This post contains content related to media piracy. I couldn’t find any rules for this community and I don’t know if it’s allowed. I accept the risk of getting this post taken down or being banned without knowing the rules.
With that small disclaimer out of the way, let’s tackle my question.
I’m a simple self hoster: I have single server made out of an Optiplex 3060 Micro (i5 8500T, 32GB, 14TB of storage in one drive), I use duckdns instead of a real domain and I have no supporting infrastructure. I don’t really like watching things, I set up arr stack mainly because everyone says it’s the best thing to use a homelab for.
My family have strong opinions on piracy and I know for a fact they wouldn’t use my jellyfin, even if I tried to manipulate them, which btw is a really bad practice (if it’s as common as responses under posts about getting people to use your homelab suggest).
I also have hard time getting them to even allow me to run my homelab (I’m a teenager, I live with my parents), because it takes space and uses power (for context idle is around 8W).
As I said, I don’t watch things that often and even if I watch, I’m extremely monothematic, I watch basically only AOT and sometimes some random popular movie.
I understand that my situation is quite unique, but I find it hard to argue for Jellyfin+arrs when fmhy and countless reliable streaming sites exists.
I already made my mind, I’ll stop using those services today. I’m interested how others look at this “problem” tho.
Are you hosting arr stack/plex/jellyfin?
How much is it utilized (in watch hours/week for example, mine was less than 2/week)?
Have you considered not using it?
If you stopped using it and went back, what happened, why did you change your mind?
Some people don’t want their living room to look like set decoration in an 80s hacker film. Not all of us are single dudes who sleep on a mattress on the floor
Some of us have kids who absolutely love dangling wires
Welcome back from the coma, grandpa! We stopped calling computers “mainframes” a good while ago and started shrinking them so they’d comfortably fit behind a TV screen, in a drawer or some place else that’s out of sight. You’ll be amazed once you see it all…
Apparently they forgot to teach you about context in reading class, this thread was about plugging a laptop into your television.
You must have the tiniest of sofas inside the tiniest of living rooms to be disturbed by a simple laptop. But to each their own, I guess.
Well, make sure your interiour decoratour knows about media players which are about the size of a Visa Black card.
Yeah, maybe tell the guy who suggested plugging the laptop into the TV INSTEAD OF USING A MEDIA PLAYER.
You know, the guy I was responding to.
This site is populated by the illiterate.