The best streaming service :)

What is *arrs?

Where I live it's actually free, and has books movies and music! They used to have a wii in the children section!

What a scam!

Where are you located?

Mines is free. Video games. Movies. You can use their equipment lab like the the 3D printer. All free.

tl;dr: You download files from a server you pay to access. Faster and more secure (assuming you trust the server host).

I use Eweka and NZBGeek as my indexer. If you don't have access to fancy private torrent networks then this is a much less painful experience than having to navigate torrent sites these days. Combine with *aar and life is pretty sweet.

What? I'm in 3 private torrent trackers, and have usenet also and 90% of stuff I grab with *arr software are from usenet, even stuff that's new/releasing rn have best releases on usenet.

Only way torrent is better is if you get into those super private trackers but otherwise usenet is still better in my case.

Stremio.

Thank you for offering! If we make an effort to pull those around us out from under these monolithic, predatory companies, we will be doing our part to make the world a better place

Sure. If you are comfortable with computers, this should be a breeze. I currently use Docker as my server platform, which can run on top of any OS you want, but I run it on debian. I run a Gluetun container + Mullvad for VPN, qBittorrent as the torrent client, Jellyfin for media, Jellyseerr for user requests, Sonarr for TV management, Radarr for movie management, and Prowlarr for torrent indexers. All of these run on separate docker containers. There's some trickiness for getting all the sketchy traffic going through the VPN, but there are plenty of guides out there, and in DMs I'm willing to offer support, albiet pretty slowly. If you have used Plex in the past, you can replace Jellyfin + Jellyseerr with Plex + Overseerr and the rest of the system can stay the same (although plex has been making some weird moves lately, and isn't free or open source, so I'd stick with Jellyfin if you can get past a relatively ugly UI).

The nice thing about this setup is it's pretty easy to expand to music, ebooks, and audiobooks as well, but for those media types there is less automation for user requests. I haven't had any issues with scaling up either, I've currently got 150+ TB of media.

I agree that Stremio is probably best for less tech-savvy users, but I prefer recommending open source over proprietary, free over paid subscriptions, and self-hosted over relying on some company to remain in service. I also prefer having local copies of my media so that I don't lose anything to no seeders on old media. Of course, there still is a cost component for me, I have to buy hard drives and maintain the server myself.

However, I just want people to move off of streaming services, so if you can help others with a streamio + real debrid setup, please do!

For two very important reasons. Apple doesn’t make shit, they don’t sit in the writers’ room, they don’t produce, they don’t interfere with the creation of their originals on any level. They buy IP rights and then hire experts to do all the work.

The second reason is Apple is spending more per episode of their originals than anyone else, including Netflix.

Sanctity of the creative process and a whole lotta money will get you very good content.

Agreed.

Kodi + Mad Titan Sports addon

I think stremio can do some live stuff, but it's not made for that so it's quite limited.