What do you mean? I watched dunkey’s weird video and I still don’t understand. Hoopla is digital content from library’s, free and available for anyone. I’m confused as to this standpoint you have.

I’ve had similar issues with TrueNAS over the years. My solution was always to just remake the container but that is a hassle. I did that probably 3 or 4 times while I used TrueNAS which eventually led to me switching to a standard Ubuntu server install.

Mobilism has been a go to for me. Someone recommended it here a while back. Its far from perfect but I only grab an audio book maybe a few times a year so it works for me.

After years of using Feeder on my phone and some other random stuff on my laptop, I switched to FreshRSS on my server and the big thing is everything stays synced. My read and stared articles are all where they should be. I run fluent reader on all my devices and tailscale keeps me always connected to my reader so I can save articles on my phone when I don’t have time to read them then read them when I get home on my laptop or tablet.

I myself switched to Audiobookshelf. I initially set it up for my wife to have her audio books while traveling but I found it does podcasts and normal epub books really well also.

I was one of those old purchasers. There was a huge uproar on the subreddit back in the day cause they said everyone who purchased the app before the subscription model would only get like 1 or 2 years of subscription access instead of lifetime. People got so pissed they changed it to lifetime.

I purchased pocketcasts years ago when it was a one time fee and when they moved to a subscription model they gave everyone who purchased a lifetime pass on the subscription model but that rubbed me so wrong I moved away from it. Currently I run Audiobookshelf on my server and have all my podcasts in a library on there. Works really well and I have control over it.

Maybe it’s about Elon’s “ai.”

Any recommendations on privacy friendly eink tablets?

This type of shit with Amazon is partly what made me switch to just using audiobookshelf. It supports ebooks and podcasts as well as audiobooks and is all self hosted. It’s a high recommend for anyone who has a bunch of digital books like myself. I just have an old tablet instead of a kindle.

I use a GPU but that’s only because my CPU is a first gen ryzen with no graphics. I highly recommend any recent Intel CPU that supports quick sync. You’ll have an easier time and pull way less power. i7 might even be a bit much honestly I’d look at i3’s or even celerons. They’re easily capable of what you want but you can always get something better just for future use.

I’m working on getting an opnsense client together but money is tight so this is definitely the route I’m going to go once I am able.

So this worked and I was unable to use transmission without gluetun connecting properly. Is it normal for some clients to just be faster with the same torrents? Like about was at like 1-2mib and transmission with the same torrent is running at 4-5.

If you go the android route turn on Apps Only Mode in the settings. It gets rid of the home screen ads for the most part and disabled a lot of the “features” that Google tries to push.

Given what you’ve got running I only really recommend, as other have, portainer. It’s made my life so much easier. Edited this since I saw you have homarr and I must’ve missed it the first time.

There’s a docker container that I run on my server.

https://gitlab.com/Bockiii/deemix-docker

That’s the container I use. It’s good enough imo.

I use deemix and jellyfin for playback. Browsing on deemix is not as good as spotube but I like it.

Casting is always weird with networking like that. I’d highly recommend trying to find a way to run jellyfin locally cause nothing will really make Tailscale play nice with casting in my experience.

I’ll say that I’ve run both Kavita and Calibre+Calibre-Web. I’ve stuck with running Calibreand Calibre Web together. Kavita was great but since I read on kindle and Kavita-email never worked for me I went back to Calibre. I also prefer calibre since it lets me convert files and change the cover images.

Personally I had more issues getting kavita to work the way I wanted than I did with calibre.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone considering they gave Grahan Hancock a whole fuckin series of bullshit. Netflix’s “documentaries” have been jokes for a few years now.