I mean, you have to be very thorough when manually curating your medias.

That’s short compared to how much there is to say about the arr stack :))

You could probably use it to download legal torrents (movies, series) but they depend on metadata providers for all the data.

I thinks It wouldn’t be that useful for something else than piracy (torrent&Usenet) but I may be wrong here.

Yeah, I had the same feeling before I discovered how powerfull it is.

It’s not that hard to keep it well organized manually I guess, but you have to be very thorough and always keep the same structure when you do something ! I’m not at all an expert in scripting or programming on Linux and i’m relatively new in the Linux familly so I guess Im lacking a lot of basic skills in that matter.

I did appreciated my manual setup for a while. Also I did learned a lot of new things (what are inodes, files, hardlinks, softlinks, mount points, ffmpeg, mkvtools…) But now that I have that new basic knowledge I can take away this mental charge and just let it run whithout the need to overthink things !

I think it’s the best course of action for my learning Linux journey :)

Keep it simple, stupid my friend :D

The arr stack is kinda tricky to get started and understand how it all works together, but as soon as it clicks, it’s awesome !!

Can’t exactly say what, but I kinda got lost and what helped me out was to slowly work one arr service at a time and understand what they actually do. (First only Sonarr after awhile I added prowlarr, then radarr and now slowly testing Seer !)

Trash guide was also helpful specially for custom formats. Just take your time and don’t try to much to make your own custom formats… Have seen alot a of people on private trackers blow up their ratio without noticing it.

Best advice I can give you is to just play arround with sonarr or radarr alone and try things out and see what they do ^^ Or try to read and understand the official documentation but you will have a better grasp while doing things :)

Edit: Ohh and forget about asking chatGPT… It will mostly output outdated information an cause you more trouble and leave you even more confused !

Nobody mentioned this but route only the necessary traffic to your router (all your self-hosted services) with wireguard’s split tunneling (just set the apropriate allowed_ip networks in your wg config).

You could set it to 0.0.0.0/0 and send all her traffic through your router but this could potientially choke your own network and make her own speed slow down.

It’s kinda open I guess… But as soon as you try to do things out of the box on MacOS, it just doesn’t work without a janky workarround ^^

And just don’t get me started on their .plist implementation 🤦‍♂️ I haven’t update for about 2 years, in fear it will totally break my current workflow and all the custom things I had to do to make it work HOW i like it and not how Apple dictates it.

It’s a gift, but God what I hate that dumb stupid Macraptop !

Wow… Never thought about this ! To bad my battery died years ago ! Craptop still going strong though 👍💪

Thats harrrrsh !

limited content compared to Netflix

Not sure if this is actually a key difference. You can have as many content as you want on your service, if you have the needed space ! But the point is, when self-hosting your ARR stack, it’s more about QUALITY vs QUANTITY…

How many times have I seen people looking for something to watch and bing scrolling Netflixe’s front end.

For the rest you’re on point !!

Samba is great, but it’s hell when you need multiplatform support… I have some weird fruit thing going one to support MacOS :/

I can’t remember why, but I gave sshfs a try but stayed why samba.

alternative medicine

Uhhhh… Did you know that most used medications are derived from plant secondary metabolites? Without “alternative medecin” our ancestors wouldn’t be alive, and you and I wouldn’t even be here talking about it.

Your argumentation falls apart, the moment you realize how powerful and unique mother nature is… You just have to close your eyes, shut down your brain and open your mind and heart.

Orion still does background playback and also blocks ads ! I only tested it on an iPhone though :/

I hope by listening to radio, you mean not any mainstream news radio bullshit? Else that would be counter productive and just use your phone to put some music without ads and fearmongering!!

What do youngstar use nowadays if it isn’t PDF? EPUB?

I always wondered, why someone would prefere to read an EPUP instead of a PDF ! Specially Student books, cook books or any other book with images or representations.

Yeah EPUB’s are good for long text stories without any image, but everything else should be in pdf.

All together: Don’t blindy copy/past from the internet OR from AI !

Thanks for the clarification :)) still new the all the bash syntax and always interested to hear what more skilled people have to say !

This one looks nice too :) ! The thing I like with WUD is the direct link to the new release/changelog documentation.

I learned this the hardway with ffmpeg… In my defense… Their documentation IS huge !!!

Kinda interested if 2>&1 would also work in this case?