• boonhet@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Requires slightly more hardware than a pi, but once you get to the double digit terabytes range of storage, you can honestly have a better plex/jellyfin library than Netflix in any one particular country (except maybe the US? I think US netflix has all the good shows and movies that we’re missing here in Europe).

    Netflix might have more volume, but there’s a lot of low quality shit nobody wants to watch, whereas you can just throw literally every blockbuster ever made on just a couple of terabytes at lower quality levels.

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      1 year ago

      I have an always-on vpn container and a transmission server container on my home server. Then I use transmission as a client on my laptop and I don’t need to continually connect and disconnect.

      Any interest in a how-to guide? I won’t get to it for at least two weeks, mind.

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      1 year ago

      Even without the volume you can have a “better” library, especially when platforms like Netflix sometimes cut out episodes or scenes from shows. Community, for example, is missing a bunch of scenes on Netflix that can mess up the story a bit.

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        1 year ago

        That’s also true. But it’s the selection where you can really win with volume. Apple has great shows but there’s not a lot. Netflix has some good movies, but not too many. But you can have them all.