Naw dude, we walked down the street and I copied a few minutes of the movie from each of my friends over the course of a couple months. It took about an hour to find the exact part to start at to make sure there were no hiccups in the recording, but by then we only had a couple minutes to copy what was next before dinner was ready.

Then the next day we’d set it all up at another friend’s house and do it again.

For watching on a phone, probably not.

For watching on a real TV, definitely.

If you’re downloading for a permanent collection, I’d get the 1080p version. If you’re downloading temporarily to keep on your phone, then save the space.

My previous laptop is my home server. It was retired as a laptop because the screen died, but the rest was fine.

I run a lot of services.

Plex and Calibre are the two that I share with my friends.

Home assistant is the main one that’s only used by my household.

I have a bunch of other stuff like audiobookshelf, gramps, etc. that aren’t used much, but are kinda fun to have.

Then there’s the stuff that is used to manage the services, like portainer, watchtower, uptime kuma, etc.

Mozilla VPN, which uses Mullvad on the backend, is cheaper if you do the annual plan.

I use qbittorrent, and even popular or legitimate torrents get zero uploads.

Can you explain how this works? My seeding is garbage and I’m not sure how to set it up to work better.

Seeding is crippled due to no port forwarding. You can download, you just can’t really share back.

You have to get the file from Amazon first in a format that deDRM works on. That’s the trouble here.

Kindle for PC still works, but you have to find an old version and disable updates.

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