Huh, you’re right. But a few weeks ago I was definitely able to download via Fido. Maybe try that.

Maybe https://servers.guru/

Never had an issue getting an iso from them via Mullvad.

How do I join the closed beta?

I didn’t have much luck with Bottles in the past, but this is entirely anecdotal.

Our data includes anonymized API calls to traditional search indexes like Google, Yandex, Mojeek and Brave, specialized search engines like Marginalia, and sources of vertical information like Wolfram Alpha, Apple, Wikipedia, Open Meteo, Yelp, TripAdvisor and other APIs

I don’t want to be that guy, but technically they said they are using traditional indexes like Google, not that they are in fact using Google. But I guess that is splitting hairs.
Also, maybe they just dropped Google from their indexes? And what’s more: Why does it matter if they are using Google at all, when the results are satisfying?

Knowing which indexes they are using exactly would be nice to know, though.

I don’t see how this is relevant to this at all.

Old smartphones, old CPUs/GPUs, some SBCs.

Depending on your jurisdiction. Big asterisk.

You’re right, I forgot about the on-the-fly transcoding abilities of Jellyfin for a moment. But still, the server should be able to handle whatever codec they choose in hardware.

Keep in mind at least your server should be able to decode whatever you choose in hardware, so AV1 might still not be a good idea depending on your current hardware and upgrade plans.

With current hardware support I would advise against using AV1 or even H.265.

I’d recommend to experiment with H.264 and low CRF values to see what quality loss and file size OP is comfortable with: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.264

I’ve successfully used https://instaloader.github.io/ in the past.

Their Emulator can’t even run SNES games at a stable framerate.

I’ve heard that the size difference between 720p and 1080p for HEVC/h.265 is neglectable, so you should probably stick to 1080p for better quality.

But honestly I think what you want to do is neither worth the effort nor is the result very desirable.

Why -crf 0?

https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11

https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10

Massgrave/Massgravel is not from Microsoft.

There’s also the even older iMule.

Keep in mind you won’t have proper DRM support if you go the SBC route.