

My goal is to be a respectful citizen. I divide my torrents in three categories:

• rare stuff: for example project 4k77 or the John Wick regrades or Rashomon
• italian stuff: it can be either popular stuff and also rare stuff; italian content is not seeded much so I need to do my part
• common/popular stuff: for example the barbie movie or every marvel stuff

I bought tons of space (recently converted to three drives, 20tb each) and use a virtual machine locked behind a vpn. Even if I forget to paid, the virtual machine is bind to the tunnel so that traffic doesn’t go out except for LAN, so no leaks.

The VM has two torrent client:

• qbittorrent: seed the torrents in the common / popular categories, speed capped to 1/3 of my bandwidth
• transmission (previously using rtorrent) for the other two categories

I tend to leave everything in transmission seeded forever, the stuff in qbittorrent seeded until 2.5 ratio or 4.0 depending on my mood.

At the moment I have 90.2 ration on transmission and many many many TB of uploaded stuff. That should be enough to feel like you are giving back

interesting. This could all be solved if gatekeeper doesn’t allow port redirection on 80 unless explicitly configured by the administrator, right?

thank you for the reply. All the stuff you wrote makes sense.

But even if I obtain a LetsEncrypt cert, any LAN device can do the same thing, so the whole TLS can still be MITM-ed.

can you elaborate?

Very interesting project, thanks for sharing and working on this. I am actually one of your target user, where I have enough knowledge to implement my own router, at the moment running on gentoo.

I would like to use this but it lacks port forwarding and a firewall, that is a must. I’ll try it out nevertheless. I’m quite impressed by the stylish HTML graphics, and I appreciate your departure from the typical “modern” gray corporate Bootstrap UI design. It’s really, really cool.

One question. how do you envision exposing this service to the internet? I quite despise rust but I wonder if the use of a memory safe language would help with the inevitable bugs, especially if you put even more features into gatekeeper.

you are literally just posting buzzwords. You can be lean with mysql, you can write bloaty programs with rust. I would argue most rust webservices are shittier than java ones