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Home entertainment with NAS? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by zweieuro to c/selfhosted

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Hi! My goal: I want to set up a ~~beamer~~ projector in my flat and connect that to some kind of 'always on' machine with which I can stream (currently Netflix a bit but that really is not a priority as I am thinking of cancelling it) but would also like it to be a torrent client (I have a VPN) to download some media. Though something like popcorn time would also be nice, though that's also something that I would only use behind a vpn for obvious reasons.

I have a pi5 or and some older NUCs hanging around that run well with Ubuntu. I know that something like kodi does not play nice with Netflix (iirc because of drm).

Should I use the pi? Or better an Ubuntu and do the power management best I can myself?

What would you guys say is a good way to try this out?

Edit: TIL I thought beamer is a word that German borrows from English, so I assumed it's the same. Nope, in German 'beamer' has very weird roots (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videoprojektor) so Germany stole an English word 'beam' but it meant project... Weird

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

FYI: What you call a "Beamer" in German you would call a "projector" in english. I would edit the post, or else people will think you want to set up star trek technology. ;)

[–] zweieuro 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Okay I never knew that, I would also accept tips for setting up a star trek beamer though xD

[–] Cobrachicken 2 points 5 months ago

Ray guns everywhere please. Stepped into that beamer trap once, only for my non-DE colleagues to tease me forever with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The German language is strange like that.. often using English words for an entirely different meaning.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Did you use a Handy to write this comment?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Maybe they are illuminating their living room with the front end of a BMW.

Better yet, it's a Pimp My Ride style makeover that replaces those unused turn signals with a projection system for an instant drive-in movie experience.