u/RussFerri

There's a little water in there because I just washed it, keeping it clean after every session.

There are people who have recommended this here, and I just want to say that it really is a terrific driver. Used it for the first time this morning for 10mg, just to test it. Temperature was perfect, very pleasant and effects were terrific. No burning, very smooth. Easy to clean after also.

If you're looking for a daily driver and don't have one yet. You want something electronic that works with this? I would recommend. Someone told me to get the bubbler attachment, and I'm so glad I did.

Hey guys! I'm the developer of GeekStream, your media app you've always wanted.

Here's your first of many walkthroughs of Geekstream Android TV client running on the Android TV. Today is your introduction to your home screen: The Hub. You'll see a split top to bottom, so your media lives together in Hub, and as a cohesive library when you scroll to the second page.

I wanted a fun layout, and not your typical catalog-media streaming app. And since I'm including all media in one location, why not show it all off in your own unique destinations?

Here’s a kinda-but-not-so-brief-minute walkthrough of the GeekStream hub and library. Still a work in progress, but I wanted to show the experience we’re building:

• Discover: Your personal discovery space—unwatched and unlistened-to picks shaped around your taste.
• Brand New: Fresh releases and recent additions across your media.
• Mine: Your collection, favorites, and the things you want to come back to.
• Mood: Start with how you feel, then find something that fits.
• Party: A space for choosing something to enjoy together.
• Live: Your channels and guide, with a little GeekStream personality.

Scroll down and you’ll find dedicated libraries for Film, Series, Music, and Audiobooks, plus an optional private Unrated section.

The idea is simple: the hub brings your world together; the libraries let you dive deeper.

There’s still plenty of polishing and testing ahead. Take a look around—what would you want to explore first?

How on earth does this work?? I suggest following my page. Join my community at r/geekstreammedia and join my discord! All will be revealed.

God I love her ❤️

Hey everyone, just wanted to give a big shout out to this community as it's been great for me over the years!

I've been an active member in this community for a while. And I've always wondered how I could give back.

I started with the intention of creating two add-ons that would be free, essentially creating music support in stremio, as well as adult content. Music is a full premium experience. Almost as if it's its own separate app.

Imagine a full music library completely set up for your streaming needs, applied your custum taste profile, and builds your library. And it's all run off of usenet. It does all of this work without any help from you. It's also going to have a DJ/listening party features that I'm building in! Imagine having a friend in another state, and they connect to your server and you guys can listen to music together easily ❤️

Unfortunately this is proving overly-ambitious for the stremio structure right now. But I still want to provide a version of them, so I'm going to be working on it on top of what I'm working on with my app. If you're interested in testing this out so I can get it approved for the community, let me know. I'll leave the adult content to your own imagination. But just picture the classiest and most premium unrated add on, you could think of. We are not scraping typical websites here. This one is actually working really well with stremio overall. All the categories show up, playtime is fast, and everything looks beautiful. This could get approved fast. If anyone wants to test this for me, reach out to me.

I know those are very drastically different categories, but they are both categories that are severely lacking in the add-on community right now imo. And I thought I would create something premium!

I have a bit going on on my end before I can produce final versions for you guys, because I'm going into beta testing on my software (/geekstreammedia for updates)... But reach out to me if you want to test, and what you're interested in trying out. I think music especially would add a lot to stremio.

I've spent the last several days going way too far down this rabbit hole, but the end result turned out so much better than I expected that I wanted to document the whole thing and share it.

Basically, I built my own cloud-based streaming setup using Usenet + AIOStreams. There's no media library sitting on my computer, my PC doesn't need to stay on, and I can pull up something on my TV, phone, or tablet and stream it directly through my own cloud server.

And when I say stream, I don't just mean little compressed files lol.

I stress-tested the finished setup with four roughly 50–80 GB remuxes playing simultaneously, and all four played without sustained buffering. In another sustained test, three high-bitrate streams averaged about 185 Mbps combined for over 8 minutes, with zero missing articles. I've had an individual nearly 90 GB remux start in about a second, and the dashboard recorded a peak of 44.28 MB/s (~354 Mbps) during the documented testing.

