VPN to a nice safe country like Switzerland.

Look into selfhosting the Servarr stack along side QBitTorrent, pick a media player such as Plex or Jellyfin. Easy free streaming.

I didn’t even think of this! I’ll give it a try, thank you!

Musk agree with this, filters work wonders.

Can’t wait to see the democrats pull a January 6th.

Use a VPN.

Do not recommend people to use random free VPN’s. You should pick your VPN provider carefully as all your traffic will flow through their servers.

Just out of curiosity, why bother running 4 instances of qBit for the various *arrs? Why not just use automatic torrent management, and have the different categories download to different folders? My *arrs are all using a single instance of qBit, and each service simply uses a different category with a different download path.

I started to become frustrated with the queue on a single qbit instance, I would set the max total of active torrents to 15; 10 active downloads and 5 seeding and it starts out fine but eventually those 10 active downloads all became stalled.

The amount of times I have had to open qbit to just move stuff down the queue so other things could download was obnoxious so I made 3 other instances for each *arr and it’s felt easier to manage.

Proton VPN claims to offer Port-Forwarding for their Wireguard router configs however, when I attempt to do it they don’t display the active port anywhere on their website.

Asus WRT Routers are great however, it doesn’t support certain Registrars for DDNS like Cloudflare so I had to install Merlin Firmware, ssh into the router and then manually configure a cron-job so that my A records stay up to date with my WAN.

https://github.com/clayauld/asus-merlin-cloudflare-ddns

Thankfully somebody already been down this path a posted the documentation which made things 100x easier.

Asus WRT Router > Proton VPN

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ProxMox EV

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Debian 12 Headless VM

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Docker Compose

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Docker Engine

• Unbound
• Pihole
• Prowlarr (for indexers)
• Radarr
• Sonarr
• Lidarr
• Readarr
• 4 Instances of QBit for each ‘Arr
• Jellyfin
• Jellyseerr
• Traefik for SSL/TLS
• Homepage

Kind of a crude & simplified way of putting my setup but I think it gets the point across.

Pretty sure IR lasers fry cameras - set one up in the robots path

I bought an 13th Gen Asus Nuc with an i7 running Debian headless and a hard-disk bay for my setup, previously all I was using was a Rasp Pi 4, I honestly don’t know if my Jellyfin instance is utilizing the CPU’s iGPU not really sure how to tell.

Running lspci in the shell does return

00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] (rev 04)

Been using Jellyfin along side the ‘ARR suite for about a year now, my biggest issue is with Subtitles.

On the IOS/iPadOS apps of Jellyfin subtitles seem to prevent media from streaming, tried utilizing Bazaar but have had no luck.

The Caindian ocean is a old time classic.

Hm, in my current state I’ve configured my router to essentially route all bandwidth to the closest server my VPN provider offers. I utilize other tunnels for bypassing censorship and or torrenting.

So far the year has been solid, I think I’m going to keep chucking away down this path since it does reduce resources on my server.