Often times better… I have a 1080p 5.1 surround version of sg1. Prime has a 4:3 version with 2.0 audio, not to mention it’s super dark.

Pihole will log DNS requests. The requests come.from the TV. So when it pops up, Block it.

I would go wired… get a switch, run an Ethernet cable from the dorm wall to the switch then out from your switch to your PC.

That said the university is probably handling DHCP and dns… You could use a USB WiFi plug to generate a hotspot off your PC. if you wanted to run your own wifi…

But honestly the dorms WiFi with you using a VPN to a major service is probably easier everyday use wise.

Let me just say this… my college lost WiFi connectivity for about 2 months once when I was there.
The only people who had WiFi were the folks connected to the pirate wireless. Because folks were doing the wired device --> hotspot deal with their desktops.

So might not hurt to be prepared.

Also… The dns settings for your device… you should set those. If you use DNS from your university… It lets them control what you can and cannot see on the net.

This is the way

I had to stream the chiefs a while back… got a great stream from Australia. Lol

Hilarious to run a connection literally around the world to watch nfl

Worked in the docudrama “the Flintstones”

When I was getting content from mega, I used filebot to rename.

The paid version is $6 it’s absolutely worth it

Trash guides and the arrs.

Sonarr does TV stuff and renames then to meet say Plex standards.

So my process is… Add TV show to sonarr use sabnzbd to download and sonarr moves and renames the show which then appears in Plex.

But like I said… Trash guides will get you sorted

Edit: it’ll be quicker in a lot of cases to download rather than rip

It’s a visio.

Literally the cheapest 32inch TV that best buy had.

It’s absolutely unusable with the ads disabled.

Horrific television.

Pihole on your network… And block Internet access to the TV…

Tho… a while back the wife and I bought a dirt cheap 32 inch TV from bestbuy… it will literally turn itself on to deliver an advertisement if you power it off while in an app. (Skipping the home page)

Pihole crashes it.

We bought it for watching football outside so it’s unplugged for the majority of the year… but that’s still absolutely unacceptable. Imho

https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/2017-06-24-the-perfect-media-server-2017

I did perfect media server It’s got mergerfs for splitting data and using disks in various sizes .and snapraid for a level of redundancy. Tho raid isn’t backup.

That said I’m now running this setup on a n100 machine with a qnap tl-800c jbod USB c box.

Works great for downloads / Plex and home server needs.

The b100 chip isn’t amazing… Don’t get me wrong but it works really well for Plex.

Hope this all makes sense. I’m on mobile with out my glasses. Lol

I only scroll all for now… Hexbear is the only thing I have blocked. I just got tired of trolly garbage.

I wish Minecraft had an in game play counter… Well… I mean I’m glad it doesn’t but I kind of wish it did. I’ve been playing since 2011 or so…

I probably have more than a year in actual game time… lol

I juuuust retired a t420s recently… off lease computers are absolutely the way to go for buying new to you laptops.

Toss in a SSD and a Linux distro… and you’re good for 6-8 years imho

My wife did a cert class for data analytics and needed a work horse laptop. I bought her a used i7 Thinkpad from eBay.

It’s so damn fast… m2 drive 32 GB of ram it’s literally only limited in speed by the user input.

Just an amazing deal for $450

Edit it was a t14 gen 2.

My fiber company double natted me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/8tl0wv/whats_double_nat_and_why_do_i_want_to_avoid_it/

It was really messing with my Plex remote connections and my VPN.

If you can’t sort it out locally might want to give your isp a call and find out if they e done the same.

P.s sorry for the shit website link.

Yeah ranked was bull shit.

Some of my best gaming times was being drunk and playing with friends.

But man… the community became so toxic… and once it went free to play… it went to complete shit.

I’m not going to spend $20 on a goal explosion.

Fuck all that noise.

My wife had a kid about a year ago now… before that I had been dual booting win10 on one drive… kubuntu on the other…

I kept win10 for rocket league… When the kiddo popped out. I didn’t have time to play… Anything at all actually.

So I just turned the win10 drive into a storage drive and I don’t miss win10 or rocket league at all.

Any games I want to play I can install via steam and proton and I’m good.

Not that I get to play anything with an 11 month old. Haha

Udemy. Video classes for nearly everything ever IT.

IT changes and morphs over time… but the basics are static… get those statics. Decide what direction you want to go and design a learning path.

No need for college education often times

Man for real.

All I’ve ruined for you is disappointment