Going to have to fire up the pirate ship now.

      • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        9·
        12 days ago

        reliable Usenet instance

        Honestly, I straight up don’t bother with Usenet. I’m not paying more than my internet+phone bill for it. I get by fine with just a couple of private torrent trackers.

        A tracker is a website which tracks torrent files, and makes them available for download. ThePirateBay and Nyaa are examples of public trackers. BTN and PTP are examples of private trackers, which require an account (and an invitation to make that account) in order to download .torrent files.

        The indexer is the little doohickey that sonarr/radarr use to find content on your tracker(s) or Usenet instance(s). You can use these with public trackers, but you’re more likely to have your ISP send you DMCA extortion letters that way.

        If you have access to a private tracker, any private tracker, you can plug that into sonarr and radarr with something like torznab or jackett.

      • SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.comBannedEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Lmfao. Me with my domain. I bought one. For like 10 years or some shit. I. Have. Never. Used. It.

        It’s been two years. Hahahaha

    • propter_hog [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      12 days ago

      I would love a writeup. I have a seedbox on Ultra and it’s just sitting there doing nothing because I’m too stupid to know how to set any of this shit up.

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      please do. I have been working my way through setting it up on a dedicated Ubuntu machine. I’ve got my software installed, jellyfin is rolling with my existing library which is now like 99% curated/accurate and now I’m just trying to figure out if I need to / how to containerize qbittorrent to only work over the VPN (and to close with no leaks if that tunnel drops).

      the whole container thing is new to me and kinda confusing. when I did this in windoze, there was a setting in qbittorrent to just do this… though obviously in windoze I was doing it all manually, and now I’m trying to set up an automated piracy box lol.

      I’ve learned a lot in the past two weeks of doing this, but I’m at the threshold between “cool setup” to “I am a self-hosted media warlock”. I am so close, I can taste the power in the air. haha

      • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        12 days ago

        Containerisation is my nemesis. I cannot figure it out either. Set up my Home assistant server on proxmox and it bricked itself after like a week. Literally every help thread I could find just had really smug techbros telling people to just go simply take a college class instead of wasting their precious Reddit time and killing the vibe so I just gave up on that shit.

        I just run it all as applications on a desktop OS. shrug-outta-hecks

        • Baaahb@feddit.nlEnglish
          3·
          12 days ago

          Home assistant really benefits from being run as an OS. RaspPI or similar would legit be my recommendation.

          For a media server though, I learned mostly by starting with these two repos: https://github.com/geekau/mediastack https://github.com/SimpleHomelab/Docker-Traefik

          Both will get you where you want to go. Simple homelab is a much cleaner setup if you actually want to run a server as the compose is separated out into individual includes per container/stack, but is way overkill for your use case, even though the documentation should make it reasonably simple to adapt. Media stack does exactly what you are trying, but the organization of the server isnt as nice, and the associated documentation may be over your head. Its definitely over mine, but I’m a “poke it rill it works” guy and not a “just read the damn instructions” guy.

          • Lyudmila [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            2·
            12 days ago

            HAos is running on one server with all the add-ons it needs, and then everything for self-hosted media is just on my desktop.

            I wish I could put all my media stuff on that box with HAos, but I just cannot get proxmox to play nicely.

            • Baaahb@feddit.nlEnglish
              3·
              12 days ago

              Apologies, Lemmy posted my prior comment before I was done. Please give it a reread. My compose is based heavily on the simple homelab setup, but I remember figuring out how to get Sab and my VPN cooperating off media stack.

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          12 days ago

          fair enough. containerization certainly did not come across as intuitive, even going through the docker tutorials. I try to be patient with myself at learning new shit, and even now I still am baffled.

          as with all things computer, after rambling about my problem in here, it gave me an idea and now I think I have the binding configured in qbitt… so now I’m onto setting up accounts/group permissions for radarr and sonarr.

          I’m trying not to rush myself and to use “best practices” instead of like “dirty” strategies, like making everything root. also, I take lots of “done for the day” breaks with this project to keep from getting frustrated and taking a big swing out of impatience.

          i am super excited for the quality profiles to kick in and start upgrading my existing library. I’ve been at this for so long, I have lots of stuff that is 480p. I’m gonna have to configure some kind of “do this at night only” guardrails for a while once it’s going. I’m setting it up for minimum 1080p.

          also prob gonna have to start working my way into some private trackers once my weak shit runs dry.