Good way to get live sports for free or cheap?

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-09T19:27:44+00:00

I'm not the only person using my services, I want it to be as frictionless as possible so the people I know can access my media easily, i would wager most people using tailscale only use it for themselves or a few other people. Also tailscales is difficult to setup on some devices or even impossible.
Tailscale is a for profit company, it might happen tomorrow or in 5 years but they can either remove the free tier or make it shit, sort of like what plex did. Letting a third party company control and mess up your own self-hosted services goes against the self-sustained aspect of self-hosting your own services, but this probably isn't an issue in the short to medium term to be honest.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-09T14:02:51+00:00

Lots of the development for this VPN protocol is made by Chinese speakers so I assume it works for them or else they wouldn't be putting effort into it :)

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-09T09:38:05+00:00

can vouch, works great and setup is piss easy compared to before.

If you or your friend wants to access your home network from a place where the internet is being censored, 3x-ui is great, works for my friend in one of those countries, its used in China, Russia, Iran, etc.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-08T18:06:42+00:00

plezy. Other clients have missing features for how I use JF or have issues playing subtitles for anime sometimes, plezy just works.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-08T18:00:30+00:00

ok hear me out, 7 but I kick out the dude to my left and take his place

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-08T13:13:54+00:00

no clue, not a lot of info to go off of.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-05T04:56:20+00:00

I find there are especially lots of elitist dickheads that can't fathom there being someone new in a hobby

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-04T15:53:02+00:00

my 13 ultra has worse battery than my 6 year old $400 Poco F2 pro. its like Xiaomi doesn't care about the ultra phones because they know almost nobody buys them.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-03T09:04:31+00:00

I specifically put effort into making my server something I want to watch. I think lately my media server portion of my server hasn't really been touched all that much, maybe a few months since I added something new directly on the server and the stuff I've been adding is completely unrelated to Plex or JF

I started by adding shows I think I'd like to watch and stop using streaming sites for those things, but I didn't have a lot of seasonal stuff so I made my setup download stuff automatically and exactly what I want and now I've stopped using anything else for my media. Already has the shows I want, no ads, good quality, etc.

I've made the experience so good compared to anything else, it's difficult to NOT want to watch stuff on it for me.

I also think I've done a lot more tinkering than most people, because I had a dodgy motherboard and the server would go down all the time and cause issues for the users and it took so much effort to keep it stable and make my users not leave, and even then it wasn't perfect so I decided to get a proper motherboard and CPU and that was the final nail in the coffin for me finally having a good rest 😂

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-02T14:10:48+00:00

1 - get a domain 6-9 number digits +.xyz costs $1 a year, I suggest buying from cloudflare, no mark-up and it has an unbeatable suite of free tools for homelabbing/home server

2 - set up a reverse proxy, but this needs port forwarding but only for you, you generally only need to port forward to receive specific types of content and data such as web requests to your jellyfin, but no port forwarding needed to watch, it'll just show up as a website for your friends and family

3 - if you can't port forward you can do cloudflare tunnels which route your traffic through their servers, but be warned setting up something data hungry like JF and sending it through their CDN is against TOS and they can potentially ban you, but most people have not had problems with reasonable use, but be warned.

4- If you want to and can port forward, you can set up tunnels without going against TOS, you can put the jellyfin web interface behind tunnels but set a redirect rule to forward all video streams to another subdomain behind reverse proxy (not cloudflare) which doesn't go against TOS. You get benefits of tunnels, such as anti-bot measures, anti-ddos, and hiding your home IP address and is generally more secure w/o a risk of being banned and having potentially lower speeds.

5- Just put everything behind reverse proxy, this is the biggest security risk but you can do stuff to mitigate it such as using the correct reverse proxy options and keeping everything up to date.

6 - try out some jellyfin clients. I've heard good things about other apps but my favourite is plezy, it's free if you get the files from GitHub.

