The frog in boiling water is actually a complete myth. The frog jumps out when the water is too warm for it, it's not completely stupid. If the price is 'too hot' for you, jump out. Deezer (or any other streaming service) isn't forcing you to stay subscribed.

Back in 2019 some releases installed directly from IGG-GAMES contained crypto miners. They also added their own DRM to releases. Since then I have stayed away and never looked back.

The r/piracy wiki died when I stopped updating it which is a shame, I used to recommend it to everyone. Now I pass them onto FMHY or awesome.

Best of luck with your endless tech support anytime something doesn't work.

For me, Plex or Jellyfin is great if I want to share my library with some friends or family, especially non-technical people. Kodi really needs tinkering and you need debrid subscriptions and requires more local maintenance. It's great for me but I wouldn't want to teach my family how to use Kodi and me having to fix it when it breaks.

You have two options:

1. Compress the video using something like Handbrake. It won't look as good but you can give it a test pass to see what it looks like
2. Buy DVD 9 Double layer discs that will actually fit the contents

Suprise 3rd option: Split the ISO over multiple discs /s

uBlock Origin is a must for ad blocking. Anything else is just extra flavour. I like SponserBlock and Return YT Dislikes.

Humble Bundle distributes their DRM-free games and other content via BitTorrent.

Use the renaming feature in Sonarr and Radarr. It renames both folder and file.

https://trash-guides.info/Radarr/Radarr-recommended-naming-scheme/

https://trash-guides.info/Sonarr/Sonarr-recommended-naming-scheme/

Always the spooky castle

The Amber Room on Telegram is the spiritual successor to The Trove that is actively updated. I can confirm it does have the World of Darkness books.

All prices seem to be going up around the board. I just got an email saying my Turkish Family Plan (via VPN) is increasing from TRY ₺59.99 to TRY ₺115.99. That's $3.29 to $6.36.

You can but you don't need to. All they really do is organise everything. Any requests go through Prowlarr/Jackett which do the API calls then push that to qBit. One could argue you should put Prowlarr behind a VPN as well but it depends on the trackers you have in there.

No one will give you one. Music trackers are more difficult than average to get into and harder than most to maintain ratio. I wouldn't risk my account on it.

You can give this script a go though to download from Dezeer or Tidal from Lidarr

Mealie +1

I've tried Mealie, Tandoor, Paprika and KitchenOwl. Mealie was by far the best looking, easiest to navigate and most convenient. They revamped the shopping list recently and it has replaced my old Google Keep method.

An Nvidia Shield Pro is hands down the best but it is much more expensive. Slap a third party launcher over the top and use it for streaming Jellyfin or Stremio or Kodi or whatever floats your boat. Super responsive and is android-based so you can sideload whatever you want. It also has the most compatibility with most codecs so you'll be able to direct play more through Jellyfin rather than transcode.

FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH https://fmhy.pages.dev/

Shakil-Shahadat's awesome-piracy fork https://shakil-shahadat.github.io/awesome-piracy/

For those wondering, the cost is $199 for Pass Lifetime.

Hoarder. It is bookmark management with AI tagging. Tags are amazing when you don't have to assign them yourself.

I'm sure your aware but for people who aren't... Only changing your DNS doesn't hide your traffic, only your DNS query. They can't see you are resolving 1337x.to but they CAN see you access 104.31.16.118. This is why a VPN is important as it stops your ISP from seeing all of your traffic.