Sonarr icon randomly drops out at an inopportune moment. Maybe it’s shy.

  • LordMayor@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    My friend has a VPN and runs them on his desktop Mac. He’s considering running on an old laptop or some other dedicated device

    • VPN is a must.
    • qbittorrent bound to the VPNs virtual network device.
    • Prowlarr is enough to get started. Add some public trackers.

    Then, Sonarr and Radarr for show and movie automation. Once you’re hooked, you’ll figure out the rest.

    • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf
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      17 hours ago

      Just wanted to emphasize that the VPN is only necessary for the torrent client.

      It also makes sense to run everything in containers and setup gluetun or something similar with a VPN and then point the torrent client container to the gluetun container. That way your ip can’t leak once the VPN connection fails.

      The arrs shouldn’t be run through a VPN. Just have them in containers. That way the communication only takes place within the container network.

      If you’re using usenet, SSL is sufficient. No need for a VPN really.