My girlfriend and I are watching From, and enjoying it. We were/are worried that there's a lack of direction and they're just generating mysteries without any intention of solving them. The last few episodes revealed a few things, though, and I'm slightly more confident that they do have some sort of endgame.
blackstampede
joined 2 years ago
A couple of people have asked for more info about my setup, so here's what I did. I'm on mobile, so forgive any typos:
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I bought a refurbished Dell mini PC from some website or other - if you Google "refurbished Dell mini PC" it'll probably be the top result. It doesn't need to be fast or have too much memory, but I've got a 2TB hard disk in mine, which is surprisingly cheap. Also needs at least one HDMI port.
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I installed Ubuntu 20.04, and made a single user with no password, then set it to boot straight to the desktop. Plugged it directly into the t.v. with an HDMI cable.
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I bought a cheap wireless keyboard with a roller ball in it that (barely, need a better one) can be used from my couch.
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Installed Jellyfin and set it to run as a background service on boot. It has two directories it cares about: ~/Videos/Film and ~/Videos/Television
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Set up ssh so that I can use scp to push files from my personal laptop to the server without having to dick around with thumb drives etc. I also have a script that checks how much disk space is available on the media server so I don't run out (that 2TB drive fills up fast).
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Got a NordVPN subscription and use Transmission on my personal laptop to download anything I want to see, push it to the server.
For a while, I also had an external domain name and IP so I could watch my videos on my phone while travelling, but I switched routers recently and something broke. I haven't set this back up, but there are services that will give you a static IP and route requests to your actual IP so you can have a static domain name without having to pay your ISP for a static IP.
EDIT: also, you can set commands to run at login, so it boots directly to Firefox running in kiosk mode on the Jellyfin web app. The end result is that on boot, I get the Ubuntu symbol, a brief flash of desktop, and then I'm browsing my media library full screen.
Didn't use one, but I can give help and advice if you want to dm me.
I didn't use one, just figured it out on my own. If you want to dm me, I can give you a little help and explain what I did.
Second Jellyfin. It's what I use.
I should probably thank Netflix for helping me save money. Their shenanigans pissed me off enough that I've entirely withdrawn from all paid streaming - I have a media server and a VPN now. Total media cost, $70 /year or ~$5.83 /month. For that, I have:
- Access to any movie or t.v. show any streaming service has ever provided
- No ads
- Shows/films don't get removed from from the platform without warning.
If you find out, let me know
NTA. She pushed it too far with someone who was in a relationship, and a hurtful comment is about the least she should have expected.