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Nice share. I had several of these little machines back in the day and it was cool to see this effort. Thanks!

This looks like inspiration to folks like Serj Tankian!

Yeah, my personal experience was similar but it’s all volunteers in the community doing the interviews.

I kept my queue window open and just chilled nearby and it came sooner than they estimated by a bit. Been worth it for me though.

I am not in it, but there’s a similar site called Orpheus that might be easier time wise to interview for, but I don’t have much experience with them.

Doots for fellow Slacker!

Redacted has a pretty good amount of DVD rips, DSD etc. not all encompassing but definitely not rare there.

I’m interested, primarily in the idea that some parts could be useful longer term… I’m an old school Internet janitor, and appreciate the idea that enshittification is a moving target.

I’d ask up front though if you’ve seen or considered Veilid? It might be wise to evaluate working with that as a baseline so a stronger fight against the shit can be had.

https://veilid.com/

Let’s fuck up some fascists.

Are there specific issues noted, or just asking based on the time last updated?

I’ve thought about looking over to see what might need cleaned up, but many of my personal use cases or methods might not fully align with the general consensus.

Along the same lines, is there anything you’d like to see added?

How old is that power supply? I’ve seen several that just the act of it being unplugged for 5 minutes allows it to boot again.

The theory being a capacitor or such needed a chance to calm down a bit somewhere, and something in the power supply or mainboard would proceed until power was back to normal.

Especially common if there’s brownouts or surges.

“However, this may prove challenging” … That sentence doing a lot of lifting, lol

Second the suggestion for *Arr here! It’s clever enough to rename to exactly what jellyfin wants as well as in place hardlinks if you are Linux, so that the original names persist in qbit while jellyfin sees the good stuff.

There’s other benefits like tracking quality you have on disk for if you are wanting something better down the line, but allowing it to handle naming and sorting is a huge life saver.

Drive failures have almost nothing to do with access if they are mechanical. Most failures are from bearing or solder interconnect failures over time.

Also, most seeding is in smaller chunks that are read and cached if popular… Meaning less drive hits than 1-1 read vs upload.

You will almost always have drives fail from other aspects like heat or power or old age before wear from seeding would ever be enough to matter.

I have drives in the excess of 10+ years, with several seeds that have been active for many years of those, that are still running just fine.

Actually there’s a better reason for the encryption! You are correct that they use torrent clients to connect and record swarm nodes.

It prevents an ISP from traffic shaping against known torrent traffic!

Many ISP will watch for certain unencrypted headers and if it sees torrent will throttle it to nearly nothing. With the encryption, it all just looks like SSL.

It was one of a few stupid things and I wound up just telling him to leave.

Kinda wish it was more dramatic and/or gory, but I usually am just too tired to turn to violence.

Besides, I’d never admit to owning that chipper shredder anyway.

This!

I haven’t had one since an idiot roommate decided they wanted to fuck around. I fixed the problem (no more roommate).

Been 20 years now.

VPN seems a way to screw up decent performance when all you need is to stay away from public trackers.

Ironically I’m ok with this in moderation… But scalpers that charge a high price, more than materials and maybe a small fee, I dislike.

Filling a void is a service. While there a grey area, there’s a balance between acceptable fee and blatant junk.

Region locking of any type I feel should be outright illegal, but I’m just a lowly pirate with bent ethics.

I think you are right on the money (heh pun).

It’s one type of pirate to hoard and spread about the booty, but it takes a special form of hypocrisy to turn around and charge for hard money.

As to communities, I can’t help too much there but instead offer that there actually do exist groups that effectively have created swarms that are like a private tracker but for live/on demand viewing. Think an invite group of dozens of jellyfin servers. It might be safer to work toward identifying and joining one of those, depending on your desire.

Not everyone gets to decide the first level of networking they get unfortunately. Many ISP services block by default. Many folks are in shared networks.

Many of these situations effectively block the performance of torrents.

Private trackers are closed communities for sharing torrents. Often you can either interview to get access, or occasionally one with have open sign up for access. These usually have strict requirements to maintain a reasonable ratio of seeding for your downloads to prevent greedy users from ruining performance of sharing.

Redacted is one of these communities, based strictly around music and maintaining quality, refusing to allow low quality encoding of the data. It is harder to get into the community, as well as very strict seeding requirements to maintain.

Information about who they are and how to apply for access can all be found at https://interviewfor.red/

Yeah, Lidarr and Red are not a great fit… Too many options and unless you wrote super complex filters you’d wind up with the weirdest version of each album.

It took a bit to get established there, but with the tokens they’ve been more freely giving lately it’s not too bad. There’s also a point when you are perma seeding that it starts to coast along and just take care of itself… I now see more seeding after I download something ironically.

Seeding is a fickle beast there, but I’m glad to have em.

If you have access to certain music-focused private torrent trackers, many will do spotlight articles on independent or smaller artists who are also members.

This kind of sharing is often welcomed and a valued thing, so could even be a way in to some of those communities.

Redacted does this, and I’ve been introduced to some really good music this way.

Alternately, as others have noted, Bandcamp is a good way to offer as well. If you go this route, even with setting the music as free, you might make some small money… I’ve often tipped a bit via the “Pay what you want” pricing tier.