liliumstar

I would approach it this way:

1. Learn to configure and install Jellyfin the way you like it. You sound like you have a good start on that. JF handles metadata for you, and you can also manually match items if/when it matches up. The only extra plugins I install are some of the ones for extra metadata providers and TMDB box sets.
2. Setup Jackett with the qB search so you can run manual searches for stuff against your indexers.
3. If you want to use docker, learn docker. There's a million tutorials around. You can use Docker Desktop on Windows if you want a GUI to help you out. Since docker on Windows runs on WSL2, it's a good opportunity to mess around with Linux if you aren't familiar.

From there you can work your way up to full automation and such if you like. I don't think it's necessary for most people.

As for data layout, just make some folders like movies, tv, music, etc, and lay out stuff in there logically. If you have a fancy storage setup, you might do separate shares for them, whatever works for you. Some people like to link from their "download" folder into their actual media folder to keep things clean. You can do hard and soft links on Windows with NTFS, but it's kind of a pain.

Mullvad doesn't have port forwarding, so that's going to be a factor.

For something like that, you'd want a VPS with 2-4 cores, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD. Any less and you'll start to run into problems when adding bridges and stuff.

So, it's really a matter of what deals you can find in that bracket, and if you care about the geographical region it's hosted in. Usually https://lowendtalk.com/ is a good place to start looking at options.

I think what you have is fine, and wouldn't worry about it too much.

That said, I run unbound with pi-hole, directing the dns queries through a wireguard tunnel. It's a bit slower, but I do like having my own recursive DNS, especially with news that more and more services are implementing DNS level blocking.

Does this work? https://support.tixati.com/settings%20-%20import%20export

I assume you'd need to either try and unravel the export to correct the paths or do it after the fact.

Not a solution to your problem, but just wanted to let you know you can run multiple instances of qB side-by-side. Make a new profile directory and use the option --profile=.

The primary reason free VPNs/proxies are not recommended is due to the high amount of abuse that flows through them. As a sysop, it's just easier to blanket ban all those IPs.

I have ethical concerns with your use of RiseUp as well. They are trying to offer a useful service to people on a donation basis, and you are funnelling a large amount of traffic through them.

Maybe not exactly the same, but I know lots of people use this: https://github.com/StuffAnThings/qbit_manage

It relies on the qbittorrent-api PyPi library, which is feature rich.

That site redirects to another domain that tries to sell me on AI roleplay whether or not tgx is down

Previously I ran Win 10 IoT LTSC, with a bunch of scripts from https://privacy.sexy/

I believe most things will work about the same in Win 11. Be sure not to disable anything you might actually need as it can be hard to diagnose.

You can also just copy your thunderbird profile directory, if it's the same OS, to a different system and it seems to just work. I did this to copy the whole setup and synced mails from desktop to laptop. I also tried this from Windows -> Linux and it did not like that, so I used the import profile feature and re-entered all the passwords.

I've used Ansible to deploy docker compose and it worked pretty well. You will have to do some learning if you aren't familiar with it, but I'd say it's worth it.

Like others, I would not recommend Jenkins.