The land may become uninhabitable by humans, but something tells me aquatic life will be alright… Maybe not all of it, but there will be adaptation and life will go on.

That’s not to say destroying our ecosystems is ok, just that we’re probably not going to end life entirely.

I was initially talking about just one piece, but realized the comment you replied to was talking about the whole ecosystem and expanded.

I’ll break it down better:

The main piece of the puzzle is media server software. There are three big names here; Emby, Jellyfin, and Plex. (only one is needed, they just provide several options) These are provided with folders of media files and do all the heavy lifting to present and stream it to clients just like a comercial streaming platform such as Netflix.

Next is finding and collecting new media. For that there is Radarr, Sonarr, and Lidarr. (Movies, TV Shows, and Music) These manage searching through torrent/usenet indexers to find files that match the media you’ve told them to find. They then pass the desired torrent/nbz files to your chosen torrent/usenet client for downloading, and finally move+sort the downloads into your media folders for your chosen media server software to serve on demand.

Finally there are tools like Ombi, which can automatically manage requests for media from users, without them having to ask you to find/add things.

These can be setup to be LAN only, or with a bit more configuration be accessible from anywhere. This may require purchasing a domain name to enable proper SSL/HTTPS security; but that’s actually a really useful thing to have. I started with media streaming; but now run a VPN, immich, vaultwarden, and many other services all accessed/secured via my own domain name.

Plex is designed to make that part really easy, providing SSL/remote access for you; but at the expense of giving Plex corp access and control over your server, requiring users (including you) to login to plex.tv before being able to access your server, as well as selling your info to advertisers while pushing their content to you.

Jellyfin is fully open source and honestly a great option, but lacks some features like an XboxOne client.

Emby is in the middle. Closed source, and requires a subscription to enable some features; but there are lifetime license options and its been a very reliable product for me.

The convenience of netflix (whatever you want to watch, from any device in any location), populated with any media you decide; and easy to share with anyone you want.

I currently have 5114 movies and 39033 tv episodes from 483 shows; shared with friends and family. New episodes of any TV show that I’ve added get downloaded automatically as they air. Movies can be added before they release and will download as soon as they are available, with cam rips being ignored.

You provide one of these media servers (Emby, Jellyfin, or Plex) with folders of video files that are named after movies/shows and it identifies them, downloads all the necessary metadata, and presents it in a very similar format to comercial streaming services.

They can also perform tasks like converting media on the fly to support devices that can’t play a particular format, or are trying to stream over a poor/low speed remote connection. You can search, sort, and filter by things like genre, studio, cast/crew members, tags. Vist links to imdb, the tvdb, tmdb, rotten tomatoes, etc.

Then tools like sonarr/radarr/lidarr remove the need to manage files at all; making it so you simply search for a title, click ‘add’ and it’s hunted down and downloaded for you.

It’s just overall a much better experience than managing folders full of files.

Lawsuits require a functional legal system…

‘Aid’ in the form of weapons, to be used in/on Gaza…

Perhaps there can be a place for it, I just mean it should not be an automatically and consistently part of peoples feeds. Creators should have a place for it that’s easy to find/access for those that want/seek it. Just don’t shove it in people’s faces without their explicit prior consent.

I don’t think the general/greater population of lemmy came here to find porn…

That’s fair; I don’t mean to minimize or dismiss the situation in either location, just that Minnesota was what specifically was on my mind when I wrote the comment.

NSFW does not equal exclusively porn.

I’m not looking to block out gore or triggering topics, particularly news stories such as what’s come out of Portland Minnesota lately. Hell some of my own posts are NSFW, but I’ve never posted porn.

Disabling/blocking all NSFW entirely is not an acceptable solution when it’s only porn I’m trying to not be flooded with.

At its peak, before instance blocking was a thing: 4/5 posts under the ‘All’ feed were porn. I posted a picture quite a while back (I’m not gonna go dig it out, but it’s in my comment history), from before we could block an instance, with just a massive list of communities in my block list almost entirely from lemmynsfw. It was way over the top.

