TITAM - Technical issues that affected me

All of the guides talk about Docker containers, Trash-guides, Usenet, indexers, subscriptions, a whole ton of configurations and a bunch of people trying to sell you prebuilt solutions.  Plus more ARR services than you can remember. Screw that noise.   These are EASY.  You can level up from straight RSS feeds in practically no time. - Well, OK, they're still a >bit< of work.  But you DON'T need: Docker containers, Linux, JSON files, sabnzbd, nzbget, nzbgeek, special directory structures, paid subscriptions or any of that other sh!t that's probably either (i) scared you to death or (ii) scared you off completely. These work pretty much like Plex, Kodi, Jellyfin, etc. and do just fine on their own, at least for starters.   (And you have Plex, Kodi, Jellyfin or something similar already, or else you wouldn't be reading this.) -  Note: these WILL work on a machine that is running a VPN. No, none of them actually run over the VPN.  That woul...

 So DNS-O-Matic is shutting down , forcing me to find a new solution. I was so happy to find that my Synology could do this too.  I was not so happy to find it didn't seem to work, with multiple users saying they never got it to work with Namecheap.   [Yes, my Synology is old, and is running 6.2.  I'm not dropping $5k on a new model that whines like a little bitch every time you stick in a new hard drive, even if Synology belatedly walked those back .  (More like ran those back, like sprinted.)   Congratulations Synology, you've tarnished your brand forever , and are, and will now heretofore forever be, the textbook cautionary tale on how to alienate a loyal customer base.  Forever .] My experience It does work.  The NAS will throw an error every time it updates, but the NAS does still seem to update the Namecheap records correctly. How to do it:  1.  Follow the instructions here .    2. In my setup, I initially us...