Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr.

These services let you find, download, and manage tv shows/movies from multiple trackers. You can even start tracking a tv show that’s still running and it’ll download new seasons as and when they’re released. From there they’re forwarded to your torrent client.

It’s awesome, lets my non-technical GF add movies and tv shows without me, and means we’re up to date on severance!

I’d personally recommend a second hard drive of 500GB at least. You’ll quickly fill that 250gb drive, and it’s good practice to keep your data and applications separate (if the drive fails or gets upgraded your services won’t need to go down!). You can also set up a ZFS pool so you can add drives later into a big pool that’s treated like a single drive by your applications, though most of those services can support multiple storage locations so ZFS isnt too urgent if you expand to a new drive.

I can personally attest that the SU630 is a good SSD though. Serves my raspberry pi well! You don’t need SSDs for your bulk storage though, you won’t need the speed.

Dietpi has an automatic letsencrypt recert service which could probably be ported since its just a whiptail script

ngl the newest truenas version is incomprehensible to me. Makes most of the videos on it obsolete, and the docs aren’t much better, all while trying to abstract docker compose in a way that makes it shit itself when you try to use anything not specifically developed to work with TNS’s storage layout.

It’ll probably improve with time but I clearly picked the worst time to pick it up.

I’ve decided either to return to https://dietpi.com/ or try prox mox and pray it’s more stable.

i had a similarly confusing and frustrating experience when trying Ubuntu on a netbook many years ago. It has come a long way since then but sometimes you can get a bunch of annoying issues all at once.

It could just be bad luck with the hardware you have (no one really ever cares about the bluetooth adapter in their system until it causes issues) or Mint being behind the bleeding edge.

You might find Fedora KDE to be more compatible with your setup, or you can leave it a bit longer and check back later. No harm in patience!

Both work, just in different ways. I think AMD’s value proposition is better on Linux but if you were choosing between a 6700XT and a 4080 (for sake of example) of course the latter is still gonna be faster despite the drivers being a bit weirder to manage

If you needed some visual cues you could use colour and emojis to add context whilst keeping load times down

I use Homerr which is really simple, but you could also use Heimdall or some other options here

not even just a slur, it was slur balls

yeah same, i just deleted and minded on lmao

you can get free dns services via loads of services. I use freedna.afraid.org.

You just add a script to your server’s cronjobs that pings the server with the given info when you set it up and your server will be accessible via its domain name within 24hrs.

There’s loads of tutorials on dynamic dns (ddns) that you can use

You dont.

Obviously copyleft license and stuff that embraces FOSS is great, but open source licensing doesn’t bar the key developers paywalling features. You just have to avoid building digital systems around a single point of failure where possible.

Linus Torvalds does. He seems to be a fan

More contributors is great. Whilst I think sticking to C will always limit its outreach somewhat I think the reliance on GTK2 was probably even worse for anyone brave enough to dive into that spaghetti mess.

Inb4 GIMP 4 comes out in time for GTK 7

ah yeah it’s basically the first release supporting it. ah well, maybe i migrate later (i technically wont need it for a year or two with my projected data usage).

december 2023 feels ages ago but i suppose that doesnt account for filesystems needing more rigorous testing.

None yet. But comparisons ive seen (such as snapraid’s website) suggested it was a limitation, but they could be quite old, still.

That’s great to know, though. So no weird plugin management just using ZFS? Or would I need MergerFS in that scenario?

if you want em headless, you might wanna try dietpi (https://dietpi.com/). It’s a debian base with an active developer maintaining a bunch of very useful utilities designed to make managing pis and SBCs as simple as possible. Better yet, it’s designed to be extremely minimal on system resources, and strips out stuff like the display server unless you choose to install it.

Ive had it running on a homeserver on a pi4b for years now and it’s rock solid.

Maybe for hosting a blog or something but I wouldn’t self host anything more important than that. Even then, Github pages support custom domains on their free tier so you don’t even need to do the hosting in that scenario