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Beacause, Today, I can already load another OS on the Steamdeck. Not so much on the PS5.

Eventually, Sony will stop supporting the PS5 and it’ll be a brick. If Valve ever stops supporting the Steamdeck, it’ll keep running.

Their static website hosting is probably the best in the business. We seriously need some competition though.

I went the seed box route and I’ll never go back. It’s faster and I don’t even need a stable connection. Start the download from my phone and it’s waiting for me when I get home.

Spotifyd should be able to be compiled in BSD. Requires a premium account. You can pair it with the TUI.

The people who are stealing our movies and our television shows and operating piracy sites are not mom and pop operations,” says Charlie Rivkin, chief executive officer of the MPA, who adds that some of the operators also engage in drug trafficking, child pornography, prostitution and money laundering. “This is organized crime.”

I like how they always have to fabricate a connection to organized crime. Trying to convince the reader that is not just copyright infringement.

Just keep in mind you’re going to lose quality. Any time you compress something in a lossy format is going to get worse.

Another note, if you’re not worried about quality loss, you might look into AV1 over h265. Much better compression. Though, that might not work with your setup.

It’s been over 10 years since I worked in a movie theater but this is the gist:

Hard Drives with the film are derived via FedEx and the films are encrypted with symmetric AES keys which are emailed to our theater. These keys allow us to play back the film for a window of time. Sometimes we’re sent keys to unlock different times if a film gets an extended release.

Some studios (Disney being the worst) would send you keys late into the evening, requiring staff to stay late to test for the following day. Sometimes they’d send us the wrong keys and it would take a long time to get the correct keys emailed to us.

I’m lazy. I just open fmovies on my phone and cast to my TV.

I’ve built DCPs (Digital Cinema Package, the format that protectors use) and the DRM part is always so finicky. I’m surprised this doesn’t happen more often.

The only device running Snap in my house is a Raspberry Pi running the Snap Nextcloud and it’s rock solid.

This might be a deployment issue. How are most people running it?

Theres a decent web frontend for YT Music called beatbump that should work in the browser. That might hold you over until you can figure something out.

I will torrent the latest movie, but I will buy the latest album from my favorite band directly off Bandcamp. Might even buy a t-shirt or some stickers.

I’m the US those are just libertarians but with piracy. No thanks.

I’ve donated to Ardour for years and I pitched in at the last Kdenlive find raising. I’d like to chip in more once my budget has stabilized.

The solution for capitalism-out-of-control is not more capitalism. The less big money players in the fediverse the better.

Running a solution like Wiregaurd + VPS or Tailscale is probably your best solution. It’ll be transparent for you and won’t set off any red flags for the network.

I’ve run tailscale on a cellular home internet platform as well a shared one like you have and it was slick.

Remember a homelab can be anything from multiple rack mounts humming along in your basement to just SBC running some clever Podman containers. Everyone’s wants, needs, and interests are different.

Sounds like most of what you want to do could be done with one or two machines, a decent switch, and some kind of Wi-Fi access point. There is no wrong or right way to do it.