What OS is it running?

And what about when a service stops or crashes and you can’t access through the app or front end? Or updates, either for the OS itself and for all of the services it’s running? Do you SSH in every time you need to do any of that?

Go it!

https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-openvpn/

This is shaping up to be a much harder project than I thought

Yeah, I’m not trying to avoid terminal completely, just for the day to day tasks I’m gonna use it for. But someone in another thread pointed out that most things, after they’re set up have a front end GUI, like your portainer example. I can get comfortable with such a situation.

So the primary reason I’m going with Ubuntu is because my VPN is Proton and

Our app officially supports the latest stable Ubuntu LTS version running the GNOME desktop environment.

So I’m afraid it might not run on anything else. The other stuff I want to run, Qbittorrent and eventually the *arrs, will probably run on anything. And it looks like I’ll probably need Docker anyway. So the real constraint right now driving the OS choice is Proton.

What a generous offer! Can I take a rain check? I haven’t worked on it in a while after giving up. I think I was trying to re-set up… Tautulli? Yes, I had already set it up but it stopped working. Then I tried to set it up again and I forget what issue I ran into. Do you mind if I get back to you later? Could be this weekend, next week, or in a few months. Whenever the motivation and available time align.

Yes! I’m familiar with Marius for exactly this reason. Following his tutorials i feel like i understand what’s going on until I run into a problem that’s not addressed in the tutorial and then I’m stuck. I can’t figure out a work around because I don’t know what the error message is telling me. Then after googling it, I’m 15 browser tabs deep in stack exchange boards and I’m no closer to setting up the container.

Ok, this is actually a helpful answer. I can appreciate what you mean by setting things up in docker and using a front end. I’ve done some of this on my Synology, but I try to avoid Docker because I don’t fundamentally understand what I’m doing, I’m mostly just following some tutorial I found online.

noVNC follows the standard VNC protocol, but unlike other VNC clients it does require WebSockets support. Many servers include support (e.g. x11vnc/libvncserver, QEMU, and MobileVNC), but for the others you need to use a WebSockets to TCP socket proxy.

This is gibberish to me. Is this something I can set up in Ubuntu which is what I’m planning to run on the Pi?

Home is fine for now. The problem with SSH is I don’t want to run everything with CLI

You can download in whatever format is available for any given movie. Often movies are available in multiple formats, especially the popular ones. DM your email address amd I can invite you to a private tracker but only if you promise to keep a good ratio.

Also I’m sure some other commenter is literally going to say “mkv is a container not a format” but whatever, if you want mkvs the movie or show you want has to have an mkv available.

Yeah, I used to use yt-dl(whatever) but Seal is just so much more convenient

My employer is the government

Right, exactly. The alternative to this meme is offering them access to my Plex server.

Welcome to Wrexham.

Not the kind of guy who’d watch something from a USB. Technically not a co-worker but a former co-worker, because he retired a couple of years ago.

I use Musicbrainz-picard to organize music and clean up metadata. For Shows and movies, it’s pretty easy. I use Plex and it’s pretty flexible with naming conventions

Just use something like Jellyfin or Plex. Install the server side software on your laptop and the client side on your Android TV

Seconded. Maybe start the how-to with what it is.

I’m a Proton die hard but I hear their Linux VPN client is lacking. I use all of their products but not on Linux.

Yeah, I mean, why get Spotify involved at all? Just pirate that shit

Right. I mean Spotify is a business. Why would there even be an expectation for free ad-free Spotify?