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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Geisterde on Sunday February 04, 2024 @09:17PM (#39256549)
Which could be rapidly eclipsed, my synology nas is capable of following RSS feeds for new content, torrenting that content, and serving that content through my plex with audio options, subtitles, descriptions, cover art, ratings, age restrictions etc. (All behind a vpn of course)

If I invested a weekend (4 days, maybe 2-3 weekends...) I could probably figure it out, and never ever ever again deal with the BS streaming services. It takes one person pissed off that they missed Ozark and that will be 1 click install, game on, open source tech only ever moves forward, its antifragile, unlike any individual business.

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by prepend on Sunday February 04, 2024 @09:39PM (#39256680)
You need to invest about 10 minutes. It’s not complicated at all and makes a much better experience.
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by hedora on Sunday February 04, 2024 @10:14PM (#39256882)
Setting it up properly probably takes a day or so.

Which HDDs should you put in the synology (or are there SSDs that make more sense; need to check $/GB…)? Which VPN service makes the most sense? Which RSS thingy is as good as Prime, Netflix, HBO, etc, etc, combined?

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by fragmede on Monday February 05, 2024 @05:13AM (#39259395)
Only if you over-optimize and get decision paralysis. Perfect is the enemy of the good. Cheapest is the enemy of actually-have-it-and-working.
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by prepend on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:38AM (#39260103)
Good point. I assumed the synology was already set up as a NAS.

That takes a while.

Setting up the rss is just minutes.

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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by pdimitar on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:34AM (#39260075)
Are there good step-by-step guides? I am on the fence but researching this seems exhausting so far.
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Re:Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growi... by Aeolun on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:52AM (#39260220)
There’s a whole ream of linuxserver docker images in the sonarr family that you can run on one machine. I’m sure someone made a docker-compose somewhere.
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