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Kitikuru, w With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.

I’m curious on how you have your setup and which tier you have? I currently have a basic tier virtual server with them for a few microservices

Vaggumon, (edited )
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

I have 2 servers through Hetzner, both I got from the auction side of the site.

My lower end server is what I use to run my seed box and up till now PLEX. I use the Higher end server to run some work projects and for experimenting with.

$75 US Per Month:

  • CPU - Intel Core i9-9900
  • RAM - 128 GB
  • Drives - 2x 10TB (RAID 1) + 1x 512 GB NVME SSD
  • Running Ubuntu as the OS.

$145 US Per Month:

  • CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
  • RAM128 GBDrives
  • Drives - 2x 4TB SSD (RAID 1) + 1x 480 GB NVME SSD
  • Usually runs some flavor of Linux.
Kitikuru,

Thanks! I just found out about the auction option through this post. I’m curious, given the price per month, wouldn’t it be better to self host with similar hardware? Higher upfront cost but lower over time I’d think?

Just curious because I’m thinking about switching up my setup, self hosting Plex currently but lack the bandwidth that I’d likely get if I moved to a hetzner server.

Vaggumon,
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

Oh yeah, would be lower cost over time for sure. For me though, internet is kind of crap in my area and the work server gets a ton of access from coworkers. And my sister in another state watches movies and tv shows on my Plex. Both these server get over 1.2 gbps up and down. There is also no cost if I have a hardware failure. There are pros and cons for sure, like I’ve been wanting to do some stuff that could really benefit from a GPU but not really an option with the auction stuff.

Kitikuru,

Awesome. Yeah that would be one of my concerns for what I have now. My internet service is some pretty terrible residential internet so my upload speeds are absolute garbage here but I have some good hardware for Plex/jellyfin.

How’s transcoding on the hetzner server? Any issues there at all? In any case thanks for all the info!

Vaggumon,
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

99% of stuff worked fine, but when I had issues it was a random error about server being under powered which wasn’t true at all lol. Someone on a forum suggested using the official windows app from the store and once I moved to that for client side access, never got the error again.

Keep in mind though, if you plan to do Plex from Hetzner, after Oct 2nd it won’t work anymore. But others here have suggested JellyFin instead. I’ll be testing that out this weekend, and if all is good moving over from Plex all together.

Kitikuru,

Yeah I’ve been wanting to make the full jump to jellyfin anyway. The only thing holding me back really was some extra services I was using that were Plex only. Posterr for example, but jellyfin is on the roadmap and I can just roll my own version until then. The mobile clients have at least gotten pretty good as well for JF.

Vaggumon,
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

Well, good luck, and I hope if you try it out, Hetzner works out for you as well as it has for me.

Kitikuru,

Thanks! And again thank you for all the answers and advice!

Nakoichi, w Legendary PC developer says Denuvo is “a punishment to the consumer”
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net avatar

Abolish intellectual property (and private property in general)

anarchrist, (edited )

There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me.

The sign was painted, said ‘Private Property.’

But on the backside, it didn’t say nothing.

This land was made for you and me.

Trebach, (edited )

And the sign said anybody caught trespassing
Would be shot on sight.
So I jumped over the fence and I yelled at the house,
"Hey, what gives you the right
To put up a fence to keep me out
Or to keep mother nature in?"
If God was here he'd tell you to your face
"Man, you're some kind of sinner!"

PolarisFx, (edited ) w Ripping Audible Audiobooks
@PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I checked out OpenAudible posted in this topic and it seems interesting, and might be a better choice. But if you’re looking to rip your audible files yourself you’ll want inAudible: github.com/rmcrackan/inAudible

There are other options around, but none of them are as free or as good as inAudible, IMO.

Fermiverse,

Ripping myself is what I did with Libation as suggested here. You log into your audible account when starting the software for the first time, your libary is shown and you can start to download.

When adjusting the auto tagging then audiibookshelf automatically sorts the stuff in the correct way with series etc.

Perfect combination and totally free.

FractalsInfinite, w Is It Farewell To The Internet Archive?

