My family and I are on the Bell network (except for ISP for one person, teksavvy ~= Rogers cable) so this may not be relevant. Those of us that use IPTV have found that we need a VPN to avoid connection issues caused by ISP interference.
Personally, I’ve had a pretty good experience when I’ve used it on my phone behind a vpn but that’s Bell.
The only way this makes sense is if Sony feels they’ve cornered enough of the market to be able to recoup the enormous costs of AAA development. I don’t see how that’s possible without a huge price increase of the console and games.
Anything that runs windows can probably run Linux and work well enough for self-hosting. But you’re getting ahead of yourself with worrying about hardware.
Easiest way to start is to find something that you want to try selfhosting that is relatively simple and use WSL within windows to familiarize yourself with Linux/networking/docker.
Once you’re far enough along to know what your needs are, then you can start thinking about the hardware to meet those needs.
https://iptv.surf/ <- Start here
https://ottiptvprovider.com/search <- Helps find the provider with the channels you’re looking for
https://search.streamcheck.pro/ <- Checks the quality of each provider
Also my daily. I’ve been a vertical tab person for many years with treestyle tabs and then sidebery. The tab management features in zen without the need of extensions is the primary selling point for me. Everything just works smoothly for my workflow and the UI is well thought out. I haven’t had any issues with stability or memory usage since moving over from firefox.
Private indexers get most of the popular releases so that’ll have to do until something better comes along.
Well shit. There goes my main anime nzb source.
For a mediacenter that isn’t on bleeding edge hardware, fedora or Debian would be my choice for stability. Performance will be similar regardless of distro.
I use arch on my desktop and laptop and Debian/Ubuntu on servers.
Sounds like the custom format isn’t working. A screenshot might help.
Yes this sucks but before we pick up the pitchforks again, let’s just see what comes of this:
While security is crucial, we’ve also heard from developers and power users who have a higher risk tolerance and want the ability to download unverified apps. Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified. We are designing this flow specifically to resist coercion, ensuring that users aren’t tricked into bypassing these safety checks while under pressure from a scammer. It will also include clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved, but ultimately, it puts the choice in their hands. We are gathering early feedback on the design of this feature now and will share more details in the coming months.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
This sounds interesting. Can you suggest any additional articles on the topic?
SOT is a useless stat. Battery drain is determined by the type of apps you use and the way they consume resources. Playing a GPU intensive game for 30mins will probably have a much greater effect on the battery than someone watching YouTube for 3hrs.
The responses you’re getting also are about uptime instead of SOT. Getting a real apples to apples comparison will be very difficult without comparing with someone with the same hardware/software/apps/usage pattern.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-HD-Graphics-520.149940.0.html
The gaming benchmarks show you’ll probably be able to play most of the older f2p games at 720p low settings and be =>30fps.
https://github.com/nicholas-fedor/watchtower
Switched awhile back, no issues.
Got it. Never even thought about looking into books when I was getting into the hobby. It was all just searching and following online guides. I am curious if there’s anything out there other than the typical linux/networking stuff.
Guys, OP is asking for recommendations for books about self-hosting, not recommendations on how to self-host books.
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I’ve been on purelymail.com for a couple of years. Receive about 1000 emails a month and send out about 50. Averaging around $0.40/month. They also have a flat rate option of $10/year as long as you don’t abuse the system.
I’ve been using this for a long time. The firefox extension and relatively low resource usage is what differentiates it from similar options I’ve tried.