Would Plex be an option here? I don’t use it, but I know it has a photo library feature.

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You’re right. I was angry when I posted this, and couldn’t help but read glee in the repeated ways they described generations of people who are on track to simply never be able to save up for a comfortable retirement.

It does feel hopeless, though. I love my job and earn a decent wage, but if I had the money to retire, I’d do it today. I definitely don’t want to work until I drop.

On my server, people don’t have access to delete, so content tends to either fall into the category of “rewatchable” (classics, series, Oscar winners, etc) and “everything else.” Even a given year’s really popular Oscar winners will stop being watched after a period of time, and odds are good that nobody will watch it ever again. When is the last time someone with access to your server watched The Color of Water or The Life of Pi?

Storage may be cheap, but downloading is cheaper. There’s nothing I’ve gotten that can’t be re-gotten.

Libraries do the same thing with books, it’s called “weeding.” People get up in arms about the idea that a library would voluntarily discard a book until they learn that they’re getting rid of titles like “An Expert’s Guide to Windows NT.” The librarian’s response? If you like a book, check it out. Titles that are borrowed don’t get weeded.

does it support white listing things?

Actually, yes! I got a really good suggestion on this and it now supports a whitelist of TMDB/TVDB IDs in a file called protected which you can volume mount when you call the container:

docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host -v /home/user/protected:/app/protected ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py

It does not. My suggestion is to either set your threshold high enough that the content gets watched, or put it in a separate library of special content you don’t want deleted.

That’s not even close to the position I hold, but you do you.

I couldn’t disagree more.

The only form of restriction/censoring of speech that has any bearing whatsoever on this discussion is that which is enacted by the government. Pretending that some other person is somehow “restricting their speech” and “oppressing them socially” (!?) by telling them to shut up or leave is disingenuous at best.

While we’re at it, “canceling” isn’t a thing. It’s a buzzword made up by the right to complain about the fact that they just got shown the door. Aww, boo hoo, did your feelings get hurt when you said your hot take & got told to fuck off? Maybe go reflect on that.

The argument we should be making is this: what you are saying is itself so heinous and dangerous that it is a violation of the social contract. The government is not silencing you, but we will.

Sorry, no. I’m under no obligation to listen to anyone, and I can walk away and/or kick them out of my space for any reason I choose. There’s no theoretical line their speech needs to cross before it’s somehow morally acceptable for me to tell someone to fuck off. I really couldn’t care less if you think I’m an asshole, so long as my conscience is clear.

I will not be “measured” about making a choice I think is the right thing to do, even if you disagree with it.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

Nope! You pay for usenet aggregators who are archiving literally everything posted.

I recommend a private, paid indexer simply because there tends to better results from them.

Nothing dark web about it. Just old school.

One of the benefits of downloading from usenet is that no VPN is required: all of your content to/from your usenet provider can be encrypted and you’re never uploading content, like a torrent.

Look online and find yourself:

• a usenet NZB indexer (pay for this service. Not free)

• a usenet provider. Get a monthly subscription. They’re reasonably-priced. Tons of reviews out there, just search.

After you have both of those, you install sonarr (for TV shows), radarr (for movies), and sabnzbd+ (for doing the download). You connect your indexer account to sonarr/radarr and your usenet account to sabnzbd. Then, for example, you search for a movie on your radarr installation: radarr sends a query to your NZB indexer, which finds a result and returns it to radarr; that result is then forwarded to sabnzbd from radarr; sabnzbd connects to your usenet account and downloads the requested content. Presto!

How are you currently searching & downloading content?

In my specific case, I’m subscribed to a usenet indexing service, which is hooked in to sonarr & radarr, which send downloads to sabnzbd+ to trigger the downloads. Overseerr just adds another layer, sending requests to sonarr/radarr.

That said, Overseerr will work with pretty much whatever your specific method is. Just hook it in and the services handle the rest.

You would just be another Overseerr user. At initial setup, you pull all of the users you’ve shared your Plex server into the Overseerr config. You can dig into the settings and tweak it - the number of movies a default user can request per day, number of seasons of TV, etc. I have mine set up to auto-approve all requests, but users can only request one season of TV and three movies per day, to avoid people abusing the service. In general I don’t have to touch it.

If you want it accessible outside of your LAN, then yes, you’ll need a domain or tailscale/a VPN of some kind. But that’s true of any service.

I have some pretty heavy security on my config, but I expose the Overseerr container directly and just let the Plex auth do its thing. It doesn’t have write access to anything important anyway.

You’ve been recommended Ombi, but I recommend Overseerr instead. You can set it to permit them to only login using Plex auth (so no credentials for you to manage) and import your user list from Plex. It links up to radar or sonarr (and other stuff) for downloads. It can be configured to auto-approve downloads so you don’t have to do anything.

I’ve been using it for years now. It’s great.

If you can catch a good sale, they’re more affordable .I picked up two for about US$45 for their “May the Fourth” one-day sale in 2022.

This is the way to go! Bitwarden’s authenticator is just so smoothly integrated into the login process - Ctrl-Shift-L to login, them Ctrl-V to paste the code.

I use yubikeys wherever they’re available and I use Aegis for the rare TOTP I don’t store in Bitwarden.

Firefox is still out there, and great! You don’t have to be beholden to chrome’s bullshit.