Anna’s archive acts as a drop in replacement for libgen and z-library, also doesn’t cost anything

MalReynolds,
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

doesn’t it rely on them ? more of an indexer…

FractalsInfinite,

No, more like a mirror in that it hosts all of zlib and libgen’s content as well as providing torrent and ipfs links for the files (which they seed)

MalReynolds,
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

And yet when libgen was broken a couple of days ago it sent me to the broken libgen for the (admittedly obscure) thing I was after. Perhaps caching I dunno. Still, glad it’s there…

FractalsInfinite, (edited )

From what I see, there are 4 5 options on annas-archive.org

  1. Use fast(but fee charging) direct download
  2. Use ipfs
  3. use torrents
  4. Go to source pages (libgen and/or zlibrary)
  5. Slow direct download [Edited]

It sounds like you clicked the link to the source as opposed to the mirrors

MalReynolds,
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

Nah, in this case there was only 4. I’ve seen the others before.

FractalsInfinite,

Huh, it seems it depends on the existing sources, I’m not particularly sure how that works

5ubieee,

Not everything is mirrored yet, so some searches will only lead to external sources

annas-archive.org/datasets

Jaysyn, w Can they even track pirated installs ?
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

Which company will become insolvent 1st, Twitter or Unity?

rockhandle,
@rockhandle@lemm.ee avatar

I would place my bets on unity. It has tougher competition imo

elxeno, w Can they even track pirated installs ?

So those who aren’t victims of piracy will be “fairly hurt”?

dingus, (edited ) w Can they even track pirated installs ?
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

It would mean every Unity game was not-so-secretly shipped with code that phones home to the Unity company upon install.

Either they’ve been egregiously spying on gamers for years (and by extension, game developers using Unity have just been fine with that), or they’re lying through their teeth.

EddyBot,

Unity includes telemetry for some time
I believe you can’t actually disable the telemetry (or Unity intro logo) in the “free” version

dingus,
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

So then this falls under “devs didn’t care” because it was useful information for them and they didn’t see how it could be used negatively.

MossyFeathers,
@MossyFeathers@pawb.social avatar

Probably the opposite actually. The devs who utilize the feature probably enjoy having some numbers to look at and analyze. They’re trying to make a game that people enjoy after all; the more info they have on how you’re playing the game, the better. The devs who don’t use it probably aren’t even aware that it exists. Additionally, I’m not sure if it requires a subscription to view the telemetry (the page suggests you have to sign up for it in some capacity), but if it does then it makes sense that devs might believe that it’s something that’s disabled until you manually enable it.

Personally, I know if I was a dev I’d be checking that shit every day. I like watching the funny numbers go up and down.

SeaJ, w With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.

Geez. Hetzner is super affordable.

Anyway, as others have mentioned, Jellyfin is not a centralized service so that is not something they can do.

Vaggumon,
@Vaggumon@lemm.ee avatar

Even more so if you check out the auctions they have.

kingludd, w Is there a way to seed things I have downloaded but already deleted the torrent for?

Try this tool to match a torrent file to its data: github.com/JohnDoee/autotorrent

luthis,

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for

Fermiverse, w Ripping Audible Audiobooks

Not for ripping but to serve your books and for the selfhosters among us use audiobookshelf.

Really great piece of software

H3L1X,
@H3L1X@lemmy.ml avatar

Yes! Audiobookshelf is great!

Grandsinge, (edited )

Just wanted to give another upvote to audiobookshelf. It’s a great audible replacement and allows for local downloading and server syncing. Great project!

ByteWizard, w [GUIDE] qBittorrent w/ I2P Support in Docker

Never head of I2P, sounds pretty cool. I’ve just stuck to encryption for torrents and haven’t had any complaints from my ISP.

geti2p.net/en/

Strict3443,

Glad to see that working still! Torrenting over I2P is sort of a fail-safe option for people in somewhat oppressive places where VPNs may be illegal. Also, with the recent port-forwarding removal in Mullvad, this makes it harder moving forward to try and seed content without being able to make a direct connection with open ports.

superkret, (edited ) w Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?

The data will be safe to play on a linux box.
Whether you’ll be safe depends on where you live and whether you have a VPN in a different country.

I had to fight off a law suit for over 2 years over a single movie I torrented someone on my network allegedly torrented from Piratebay (Germany).

