Froyn

Right, it’s just the side-bar makes the distinction between “online services” and “self-hosted” so I wasn’t sure.

A place to share alternatives to popular_ online services_ that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.

VPS is self-hosted?

I firmly believe that this information (but for porn) would increase adoption of the software being advertised.

Imagine paying $1 to each name that appears in the credits of a movie or tv show, which would be paying the artists directly for their work. It’s not feasible, but that’s what I read when folks toss out paying the artist directly.

Google the model number of the modem/router and it should tell you the speed of the Wifi built in. I’m using the ISP modem/router, but I’ve disabled the router portion and installed my own.

Not since I replaced my router. 1.8Gbs is so much smoother than the 100mbs I was getting from the ISPs device.

Stremio + torrentio + Real Debrid
Works like a champ on Chromecast

Or set up a second pi-hole.

20 Europbux or 17 Freedollars gets you a Read Debrid subscription for a year.
Tie it into Stremio and you’ve got everything right now.
Tie that into rclone and you’ve got yourself a fancy ‘backup’ for all those things you’ve streamed.

No VPN required.

My RPi3 is still kicking (Single purpose PiHole)

Must not be my neck of the woods (US). You mentioned the Pi, which is in my wheelhouse of “cheap”. Personally I’ve got a couple computers picked up from the local community college for $10 running TrueNAS and Proxmox.

My Google-Fu couldn’t find an R9 3900X for under $200, just the chip, used. I had hopes you had a better source I was missing out on.

13ft Ladder is twice as expensive as this solution.

Got a link for a cheap Ryzen 9 pc?

I can’t find anything about VCR’s blocking; I did find a bunch saying the opposite.

There were copy protections that prevented a VHS -> VHS copy being made of some movies. Easily defeated, but they did exist.

My scenario was recording an Over The Air transmission onto VHS using a VCR; not making a backup copy of a movie you purchased on VHS.

Edit: I do recall a campaign against VHS recording of TV shows, but didn’t it ended basically saying “Broadcast public == public domain”?. That actually led to copy protections in VHS tapes.

Let’s get crazier.

Our current favorite show is Bob’s Burgers, it’s a comfort show we fall asleep to. Prior to signing up with real debrid I got tagged for downloading a 2 year old episode.

We pay for Hulu. We pay for YoutubeTV. We have a working OTA antenna (for when the internet goes out).
My math says I have 3 licenses, yet still illegal to download?

Here’s what it’s showing me:
$3.26 for 15 days.
$4.35 for 30 days.
$9.79 for 90 days.
$17.40 for 180 days.

I did the 90 days to try it out for $10.
3 days of “playing around with it”.
Day 4 it was linked to StremIO on my Chromecast.
Day 5 it was linked to my NAS through rclone.

Things got weird when we went digital.

1. It’s perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a tape off the radio. Yet it’s illegal to download a better copy?
2. It’s perfectly okay, reasonable, legal to record a VHS tape off the TV. Yet it’s illegal to download a better copy?

+1 for Real-Debrid + Stremio + Torrentio

Tack on rclone for copying them locally. (The Bob’s Burgers Archive must grow)

Tracert will give you the latency of each hop required to make it to your destination. Not sure why everyone is complicating it.

If you’re replacing, why not clone the old drive to the new and expand to fill?