There’s also a PPA if you don’t want to use a flatpak. Just be sure to uninstall it before upgrading to Mint 23 to avoid any issues.

yt-dlp is a fork of youtube-dl, which was released in 2006.

Yes, a used PC can work great for a home server. Just don’t go too old or it will be power hungry. Obviously you will want one with an integrated GPU to save power too. If you want to run jellyfin, make sure it supports hardware video encoding, preferably AV1 or H.265.

Any Japanese made surround sound receiver and speakers than you can pick up from a thrift store or craigslist will sound way better than the modern junk. It will have a big, heavy power transformer and linear amplifiers. There will be no internet connected spyware either. If you find one from the 90’s, it will likely have a phono preamp for your record player too.

There’s also a qBittorrent search plugin for it, so you don’t even need to open the website.

It should play in VLC or MPV, but HDR looks like crap on a regular monitor. Even after tone mapping, it will never look as good as something filmed in SDR.

It’s never worked for me either. The ClearURLs addon has a function to copy a clean URL and that works great though. It’s open source, so maybe someone could turn its cleaning function into a program that could be used for the clipboard.

There’s musikcube if you’re looking for a terminal based player.

It still can’t sort or browse by album artist, which makes it a real pain to use. You have to apply a patch and compile it from source to make it usable.

Zonemider is accessed through a web interface. Just enable HTTPS and put a lets encrypt certificate on the web server. Of course if you don’t have a publicly accessible IP address, things get more complicated since you will need a VPN or some sort of tunnel.

You could install ZoneMinder and set it up with your webcam. It will do recording and basic motion detection. You don’t have to mess with any docker stuff, it just needs a recent version of Debian or Ubuntu. If you want to access it from a phone, I would suggest using the zmNinja app since the web UI sucks on mobile.

Some actual CCTV IP cameras would be better than a webcam if you can still find any that provide an RTSP stream and don’t require any of that cloud crap.

There’s NetSurf, which is really lightweight for a graphical browser. There’s also Falkon and Otter Browser. They are more capable, but use more resources.

One way to find a private tracker is to monitor /r/OpenSignups. I would suggest using the RSS feed so you can get notified of new posts. Most trackers are only open for a short time. Don’t bother with the new trackers that constantly pop up, they don’t have enough users to maintain a good ratio easily. Be sure to get into TorrentLeech next time they open signups, that’s a good general purpose tracker and it’s very easy to maintain your ratio there.

Another way is to get into MyAnonaMouse, Orpheus, or Redacted through an interview and use the invites forum to get into other trackers.

There are unofficial qBittorrent search plugins for some private trackers. If you can’t find a plugin for the tracker you want, you could always use Jackett.

Torrent Galaxy has been rather unreliable since it changed owners. I would keep an eye out for open signups on any decent private trackers.

If you buy something DRM free, you must keep an offline copy. They can take away the option to download it, but they can’t prevent you from playing the copy you already downloaded.

Even S3 cold storage is expensive when you have tens of terabytes to backup. If you pay for a year or two of that, you could have bought more hard drives to back it up on.

Reinstall using btrfs as the root files system and enable automatic snapshots. The data on your home partition will be fine, just make sure the installer doesn’t format it.

That sub was banned. There is r/OpenSignups though. You can monitor the rss feed if you don’t want to go on reddit.

If the VPN is free, then you are the product. They are collecting and selling your data. They may even be routing other peoples data through your internet connection.

They are all for torrenting. They just don’t want you running anything that uses a lot of CPU power like transcoding videos.