Bittorrule

You don’t even need to remember to disconnect machines you can have a 100 different clients(is that the right word?) on a tailnet. Honestly it’s so sick and amazing it’s free

The real question is:

How do people have so much media to fill up those drives?

Followed by: how do people have so much time to watch that media?

Followed by: human driven climate change is real. How can people waste energy just to hoard media that they rarely ever see again?

I understand somehow if you are torrenting and contributing to the sharing ecosystem, but just hoarding?

BluRays are obviously better. I was just saying that not subscribing to Netflix is America will save a lot more than not subscribing in India. But the storage cost is very similar.

No, that sub does not have ads. There is, however a mobile only, 480p, subscription too, for less than 3 USD.

India has cheaper subscriptions. The lowest tier, 480p is 170 INR, which is about 3 USD.

You don’t even need to get new drives to begin, just use what you probably already have lying around, old external hard drives. Use a RAID and swap drives as they fail.

afaik (and I might be super wrong) you can have up to 100 machines IN the network, but only 3 connected at any given time in the free plan.

But yes, it’s sick and amazing either way.

Love the potrait of Linus Torvalds behind Xenia

If you’re in india then my understanding is that IPTV is the most cost effective option by a large margin. I"ve never lived there but my family is scattered between Bangladesh and india and they all use IPTVs.

but I guess to answer your original question: regional pricing

Stream and cream?

Q1: They have a knowledge of how to use BitTorrent, or Usenet or somesuch, without being caught.

Q2: They don’t, the point of a library is having things in case you want or need them, or maybe somebody else does.

Q3: I guarantee you it takes less energy and carbon to set up and operate a relatively small local library than it does to operate a giant realtime global streaming enterprise, by probably multiple orders of magnitude.

Fuck, I could do this with a SteamDeck, external drives or something, and run it all on a home solar power / battery system you can get off the shelf.

Have you ever seen, like physically seen, a massive datacenter the size of an auto manufacturing planr, a high rise building that is 50% server racks by floor?

Just how many racks there, how much water and energy is used?

Also: You’re arguing here that feeding evil megacorps is somehow better for the environment, than starving them?

Really?

Nope, free allows for up to 3 users and 100 connected devices. And if you run it on your router, the entire network only counts as one device. So for instance, you and two of your friends could all join the same tailnet. Their business model is basically the same as WinRAR’s; give it to individual users for free, to get people on board. Then charge corporations to use it at scale, since the individual users already know how to use it.

The only reason I don’t personally use it is because my work WiFi blocks outgoing WireGuard connections. And that’s Tailscale’s biggest weakness in my experience; They tout themselves as a zero-config VPN, but that means you’re not able to config things if you need to. If I were able to flip over to OpenVPN or IKEv2/IPSec instead of WireGuard, I’d be fine. But Tailscale doesn’t have the ability to do that, because it would require configuration.

If you’re only using it for yourself then there are a lot worse things that people do (like downloading apps for websites, using untrusted VPNs, or even just using the web)

Reverse proxy is more advanced and I think someone who needs it wouldn’t be worried about ease of use.

Just don’t talk about the part where we spend ~$1000 on acquiring 20TB of HDD

What exactly is the point of a Jellyfin server? Wouldn’t it be easier to just like, open the files? Why would that require a server?

Dockstarter with jellyfin + sonarr + radarr + qbittorrent + swag is your friend. I actually found jellyfin easier to setup. Don’t have to worry to much that streams are getting transcoded. Setting swag up was some effort though.

So one can watch from a phone, tablet, TV etc.

You get a cute little user interface to browse through your movies and shows with little posters and information. You also don’t have to use a flash drive and move stuff over if you want to watch from your PlayStation or other device. just a browser is enough.

On my own, I can somewhat regularly use 1tb of internet data in a month and I’m not even a data horder. I always keep a tv on in the background (which these days usually means streaming stuff). I also stream music pretty frequently.

Its not at all unrealistic these days for someone over the course of 2+ years to get 20tb of data all in one place. And if thats media that gets accessed frequently (like music) it probably saves bandwidth and energy storing it that way.

You don’t need to buy it all at once.

Long-term planning is a pathway to many powers CEOs would call…unnatural.