Sailing the High Seas

This is not about piracy or about stealing other people intellectual property, please do not assume i condone these kinds of acts in any way, nor i do support people who steal in any way, even if we could debate a long time on the philosophical implications of today's media push toward services, streaming and in general not owning anything you pay for anymore. I like to own what i pay for, which means that nobody should be entitled to deprive me of what i have lawfully purchased just because some upstream content license has changed or some agreement between companies i cannot control has changed. It's far too common nowadays that a show i paid for is no longer available to me, or an e-book i (think i have) purchased gets pulled automatically from my electronic devices because something happened. Then i discover i paid good money only for the right to access it as long as somebody else sees fit. This is not ethically correct and poses lots of issues to me, from long term preservation of digital media to right of access for impaired people.

So please do not take this page as a push to download copyrighted material. All the software, steps and tools described in this page are lawful, at least in the place where i live and the page is hosted, but please take care to verify whether you are infringing your laws by following this page. Also, remember that there are many ways for you to actually download copyrighted materials using these tools that it is still lawful. For example, downloading stuff for which copyright has expired, or stuff for which you lawfully purchased copies. Again, please check the law where you live as i am NOT responsible for anything that might happen to you, your family or your pets while going down this rabbit hole.

Here is all the contents you will find here. Read it at your pace, enjoy and come back for future upgrades and refinements:

• Goals: the goals, approach and overview
• Prerequisites: what you need to have
• Hardware & OS Setup: setting up your hardware and operating system
• Storage configuration: defining and configuring your storage
• Network configuration: defining and configuring all things network
• NGINX: configure the reverse-proxy
• Prowlarr: indexer manager and search tool
• Radarr: install the tool to organize your movies
• Lidarr: install the tool to organize your music
• Sonarr: install the tool to organize your TV shows
• Readarr: install the tool to organize your books and audiobooks
• LazyLibrarian: install an alternative tool to organize your books and audiobooks
• Subtitles: install the tools to fetch subtitles
• Torrenting: access the Torrenting world
• Transmission: torrent downloader
• Deluge: torrent downloader
• Usenet: access the Usenet world
• Nzbget: usenet downloader
• JellyFin: open source media server
• Ombi: discover shows, music and movies of your taste
• Dashboard for all services: ways to provide ease of access to all the service links

Some additional resources:

• Immich a photo gallery
• LibrePhotos a better photo gallery
• WeTTY a secure shell on your HTTP server
• GITea GITea
• Gentoo Installation quicknotes on the subject

Next to: The Goal