My Mastodon feed is pretty dry. Does anyone have any follow recommendations for active accounts that post about tech stuff Or pictures of critters?

A developer wanting to get something in return for their work is a reason. It's also an option for the user. Sync offers a one time payment for Ad Free and for their "Plus" features. It also has the option for a monthly subscription.

Not going to down vote you for disagreeing. I think the frustrations stem from the constant closure of apps. Whether it makes sense or not, it is annoying getting invested into a service and then it gets pulled away. I would say it's essentially inevitable that any app or service you use today will lose support at some point. Google has a track record now of closing apps fairly early. I'm already finding that YouTube Music is getting features that I have no interest in using.

It's just what I've been using for so long. And I have a lifetime Plex Pass.

Not the user above. But I find Stremio to be a way better experience overall. It's more convenient and quicker to get to what I want to watch. I've been off Netflix for a while, but there were times where the Continue Watching section would just be gone. I'd have to search for the show again and resume. The more services you replace with Stremio, the more convenient it becomes.

I have not looked into offline playback with Stremio so I'm not sure if that's a thing.

I had been planning on running Jellyfin in parallel for testing but haven't gotten around to it. Plex has been reliable for me. And I really enjoy Plexamp.

I've had Shift+W programmed to my thumb button. Way more relaxed way to sprint in most games.

Any models of DAS that you recommend? Looking for a 4-Bay

Edit: Would security flaws be an issue for something like a DAS though? The DAS wouldn't have anything running on it. It would just be a big ol' dumb external HDD. Right?

No reason other than price. Everything I see listed for Synology is a NAS setup.

USB speed? Everything has been completely fine with the USB enclosure I have it running on right now.

I'm not doing any backups with this setup. This would solely be for media that will be streamed through Plex. While having a drive fail will be annoying, it wouldn't be catastrophic as nothing personal or important would be stored here. I would rely on the Arr setup to rebuild.

Honestly, I'm just trying to squeeze out any HDD space I can use. I'm trying to keep the cost down where I can.

I may go down the DAS path then. I was eyeing a QNAP 4-Bay DAS. Perhaps a NAS later on if I'm in need of a home network storage solution that is a bit cleaner and user friendly.

Play Music pulled me away from my alternative sources of music. I used to keep a gigantic library of acquired music. I'm going back to old means now that YouTube music seems to be going down weird routes and adding functions that absolutely do not benefit me. Samples and comments? No thanks.

Only thing keeping me subscribed is YouTube premium. I watch a lot of YouTube content.

Just got mine setup. It's fantastic. The UI is really nice too. I didn't expect it to be as polished as it is.

My priority would be to put more resources into the audio interface, controllers, and storage. I think you'll be fine with just about any modern build. Maybe lean towards the quietest build you can make.

If you're serious about your work, I would do a separate drive for storage of your media. Keeping the project data off of the OS drive. I'd even do a backup drive. I don't think there will be a performance benefit. I just prefer a neat file system. Especially if you're working with audio clips. Audio files don't take up a crazy amount of space. I feel it's important to have backups if you're collaborating with others.

The system is down

You would delete the download to completey stop seeding. Take a look at the guides others have posted.

My structure is this:

torrent -movies -TV

media -movies -TV

qbit downloads to the torrent folder where it seeds out from. Radarr/Sonarr make a Hardlink copy from the torrent folder to the media folder. Your media software watches the media folder.

I'm interested 👍

I use PIA for my VPN and I run Android TV devices for streaming. Not familiar with Tailscale so I'll look into that.

I had been thinking about setting up a router with VPN built in. I was already planning to upgrade my router anyway. So that may be the approach I take.

I don't think PIA has that ability. They do offer a dedicated IP to connect to but that is another subscription.

I setup the auto-delete function. I placed a very high ratio and a certain amount of days to stay active. I'd prefer to seed indefinitely but this will do for now.

I'm definitely getting more storage soon.