Important disclaimer: this link and post won’t be up forever, I like to keep a low profile when possible and delete after my work, even in Telegram I erase my messages.

Hi all. I do run my own server yes, and I do get series a lot faster, yes. In source-file quality: yes. And the collab was about making VE Network as amazing as mine (Velvet Space) is, yes.

But it won’t happen anytime soon. Why? Because that requires stuff that cannot be done right now: time set aside, someone to put NixOS or Ubuntu on a machine that is on the opposite side of the planet (literally), and assign me SSH credentials, does any of this sound like Chinese to you? Yes, well also for Kyle.

Doing any of that requires a certain skillset that cannot be transfered in years, in a nutshell, my original plan of having an exact replica of Velvet in case the electricity grid fails in my house, flood takes us over (I live in a flooding area) or I die cannot be achieved.

So, plan b) I have a spare laptop with an extremely powerful i9-13900. But that stupid laptop has the hinge broken so it’s been collecting dust for ages because I don’t want to break the hinge….but it can perfectly be used as a desktop computer somewhere fixed. I have friends with 1Gbps symmetric internet (same as I do), I have decades of experience as cloud architect and full stack sofware engineering in multiple programming languages, including C# the one Jellyfin is made from.

Look at me playing with Cisco routers I bought cheaply 2nd hand when life was affordable 15 years ago.

or look at me dressed however the fuck I wanted at 4am in charge of the datacentre of 3 banks all alone

Or look at me 20 years and 20 kilos lighter, having memorised the control-M tree of all operations of one of one of the banks to be able to speed up / slow down some so all the branches can open that morning unscatthed (plus Nagios, plus CICS, plus AS400, plus, IBM/AIX plus SEPA transfers, VISA card operations, back ups happening on time…)

Or look at my office in another job, being the whole IT department of The One market research agency who could predict Brexit would happen with my daily Chai Latte (poor teeth, I paid the cost later, bloody Starbucks) and my contact ball bought in a trip to Brighton’s Lanes.

Case in point I can do wonders with a computer and I can do those wonders very quickly.

So what am I going to do?

Exactly what I’m doing now, preparing that laptop as mirror. Then I can continue fiddleing with Jellyfin as I do daily (I just added comments like Tiktok and I’m now adding notifications) without my fiddling bringing down the server for all of my gang of “Don’t fuck with cats” cast.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR VE NETWORK

1. I’m not going to create a replica of Velvet because even though Kyle made me an admin and that helps me help him, that doesn’t give me the access to the machine that I need to reinstall and upgrade it all. I have more than 6 jellyfin plugins I maintain and keep refining, I’m the reason you now can have your own account. The fact it’s on Windows make half the stuff from the Admin Dashboard (such as installing plugins) not work.

2. I’ll carry on pushing my archive as I find stuff to VE (“M’s archive”) but right now the fact it is on a slow drive is causing VE to crash constantly. Even just now, I can’t even see it to take a screenshot. One second works, the next is down.

3. I’m still running the invitation system just as fine because it costs me no effort, when you go https://invitationve.sytes.net/j/VENETWORK to create your own user you’re within my network, the wizard that explains to you what jellyfin is, interfaces with VE Network to create your account. I have no reason to pull the plug on that. I have zero issues with Kyle. The man deserves Sainthood for what he’s doing already.

4. I’ll keep sharing the features I can, by externalising them, the constellation system has an external copy where you can find any relationships between 2 boylove stories, whenever I update the internal one connected to Velvet, that one updates too, feel free to access it whenever or even create a home link on your phone, it’s a progressive-web application. I use it constantly to find who’s copied who (Pinedrama is very guilty of this, very often) but specially who is copying who in poorer quality. Is like every plot has 1 decent copy which doesn’t necessarily has to be the original, and the rest are lazy, especially most of what comes from Pinedrama or Dramabox (which is why you see the app below the tile of the series). In case you haven’t noticed I like puzzles and challenges, I see patterns everywhere, and I don’t like wasting my time with series that are an eyesore. Have you seen High Potential, well, that’s me, but in less pretty and with a penis, including the very long past as a proffesional cleaner.

When I like one boylove story and I just want to see it to completion without it being an eyesore I can go to the constellation and find the 9 identical ones and from episode 1 (the one in velvet is directly connected to the episodes play button) quickly distinguish which one deserves my time and others, watch it, and rate it as such because I too made a rating and reviewing system that we all use.

Feel free to use that constellation for information 👇

https://dosmigueles.com/boylove-constellation/

WHY I LEFT THE GROUP

1. Because Kyle is busy studying, he’s got a life, and I somehow ended up up taking the role of tech support. Which I rather not. We can’t do now what I need done now (more on reason number 3) so what am I doing there.

2. Because I can’t split myself in two. I have my own group, of which Kyle is part of. He just didn’t realised I moved him from one to the other. Both groups are invitation only and exists for the original crowd I made Velvet Space with and especially the people who are donating to maintain it. Because I might be giving my time for free to this cause, but someone has to cover for the hard drives wear and tear, I don’t know if you guys have heard but we’re on an inflation crysis with all things electronic.

3. Because I’m currently unemployed (shocker, right?) life happens, shit happens, summer happens and I get really sick with the heat. You don’t need the drama, because everybody has drama on their life, and if not enough we have boylove drama to entertain ourselves with. This means: I do have to find a job very soon and my time to set a backup system is limited.

Btw I’m available for hire 💅, find me there https://maikel.dev/ or talk to me on Telegram. I’m poor, very poor, you cannot imagine how ridiculously poor I am. It’s painful to even think about it and it gives me an incredible amount of anxiety, so I don’t … and watch boylove series instead. My net worth as per 14:31 on the 2nd of November of 2026 is literally 3 figures. I’m going to die of starvation. Yay! 🥳.

Reached all the way here: then there you go, you get a reward click on the picture

F.A.Q.: Why are you doing this?

1. Helps me avoid anxiety (read previous paragraph).
2. I enjoy watching boylove and trying to guess where the likeness of each actor comes from or what is the story based on or what was the prompt written to the AI to generate it (yes I can do them myself too, no I won’t go down that rabbit hole).
3. Ideally want to reach cost-parity, Velvet costs me ~300€ a month, I don’t even reach 80€ in donations yet. The costs aren’t app memberships (I don’t pay any), but in electricity, hard drives (they crash, and SSDs are currently unafordable), backups in datacentres, equipment, transport (the backup machine won’t be on the same city) etc.
   
   In this life unfortunately nothing comes for free. One of the machines I need to generate the constellation alone, sucks 180watts idle, 480 when not idle. If I can spread that on 30 trustable people a month, that for me is enough. Let alone Caleb…I run my own AI completely offline, with the personality of Prince Caleb. You might have noticed I can ask on the group how many people connected or if something’s on the library and he answers with the tone of Caleb Whitmore from Royal Blood and Mafia Knight. That’s all me and my code and Qwen3.8-27B + Qdrant for long-term memory + a prompt made of Fandom’s page and literally every dialogue line of every episode of S1.
   
   That AI is running on two very VERY very costly Nvidia 5060ti GPUs running on a very very VERY costly Threadripper machine that I scavenged online for 800€, this is how much it costs now 2nd hand without the 2 nvidia cards. 👇If it breaks I die.

4. Chronic insomnia, somehow watching boylove helps me dumb down and eventually fall asleep. Unless the series is Caught by My Master and his Impostor os similar quality.

Have a nice day!