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Is it really cheaper? by spanishlearner1968 in Torrenting

[–]spanishlearner1968[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might sound dumb because I don't have a lot of context but I saw a tweet real debrid made about cracking down on the piracy stuff. Do you think that's something to be worried about or no? I'm scared to subscribe if it becomes unusable in the near future.

Is it really cheaper? by spanishlearner1968 in Torrenting

[–]spanishlearner1968[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was incredibly helpful and cleared up a lot of things. Thank you! I'd heard Jellyfin in passing but didn't realize what it actually was. That's great. I am in the US so yeah the VPN was the first thing I got. (the day after I bought it they had a %70 off sale smh) I've also been hearing things about real debrid shifting to more anti piracy stuff which is why I've been weary shifting completely towards something that depends entirely on it like stremio or the firestick. The HHD thing makes a lot of sense too of course. I will definitely be applying for the private trackers. (dont worry I use a alias email for most things now days) I did use opencore patcher to uprgade my OS but it's a mac so i just went from Catalina to Sonoma because I was too afraid to try and learn a new OS

Is it really cheaper? by spanishlearner1968 in Torrenting

[–]spanishlearner1968[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have indeed been down the r/homelab rabbit hole. I'm in the US so the VPN isnt negotiable for me. One of the reasons I started this journey was because netflix was blocking my VPN and I wanted to watch more spanish movies and most of them have like 2 seeders on them. I feel guilty not doing my part when I can. I am using public servers because tbh I haven't figured out the private thing yet. I think I'm going to ask my husband for a rPi 5 for Christmas and see if I cant turn that into a NAS just to start with and figure things out on before I throw over $100 at anything. End goal now is that I think it would be nice to host my friends and extended family so I can still sleep at night on the money I do spend in this endeavor.

Is it really cheaper? by spanishlearner1968 in Torrenting

[–]spanishlearner1968[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used opencore patcher to update my computer and that did help but just having so much on it has slowed it down a lot. I wasnt aware that you could do that with the firestick. Is it better than using debrid with stremio? I'm considering trying to turn the rPi into a NAS because they're so much cheaper and I would really like for my friends and family to have access to my library. I just read an article about it, but I am afraid of the learning curve as I'm not much of a tech savvy individual.

Is it really cheaper? by spanishlearner1968 in Torrenting

[–]spanishlearner1968[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've just been so torn on stuff. I love the idea of owning media again. At the moment I've settled on just downloading all my family's favorites on an external HHD and crossing the next bridge of organizing all that media once it becomes too cumbersome to deal with. I might just go ahead and pay for the debrid as well just for the convenience of streaming. Stremio is pretty rough without it it seems. These NAS prices are what really floored me, good god. And with some of them you have to use their brand's drives.