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Valve’s better than Epic Games, but they still have every incentive to keep users in their ecosystem with DRM.

Very true.

Thats why Proton on the Steam Deck only works with Steam running in the background.

Lmao what? You have proof for this? It’s just as likely that it was easier to do it the way they did.

Their service was genuinely good for the short time I used it. You’ll note in my post that I would still recommend it to anyone who doesn’t plan on doing more than average browsing and light torrenting.

They just wanted an excuse to cut me off since I made more use of it than the average person likely does, and their ‘unlimited’ advertising means you can’t actually know what their real limits are.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been enjoying the heck out of AirVPN since then, with absolutely no issues.

Yeah. https://kb.unixservertech.com/microsoft_windows/nfs_client

NFS over SMB, neither if you don’t plan on doing this like, weekly or more.

Craft Computing on YouTube does these videos semi-regularly as well. Makes something from weird and cheap parts and then gives the results of how well it works or doesn’t, as well as what quirks you take as trade. For example; https://youtube.com/watch?v=VTWaRBcOsBE

Counterpoint; it required gigabit internet and still had noticable delay to my eyes. It also had compression artifacts as well as low-medium graphics settings. It also hitched semi-regularly for no apparent reason.

All the above meant that stadia was only good for people with the money to spend on it and located in an area with fast internet and didn’t play any FPSes. It was too many requirements to be a popular thing, kinda like VR is.

It also suffered from the “games get removed straight from my library” problem. They also couldn’t support every game, or even the bare minimum if most popular right now, simply because they had to make sure it’s supported on their backend.

It should have stuck around, but I don’t think it would be a big thing until much later when internet is actually decent in most places, instead of a very select few.

I’ve found navidrome, tempo, and beets to be a pretty solid combo for that. Jellyfin technically has support for music, but I was not impressed with any of the players or library management that had to go with it.

Yes, but it still works. So long as you don’t overdo it, like someone who isn’t new to this, it’ll work just fine for a start.

Step 1: download the free ProtonVPN app; https://protonvpn.com/download

Step 2: download the free qbittorrent app; https://www.qbittorrent.org/

Step 3: download vlc media player; https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Step 4: install and connect ProtonVPN to a free server.

Step 5: Pick a public torrent website from the wiki and look for a movie you want to watch.

Step 6: copy the magnet link the website lists and add it to bittorrent. Wait for it to connect and download.

Step 7: enable showing extensions if you use windows; https://www.howtogeek.com/205086/beginner-how-to-make-windows-show-file-extensions/

Step 8: make sure that all your downloaded files only ever play in vlc, and that they arent .exe files.

Step 9: leave qbittorrent running (and seeding!) On your computer after your movies are downloaded.

Probably the latter. Doesn’t matter which it is though; they advertise both on their website.

Because I told them I used torrents. Their FAQ literally has a page with instructions for setting up torrents. Still does. I didn’t think it’d be an issue for them.

I don’t know about ‘locked’ so much as ‘hard to get running with headless linux’. I looked into it two or three times and was stymied by the various ways it went wrong.

In comparison, windscribe had me choose a port on their website, and then I used that in my docker run command and it just worked.

The strong other half of my reasoning was port forwarding being locked to GUI. I use a lot of scripts to keep my server restart process simple.

The unban was just to check if the refund process would go through. Since it didn’t then I did a chargeback.

About 8TiB upload and 2TiB download over the course of this whole mess. I don’t have exact numbers because WRT stopped counting for some reason, but I can infer based on January numbers.

Wasn’t sure if this was the right place, but I figured someone should know about this. For what it’s worth, I would actually recommend windscribe if you don’t plan on doing torrents all the time, or you have sub 1gbps internet. Just sucks that I hit their “unlimited” internet limits on my home connection.

They have a page on their site about chargebacks. They’re confidant they’ll win them, but they still ban because it costs them money. I’ve done one anyways; as far as my reading of their tos goes, I was in the right. Might as well make this experience cost both of us money, instead of just them.

Their guide for using torrents with their service; https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/using-windscribe-with-torrent-clients/

Their FAQ on bandwidth and chargebacks: https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/why-did-my-account-get-disabled/

I would like to be able to let friends connect from outside my house to stream media and allow them access so they can add films and the server goes off and finds them, extracts them, and adds them to the media server.

This is going to be the second most expensive part of this process (the first being storage). Direct streaming for one person can be done on anything that can play your chosen video quality. Streaming for other people will require at least a video card, and a processor that can handle multiple people, as well as the extra storage that other people will want to use. You can use a single pi4 for one person, but you’ll want to look at a desktop PC with a modern-ish graphics card (for the encode) if you want to share with other people.