The funny part is that the finished setup really isn't that crazy once you know the right path. Figuring out the right path was the crazy part. 😂

So I took everything I learned, threw out all the dead ends, and turned the final working setup into a 7-page start-to-finish guide:

Build Your Own Usenet Streaming Cloud

From Newsgroup to Play Button — A Complete AIOStreams Cloud Server Guide

By unisonruss

And I wrote it specifically so you don't need to already know what Usenet is.

It starts with what a Usenet provider and indexer actually do and how to find an inexpensive provider deal. From there it walks through setting up an Ubuntu cloud server, Docker, AIOStreams, your provider and indexers, large/remux-friendly filtering, a permanent HTTPS address through Cloudflare, client setup, monitoring, backups, troubleshooting, and stress testing.

I also included the custom dashboard setup I ended up building, which shows server health, CPU/RAM, live throughput and a rolling history, plus individual Home/Mobile/Portable cards that light up when each device is actively streaming.

There's even an optional section at the end for giving family members completely independent setups with their own server/accounts while assigning each one a memorable subdomain.

This isn't meant to be the only way to build a Usenet streaming setup. It's just the architecture I ended up with after a ridiculous amount of testing, breaking things, rebuilding things, and finally hammering the finished system with multiple huge simultaneous streams.

If you've heard people talk about Usenet and thought "that sounds cool, but I have absolutely no idea where I'd even start," that's honestly who I made this for.

I put the guide link in my bio if anybody wants to check it out.

Hope somebody gets some use out of it. And if you build one, I'd genuinely love to hear how it performs on your setup.

— unisonruss

Get this app and make sure you understand it

I was recommended this app last week. And after about a day or 2 of using it, I knew this was going to be my app... bugs and all. I have a tidal subscription that's ongoing. But I'm not going to use it anymore.

And, after joining the discord, I see how hard they are working on it to Squash those bugs pushing up releases almost daily right now. The app is getting very stable, and I'm having little to no issues the last few days.

Just keep it simple with setup. Go to the site, download the app. Click in the menu, click on add-ons. Go to your account, add those add-ons. Set up your scrobbling/AI settings (don't sleep on the ai dj), and your cloud account if you have one...if you buy the premium, make sure you put that link is priority in your sources. So you get all of that lossless quality. You want me to either add-ons If you have that one.

It's been a couple of months since my last journey. I was purposely rating for my new toys to arrive. I have one in particular, showed up that I'm really excited about. The honeycomb vape. This thing is supposed to vaporize in one hit as much as you can put in there. Scared but excited. We'll see when the day comes when it's right.

Not every channel has this, but many have subtitles. And I can't figure out how to turn them off. I went into settings and they don't come on for movies and TV shows through add-ons, but they do show up for live stream TV.

There are many other services, but I chose this one because they offer a great deal right now during the summer. Look at screenshots to see what I chose. I don't think I'm allowed to talk about services... I'm spending less than $30 for the whole year of service. I believe it breaks down to $1.99 per month.

I'm not a tech guy or anything like that. But I just spent a day getting usenet setup, and it's working perfectly. So I thought some of you might benefit from this. I haven't seen any helpful posts about usnet that can actually walk you through how to do this.

First things first, you need to set it up right, and you need to spend as little money as possible.

Go to the usenet subreddit, and you will see a discount offered for easy news for the summertime. It also comes bundled with a great VPN, which is awesome. I needed one! When you sign up for easy news, you will get your credentials that you need to plug in for this to work. You'll get a unique username and password, as well as a web address, a port, and connections. You'll made this for setting up your plug ins.

After you're signed up, go ahead and get the newest nightly bill of AIOstreams. Doesn't need to be a paid version, like some will say. But you can't just pick a random one. Search for "AIOStreams

2026.07.22.2354-nightly (77700d39)."

Use the Tamtaro SEL template.

I would like to clarify you do not need any debrid accounts for this to work!

After you open up aiostreams to start configuring everything, you need to do your proper service, and your add-on.

Service: EasyNews ( need account and log in information)

Addon: EasyNews Search - self-explanatory setup. If you're not hosting, you don't need to put an auth token.

And that's it. Just put in the configuration info that the services need. Save and import to stremio.

Check out some attached screenshots to help.