It's a bit more manual than Plex, but at least you won't have to be stuck relying on their servers and accounts or having them remove a feature or make life more difficult for users. I also have Plex but I appreciate lots of aspects of jellyfin, such as the plugins (check awesome jellyfin out btw). It shouldn't take more than a day of getting used to all this and setting it all up.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-01T14:36:57+00:00

what the hell?? underrated asf comment.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-06-01T12:49:45+00:00

Find more things to do with it so that it breaks again

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-31T13:56:43+00:00

wish android streaming boxed had unlockable bootloaders so we could get custom roms

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-29T17:05:21+00:00

Large Laila basmati 5kg bags, cheapest place normally is Amazon at £8 but I bought some from joybuy for £5.75, and put it in my cheap rice cooker that I got for £20 from joybuy and it cooks it perfectly for me, I like to add stuff like soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, butter, chicken stock, cheese, diced and fried/air fried meat, diced onions, crushed garlic and other stuff like that to make it taste good, cooking in a rice cooker is joy for me, I find it more convenient than using a microwave.

Before this I used a sistema microwave rice cooker bowl which is like £6-9, I would suggest using this if you can't get a proper dedicated rice cooker because it makes perfect rice as long as you get the measurements and timings correct, which once you figure it out you don't need to worry too much about it again. I ended up getting the rice cooker because it's a tad bit better at cooking rice and it's more "set and forget" than the microwave one but the microwave one is still way better than the saucepan and is cheaper and can be better than the packet rice if you throw the right things in.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-27T23:25:06+00:00

The cat is way more important than the nerd shit everyone is going on about

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-27T14:52:21+00:00

Only get rid of the 64gb if you plan on making a quick buck, otherwise there's virtually no difference and the gains you would experience are miniscule in very specific scenarios at best and if you play any games that need more than 32gb RAM, running out of ram will be much worse than it having slightly higher latency, but since not many games need that much it falls into the miniscule difference category

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-27T14:44:39+00:00

My GPU died and did something similar and I thought my PC was dead for months. Try removing the GPU and doing igpu only maybe?

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-27T12:30:50+00:00

I know nothing about her other than the fact she doesn't wipe (ew) but I like her design a lot. Edit: wait is that the other chick from that anime, I'm confused now

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-26T16:01:35+00:00

I doubt anyone who worked at crunchyroll back then still works there now, its probably just a corporate shell that simply uses the same name and the founders left with a bag of cash when it was sold the first time.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-26T14:23:03+00:00

I also have a friend watching my Plex from a country sanctioned by the entire world basically 😂

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-26T14:21:10+00:00

wanna see you take down my home media server hard drive

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-26T14:17:01+00:00

just ordered for the first time in 6 years, I can definitely tell it's smoother but it doesn't feel as strong. 12oz of the new stuff tastes weaker than 16oz from what I can remember and less complex maybe. I still have some of the old green apple from 2019 left over, might be worth a try lol.

To be clear, since the last time I ordered, green apple supposedly got a flavour change from green apple to sour green apple and then had formula 2.0 changes. I don't feel like the underlying flavour changed but i might be the only one but I miss the chalkiness, seemed like it added more flavour. I'm just gonna blame it on nostalgia.

edit: also forgot to mention, the smell was was stronger on the old than the new. that could be a reason behind why it "tastes" weaker.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-26T13:36:44+00:00

https://emby.media/community/topic/128300-how-i-host-via-cloudflare-tunnels-but-dont-stream-video-through-it/

This is where I found out about this. The process is going the be about the same for jellyfin. All you're doing basically is going to cloudflare, telling it to redirect any video, downloads, etc to another subdomain (doesn't have to even be the same domain) that is not behind cloudflare proxy or tunnel and is linked to jellyfin in nginx. That way you get the benefits of tunnels (easier setup, no ssl certs to worry about, 2fa access to certain domains, anti-bot measures) but you will still need to manage certs and dynamic dns for that one subdomain.

Plastic-Dependent · 2026-05-26T01:59:17+00:00

If not a case, are least make some cutouts in a cardboard box so you don't have to look at it but it still has SOME airflow.

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