sabnzbd can be replaced with nzbdav or similar tools (infinidysk, altmount) if you want to free up storage and stream directly from usenet.

Or, even better, the entire arr stack can be replaced with stremio to just keep everything on-demand instead of curating a library at all.

“Even better” is relative. Some people like having media stored locally instead of relying on torrent streaming availability.

Usenet streaming sounds cool, but with releases being DMCAd so frequently, I don’t see how it would be practical for anything but the most recent content.

Also, I imagine that Stremio without Debrid (or equivalent) is kind of a terrible experience most of the time.

I tried it once and it barely worked at all. Plex would just show everything as unavailable. Really awful experience even when it did work.

If you're not worried about black-ish pixels, it's surprisingly reliable.

> stremio

Is this the latest rendition of Popcorn Time?

Yep basically. The real magic is when you combine it with a Debrid service, which essentially puts a cache in front of torrents. If the torrent has been downloaded before, you get a direct hosted stream instead of having to stream your movie from active seeders (i.e. buffering hell).

That sounds slick. I'll have to check it out!

Where does that hosted stream live? I'll have to peep their docs. Sounds interesting

A debrid service is a paid hosted cache so I guess it usually lives on wherever they can source cheap storage and disk cache ;) the original source is the torrent.

I have never had any issues with the speed though and I regularly stream 50+ GB files.

It's my first time hearing about Gastown and Wheelhouse.

Gastown seems to be open source, but Wheelhouse seems to be closed source and used by one person only?

https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

Is this the right Wheelhouse?

It's a joke, Steve Yegge was also the creator of GasTown.

He's now (famously) said that the only thing he ever actually used GasTown for was to code on GasTown.

I believe they are referring to preinstalled Windows as an OS when you buy a PC. The PC price itself already includes the price of the Windows License. And the article advocates requesting refunds if you intend to install a different OS.