AllDebrid or Premiumize are both popular alternatives. AD is considerably cheaper, even with Premiumize’s Black Friday sale in right now. However, Premiumize allows multiple connections, so if you can split the cost with someone, it becomes the cheaper option.

I’ve heard DuckDNS has become more unreliable. You could try another service like afraid.org and see if it makes a difference.

Start by using MakeMKV to rip the dvds onto your pc and then use Handbrake to decrease the size even further.

This is really good. If you VPN to Nigeria it only costs $2.70 a month.

I’ve used Joplin and Standard Notes. I do use Standard Notes premium and I much prefer it.

Gofile, Pixeldrain, Fileditch, Filen, Files.fm, Mediafire, Mega, MegaUp. I’m sure the list goes on.

As a non-power user, I don’t want daily updates. Monthly is perfectly fine for me.

You’re asking on Lemmy, so you’re going to get a lot of privacy related answers. For usability, Cloudflare tunnels are a super easy and free way to setup and don’t involve your family members having to VPN into your network with Tailscale or Wireguard. This is especially useful if they are streaming from a smart TV or media stick.

Is it the most privacy-friendly? No. You’re giving up a little bit of that for convenience and lower maintenance. IMO for my threat model, it’s worth it.

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I’m on Jellyseerr awaiting the day that Overseerr receives its decoupling update to allow Jellyfin servers.

While there’s nothing particularly wrong with putting everything through a vpn, you could use a qbittorrentvpn docker image which runs a wireguard client with a kill switch which the torrent client can tunnel through.

https://github.com/DyonR/docker-qbittorrentvpn

You can simplify it way down to Kodi + RD and have your own streaming service. This looks more like a hobby though to get every little thing just right.

The frog in boiling water is actually a complete myth. The frog jumps out when the water is too warm for it, it’s not completely stupid. If the price is ‘too hot’ for you, jump out. Deezer (or any other streaming service) isn’t forcing you to stay subscribed.

I feel like the natural progression here is to SquidBoard.

Firefox is very good compared to a lot of available browsers on Android. I have a bug where I can still interact with the tab switcher when I am in the app switcher. This is so annoying so I’ve had to switch to Brave.

If you like syncing across devices, Bitwarden (paid) or Proton Pass. If you already use Bitwarden and don’t like the idea of having passwords and 2FA in the same place, just make a second Bitwarden account.

Once I used Kodi with real-debrid, I don’t want to go back to streaming torrents. It is much faster and much more reliable.

My setup is a Shield TV Pro using Kodi with the Jellyfin plugin then use Umbrella for anything I don’t have locally. Gave my family a Firestick with Jellyfin and then they can request through Jellyseerr which then feeds through to *arr stack. I don’t mind if I have to fix my end but I don’t want to fix theirs.

For me, Plex or Jellyfin is great if I want to share my library with some friends or family, especially non-technical people. Kodi really needs tinkering and you need debrid subscriptions and requires more local maintenance. It’s great for me but I wouldn’t want to teach my family how to use Kodi and me having to fix it when it breaks.

It has a really easy to use User-Agent switcher so it can fake being a different torrent client. I’d love to use it however because of this it is a pretty much universally based client. It is possible to do on other clients however it isn’t a dedicated menu in settings.