Netflix has stepped up its efforts to ban VPN and proxy users from bypassing geographical restrictions. The streaming service is now blocking residential IP addresses too, since some unblocking tools use these to bypass restrictions. This isn't without collateral damage as many regular Internet user...
During my pirating hiatus, when you could have a sufficient amount of slop for a reasonable price (well I still pirated some, but a lot less), I ended up setting up a desktop PC that can conveniently double as a home media server. It's now running a Plex server and my pirating has been taken to a whole new level. I load up tons of new and old movies onto there just so me and my partner can have the fun of scrolling through actually good options on a netflix-like interface. I've started sharing it with friends who are tired of having 5 subscriptions, and so far it's been working great.
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Doesn't this cost money? I used my last stimulus check to put together a media server and I'm just running Ubuntu with ZFS
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ZFS can do all that, and more. You can pretty much set an arbitrary parity level when creating your zpool, though obviously this will decrease available storage capacity accordingly.
ZFS is also more mature than btrfs (the next-gen Linux filesystem), but is less well integrated with Linux - runs great, works perfectly, but tools like gparted don't understand it and it's slightly more complex to set up. There's also stuff like XigmaNAS as a more turnkey alternative to Unraid.
if i ever get free time i want to take one of my many old pcs and do a plex so bad. you make it sound so fucking awesome.