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Requires slightly more hardware than a pi, but once you get to the double digit terabytes range of storage, you can honestly have a better plex/jellyfin library than Netflix in any one particular country (except maybe the US? I think US netflix has all the good shows and movies that we're missing here in Europe).
Netflix might have more volume, but there's a lot of low quality shit nobody wants to watch, whereas you can just throw literally every blockbuster ever made on just a couple of terabytes at lower quality levels.
I have an always-on vpn container and a transmission server container on my home server. Then I use transmission as a client on my laptop and I don't need to continually connect and disconnect.
Any interest in a how-to guide? I won't get to it for at least two weeks, mind.
Yes!!!
Don't need it personally, but someone else might, so definitely post it when you feel like doing some writing.
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Implementation of VPN'd torrent client
This is how I torrent over Mullvad. I have no hesitation to recommend Mullvad - but I am not a crypto or security expert.
The main image fails closed - if the VPN goes down, transmission disconnects.
This setup also includes a SOCKS server that proxies your traffic over the same VPN. I use a separate browser (librewolf) and set the SOCKS proxy to :2020 including sending DNS over SOCKS. That's because my country blocks piracy-related sites at the DNS level. If you don't need this, you can delete the socks section of the docker-compose file.
On my ubuntu laptop, I install
transmission-remote-gtk
in order to click on a magnet link and have it added. Otherwise you have to browse to the container's web interface, which gets tiresome.I have this installed as a systemd service so it runs on boot. I use the systemd state and credential features as a safeguard against my own mistakes with permissions, but my long-term goal is to encrypt these files on disk. Linux can be pwned - I have read that around 35% of botnet nodes are linux (although these are presumably mostly weak IoT devices). The secondary benefit of the
LoadCredential
/CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY
mechanism is that it doesn't expose secrets as environment variables.The p2p.service file needs to be in that path, but you can put the other files wherever you want.
Known issues / todo list
File contents
/root/.secrets/mullvad
:/etc/systemd/system/p2p.service
:/usr/local/bin/p2p/docker-compose.yml
:/usr/local/bin/p2p/sockd.conf
:Steps
sudo apt-get install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
sudo systemctl enable p2p
sudo systemctl start p2p
systemctl status p2p
sudo systemd-run -P --wait -p LoadCredential=mullvad:/root/.secrets/mullvad docker compose up --remove-orphans
/usr/local/bin/p2p
and rundocker compose pull
to update the images.Even without the volume you can have a "better" library, especially when platforms like Netflix sometimes cut out episodes or scenes from shows. Community, for example, is missing a bunch of scenes on Netflix that can mess up the story a bit.
That's also true. But it's the selection where you can really win with volume. Apple has great shows but there's not a lot. Netflix has some good movies, but not too many. But you can have them all.