Nextcloud is just a tool, it needs to be selfhosted or deployed in a VPS, in the end you need some hardware to deploy it.
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I bought a QNAP NAS and installed a nvme drive with openmediavault and upgraded the RAM, to my knowledge, Synology hardware doesn't offer an easy way to do these changes.
In the end all I needed was a NAS box with a CPU capable of transcoding and this was the cheapest/easiest option.
I'm using 0 software from QNAP.
Note that there is also other alternatives like QNAP.
And if you want open-source alternatives you can always use a VPN to connect to your home network with a NAS self-hosted deploy like OpenMediaVault or True-NAS.
Maybe the piracy wiki/megathread owner should consider moving it to a Gitlab/Github Page? No ads there.
Or other alternatives like https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/pages-server
Bomba.
They should rename the site to PaywalledSubtitles.
Nice raccoon.
Easier to monopolize the apps you install on their devices.
I think you are confusing privacy with anonymity.
Is there any real free alternative? And I mean free refered to freedom, I know PeerTube exists but finding a good/known instance to upload content knowing that the instance won't go down is hard.
EDIT: I found maker.tube and hardlimit, the first one looks promising.
Notesnook is pretty good too.
24/7 and I did the change 3 months ago, the power consumption is low because I only have running a Jellyfin with 2HDDs and the processor is a celeron with low power consumption. No reason not to do it.