This is the way!

Cool to see someone pull this kind of malware apart. Interesting read.

Torrents are pretty terrible without private trackers. Since majority of free sites have no access to an API and require prowlarr/jacket to create one, a cloudflare slover to bypass bot protections and even then it’s janky.

If you use private trackers, you now have to keep seeding downloads to keep your ratio healthy, and require additional trickery to allow files to be seeded after sorting by sonarr.

Usenet is plug and play, as the indexes are built with this functionality in mind and it’s far less likely to run into malicious uploads, as there is curation occuring on the paid indexes, ie, they are insentivised to make the paying customer happy.

Have done something similar, you’ll discover the joy of have no internet while you do server maintenance, upgrades or disaster recovery and worst case, hardware failures.

Having internet and filesharing on one nic means internet will suffer while the nic is saturated.

Ensure your other VMs are adequately delayed at initial boot, as that can cause weird things that need DHCP to be available

Otherwise I never had issue running the router as a VM.

Steam is a private company, not publicly traded and has no VC funding.

VC funding and potential IPO normally means enshittification is inevitable, as they will eventually need to make insane profits by turning the screws on its users, as their business model wasn’t self sustaining.

Lol, I’m the server owner, so I am expected to pay to allow multiple accounts. Which is my exact complaint.

I had issue with offline usage, and found, with time, it only got worse. My lan clients eventually stopped showing my server unless I logged into my Plex account first. Maybe things changed since, my experience, Plex became overly dependant on a connection to their servers.

To little to late, I’ve since moved to Jellyfin, which solved my frustrations. I have no interest in moving back to Plex.

Plex also uses token based login that expires after 48hours, if you don’t have an active internet connection

A quick look, it seems hardware transcoding is locked behind Plex pass…

If you say so, but my clients started refusing to locate my Lan server, but worked fine once I logged into my Plex account. I’ve never struggled since moving to jellyfin. No chance I’ll ever go back to Plex

You need an internet connection to connect to a offline LAN Plex server… Just so unessessery, otherwise it doesn’t find your server (I was quite confused on that one, when that started happening) Plus having to pay for multiple user accounts, all just seemed like it was heading towards user extortion. It also lacked hardware transcoding at that point in time, which isn’t a huge issue, but did make it harder to run if you had a client that didn’t support a specific codec.

While jellyfin requires zero internet to be functional and login, supported hardware transcoding before plex and has multiple user accounts usage out of the box, at zero cost.

I stopped using Plex shortly after they started forcing logging in with your online Plex account to connect to LAN only based server. The writing was on the wall all those years ago. Who wants to be locked out of their media when the internet is offline, completely defeated the point of self hosting local infrastructure

Jellyfin, while lacking a bit when I first migrated, has continued improved over the years and it has been joyful to use. Plus Jellyfin supported hardware transcoding before Plex did, which was a gripe I had with Plex at the time.

I stream from my server remotely and share with Family without hassle. I dunno where Plex is trying to go, glad I bailed long ago

You better off enabling compression on a dataset.

Dedupe, even with the recent improvements, has huge overheads and will generally degrade in performance as the dataset increases in size, as it needs to keep track of the ‘routing’ table in RAM to redirect the request deduplicated blocks to the actual stored data. Apparently the latest openZFS release reduces the speeds loses over larger datasets, but it’s still subpar compared to compressed data

Video files are already heavily compressed, you’d be better off transcoding it to a more efficient media codec, like X265 or AV1, to save space on video files