Oh I suppose I should say, if you’re not familiar with the *arr suite it basically makes it so you can just search for a show or movie, add it to your library, and come back later and it’ll be ready to go in jellyfin or whatever. Plus it’ll grab new versions as they come out.

Combine that ease of use with zero ads and zero bullshit and yeah, the net effect is better than paid streaming services.

Maybe with the *arr suite? It was better waaaay earlier than that for other reasons.

The inverse is also a good question, as I left piracy behind for Netflix and was happy to be legit… right up until so many studios got $ signs in their eyes (envious of Netflix’s success,) and instead of building their own platforms and letting folks choose where to consume their content, the studios pulled their content and fractured the market.

The greedy fucks! So no, I don’t feel bad pirating content. Not one bit.

(Felt bad for Netflix but their oh-shit-we-need-content in house studio is doing ok, I’d say! Also I paid for Netflix for far longer than anyone else, by far.)

I know that but don’t recommend FreeBSD for a newbie, whereas proxmox is Debian based and therefore has support far beyond what opnsense has. Plus the proxmox setup allows for far greater flexibility, at least on any level that is accessible to them.

Not even recommending against opnsense for the firewall vm.

Fully support using opnsense buuut pfsense has a good guide for doing this exact thing. It works really well.

https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/virtualize-proxmox-ve.html

People recommending against proxmox don’t understand how good zfs is, but their points are valid for this being a sole point of failure. I virtualize pfsense to gain cluster advantages but tend to leave not too much else on that box.

If you don’t pass through the card the VM can more easily be restored to dissimilar hardware. But those ports are dedicated to the pfsense/opnsense VM, leaving the single free port for proxmox management and VMs. I would enable VLANs for network segments but if you either don’t have switches that support tags or are new to all of this it’s going to be WAY less headache to just use it all untagged for now. (Spend time on funner things, seriously!)