I feel like the bigger security concern here, if one needs to worry about it for their threat level that is more likely, is just like if someone knows your password, who could force me to unlock my phone via biometrics?

This was the majority of my experience as well. As a newer programmer, I’m more than happy to always know a better option. But if the way I’m looking to solve my problem is wrong, don’t just give me Y, explain to me why it may not work how I think it will. Tell me about X and some pitfalls or reasoning for it not going to work, then recommend Y. Because if others only see the Y answer to my question about X, they’ll probably just keep searching for a solution to X not knowing it may not work like I didn’t know.

Not sure sure if you know about this but they reason they don’t allow it in other clients is the encrypted portion. However, they built a bridge recently that allows you to use it within other clients on Linux (not sure what other OS but looks like windows too) and I’ve been running it on the Evolution client since.

Proton Mail Bridge

I had tried to build one one time and got the ui down. As I started building the more complex arithmatic (chaining calculations) i realized how insanely complex it actually is. It made me realize how complex the most simple looking apps actually are.

Can anyone with knowledge on business explain why these companies keep going public other than the simple fact of money?

I feel like everytime a company does they go full throttle into making shareholders money and lose sight of their original company. Honestly I assumed discord was already public based on some of their monetary features that are overpriced lol.

Not sure about the whitelisting part, but I think this is what Brave already does. Randomizing fingerprinted data as opposed to blending in. Makes it hard to build a profile on.

I used to use Plex as well but similar to your remarks, they started doing a lot more updates that added a “corporate” feel to it such as adding their own movies/tv. Nothing inherently wrong with that but in my opinion, when a platform has the option to add features such as that, that costs money. And they’re gonna want to get that money back somehow. Yeah they offer subscriptions but to me this all was a redflag that I could see them taking further in the future. Where as Jellyfin is completely free at the cost of a little extra work to setup.

Awesome. I’ll give this a try later and get back to you. Thanks!

Unfortunately, I say yes. And hear me out first please.

The Fediverse in my eyes should be free. Free to have instances for everyone, including those we disagree with. Because in my opinion, the right to say and think what we want is very important (absolute free speech). And unfortunately, i think that means everyone should be allowed to say what they want. HOWEVER, free speech does not mean free of consequences. The option of federating with those groups or not is up to each community and fortunately I think many would not be okay with including them.

I’m always open to hearing input as these are personal thoughts so by all means add to or let me know the errors in my thinking. Thanks!

Awesome, that was my next topic to look at was shows. Thanks for clarifying!

Woah woah woah sir. These are Linux ISOs. No pirating here :)

That’s amazing! Thank you for sharing! Also, ATLA… Didn’t realize I was speaking with a man of class. Thank you my good sir.

Didn’t know about identify. Is the in the dashboard settings for media or directly on the “watch” page that shows all media for viewing?

Kind of seconding this, I can’t speak for VPN routers, but i recently had a leak when I thought my kill switch was on and apparently something failed (probably me).

From now on I run both my PCs VPN as well as bind it directly to the torrent client. Same connection, just extra “kill switch” coverage.

Of course it all depends on how you want to do things/does all traffic need to route through a vpn/etc.

Ah nice. Well I think I just tried when I first set it up, saw it mess up, and figured I needed to rename, I’ll give it another try with this batch I upload later.

I will definitely give it a retry then. I mentioned in another comment that I could’ve sworn it didn’t when I first started and that’s why I started renaming, but I’ll try it again. Thanks!

If I remember correctly, when I first started the server, it was showing the name on the server as the long name with details instead of just the movie name. Although that could have been my fault.

On the seeding side, I’ve tried seeding the renamed files through the torrent but it seems since the movie names didn’t match it would start trying to download again instead of seeding directly. I may try transmission but I likes qbittorrents interface linking to the vpn. Transmission seems to need it typed out while qbittorrent let’s you select from a list. I just felt more confident having it selected as opposed to typed out.

It definitely felt like a right of passage lol. Ill be saving that. Might have to put it up on the wall to look back upon in my elder days.

That’s exactly how I do it too. Life is expensive so it’s hard to give to FOSS. But if the software you use is worth skipping a coffee run, or whatever it is just to give 1 or 2 bucks (yes I know coffee isn’t that cheap lol) then that’s just as good as giving more. Every little bit helps.

Well spoken. Free is more of a freedom to read, write, and use. Not free of cost. It’s amazing that a lot is free of cost but I highly recommend donating to those services you use regularly. Only if you can of course. I know money is tight for many people including myself.