I’m on mobile so don’t have the link handy but there’s a fork called Thaw that has been getting frequent updates

Oh! Thanks for that, I hadn't realized Ice's maintainer had stopped working on it: https://github.com/stonerl/Thaw

I had been using Hidden Bar but gonna give Thaw a shot now. Looks a bit more full featured and under active development!

https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

This is insanely naive

Cynicism isn't always correct.

So a tiny slap on the wrist

The damages the plaintiffs claimed were cellular data usage.

Tired of this copy-paste comment. It shows up on literally every lawsuit thread.

Tired of comment, not the corporate malfeasance. That is you problem.

Still is true.

Disagree. With a little bit of technical knowledge which I’m assuming most people browsing hacker news have, these services are easy to spin up and use.

If you can read a README you can set up Navidrome and point it to your local library in 5 minutes.

Locally. It's a bit harder if you want remote access... I ended up using a reverse proxy and let's encrypt certs... It wasn't to bad but it wasn't easy. I have never looked into Tailscale or similar solutions though, maybe those are just click and go.

Tailscale, ZeroTier, Tinc, Hamachi, and the like are all very, stupidly easy mesh VPN solutions that anyone can use. If you feel like owning a domain, Cloudflare Tunnel makes it similarly easy to expose your service to the wider Internet on a home connection and not have to worry about proxies and certs. The barrier to self hosting has never been lower, and it keeps falling. Heck, Cockpit's Podman management means you almost never need to look at a terminal, and aren't locked in to a bespoke platform that's rainbows and glitter until it stops getting maintained or gets enshittified. Get a little SBC with as much RAM as you can find and you'll be amazed at the capability:effort ratio.

I use YouTube every day of my life and gladly pay premium. It costs money to host and serve the insane amount of video YouTube provides. To each his own

Same, it’s my most used streaming service and it also feels good to support creators a little bit while also not having ads on my TV / app where ad blocking is harder.

Radarr has made my movie collection/watching experience super easy after some initial setup. Highly recommend

Here's my current setup, all running in docker on a mini PC I bought from ebay for $80. Everything here is managed and deployed from a series of `docker-compose.yml` files, so migrating this setup is just a matter of copying those files and a backup of my settings folder for each application.

* Radarr - Movie downloads * Sonarr - TV downloads * Bazarr - Subtitle downloads * Overseerr - Interface to discover and add new media to the above downloaders * Plex - For consuming all of this * Tautulli - Notifies me when new content is added * SABnzbd - Usenet downloader

I add a new show or movie in Overseer, it automatically gets downloaded and added to Plex, subtitles get added (if missing), and I get a notification on my phone. For TV series the above all happens automatically for new episodes once I've added the series.

No amount of paid services can offer me this level of convenience in addition to not having to worry that something I want to watch was removed over a licensing dispute. I was formerly a paying customer of streaming platforms but the enshittification drove me back to piracy, and now I don't see how they could possibly ever compete with this setup.

I'm also considering adding Lidarr for music and Readarr for audiobooks.

How do you protect yourself from the legal issues? Do you route it though proxies and trust that they won't snitch on you?

Newsgroups. They've been there since the beginning and will be there forever.

I have yet to see any high profile news service be taken down no matter how much they tout that they have "10 year binary retention" - something that's literally only useful for piracy.

Living in a country that doesn't hunt down individuals for piracy helps. In many countries the law enforcement agencies look the other way when you are not profiting from piracy or using it commercially.

For everyone else vpn.

seedbox + syncthing, downloads quickly to a seedbox, syncs locally encrypted, and deletes the torrent at the end

private trackers, secure bittorrent.. generally you're ok. Also -- don't underestimate the power of Usenet, which the *arr's can also utilize.

Good private tracker is usually safe but you never know when it will get compromised. I have active accounts that are over a decade old but still not sure when they will be taken over and become a honey pot.

VPNs, right?

A seedbox in a country that doesn't care is usually cheaper and has a faster connection.

Think the backlash regarding 1password’s electron implementation is overblown. I’ve not had any issues with it

I recently just started doing this as well. I love it

I used masked emails for almost everything and thankfully haven’t run into any issues like this

See: Rings of Power

Season 2 hasn’t been released yet.

Ha, I was thinking of Wheel of Time series. This is what I get for commenting while on NyQuil.