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I'll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It's not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.

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[–] navigatron@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wireguard creates a new network interface that accepts, encrypts, wraps, and ships packets out your typical network interface.

If you were to create a kernel network namespace and move the wireguard interface into that new namespace, the connection to your existing nic is not broken.

You can then use some custom systemd units to start your *rr software of choice in said namespace, rendering you immune to dns leaks, and any other such vpn failures.

If you throw bridge interfaces into the mix, you can create gateways to tor / i2p / ipfs / Yggdrasil / etc as desired. You’ll need a bridge anyway to get your requester software interface exposed to your reverse proxy.

Wireguard also allows multiple peers, so you could multi-nic a portable personal device, and access all your admin interfaces while traveling, with the same vpn-failure-free peace of mind.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, or just do it properly on your router and be done with it network-wide.

[–] pcjones@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are looking for German (or German + English dual language) content it can be very hard to find stuff on public torrent trackers and it's pretty hard to get onto private German trackers - but don't worry, there is a solution:

Usenet and the indexer sceneNZBs.com that specialises in German releases have got you covered!

If you want to automate the search for German Dual Language content using Radarr/Sonarr I made a guide (that also works for torrents too): https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language

[–] KiofKi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a German, I can confirm: Usenet is the way to go. For me it's fileleechers (invite only afaik) for German content, and nzbgeek for the rest. All combined with Sabnzbd and Plex. Will have a look at your guide tho!

[–] pcjones@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

fileleechers is a board and not an indexer though right? So you can't add it to Sonarr and Radarr

Feel free to correct me, I don't know a lot about them since they are invite only

[–] KiofKi@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah that's true, just a board. But it's ok for the occasional German content I need. No premium membership needed at least.

[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

stop manually browsing torrent sites! You're wasting your time.

Download qBittorrent. Download Jackett. Configure Jackett to work inside qBittorrent. You now have a way to search hundreds of trackers all at once within seconds and find literally anything you want.

[–] Shere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You should check out Prowlarr, its like jackett, but integrates better into sonarr/radarr

[–] huojtkeg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prowlarr has a prettier UI but the torrent sites they support are maintained by Jackett. It noone gives credit, at some point Jackett won't be maintained and Prowlar neither.

Disclaimer: I'm qBittorrent, Jackett, Flaresolverr and Bazarr developer.

[–] whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hey thanks for your work. QBT and Jackett are super stable and well done.

[–] debeluhar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have all of these programs running on raspberry pi, including Flood (mobile friendly UI for qBittorrent, also supports Deluge), and plex media server. It can't be easier to watch movies and tv shows that way.

[–] ShakyPerception@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they all running on the Pi, or just the torrenting tools?

[–] debeluhar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Everything is running on Pi. But I have Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of ram. Actually I have Raspberry Pi 400, which is basically 4GB variant of Raspberry Pi 4, with slightly overclocked CPU and passive cooling, inside small keyboard, but I only got that because Raspberry Pi 4 was out of stock.

[–] Janis@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

piracy is a latter.

at the bottom there is the person getting a pirated ware physically from someone who copied it.

then steps later there is rapidshare or whatever filehosters still exist.

more steps up are public torrents and trackers.

then there is forums that use a variety of sharing technologies like (private) torrent or hosters.

nzb is next.

then there is irc - which at best is linked to some of the outer ring ftp servers.

ftp servers run by currygroups is next. and they leech from

the core of scene ftp servers.

sure i missed exotic outlets of the piracy latter like ondemandpiracystreaming, ssd-by-snailmail and so on.. we all agree vpn is key. i think irc always has worked better than torrent ever and being easier to access thab nzbs.

[–] SuperSmashDan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you mind sharing some more information about irc?

[–] Janis@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

well for starters you could just go xdcc.eu,search some shit, fire up hexchat, obey channel rules (e.g you have to register your username) and xdcc request the file. next up you might want to do you own irc bot maybe selfhosted on a Pi or as a service and teach that bot what to get you on a regular basis like tv shows. then never use xdcc.eu ever again and run your searches through said bot. maybe get lost in the whole topic and have a telegram bot run on the irc bot Pi to update you on latest downloads and so on... you can have an irc client on your phone and then tell your bot what to request and download.

[–] Aetherion@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really want to thank you for this post, it opens up some long hidden secrets and gems inside the piracy world <3

I want to add something to this thread for my advanced pirates: irc xdcc chats for directly downloading content use http://sunxdcc.com to search for the content you are lookin for! (though, it's very manual)

[–] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Synology NAS (with SynoCommunity) + Transmission + Sonarr/Radarr/Prowlarr/etc + Kodi

It's amazing, the new episodes or movies just show up right there in the media center, with correct metadata, ready to be watched.

