Completely missed their opportunity to start the headline with “Proud New Dad” and having the reveal at the end be that he was no less proud of this before fatherhood.
Lmao I’m in the middle of showing my teenager how to pirate and why it is morally justifiable to not pay for Marvel movies.
Too bad lots of them are probably in 720x400 resolution ._. cough
Man. It’s bad. When I see an AVI in my collection I’m hit with three feelings. Disgust Nostalgia Conflict: replace it? Or keep. Because the hell if I’m keeping two.
Maybe I should just screenshot the media details?
That’s the only thing stopping me from hoarding petabytes of movies. They’re going to be in an outdated format anyway before I get to see them.
Ha! Ha! And yet, it’s all YIFY files!
I feel validated.
it’s important to teach your children the importance of a healthy seed to download ratio.
I never clued in when I was a kid in the 90s but we had a collection of all kinds of Disney movies on VHS tapes with handwritten labels and usually 2 or 3 movies per tape. I just thought that was normal.
I’m sure my kids will just think their Jellyfin library is normal.
We’d just tape them off the TV though, so halfway through you’d get an advert for a DFS sale that must end this Sunday, or that bizarre one about milk (Accrington Stanley, who are they?)
I later found out that they’d put these tapes on for us when they wanted to be left alone for a few hours. And we watched them a lot. Not sure what was more worn out by the end, the tape or my dad.
My kid’s always asking my ex, “Mom, why don’t you just get Jellyfin? It has, like, everything.”
I know she’s your ex and all but you haven’t shared / set them an servarr stack / Jellyfin up yet?
Booooo, Pirates of the high seas share their knowledge regardless of the person :p
Believe me I’ve tried.
Wait is this not normal hahaha
This is why I had to go edit all my media’s metadata and even edit themoviedb.com with proper MPAA ratings.
Also why I have early childhood, late childhood, and screening libraries for both movies and shows in my jellyfin.
I’m thinking about doing that! My 2 year old is still too young for that, but when he’s ready, I hope I am too! Do you have any tips for organizing your library like that? Did you use commonsensemedia or sites like that?
I recommend just thinking of the things you liked as a kid or you that you think might teach your kid something you think is important and watch it first (screen) Then place it into the appropriate library.
I’ve been using two separate libraries, “early childhood” which kinda works out to g ratings (3-7 years) and “late childhood” which is kinda like PG (7+) but there is overlap since something’s are just not rated or sometimes I disagree with the rating.
You’d be surprised how many things for kids might not teach them anything worth while or might induce nightmares. So I just don’t put those into the kids libraries. Once you have media stored in children libraries, then you can make a child account for jellyfin if you want.
Obviously, research what screen time does to children and decide for yourself how much screen time you feel your child should have. Personally, I don’t even turn in a screen around my child until we spend 2 hours outside and then its only for 15 mins of passive watching a day. I also like to use animation for children as its good at portraying emotions. Also after we watch something we talk about it. Episodes of Bluey and most studio Ghibli films work well with this method.
Thanks for the heartfelt response! I’m almost done with screening Bluey (loving it) even though I don’t plan on putting my kid in front of a screen for as long as possible (“Screens: the later the better” is our motto for now)
My kids ask when I’m adding a movie to Jellyfin all the time
Same. My two older kids (teenagers) will come to me with literal lists of albums and TV shows 😂
Use Jellyseerr will make your life easier, streamline the approval process.
Yeah, but then you’d have to live with clicking Accept on Skibidi Toilet: The Movie
They are making a movie, god help us all, also this will never get approved in the house.
If my parents were hosting Jellyfin, I’d have done the same.
Though in my family, I’m far more likely to be the one hosting, and receiving requests
Mine doesn’t care about jellyfin yet. Soon though.
My kid is the only one in the cul-de-sac with Minecraft. We have quite the popular couch this month.
I’m already planning a Minecraft world with my 7 month old. Been trying to find a TV that allows multiple HDMI connections so we can do three way split screen with the wife when he’s old enough.
Why don’t you just get one beefy computer, then use something like Nucleus Co-op to split screen multiple sessions of the game on one TV?
Or if you’ve already got multiple copies of the game on multiple devices, you can use something like a multiviewer to split it up.
No need for a special TV in either case 😉
If I ever have a kid they will be the one that has friends over for Minecraft LAN parties.
I just set up AndroidTV so they can watch ad-free YouTube.
Still need a better setup for extracting Amazon video without ads.
My kids are so used to ad-free YouTube, they nag me when it breaks.
Dad of the year
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I guess it’s some onion style website. The 20k fine made me not believe the story, otherwise it was totally believable, i know multiple guys who behave like this
Yeah, it’s a satire site that got big in punk rock circles some years ago making fun of the Punk and Hardcore scene.
I didn’t know it was still going.
