Going on 6Tb of movies and tv

Unless I’m misunderstanding, I do believe it is that simple, yes.

Eh fuck it, what are they going to do, call the FBI on me? Employer certainly doesn’t care.

However I would prefer if there was a way to route the traffic through VPN.

It would almost certainly depend on what VPN and what TV you have, but I believe I’ve heard of native VPN apps that can be installed on Android TVs.

Jellyfin certainly has a little bit of wonk to it, but as far as basic functionality I find it just as easy as Plex.

I think the first decision to make is pre built vs DIY. The most common pre built solution would be something like Synology. You may start researching there and see if that would fit your needs, or what people do as alternatives.

I personally built one with a similar use case and use Unraid for my OS. The other normal option is TrueNAS.

With that budget you’ll be able to get a good result.

Honestly the reason is I thought that it was an easy way to fit my use case- I just may have misunderstood what it was capable of.

Honestly I’d just go low-ish tech and give them a key, or install a lock with a keypad and teach them a number. The security problems with automatic smart locks are too big, in my opinion.

Just hoping private torrent sites and Usenet remain relatively unscathed. Honestly I’m surprised about how many of the big private trackers have lasted so long.

For project A, I’d look into tailscale. I’d advise against having home assistant open to the internet otherwise.

Don’t know anything about your other project, sorry.

Do not buy random TV boxes off AliExpress, like 80% of them are malware

How do you handle discovering new music? That’s a big sticking point for me

Not so much refuse, but I don’t currently pirate games or music. The systems available to me are too convenient for me to waste time fucking around with piracy.

The download page for qbittorrent says that MacOS is “barely supported”. Is docker reasonably accessible for Mac? You could use that to get qbittorrent.

Assuming you’re watching on a smart TV, can you just screen share/screen cast from a phone or tablet?

This is the way

Yeah it’s relatively easy to reuse most webcam cameras, you just have to get them connected to a USB cable, then most computers will immediately recognize them as cameras.

I usually just harvest usable parts like the hard drive and camera and call it a day.

Alternatively, if you’re able to plug an external monitor in and get it to work for setup, you could install some sort of Linux distro on it and run it headless for lots of different purposes.

1. I think telegram is more secure than discord. Could be wrong.
2. I wouldn’t get torrents off discord either.

It depends on a lot of things. On your end you can make sure you’re “connectable” and have the right ports open, and have a decent internet connection. Beyond that there’s not much to do.