Xirup, (edited )

Fortunately I live in a country where they don’t care about piracy, but maybe I misspelled the question, I meant “sure” it can’t contain some kind of virus.

And I guess you won the lawsuit? On Reddit I remember that people would commonly say they got those law suits but people would always suggest “don’t do anything about it because they were just warnings”.

superkret,

Yeah, “don’t do anything” is horribly advice, at least in Germany.
I managed to avoid the lawsuit by showing the lawyers who wanted to fleece me that I had legal representation and collected enough evidence in my favor to make it difficult.
All they had was a file and an IP address.
It was a back-and-forth of letters between me, them and the court, which eventually refused to formally open a trial.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Any more advice for a fellow torrenter in Germany regarding linux isos (hey lawyer ;))

Using a seedbox from abroad to avoid local downloads.

superkret,

Torrenting Linux ISOs is legal and doesn’t violate any copyright so there’s nothing to worry about.

superkret,

The way they catch you is by downloading a complete “Linux ISO” you seeded. Their log from that download shows your IP and that’s the evidence.

So either don’t seed a complete “ISO”, or use a VPN from a provider that will laugh at info requests from German lawyers.

Safest way is to make sure you only torrent Linux ISOs that can be legally shared according to their copyright license, of course ;)

Chewy7324,

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a complete iso, but a part of the “Linux ISO” is enough. Since your still helping others complete their “ISO” illegally.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Well already using a seedbox located abroad.
I will just hope it won’t be linked back to me lol :p

spiderman,

I had to fight off a law suit for over 2 years over a single movie I torrented from Piratebay (Germany).

How serious was it and did you hire a lawyer for that?

superkret,

Yes, I hired a lawyer for consultation.
Since I was very poor at the time, I could get the cost for it reimbursed from the state, after laying bare my finances in front of a judge.

As for the seriousness, the legal firm moving against me had opened a case before a court in Munich (500km from where I lived) and I had to plead my case in writing to the court.
Next step after a lot of legalese back and forth would have been a summons before the court in person, which didn’t happen. The letters just stopped.

In the end, I paid 60€ for fees and postage. They had wanted me to pay 2000€ to settle and my lawyer told me if it goes before a judge, worst probable outcome would have been 600€ in court and lawyer fees.

Chewy7324,

Yes it’s inexcusable in my opinion that they want over 1000€ for a single movie. 600€ is still a lot of money but asking so much more than the “damage” is obviously worth is just…

I heard of some people who actually paid the fine they were asked for, since they didn’t know better (it wasn’t them but an exchange student from a country where torrenting media isn’t an issue, or so they said).

Sharpiemarker, w Why WARP is OK for torrenting

What’s WARP?

Kekin,
@Kekin@lemy.lol avatar

A VPN from Cloudflare if I’m not mistaken, with a free tier.

kumu.io/sobeyharker/vpn-relationships#vpn-company…

1.1.1.1

I had forgotten about this. Looks neat still

Bakery7328,

Yes it’s this. I should have put a link.

Sharpiemarker,

Oh cool! Thanks for explaining.

Appoxo, (edited ) w What is your go to music grabbing solution?
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

If you just want to download music, nothing can beat Soulseek.

Dsklnsadog, w Are there any IPTV providers that accept gift cards (Amazon, Best Buy, etc.) as a form of payment?

Check this out

…dbzer0.com/…/iptv_subs@lemmy.opensupply.space

(Sorry, I’m sharing this from my phone so includes my instance.)

CheatPizza, (edited )

Thanks, will do.

edit: That sub seems to be for providers to advertise rather than post questions.

can,

Sidebar mentions helping users. Can’t hurt to try.

CheatPizza,

I did. Made an account there to make the same post, but it seems like it won’t be approved.

can,

Made an acct where?

CheatPizza,

To the instance of the sub that was linked.

can,

There’s no need for that. You should be able to make a post from the account you’re using here.

CheatPizza,

Wasn’t able to. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

can, (edited )

Really? Maybe they defederated?

Were you able to subscribe?

CheatPizza,

Yeah, received an error message everytime I tried to post.

can,

If you’re able to subscribe maybe it’s a language issue?

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