Unless the media also uses HDR in which case the server will still be required to transcode.

OpPS does not do interviews atm, so I’d recommend interviewing for RED.

Yes. Some cracks don’t replace the call to a server entirely, and instead use a local server to return the expected response. In this case, the DRM would run normally, except for it not contacting the offcial remote server.

Obviously if a crack removes a DRM completely, there might be a performance advantage. It depends on several factors.

DRM tends to mess with your game, framerate even. People who pirate don’t have that problem.

Not necessarily. Often times DRM doesn’t get removed or completely bypassed, instead they only make the license check pass. In this case performance should be identical to the licensed original.

Ugreen NAS support other OS. You could put TrueNAS or Proxmox on there, so no, there’s no security concerns (beyond all computer hardware being partly manufactured there in some way).

It won’t save you from doing a bit of work but you could use podman. There’s systemd integration so you can still start/stop/enable your services with systemctl while using docker/container images. You won’t be able to use docker-compose directly, but it’s usually not that hard to replicate the logic with systemd (Immich was a PITA at first (because they had so many microservices split into multiple images, but it improved considerably over the first two years).

I do this with NixOS quite a bit, and I’ve yet to use docker compose (although the syntax is different, it’s still the same process).

Given OP mentioned torrent and watching media in the same sentence I assume they didn’t rip their own media, and pirated it instead.

If my assumption is wrong, I apologize.

Especially anime often use the superior .ass subtitle format, which many devices don’t support. Sadly Crunchyroll is switching to .srt which has broader support, so it likely won’t require burning them in the video (transcoding), which is the only positive thing (still a shame imo).

https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/1nuxuzs/crunchyroll_has_downgraded_their_subtitles

Given they use a N100, I’d suggest redownloading instead of transcoding for time, energy and quality savings (i.e cost).

There’s non-streamable MP4, which have index metadata at the end of the file. For those you’d have to download the end first to be able to play anything before it. But I don’t think I’ve stumbled upon it (not that I download any MP4 in general, as there’s the superior MKV).

And making sure Tailscale auto launches on a FireTV stick is a pita too. Telling them to open Tailscale on each start is not an option.

Setting up auth before Jellyfin breaks clients. This is not an option. Edit: Unless you meant VPN like Tailscale, but then you’d have to install Tailscale too, which I don’t want to explain to others.

And sharing my libraries with other friends sharing back with me is pretty great.

This feature is imo THE killer feature of Plex, although I use Jellyfin. There’s no sharing of libraries like Plex does. Multiple user accounts per server, yes, but you have to switch between servers and search separately.

Yeah, music slowing down jellyfin search was the reason I moved to navidrome.

How big is your library? 1min is excessive but I also noticed jellyfins search getting slower with an increasing amount of shows and movies. There’s projects like jellysearch which improve search noticeably.

I also wholeheartedly recommend Restic. Hetzner Storage Box or Backblaze B2 are great storage backends and directly supported by Restic.

Borg is great too, though I’ve never used it because I’ve discovered Restic first.

Iirc it’s possible to include Google Maps traffic data as an overlay map on OsmAnd.

Being able to skip tracks by holding (?) the volume button was great as my earphones didn’t have skip/volume buttons. Same goes for turning the flashlight on/off with the power button It was awesome.

Phones are pretty indestructible from age, except for the battery. I still have a Nexus 4 lying around and it still works after 12 years. I’d say it’s similar to how most electronic devices last an eternity, as long as they don’t get wet, hot or dropped.

Edit: And the buttons. Those die way too quickly but if you’re lucky they can last a long time too — especially if they aren’t used much after a few years.

Interesting. I’ve had a worse experience with my music library because of how Navidrome didn’t support multi artist tags properly until recently. But while writing this comment, I checked again and they merged it in 0.55.0!

So I’d recommend giving Navidrome a try too. Symfonium is a great client.