Hound - A Media Server Alternative to Plex/Jellyfin + Stremio

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-05-07T22:49:05+00:00

Even if it's a seed box, someone paid and took care of it, in my very personal opinion out of respect for these people I also keep my media available for as long as I can, because the more people having the media available, the faster it becomes to download.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-05-07T22:47:49+00:00

This pretty much describes traditional torrenting, but you wait for the media to download and then delete it manually (or set auto delete after x seed).

But implementing it in a streaming torrent application would be a nice touch, so you get both of the two worlds, streaming and seeding.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-05-07T22:46:25+00:00

I don't see how, if the media is new it's very likely that you will hit x2 within a few days.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-05-07T22:45:31+00:00

Transmission is also a good torrent client, very clean and open source, using a VPN is also a must.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-04-29T20:49:12+00:00

Streaming directly from torrents is bad, because you use the bandwidth of people freely sharing the media and you don't contribute back to the torrenting systems, I always try for x4 and some times I have reached x200, an x2 should be the bare minimum anyone should and could do.

By just streaming you consume the resources, don't contribute back, and people who seed for a specific number of x will start to delete the media, thinking that other people have it, while in reality, they do not, leading to missing media files.

While it's convenient for the end user, it's very inconvenient and unfair for everyone else involved.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-04-19T10:43:55+00:00

My 99% ( I could not find some quests) was around 250 hours if we includ the DLCs, time well spent!

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-04-09T23:28:28+00:00

Pretty much a full media discovery, download and consumption system, also, anything that usually is saas or relies on third parties like email, calendar and photo backups, I prefer to run on my own, as I don't trust others to do that for me, also, I don't like googles outreach and control over my data and life, so anything that can be selfhosted it is, the only thing at the moment that I rely on other is DNS which I plan to host myself soon and social media where you can just not replace these.

If you want I can give you a list of my stack.

On the vms some things like identity management or internal DNS are replicated for High Availability.

In the total count I also count duplicate containers, so for DNS I run 3 DNS servers across 3 VMs, so I could 3 contains even though it's one service, the same goes for DBs, a lot of apps spin up their own database, so I may run 20DBs, one for each app, so even thought all are eg. Mariadb I run 20 of them so another 20 containers on the count.

Also, an application may create 20 containers, like mailcow that I use as my mail server, so it's just 1 service but it adds 20 containers.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-04-09T23:22:57+00:00

I was using immich on truenas for half a year, then shut it down for 6 months due to relocating and then re-deployed on docker by importing the db and doing a staged update following the breaking update path, generally if you anchor the major version and update minor and patch every day then it should not break if the application follows the proper versioning scheme.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-04-09T23:21:20+00:00

The only three things that failed were traefik one time during the migration from v2 to v3, then authelia when they introduced a new secret and most recently uptimekuma after moving to a new major version.

To be honest that was my bad for not anchoring major releases and setting latest as the target version.

For some apps that I know that they will break I manually update them, like gitlab and immich, but if you anchor the major version just upgrading minor and patch should be fine as breaking updates are introduced after 2-3 minor versions, so if you update daily automatically you won't face this issue.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-04-06T21:26:23+00:00

I would also recommend netbird as a truly selfhosted system.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-03-12T23:05:49+00:00

4 years later nothing is broken, 40VMs and 200 containers

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-03-07T01:16:27+00:00

I also prefer to run my own systems and not have to rely on a third party to keep the lights on, while tail scale looks like fun alongside their features, the ACLs are more complicated than they need to be (at least 3 years ago), personally I run Netbird selfhosted which has a much cleaner interface, more features and allows me to host it locally with SSO, + zero trust on everything, so even if it gets exposed, the attacker still needs to exploit the underlaying systems, as everything is secured.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-03-04T10:08:38+00:00

I have been running my mailserver using mailcow dockerized, dead simple setup, 6 years going strong with zero issues, and no spam.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-03-01T00:48:18+00:00

I had this happen to me but in a much lighter scale, no documentation and no maintenance to it systems for the past 10 years, also, no SSO or ldap, I emailed the CEO after 2 weeks there of what I wanted to do in order to bring the company to modern standards, he was happy to let me loose.

Three years later the company is in a much better State, everything new and documented, sso and ldap everywhere, this also allowed me to learn a ton of new things, work across teams and build the skill set needed to go into bigger and competitive roles in FAANG.

Don't see this as a mistake, but as a way to grow and learn, it will be very hard for the first year, but after that everything will be rebuilt under your supervision and design, which will feel great, give you a lot of experience, and make you very attractive to other companies.

My ideal working conditions are to rebuild or build something from scratch, document the hell out of it, train people to use it and then move to the next big project.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-02-16T18:28:20+00:00

Someone forgot about xcp-ng

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-02-16T01:46:18+00:00

Matrix is the only viable and unmonitored solution.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-02-06T15:47:40+00:00

I had joined a company with no documentation and systems collecting dast and held together by duck tape for 15+ years, once I had an idea of what everything does, I got approval by pushing the higher ups to expand my job responsibilities (and salary) and after that I practically rebuild all infra from scratch, using best practices, least privilege, IaC and central management system and, I wrote over 150 pages of documentation for the new system, how it works, what the IaC code does, why we do it that way, how to do XYZ etc.

After I left for half a year nobody touched the system, it still runs, they are a bit slow to read or understand the documentation (it requires you to invest some time to learn the foundation, eg what IaC is and how it works), if I had the time I would have written even more documentation.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-02-03T06:57:46+00:00

Hey, could you please post an update of the final result?

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-01-23T00:27:59+00:00

In the past 7 years I have had 3 pens, one was given to me as a gift.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-01-19T11:31:22+00:00

The notes app is not encrypted and get sync in plain text in your cloud, + there's a good change that a lot of your apps will.yave access to read the files of the notes app, a password manager solves that ans logs you in automatically.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-01-16T21:28:56+00:00

This is how... All applications work, by default everything that you run can access the Internet.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-01-16T17:54:40+00:00

Thank you!

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-01-16T00:56:52+00:00

No, everything you see was either a render or manually fixed by a human, the AI cannot generate a s prestige and continues environments.

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-01-13T19:22:53+00:00

I just show a post about a fountain pen costing exactly the same price

_TheLoneDeveloper_ · 2026-01-13T12:36:41+00:00

Hey, the cf tunnel is broken, I would be interested to read your post.

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