Chewy7324

Germany is one of the biggest countries for reddit too, so I'm not surprised that this is also true for lemmy.

Thanks for the writeup! I'll share it if someone needs a german guide. Your dual language guide helped me set up arr* for media since I want german audio for family, but also english for myself.

SceneNZBs is all I need for movies/shows in german. They have a partnership with the german nzb forum House of Usenet, so their index is awesome.

German article: https://tarnkappe.info/artikel/szene/usenet/scenenzbs-com-neuer-usenet-indexer-in-kooperation-mit-hou-geoeffnet-244147.html

Guide for preferring dual language media: https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language

It's simpler to get onto good indexers for german media on usenet than it is to find a private tracker and get into it.

Also, my upload is slow so I'd have to use a seedbox to torrent on private trackers instead of using my homeserver.

I like P2P filesharing more than usenet since it's decentralized. Most usenet providers with long retention are owned by only a few parent companies which is never good in the long term. As long as private VPN's are allowed torrenting can't be stopped.

On usenet with my indexer I find dual language 1080p remuxes for most movies, so I'd say the quality is as good as it can be. But this is probably also the case with a good private tracker.

If your already on private trackers that have all the media you want I really don't see any advantage to usenet.

As for tools, it's mostly the same as with torrenting. The arr* stack supports usenet, it just downloads with sabnzbd instead of qbittorrent (or your preferred client).

Yes it's awesome. I never even considered that it's possible to add not publicly routable IP's to public DNS server, until I recently read a post about dns-01 challenge.

I believe the txt record is different every time.

DNS-01 challenge allows for domain ownership verification without open ports and instead looks for a txt record. Using a tool like lego[1] with the respective dns provider's API automatically creates and deletes the txt record after generating a certificate.

Because ownership is verified by dns txt entry, the (sub-)domain doesn't have to point to a publicly routable host. This allows for using any IP, so I'm using a local ip only available through wireguard or my local network (E.g. bitwarden.example.com points to 192.168.1.123).

The disadvantage is that the provider has to be supported and you have to store an API key for your domain on the server.

[1] https://github.com/go-acme/lego

Option 3: Vaultwarden + Wireguard.

I don't have to worry about attacks from the internet. And a single wireguard connection on my phone sometimes doesn't even appear on the battery stats.

Edit: Browser addons need valid ssl certificates, which I get by dns challenge.

"Huh?" is a solid alternative. Especially as a single word reply on forums. /s

YouTube ReVanced supports setting a default video resolution for mobile and wifi networks.

But make sure to only download from the official site or their github. The top search engine results are not be trusted third parties.

https://github.com/revanced

https://revanced.app

I'm not familiar with FreeNAS, but I see it's advantages mostly in it's gui and zfs support. So if you just need a few smb shares and don't need to constantly configure it, I'd go with Ubuntu.

If you have multiple disks that you can use in raid, then zfs might be a good idea for it's check summing capabilities and correction of bitrot.

But it's also possible to install zfs on Ubuntu, though you'd have to use the cli instead of FreeNAS gui. I've recently setup a zfs raid 1 for the first time and the cli is simple to understand and the docs are great.

So I'd stay with Ubuntu and just use samba directly.

Netflix, Disney and Amazon limit the bitrate and resolution on Linux. Amazon is often at 540p or so.

That's because of DRM, which they use to prevent piracy. Guess what, they lost a paying customer because of their terrible service.

Indeed, many pirates only want free things, but there're many other valid reasons to pirate. E.g. I'm paying for energy, storage, a usenet provider and indexers. Though I agree I'm going the cheaper piracy route instead of buying Blurays and ripping them myself.

Port forwarding allows connecting to seeders who don't have port forwarding themselves.

So I'd really recommend choosing a VPN which supports port forwarding. This sadly means no mullvad, altough I used them happily before they decided to no longer support port forwarding.