I have Plex, Radarr, Prowlarr, and Qbittorrent all installed on the same dedicated server. I’m using a SOCKS5 proxy instead of a VPN, it works great because I set up Qbittorrent to use the proxy and I just leave it running 24/7. I also have Tailscale installed for remote access, setup for that is dead simple.

Here’s my workflow if I’m away from home:

1. Turn on Tailscale on my phone.
2. Open my radar app (it’s called LunaSea).
3. Search for and add the movie I want.

That’s it. If I’m already at home, step 1 is not necessary.

Prowlarr and Radarr find the movie on my registered indexers, at the desired quality, and send the torrent to Qbittorrent. Then when the download is finished they automatically rename the files and move them to my Plex library (and they could do the same with Jellyfin). Roughly 10 minutes after I finish step 3 (more or less depending on seeds), the movie magically appears in my Plex library. I don’t have to turn a VPN on or off.

I’d agree with others, I don’t think you need a custom “app”, you just need to upgrade your spreadsheet skills. That’s probably the easier path here.

Theoretically you could make your components variables and just point your sheets doing the calculations at those variables. So you just change value of your variable, and your sheet re-does the calculation.

The only reason I’d recommend doing something custom is if you’re building a client-facing form. But even then, a simple Google Form that points at Google Sheets would work.

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. It’s possible that this site you found is perfectly safe, but it’s also very possible that it’s a honeypot or they’re serving up their cracks with a side of malware. I would recommend known torrent websites and reputable crack builders. Running a custom, unsigned .exe is already a risky activity, don’t make it more dangerous.

That is needlessly complicated. Just force qbittorrent to only use your VPN network interface and you don’t need any of that: https://lifehacker.com/you-should-really-bind-your-vpn-to-your-torrent-client-1849779407

This has the advantage of giving you the “kill switch” feature without having to download your VPN’s proprietary app. It works with Wireguard, OpenVPN, whatever. Qbittorrent is actually one of the few clients that has this feature, one of the reasons it’s so widely recommended.

I’ve been seeing lots of 90s soft core stuff on 1337x lately. Not sure why, but my guess is that it has to do with the influx of Indian users there, maybe they like our classic porn 😆

HomeAssistant will easily run on a Pi, it’s Nextcloud that needs more horsepower.

Just depends on what resolution and quality you decide to download. If you stick with 1080p H265, most movies are bout 1.5GB. If you want something better like 4K HDR, you’ll be looking at like 20-30GB per movie I think. I would advise the former, it’s easier on your hard drive and your home internet.

To be clear, I’m not saying that I’m sure your bottleneck is the SSD. But it could be either that or the processor.

Your drive speed might be the limiting factor here, not your processor.

Makes sense. It’s always a good idea to start with a cheap solution just to get comfortable. Then, if you decide to push things further and upgrade you’ll be more informed about what hardware you might need.

What makes you think other servers aren’t having similar problems?

(spoiler alert: they all are, lemmy is an immature platform)

No problem. Another really good option is to get something brand new like a ZimaBoard (don’t bother with the 2GB of RAM version). It uses very little power and runs perfectly with CasaOS, which is a linux distro designed to make self-hosting dead simple. It will cost you more up front but will likely save you some money in the long run (after a couple years) because it uses less power.

Try this

Oh, looks like Lemmy is breaking it for some reason. I just searched eBay for “Dell SFF”.

That’s an antique. The list of stuff you want to run probably needs several gigabytes of RAM. I think Nextcloud alone needs 512MB. I’d recommend newer hardware, you can find stuff on ebay for under $100 that would be a LOT more powerful than what you have.

Ah right, I know a lot of apps that need to stay on constantly will use a notification to keep themselves awake, and it’s usually not on by default because it’ll murder your battery. I’ve had luck in the past using Flud rather than LibreTorrent, so you might try that. But my general advice would be to avoid using a phone for this; I’m guessing you’ll run into similar issues with Flud.

I don’t disagree. Hopefully the first option (lock in recent apps) is all you need to do, that one actually makes sense.

Here’s an EXTENSIVE list of things you can do to keep an app from sleeping on a Samsung phone: https://dontkillmyapp.com/samsung

I didn’t realize it was that bad. 🤣

Samsung phone? Settings > Battery > Battery > Background usage limits > Never sleeping apps. Add Libretorrent there.

If you’re on another brand of phone, there might be a slightly different place that you need to look. It’s annoying, but you often have to disable sleep in more than one place.

1. American internet is garbage, as others have already pointed out.
2. The term “third world country” is outdated, inaccurate, and usually offensive. It often comes off as racist, even if that’s not intentional. Try to avoid using it unless you’re sure it’s appropriate (it almost never is).

What that designation OFFICIALLY meant is that the country remained neutral during the Cold War. That’s all! The “First World” countries were NATO allies and the “Second World” countries were the other side led by the Soviet Union. The implication is that the countries that didn’t pick a side in the Cold War were underdeveloped (which is a flawed assumption, but it was partially correct AT THE TIME).

More recently, the term has become synonymous with “poor” countries, usually those filled with non-white people. Which is dumb, because plenty of the first- and second-world countries WERE and ARE very poor. And some countries that WERE under-developed during the Cold War have since become more developed. India is the most obvious example, it’s surpassing China in a lot of population+economic metrics now.

tl;dr “third world country” is a designation that’s not only offensive; it’s outdated, inaccurate, and dumb.