I ran a Linux VM and just had Mullvad app installed and always on, and that was all I needed
I ran a Linux VM and just had Mullvad app installed and always on, and that was all I needed
Yes
Back when I was a streamer I used Kodi with the add-ons (I was in a subreddit where the current good ones got posted now and then) and had a Real Debrid account.
It was really convenient, maybe give it a go with your Pi. There’s an OS you can bang on it (is it openelec? Libre-elec? Something like that) and just plug it into your TV. You’ll have to work out controlling it in a convenient way, I have a little keyboard about the size of a remote with a usb dongle. It’s got a little touchpad for the mouse and cost me fuck all on Amazon.
You do have to pay for Real Debrid but it’s totally worth the price and will get you used to paying for piracy.
So the cycle goes:
Install Kodi and play with the free streams and think it’s pretty great, get frustrated because you can’t watch that one thing, finally bite the bullet and get a month of Real Debrid, tell your friends how ace Real Debrid is.
Just skip that and get Real Debrid once you have your Pi set up.
Plex was easy enough to set up. I use plexamp on my phone but can access the Plex server via a browser, which includes my music
Meh my Usenet provider also partners with a VPN provider. Still costs me £5 a month for the VPN but I may as well use it, I like having a VPN
Douch or turd sandwich?
I had a friend bring up this very topic this weekend and I replied “What would be more creepy and more likely is that the ad giants have algorithms for working out what you’ll buy that are that good that they know what you want before you do and you’re just noticing how good it is”
I had a friend at work who said “People who pirate stuff are just as bad as burglers” to me. I had just been Burgled 2 weeks before Christmas.
I replied “Right so I’m as bad as the smack heads that robbed my kids presents, is that what you’re saying?”
He did that thing folk do when they look like a fish breathing then tried to backtrack, but that’s when he became a “work colleague” again.
Yeah I mean I get it because I was also thinking about self hosting for a long time and had a bunch of questions myself.
The problem is that a lot of the questions were not needed, and a bunch of the other questions I answered myself by just tooling around with the stuff.
Great comment btw, it’s a good idea to have a list of the services you’d like to run, in order of importance z then work through it.
I did that then found ways to combine a bunch of services, to the point where I had multiple stand alone VMs that are now just one for Home Assistant and second for Plex and Docker
I see a lot of posts like this and it’s always people overthinking something they haven’t tried to do yet.
So my advice is to just do it.
You may lose everything at some point in the future, Satan knows I have a few times, but because you’ve actually done it, you can do it again.
Now, because you’re just thinking about doing it, it seems like a massive deal because you’ve not gone out and done it yet.
As for recommendations, I use a Proxmox VM with Debian and Docker. My Proxmox does backups, but my Docker compose is also a text document on my PC so I can recreate it all from scratch from that. I also have an idea what I did when I was learning how to do it, and have retained a good bit of that info so I could probably do it without either the backups or the Docker Compose, it would just take longer.
Just do it
Commenting just to add “nofail” to the fstab.
I didn’t do this in Proxmox and then the drive stopped working and so did Proxmox. As a noob I ended up starting fresh and losing lots.
After adding nofail the services start up, just without the NAS attached. Without nofail it just doesn’t boot.
Nofail for the win
I have a mini PC and Proxmox, a Debian VM with a Portainer stack, and plex
Guybrush Threepwood. Still got the new one to go at
I get “Can I talk like a pirate” from Jake and the Neverland Pirates appear in my mind.
“I’ve been talking this way, since my birthdays began”
Then I artistically move my brain on to something I prefer. Alestorm
Just Google “Booting a pi from an SSD” and follow the steps
I can’t remember the steps (they were simple though) but when my Home Assistant raspi SD card died, I bought a 128gb SSD from AliExpress and a usb-sata cable.
I then did something to the pi that meant it can boot from the SSD, and flashed the SSD using Balenetcher or RUFUS or whatever (same program I was using to flash my SD cards basically).
Then it was just a case of plugging in and turning it on.
Runs exactly the same as with an SD card with less dying because SD cards aren’t meant for a lot of read/write but SSDs do.
Even if you manage to stop the WiFi hack he can still get in to your network through the ethernet ports. He could train an army of ants to pull a wire through a small hole in your wall and attach it to your router.
Just in case, fill all your unused ports with yoghurt. This will drown the ants
Hey original commenter here, just read your username and if Brad is short for Bradford I’m just over the hill from you
Yeah I know, I use Gluetun now, I was just answering OPs question.