I tried to make this very simple and straightforward. If you need extra help beyond this, I'm not sure I can help you. But I will tell you that it works perfectly if you do it right.

RD had me spoiled for months. Absolutely everything available, instant play. Once the tragedy happened, I signed up for for different services, and they all had issues. Usually with buffering and loading times. It's only been a few days, but so far, I get no buffering on my usenet links.

If this helps you, comment or shoot me at dm, it would make me happy 🤘🙏

Note: I am not selling nor affiliated with any service. I'm just a new user looking for the best experience.

Edit 1: EasyNews++ is better than easynews search. No configuration needed really, and it works perfect... you don't need an indexer, either. So it would seem your account is not at jeopardy of getting banned.

Edit 2: I set up an elfhost AIOStreams on a dollar trial just to see if it's better. It takes 10 x longer to set up and I was also disappointed in the buffering and the long loading times compared to the setup that I had before. With the current configuration, there's none of that on the public instance.

It's called easynews for a reason. So it should be easy, right?

I'm not a tech guy or anything like that. But I just spent a day getting usenet setup, and it's working perfectly. So I thought some of you might benefit from this. I haven't seen any helpful posts about usnet that can actually walk you through how to do this.

First things first, you need the right Add-ons, and you need to spend as little money as possible.

For your usnet provider, I recommend easynews. That's what I went with. Go to the usenet subreddit, and you will see a discount offered for easy news for the summertime. I signed up for it to be $1.99 A month. And it also comes bundled with a great VPN, which is awesome. I needed one! When you sign up for easy news, you will get your credentials that you need to plug in for this to work. You'll get a unique username and password, as well as a web address, a port, and connections. You'll made this for setting up your plug ins.

After you're signed up, go ahead and get the newest nightly bill of AIOstreams. Doesn't need to be a paid version, like some will say. But you can't just pick a random one. Search for "AIOStreams

2026.07.22.2354-nightly (77700d39)."

Use the Tamtaro SEL template.

I would like to clarify you do not need any debrid accounts for this to work!

After you open up aiostreams to start configuring everything, you need to do your proper services, plugins, and add-ons.

Services: EasyNews and Stremio NNTP

Addon: Easynews++

And that's it. Just put in the configuration info that the services need. Save and import to stremio.

Check out some attached screenshots to help.

I tried to make this very simple and straightforward. If you need extra help beyond this, I'm not sure I can help you. But I will tell you that it works perfectly if you do it right.

RD had me spoiled for months. Absolutely everything available, instant play. Once the tragedy happened, I signed up for torbox, alldebrid, and premiumize, and all 3 had issues. Usually with buffering and loading times. It's only been a few days, but so far. I get no buffering on my usenet links.

You might ask yourself... but Russ, will there be links for everything I look for? No, but it has links for almost everything. There is another add-on you can put into stremio that is a nice backup l; it typically has everything. I would just use this addon, but it doesn't have the same qualities and as many links as usenet does. The addon is called PenguPlay. I would order your addons so that it is below aiostreams, so your aiostream links appear first.

If this helps you, comment or shoot me at dm, it would make me happy 🤘🙏

Hello everyone! I am very new to the usenet world! I'm hoping some of you have some experience. It's pretty awesome so far ngl. I'm trying to leave debrid behind because overall it's much faster on loading and no buffering... when it works.

I'm having a bit of trouble in the first few days, and I'm hoping I can get some guidance if it's fixable?

I'm using nuvio for Google TV and android mobile. All software is the most up-to-date version.

The first impressions on usenet were the links would load incredibly fast! However, on at least half the links, nothing would load at all. It would just stay on the loading screen.

It seems like I have more success with links on newer titles. I'm noticing on titles that are a certain amount of days old, they will just load infinitely without playing at all. Is there a setting that I can do on my end in my easynews account, or in my configuration of AIOstreams (using the nightly build) to make all links reliable... or to filter out links that are no longer working?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm so close to the perfect setup, and it's so simple. I also love getting the VPN as a bonus 🔥🙏

Screenshot is of my current add-ons.

EDIT: I tried a different build of aiostreams based on another Reddit post I found. I'm not trying to get my hopes up yet. But so far, it's been working way better!