Amassing a media library is simple enough, and software like jellyfin can pull in media info and make your media streamable on various devices with a polished UI.
However, finding good quality (in terms of merit) movies and shows is difficult.
Maybe start with movies critics or a movie discussion platform like letterboxd to see what others are watching/rating movies.
In terms of telemetry, free software has the advantage over the proprietary counterpart.
It’s a lot more complicated to hide telemetry without the user knowing in free software.
You could always use a network tool, like iftop, to see network traffic on your PC. That could be a way too see if a program is phoning home. But you’ll probably want to use a suite of tools.
Legality will depend on the country your in.
But assuming your traffic to/from the server is encrypted, your probably okay.
There’s no point in cheating. Any good private tracker will let maintain a sizeable buffer assuming you seed with things like bonus points/free leech.
If it’s difficult to maintain a buffer, plan to move to a different tracker that will.
Plus, the big private trackers communicate with one another. Get caught in one, you’ll be found out in others.
I’m not familiar with e/OS/ but fairphone recently released their phone to the US market with this OS preinstalled.
Good bot
+1 for Jellyfin. GPL licensed software so nice.
Jellyfin is free (libre) and open-source. Plex is freemium and proprietary.
Jellyfin supports hardware acceleration for transcoding and also allows playback through 3rd party video players (mpv, vlc, ect). Those are the features I care most about.
I don’t use Plex because it’s proprietary, so I don’t know what merits Plex has.
I don’t see the issue. Isn’t this how IT partitions disks?