https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio

Any FOSS Linux/Unix shell, bash, zsh, fish, tcsh, whatever, is a million times better than cmd or the early versions of PowerShell. Yeah, I know, PowerShell Core exists now, and it’s even open source and cross platform, but it still sucks.

Oh wow, this is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.

The Swiftfin app is awesome

https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

Roundcube and SOGo (which is used by Mailcow, but hass fewer features than Roundcube) are the only somewhat modern looking options. All the other stuff looks like straight out of the 90s/early 2000s. Nextcloud Mail is pretty good as well.

It works just fine after blocking access to the Play Integrity API

I’m gonna add this to the megathread on wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy as soon as it gets fixed

I like Zola. You can integrate it with Lemmy comments: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30018034

You could get a smaller amount of panels at first, and later expand your solar farm. But I don’t know if that would keep the costs low enough to be manageable for you, as solar panels aren’t even the most expensive part of a solar farm. The biggest upfront investment would probably be all the electrical gear, e.g. the inverter, etc.
You could try getting a loan. Demand for renewable electricity is pretty high after all, banks might be willing to invest in something like this.

I updated it. You can also do this yourself btw, just create an account on the wiki.

LibreTorrent is great

We even have a community for it: !libretorrent@lemmy.dbzer0.com

How do they know?

If they’re more sophisticated, they have lists of VPN server IPs, and compare every user’s IP against those lists

There’s an even simpler way: Just look up the ASN of the IP’s associated ISP, and block it, if it matches the ASN of a datacenter ISP

Proton VPN offers special VPN servers for streaming, they can circumvent the second type of blocking by using residential IP address ranges, but not the first one. But they generally have pretty good IP reputation (at least on their paid servers, free is a whole different story, but I don’t think they even give a fuck), because they’re pretty good at anti-abuse.

I’m sorry, I have misunderstood your post then. I didn’t realize you want to run Windows on the server, I thought you were just saying that you have no prior experience with Linux because you use Windows on the desktop.

As someone with some experience in both Linux and Windows system administration I can tell you, Windows on the server sucks.
I’d even go as far to say that Linux on servers is more noob-friendly because there are more guides, tutorials, other resources, etc. available, and people on StackExchange, in forums, chat rooms or in Lemmy communities are really helpful. The hobbyist Windows server community is much smaller and has essentially no presence here on Lemmy.

Most open source software, especially piracy-related software is just assumed to be run on Linux, so there are almost never sufficient instructions for how to do something on Windows. The CLI (which you sometimes have to use for these kinds of things) is vastly different on Windows and Unix-like operating systems like Linux, macOS or BSD.

This guide made by @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com is great: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911320

Where should I host at?

Recently I became a huge fan of just renting a small dedicated server with a seedbox provider. Because they are specialized in providing hosting for pirates, they are usually located in jurisdictions that don’t give a fuck about the American DMCA. Check out seedhost.eu, they aren’t as expensive, or Appbox.

Will I need a VPN on the server too? If I’m torrenting, do I need to be careful which hosts I choose so I don’t get copyright pinged?

Not if you use a seedbox or a dedicated server hosted by a seedbox provider.

Is there a good guide for securing and hardening my server?

Just follow some basic Linux server hardening advice, e.g. disable SSH root login, disable password login and use SSH keys, don’t open unnecessary ports in your firewall, etc. If you’re feeling fancy, you can set up an SSH tarpit on default port 22 and use a different port for actually logging in. This massively wastes the time of script kiddies who run automated SSH scanners.

I’d like my partner and i to have easy access from home or on our mobiles

For that I recommend Tailscale or Netbird.

Any other guides you’d recommend?

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com posted an amazing guide some time ago: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911320

Any must have software or sites to know about?

I like bitmagnet, it lets you run your own torrent indexer. It’s basically your own, self-hosted alternative to SolidTorrents, BitSearch or BTDigg.
Also check out Flood if you want a nicer web frontend for rTorrent, qBittorrent, Transmission or Deluge.
Transdroid is pretty nice if you want to control the torrent client on your server from your Android phone.
There’s also qBitController if you use qBittorrent, or qBitControl if you’re on iOS, but you have to sideload it using AltStore.

Also make sure to join !qbittorrent@lemmy.dbzer0.com, !seedboxes@lemmy.dbzer0.com, !trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !PrivateTrackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

!thunder_app@lemmy.world is great.

If you actually read the post, you would have known, it does work, but there are some privacy concerns with it:

“However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties.”

Just use dd. It’s not that hard. You pass it 2 arguments: if= the file you want to flash, and of= the destination. If you’re feeling fancy, pass in some status=progress. And don’t forget to prepend it with sudo. That’s it.

There’s a fork called Swiftgram, they might have left out the content restrictions in their App Store build. If not, you can try building the .ipa from source and sideloading it using AltStore.

iTorrent is pretty nice, but you have to sideload it