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Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by sgarland on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:09PM (#31123468)
Agreed. While the *arrs are "easy" to set up once you have good knowledge of Kubernetes or at least Docker Compose, that's not exactly common. If you're using the native Windows clients, there's a pretty good chance you don't have a NAS set up (or at least not well), which means there's a decent chance you'll eventually have a hardware failure, and then be surprised when your media is suddenly gone.

ZFS pools with full backups, redundant hardware, and highly available servers is not normal.

Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by brewdad on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:13PM (#31124676)
Even just having a spare PC to run your media server is not normal. Never mind all of the technical knowledge needed to keep it all running smoothly.
Re:The bottom is dropping out of Netflix by michaelmrose on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:14PM (#31124705)
You can run a media service for example jellyfin on the same PC as the client.

Installers are a thing on windows, on Ubuntu you can install software with apt. It wasn't packaged for my distro so I downloaded an archive unzipped and dropped it in /opt

Not sure why anyone would absolutely need to understand Kuberetes or even docker.

Plugging a PC up to a display has been a better TV for a while now.