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Netflix Puts AI Ads in Paid Tier: Pirate Everything at This Point
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Way ahead of you.
I pay for an emby share personally.
Plex/emby/jellyfin, there are a ton of paid shares out there that are cheap.
Aliexpress summer sale started. Getting a 150 eur ryzen mini pc and slapping some hdds onto it for a cheap media server/nas with 4 digit nas specs.
This seems like it could be a fun project. Mind making a post about the build sometime?
So far it's; genmachine 5500u pc barebones, will get random ram and steam decks 256gb ssd, fedora server and some rabdom twin drive hdd enclosure with used 4tb disks to start with. 8gb of ram should be plenty as going 16gb ddr4 to 32gb ddr5 made no difference at all on my main gaming/dev/3d rig.
Total cost: 158 for mini pc, twin drive enclosure 60, 4tb drives: 50 eur each, ram 15 eur or around entry level twin drive nas price.
Id if there's any build thread to post about "i shoved an external drive up the ass of a chinese mini pc and labelled it homelab"
Honestly, those are the most interesting builds to me. As an American, I’m waiting for tariffs to die before buying stuff of AliExpress, but one can hope.
I have built and maintained all manner of home servers using inexpensive used hardware. Any PC or old laptop can do this stuff. Unless you're doing something crazy on them, I've not encountered a lot of situations that I could not sort out. Usually throwing some more memory and storage into them solves most issues.
I ran a used desktop machine with an i3 processor (retired school system) for YEARS as my NAS with zero issues beyond adding a little cooling. Did the same with a firewall, worked for ages with no issues.
Getting a mini pc is nice if you are putting it in your living room, but there are still many choices for small form factor devices. Not quite as small, but still pretty small. Lots of them were used as POS terminals at stores. Wipe 'em, reload and start fresh.
That's weird, which is cool.
That's pretty much the self-made home media system I've upgraded to some months ago, only mine has an N100 CPU (which is nicer from a power consumption point of view for an always on system since its TDP is 15W).
It's wired to my TV, running Kodi on the foreground, runs qBittrorrent on the background over an always on VPN and serves as my home NAS.
From Aliexpress I got a wireless remote that let's me control Kodi as if it was a TV box, so from my sofa I handle it as a TV box whilst from my PC I can ssh to it and to any computer kind of management.
Probably one of my best purchases ever.
Depending on how much space you want the HDDs will probablybe the biggest cost
I read this as "enby share" and thought, "Is that like a queer polyamorous social group? If so, I want in."
(BTW I use emby share to pirate too, so no need to explain. My brain just expects the word "enby" first.)
Do I misunderstand emby or does it just not seem like a good deal on the basis of it being an ongoing subscription? I use the free version of emby and it's really great. There was at least one feature that required payment to unlock. I like emby already and when I tried using jellyfin, the core features that were on both it and the free version of emby worked far less reliably and the paid feature on emby that was free on Jellyfin, worked extremely unreliably. Obviously resources and development had been spent to make something that worked very well and their paid feature probably would too. I use emby to make it easier to cast media locally to my chromecast and to access media on my computer, from my phone in my bedroom, so for me, it's a fancy file browser and media player. The feature I wanted was to do with free to air tv streaming and I was thinking I'd be happy to pay for the Emby software to unlock this since they made good software that works. But here's the thing, it's FREE to air TV and yet they want me to pay, ongoing, in a perpetual arrangement to use it. I don't get it. I use it to play media, but the media is my media stored on my machines. I understand software development isn't free, I was happy to pay ONCE, but why would I keep paying when they don't actually produce the media I use it to play? That seemed unjustifiable.
Now with paragraphs.
Do I misunderstand emby or does it just not seem like a good deal on the basis of it being an ongoing subscription?
I use the free version of emby and it's really great. There was at least one feature that required payment to unlock.
I like emby already and when I tried using jellyfin, the core features that were on both it and the free version of emby worked far less reliably and the paid feature on emby that was free on Jellyfin, worked extremely unreliably.
Obviously resources and development had been spent to make something that worked very well and their paid feature probably would too.
I use emby to make it easier to cast media locally to my chromecast and to access media on my computer, from my phone in my bedroom, so for me, it's a fancy file browser and media player.
The feature I wanted was to do with free to air tv streaming and I was thinking I'd be happy to pay for the Emby software to unlock this since they made good software that works. But here's the thing, it's FREE to air TV and yet they want me to pay, ongoing, in a perpetual arrangement to use it. I don't get it.
I use it to play media, but the media is my media stored on my machines. I understand software development isn't free, I was happy to pay ONCE, but why would I keep paying when they don't actually produce the media I use it to play? That seemed unjustifiable.
If you were going to pay, the one-time $119 sub is the only thing that makes sense.
Historically, I've never been sad about a lifetime software purchase. That said, none of them continued to work unchanged for a lifetime, but I've always felt I've gotten my money out of them.
In the end, everyone eventually enshitifies their product to make more money.
Playon stopped supporting their old model which just stopped working slowly over the following year as streaming companies changed their tech, while their "new product" which only had monthly fees kept working. I used it for enough years it ended up being something like $2 a month.
Plex nixed their plugins, then screwed over their offline viewing and offline sharing, then their watch together. My original lifetime was somewhere around $70 and I've used them for 15 years, that's $4.60 a year :)
Always gotta overcomplicate things.
Sickbeard and dozens of drives is far more complicated.