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[–] bigb@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

All *arr apps should use root folders to organize media. If I understand the question, here's the hypothetical situation:

  1. Create a root folder for *Arr App.
  2. Download media until drive is full.
  3. Create a new root folder that points to different drive.
  4. Configure *Arr App to move new downloads to new root folder created in step 3.

You should be able to have multiple root folders, but I've only checked in So are. One problem you'll run into is that you can't break up music artists or TV show series across root folders.

You might want to consider something like OpenMediaVault or Unraid to manage your storage. Either platform (or others) allow you to add drives as needed. I don't use either so I'm just passing that along as a consideration.

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not sure if my setup is unique or wrong but here's what I use:

  1. I registered a domain with Name cheap and created subdomains for the tools I wanted to access (i.e. jellyfin.domain.tld, sonarr.domain.tld)
  2. A DDNS client on my OpenWRT router updates the IP address for those subdomains. Traffic for each subdomain is pointed at my server.
  3. Nginx Reverse Proxy runs on my server. This provides HTTPS certificates and is pretty straightforward.

I also use Tailscale for remote access and I'm not sure that my friends and family are ready for that. (Admittedly, I'm still on Plex.) Registering your own domain and using a DDNS service and reverse proxy will give your users an easier experience than Tailscale. I can give an easy-to-remember URL to folks rather than a new VPN platform to learn.

If security is more important, Tailscale is the best option for remote connections.

Why don't we need this for Plex? Because Plex has all of the above steps baked into its service.

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish someone would make a new RTS with the Halo Wars control scheme. It works so well on the Steam Deck. I played Halo Wars 2 on the Xbox and I was disappointed by the new gameplay.

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

It drives me crazy when Reagan is treated as a god :)

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

South Dakota is an interesting place. I live here and it's a Republican supermajority at the state level, so Trump supporters enjoy an extraordinary level of comfort.

This place is the perfect example to show how the conservative political machine have taken root across rural America. It started with Nixon's silent majority and has only grown more powerful through the Reagan and Bush II administrations. All of the seeds that Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh sowed in the nineties have grown into an angry, bitter rabble out here.

People here are led to believe that there are dark forces at the gates both domestic and abroad. Those liberals in other states want to convert South Dakota into a woke hellscape. The farm crisis in the eighties made people distrust Washington D.C. and foreign trade. Lots of people think we need to completely revert back to an imaginary time and place.

I was born after George McGovern but it's fascinating to think of a time that this state would have a democratic, anti-war governor who would run for president. That was the seventies and we had democratic U.S. representatives until the Tea Party movement pushed them out.

Since then, we have but a handful of left-leaning political leaders in the state. The Democrats are effectively powerless outside of larger towns and reservations. Neoliberalism died here about 20 years ago, so any establishment Democrat has a snowball's chance in Hell to run here.

I'm rambling but I wanted to give some insight from someone who lives here. I'm not hopeful that much will change here politically. I've felt marginized by the national Democratic party since I graduated high school, so they aren't going to come "rescue" us from this mess. Talking about this place online only draws ridicule from other liberals and left-wing folks.

There are some bright spots, as we had 5,000 people show up at one of our Hands Off rallies:

https://www.sdpb.org/politics/2025-04-07/nationwide-hands-off-protests-draw-thousands-across-south-dakota

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Flauncher is a great pick too

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

🤘 I love the whole album, especially Marching Song (Of The First Arkansas Negro Regiment) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfefCi8-gbrYOMtW76B4VUIvyMkJIM-Fw

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

I use the ONN 4K Pro and the ProjectIvy launcher. You can completely hide the standard Android TV OS launcher and its ads. Button Mapper is another good app to have on Android boxes. The remote is full of app-specific buttons that I've either disabled or remapped to alternative apps

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.projengmenu

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutton

I have no idea which codecs are supported.

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think hindsight bias is always a factor when talking about old video games. The N64 was a runt in sales but the library was stacked in my opinion. But it sold nearly as many U.S. units as the SNES or Genesis, so the fact that the PS1 was such a blockbuster doesn't reduce the N64's quality.

Catalog wise, I always felt that the N64 had enough games until at least 1999 when the PS1 pulled away. It had better shooters (with awesome multiplayer) and great party games.

People in 2025 should remember that some folks were lucky enough to have both systems, which plays a factor too.

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Gene Hackman had a pretty good run

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

A shame too because it was such a waste to use Walken and Duran Duran in such a crappy movie.

[–] bigb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like Flauncher or ProjectIvy. I'm using the latter on the living room TV and it works great.

 

I'm still running a 6th-generation Intel CPU (i5-6600k) on my media server, with 64GB of RAM and a Quadro P1000 for the rare 1080p transcoding needs. Windows 10 is still my OS from when it was a gaming PC and I want to switch to Linux. I'm a casual user on my personal machine, as well as with OpenWRT on my network hardware.

Here are the few features I need:

  • MergerFS with a RAID option for drive redundancy. I use multiple 12TB drives right now and have my media types separated between each. I'd like to have one pool that I can be flexible with space between each share.
  • Docker for *arr/media downloaders/RSS feed reader/various FOSS tools and gizmos.
  • I'd like to start working with Home Assistant. Installing with WSL hasn't worked for me, so switching to Linux seems like the best option for this.

Guides like Perfect Media Server say that Proxmox is better than a traditional distro like Debian/Ubuntu, but I'm concerned about performance on my 6600k. Will LXCs and/or a VM for Docker push my CPU to its limits? Or should I do standard Debian or even OpenMediaVault?

I'm comfortable learning Proxmox and its intricacies, especially if I can move my Windows 10 install into a VM as a failsafe while building a storage pool with new drives.

 

Composed by Yasuhisa Watanabe

 

GST is a great channel to follow on YouTube and find new music. They produce artist features, with each video highlighting someone who works in the industry while providing great music mixes and facts.

 

Composer: Tokuhiko Uwabo

 

It had half-baked gameplay and was released on a cursed system (Sega 32X), but Knuckles Chaotix is such an underrated OST.

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