This feels like a paid advertisement ”review” to me. There is basically nothing negative or critical at all. No places to improve? Here is the most critical bit in the entire post:

If you use GNOME, you should definitely be giving Ghostty a try. To be completely fair, I did not dislike using it on my other KDE Plasma — based machine either, but it does not feel as “native” yet. One day it will, though…

Mmmmm 😕

That is something that a pihole can sort completely, no?

I took a quick look at your website. The projects look really interesting. But just fyi, you might consider putting the website description text through an English grammar checker.

Both devices made ping attempts. Not hard to confirm with firewall logs bc of timestamps and internal IP addresses.

Physical disc in a cd/dvd/bluray drive

A 1080p player does not require internet connectivity but 4K/UHD discs need to phone home in order to get decryption keys on a per disc basis. There is a lot of discussion about this in the MakeMKV forums if you want to do a deeper dive.

It does but I use makemkv for the Blu-ray decryption

MakeMKV handles my Blu-ray decryption for VLC

It tried to. I use an opnsense firewall which caught it. I copied my logs and submitted the domains to a popular dns blocklist and they’ve already been merged.

Gran Turismo

I’m all good. I really wasn’t asking for tech support. Just sharing something with the community. Don’t worry, Sony didn’t get my data.

Thanks for the helpful thoughts though.

VLC on a Linux laptop. You think my Blu-ray player has the ability to take screenshots?

This is really neat!

I wonder if SELinux is the culprit here. Bazzite is based on Fedora, right (like Nobara)?

It’s not a secret. They’re all on the Awesome Piracy Github page. The abbreviations are in parentheses next to the actual name.

Edit: for some reason you aren’t brought to the linked part of the page. Press enter again after the page is loaded and it should take you to the “Private Trackers” section.

You can go for the interviews at MAM, OPS or RED. They can give out invites for free. I don’t know of any other free way. If you’re willing to shell out some $$ you can buy a seed box through TorrentLeech.

I appreciate the response. I updated it and there was some success in that Jellyfin isn’t throwing errors anymore, which is a step in the right direction. So thank you for that. Unfortunately it still isn’t working. I did a little more log digging and found this:

[16:35:50] [INF] [1] Jellyfin.Plugin.Dlna.Main.DlnaHost: Registering publisher for urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaServer:1 on 172.21.0.2 with uri http://172.21.0.2:8096/dlna/6a8078b6-cb55-4b46-acf0-64e99f2a7a79/description.xml

I think the issue might(?) be that DLNA is on a docker subnet and my home receiver is on a local 192.169.x.x subnet. I’m not sure though.

Edit: I also checked the Jellyfin docs and tried opening up ports 1900 and 7359 on the gluetun container. That didn’t do anything though.

Generally, I do not. But I’m sure there is a scenario where it is used as a rude way to terminate a conversation.

How have they doubled their prices?

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2642674/plexs-lifetime-subscription-plan-is-getting-a-massive-price-hike.html

HDD manufacturers have been increasing their prices as of late for the same products that were previously cheaper

Nope. Most recent delta is a decrease of $0.0000022 per MB. And the general trend has been decreasing for decades.

my users can watch on their mobile devices for free using a license I paid for once close to a decade ago.

You sound like a boomer talking about the house they bought decades ago for $75,000.

It’s not the same at all.

Plex practically doubled their prices to access features that users previously had for free.

Can’t remember the last time a HDD manufacturer put previously free features behind a paywall or when a Mullvad doubled its prices.