I’m already hosting pihole, but i know there’s so much great stuff out there! I want to find some useful things that I can get my hands on. Thanks!

Edit: Thanks all! I’ve got a lil homelab setup going now with Pihole, Jellyfin, Paperless ngx, Yacht and YT-DL. Going to be looking into it more tomorrow, this is so much fun!

  • HamSwagwich@lemmy.world
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    Yep. 100% agree. I have a 175TB server. Sure it was expensive to set up initially, but I have all shows and movies I want, always. From all the different services I would have to subscribe to, I imagine I have recovered my initial outlay and I never have to worry about media being removed from the service or it going out of business.

    I have things that aren’t even available if I wanted to subscribe. Best thing you can do for yourself.

    No commercials, always high quality. Available anywhere, at any time.

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        1 year ago

        He/she probably has all his/her movies backed up in the internet ;)

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          It just takes a really long time to restore from those backups. And weirdly, they’re scattered all over the place…

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            1 year ago

            Depends on your source and connection but I managed to recover 8tb of movies in a couple weeks.

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      Same here, 192tb, but sonarr, radarr, plex, and the source that shall not be named (I respect the 2 rules).

      It’s not about outlay, I can watch what I want, when I want, how I want, without anyone tracking, even wrote my own video player interface in python so the mouse buttons handle all the settings.

      Completely ruins you for normal media :/

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      1 year ago

      Is it useful without piracy though? It would still be expensive to buy all that media? And usually you can’t even download movies etc that you buy online. Am I missing something?