[–] JC1@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The modularity of docker makes this great! I have a docker stack with overseerr, 2x sonarr, 3x radarr, 2x readarr, lidarr, unpackerr and sabnzbd. Another stack with nordvpn and qbittorrent. It's so easy to setup and it becomes very powerful.

I have some users on Plex that simply do some requests on overseerr, I approve them, then everything gets downloaded automatically. They just have to wait for it to be available. I used to be suscribed to Netflix, not anymore since their offering dropped while their prices raised.

[–] FippleStone@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you run multiple *arr containers? What can two or three do that one couldn't?

[–] pcjones@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Radarr/Sonarr can't handle multiple versions of the same movie/episode, so a lot of people have a second instance for 4K movies (so they can have both a 1080p and a 4K version of the same movie). Also if you have a lot of anime it can be worth it to have a Sonarr instance configured just for that

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never tried out all these "arr" services because I thought they only deliver english language. Is it possible to use other languages?

[–] pcjones@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

They can work with other languages, but it can take a while to find a correct setup

[–] eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Docker, if you can run it on your hardware (either your normal system or on dedicated hardware) is a Swiss army knife that can help level up your acquisitions, and provides you with an isolated application environment if you don't want to install the applications directly to your device. For media specifically, there is a suite of applications under the same *arr naming scheme that allows you to index, monitor for releases of, and acquire different television shows, movies, music, and books.

Some container maintainers build in different capabilities into their torrent client containers, such as Binhex's qBittorrent and Deluge applications, that have VPN connectivity built in, so any network traffic running through that container will automatically use your VPN provider's WireGuard or OpenVPN capabilities, depending on who you use. Once you have that running and your tags tuned in the *arr apps, you have a headless, mostly independent machine constantly working on acquiring and upgrading your media.

Sidenote: the *arr apps can be controlled by mobile apps like LunaSea on iOS, and nzb360 on Android. The latter can also integrate with your torrent clients.

[–] hurricane155@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there something to allow you to browse and filter movies an be tv shows? I've just gotten into sonarr and it's great for managing shows but I still fall back to browsing sites for inspiration

[–] pcjones@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Pick one: Ombi / Overseerr / Jellyserr

edit: fixed Ombi misspelling

[–] hurricane155@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have emby for watching and trawling the stuff I have. I meant for searching for other stuff to get

[–] pcjones@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

I mixed up ombi and emby, sorry.

[–] ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pcjones@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Whoops, I always mix up emby and ombi since I don't use either of them. My bad!

[–] _thebrain_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you prefer usenet, work your way into a few good private trackers. If you prefer torrents, get an invite to a couple of indexers. Backup methods are key to success.

[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pcjones@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Short answer: no

Long answer: yes, but they are basically useless. Except for some indexers that cost money but also have a free plan where you are capped at like 5 downloads per day.

[–] max2078@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Using file hosters instead of Usenet, that's a Paddlin'. Using JD2 instead of PyLoad, that's a Paddlin'. Using a headless version of JD2, that's a Paddlin'. Using an overpriced RPI, that's a Paddlin'.

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

What makes PyLoad better than JD2? Filthy JD2 user here.

[–] BeezKnuts@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I really want to know is what you guys use for getting torrents for entire seasons of shows, or even the entire show at once. I'm not new to piracy, I'm just new to talking about it with people.

[–] gkpy@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

flexget, more ghetto than sonarr but works just fine

[–] BraBraBra@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go through plex. Pay some guy to do your dirty work for you.

[–] Elektrotechnik@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I briefly looked into this, but then reddit shit the bed :-)

Can you be a little more specific? I'm in Europe. Who do I have to pay to get access to a sweet server? I'm only watching English content.

Thanks!

[–] sunnyxiongster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was subreddit- plexshare. People share their Plex account over there for a fee ofcourse. Go and check if that sub still exists.

[–] emhl@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sunnyxiongster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Do you by any chance know if there's community for 'redditbay'?

[–] emhl@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

apparently there is this community !redditbay@lemmy.world (easily findable using the integrated search function on lemmy) but it's quite empty

[–] crossover@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve personally found it better to pay for a seedbox and connect to it via encrypted FTP than to worry about VPNs and downloading torrents locally. I share the cost between a couple of friends and we all access the seedbox and download/stream what we need from it. I don’t have to worry about keeping my computer running either.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can use IRC to pirate ebooks that you won't be able to find on torrent sites.

[–] bandario@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about library genesis.

[–] holygon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

Take a look at annas-archive too. It’s run by the same people, and includes both libgen, but also z-library books. I find the search on the site to be better as well.

[–] Aetherion@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Use for scientific articles annas archive :)

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

IRC is useful for other content as well: https://www.xdcc.eu/