Edit: there it is! https://thehardtimes.net/about/
They even have a video game spinoff hard-drive.net
Why store media locally? Whenever you want you can just download it or pirate-stream it
You have no idea what this community is about, clearly. Keep on enjoying your leeching, just don’t act like you could do it without actual seeders and archivers doing the work.
Dude, read the thread before you comment. I’m not leeching.
Your actions make you a leech on the system we participate in, “pirate streaming” is definitely leeching. Read the context before you reply.
Because I like things to look good on a TV and surround system, not a phone with a tinny speaker.
You see that single upvote? That’s me. But only because of your brutal honesty.
I did not brush my teeth today. I threw batteries in the trash. I’m proud of you, man.
Guess who you stream the data from uaing debrid services: From us seeders keeping it alive.
Damn leechers
No, i stream from pirate streaming sites, not p2p
And where do those get the movies from?
From the interwebz /s
“Why store anything? Just re-download it from someone who’s still storing it!”
You see the catch 22 here?
These are the people that torrent without port forwarding capable VPNs and tell others they don’t need it because “it works fine!”
What’s wrong with not using port forwarding?
You’ll only be able to upload to people who do have port forwarding. Other people who don’t have it setup won’t be able to download from you even though it shows you as a seeder in the pool.
Oh yikes. Thanks for explaining!
Its truly so sad seeing mullvad recommended all over piracy websites…
As someone who went with the Mullvad suggestion despite having heard about port forwarding, I think a big part of why is because whenever it comes up people don’t take the time to explain why port forwarding is important. Until I asked in this thread the only thing I’d seen is some vague handwaving about it being faster.
I’ve only just dipped my toes in so maybe this is off base, but the community seems to have an elitism problem. If the people who know are dismissive of ignorant noobs who want to learn, the long term health of the community suffers for it.
You can’t seed properly.
How do you stream it if nobody downloads it to seed things? The whole premise of seed ratios isn’t just a bragging score, it’s aiding the communal health.
Besides, I have around 60 TB of space here, that’ll hold several versions of damn near every Linux distro out there for a while, it’d be a shame to waste it.
Ratio is alsofor bragging ;)
Just as a side effect.60 TB is really great.
Planning on creating such setup. Mind sharing your current setup and howw you maintain it ?
I am thinking which drives and what size and backup system to use.
Just part of a lab built over the years. Primary storage is a Dell R730XD filled mostly with 12 TB drives all set up in a ZFS array comprised of mirror vdevs, so redundant by default plus the built in ZFS snapshots for the rare need for a rollback on a dataset.
It only recently got that big because I had a mixed set of drives going back years and finally decided to work on getting them all to the same size and picked 12 as a good cost/volume balance, can find them at used server parts shops for a bit over $100 each.
Major risk is I don’t have a good auto alert for smart monitor issues, so just make sure to occasionally manually copy the vital stuff like photos to an external drive.
I have a 1tb hd. And a 1 tb backup. Manually switch on backups.
That’s pretty well what I started with 20 years or so ago, had them in some little box with some funny Nvidia CPU. That go upped to a pair of 3 TB that have somewhere around 10 years uptime on them if I recall by now, and kind of spiraled from there. Rsync on a schedule is nice for that.
I’m not talking about streaming it from p2p, I’m talking about streaming it from pirate sites that make money on ads (which i have blocked)
Because the quality is terrible. All of those streaming sites are pulling from the same hosting sources, and are usually very low quality YIFY rips (or an equivalent).
Those get taken down on a regular basis. Not to mention the atrocious bitrates that is all they can manage.
Meanwhile, a high quality BluRay rip on my drive ain’t going anywhere.
I am an addict and my addiction is 4k UHD remuxes. When that uncompressed bitrate hits the screen, 👌. My Lawrence of Arabia remux is the largest I have off the top of my head and it’s like 125GB.
When I realized that theaters get DCP’s that are like 2-4 times the bitrate of a Blu-ray disk I died a little inside. I want those.
When I realized that theaters get DCP’s that are like 2-4 times the bitrate of a Blu-ray disk I died a little inside. I want those.
Theater DCPs are notorious for having insane amounts of DRM - you’d need a quantum computer to decrypt it, and even if you could there’s invisible watermarks all over the screen identifying the exact location and time that the movie was playing in, the studio would immediately find out and sue you for everything you have. Not to mention the theater that played it would lose their license and go out of business.
So, for the most part, movie theaters are the only instance where DRM actually won.
But, to my knowledge, there have only been two movies that got their DCPs leaked, and even then, they were old movies released decades ago. One of them is a war movie, and the other one is an animated movie - PM me for details.
If you don’t hold it, you’ll eventually lose it. Plus sharing is loving, and if you don’t have it you can’t share it.
Streaming sites go down all the time and the quality is usually terrible. Downloading the same stuff every time you want to watch it is just wasting the seeders bandwidth.