Now I can just block an instance or community that dedicates itself to porn and all is well. I still don’t think that content belongs on a platform like this. If people want porn, they can go to the MANY sites that serve porn; it shouldn’t be combined with your daily scrolling through news, current events, and funny cat videos*. But we have tools to work around it; so, moving on.

* heavily paraphrasing for general everyday content that an average person may share with friends/family.

Edit: I have no idea why I said Portland… I meant Minnesota, referring to Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

I still have hundreds of communities from lemmynsfw in my blocklist from before instance based blocking was implemented. Pretty sure lemmynsfw is 95% responsible for that feature needing to be implemented.

Why is this linked to an unrelated article…?

Anecdotal; but I spent 5ish years pirating via torrents from my home in Canada. Never once used a VPN and received an emailed copyright notice forwarded through my ISP about once every 3-5 days.

They never went further than that. The ISP isn’t permitted to give out my personal contact info short of a court order, and the copyright holder(s) can’t be bothered to pursue it further to get that info.

As long as you never reply to the notice; all they have is an IP, a time stamp, and a copy of the letter they sent to the ISP. They don’t know who I am to drag me to court; so first they’d have to sue the ISP for that info. Even then, tieing one specific individual to an entire IPs traffic is next to impossible. Was it the IPs subscriber? Another person in the household? A guest? Someone with unauthorised access? Too many variables/possibilities to prove ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ in a court of law.

Now a days however I use usenet. $12/year for an indexer, and ~$5/month for access to a usenet provider/server. Fast reliable downloads that always complete within 5min. No more waiting on slow or seedless torrents that potentially take days before giving up and trying another. This is all done though an ssl connection to a private server, so there’s nothing to snoop/get reported for.

Post a link that isn’t working for you? Maybe I just haven’t found a broken one…

What version of yt-dlp are you running?

Yt-dlp still works just fine; I used mine lastnight.

Remember to run ‘yt-dlp -U’ to update it.

I watch something like 20 YouTube videos a day from many different subscriptions. I don’t really want to straight download them all.

I opened youtube on a corporate PC the other day - viewing ads on the platform for the first time in I don’t even know how long, at least 8 years, probably a fair amount more - and was immediately repulsed. How do people live like this? I don’t understand it either.

Pihole, revanced, sponsor block, ublock, … Essential tools to access the Internet. My phones permanently connected to a self-hosted vpn that keeps it behind pihole wherever I am.

I swear god; If I ever look up at the night sky and see a billboard shining down at me from space, I’m bombing my nearest Google office.

No. Every wheel lock kit comes with the socket/key required, and there are so many different wheel locks out there you are VERY unlikely to need/use the one you have on a different vehicle.

That said; you should always keep your wheel lock socket/key either in your glove box or with the roadside jack for the spare tire of your car. You don’t want to end up at a mechanic or stuck on the side of the road without it. (so it should have just gone with the writen off car too)

Your entire fucking government is worthless; burn it all down and re-build.

Deals on meat that you just can’t beat.

If you have a static IP address, you can just use A records for each subdomain you want to use and not really worry about it.

If you do not have a static IP address, you may want to use one single A record, usually your base domain (example.com), then CNAME records for each of your subdomains.

A CNAME record is used to point one name at another name, in this case your base domain. This way, when your IP address changes, you only have to change the one A record and all the CNAME records will point at that new IP as well.

Example:

A example.com 1.2.3.4

CNAME sub1.example.com example.com

CNAME sub2.example.com example.com

You’d then use a tool like ACME.sh to automatically update that single A record when your IP changes.

I think it’s even bigger than that. It seems this particular law allows pulling the Feds in as well, bypassing their immunity.

In this case, the ACLU’s attorneys argue that federal officers worked closely with the county sheriff and city police officers to terrorize families at the racetrack raid, and were therefore part of a conspiracy.

Defendants in the Idaho case include officials from ICE and the FBI

Humans are just overgrown monkeys, and (at least) one of us already wrote Shakespeare’s plays on a typewriter.