If you pay 10€ per month for a VPN, cancel and switch to something better. E.g. njalla always costs 5€/m with port forwarding.

https://njal.la/vpn/

If you’re on a private tracker with CGNAT you need to use a VPN to be able to port forward. Without port forwarding many will ban you.

It’s only an issue if the files aren’t properly named. If you’re using *arr this won’t be an issue. E.g. “Title (Year) - TMBD/TVDB ID” works flawlessly.

I use Findroid for its great UI but also its ability to download and watch offline. It’s a better experience and I was surprised Jellyfin Android didn’t support it.

I wonder how much money Plex still makes through their lifetime purchases. Is it that they were struggling and then made bad business decisions with the aim on increasing revenue (ad supported video on demand)? Or was it the other way around?

In the 80s new systems usually came with new OSs, which required porting software it. Thus a lifetime license was practically limited.

I wouldn’t be as opposed to a subscription model if it was cheaper and they focused on their actual core product, not all the other fluff around. 5€/m is a bit much given they don’t pay for my bandwidth. And if they didn’t store my media info, history etc…

A few years ago I’d use sites in the order of rarbg > TGx > ext.to, although I’ve searched via qBittorrent.

I don’t think Usenet is really more difficult to use than Torrents. While writing I noticed you have to pay for a Usenet provider (and likely the indexer too), which does make it more difficult than torrent. But only if you live in a region where piracy is not persecuted and you can skip the VPN.

Usenet: You buy a provider and put it’s credentials into sabNZBd. You have an indexer, which gives you a .nzb, which you put into sabNZBd to download your files. If your provider is missing pieces the download might fail.

Torrent: You buy a VPN and bind qBittorrent to it. You have an tracker, which gives you a .torrent, which you out into qBittorrent to download your files. If there’s no seeder or you aren’t port forwarded the download might fail.

To me there’s a major difference depending on the cost of the provided service. I don’t know what features crowdsec provides, but if it’s mostly providing lists and all the blocking etc happens locally, I don’t see how they lose much money on this free service. Gathering the lists is something they’d have to do anyway to service their paying customers.

If Cloudflare stopped making Cloudflare Tunnels free to use, I’d be more understanding since bandwidth costs them relevant amounts of money.

If you pay for a VPN for torrenting anyway, make sure it supports por forwarding. It does not cost more (at least not much) and has no disadvantages.

ProtonVPN, AirVPN, IVPN, Njalla are great. Njalla has the same pricing model as Mullvad and similar privacy standards.

Memes always take over communities because of how much upvotes they receive. Also, they spark discusssions which sometimes are quite interesting (altough off topic).

If your anything like me you’ll forget what PPAs you’ve added in a few months. Or rather, forget that you’ve even added things like PPAs. That’s why I stick to flatpak if its not in my distro’s repos.

Most public trackers don’t take uploads from unknown people to combat spam/malware.

If you create a torrent and enable DHT/PEX it might get indexed by something like btdigg.com for people to find. It won’t be available on sites like 1337x.to. The advantage is your free to create a single torrent or any other organization you desire.

Private trackers generally accept uploads or make it simple to request upload access. But they have upload rules you must follow.

If you want to automate uploading there’s Upload-Assistant. UA makes it easy by creating a proper name and uploading to multiple trackers automatically.

In any case you must have port forwarding configured to greatly increase the likelyhood of others actually being able to download from you. If you don’t want to do that on your router a VPN with port forwarding is the private option (ProtonVPN, AirVPN, IVPN, njalla and few others).

If there’s not enough moderators subscribing to subset does not make sense. The idea of subscribeable moderators is interesting though I don’t expect it to be implemented. Duplicate communities on different instances serve a similar purpose already.

Just letting this pdf here about security of Seedboxes: https://media.defcon.org/DEF CON 31/DEF CON 31 presentations/Anon - Mass Owning of Seedboxes - A Live Hacking Exhibition.pdf

I could see the real source IPs for all other users in last logs.

Accessing their web interfaces shouldn’t be a risk, as you’ve already paid them and thus left a paper trail. But the point about accessing the IPs from the last ssh (or sftp) logins might be worth using a VPN for. If another user is able to get them law enforcement could too (not that it’s likely).

Sadly there isn’t. The talk wasn’t recorded (to protect the privacy of the presenter I presume).

No, but there’s quite a bit of help for new users with docker, gluetun and qBittorrent out there. Just make sure your VPN supports port forwarding.

Depending on the tracker once you notice a stolen API key it might already be too late. E.g. if they tank your ratio or break the rules in another way.

I could see the real source IPs for all other users in last logs.

Also, they mention in the slides that some seedbox providers allow users to find the IPs of other users connecting to the seedbox. Using a VPN for ssh might be advisable to protect your privacy from other users.

Otherwise your right as it won’t impact your network at home.

Like others mentioned, request Google Takeout which gives you all your photos. I recommend keeping the original zip/tar.gz for future reference (e.g. you need specific metadata not included in the photos directly).

Also, make sure to keep backups. E.g. upload it preferably encrypted, and store the password in a password manager. Make a copy on a USB SSD, and not just the Steam Deck (you might wipe it, lose it, …).

This makes me glad to no longer be running prowlarr on a seedbox (or anything else for that matter). Unless you’re racing, or you’ve too slow of an upload, having a torrent client bound to a VPN (or gluetun/namespaces/…) is cheaper and seemingly more secure.

If the person would answer almost instantly, 24/7, without being annoyed: Yes. Checking important information is easier once you know, what exactly to type.