Same, privacy concerns are huge for me. Also, there’s no way I’m paying $18.99 a month for it, that’s comically expensive. It’s the same as Netflix’s top tier plan, and at least Netflix has the expense of producing their own content to (attempt) to justify that cost.
Huh, hadn’t thought of that but it’s not a bad idea. I’ll look into it!
Any tips for a “good power supply”? I suspect a lot of the crashing I’ve had on my system lately is because my PSU is flaking out, but It’s a high-ish end Corsair one which I though would be solid. It’s an SFX unit since my build is SFF, but maybe that’s the problem? (Next build definitely won’t be SFF, too expensive and niche)
Yeah, I feel like I’ve heard that before. Maybe a small boot drive, and then raid to store all of the meaningful data for the system would work…
Thanks! Good to know about the parity, I’ve never had issues with corrupted torrents algorithm I’ve heard before it can happen. The first-past-the-post bit is interesting, could be useful for stuff that’s much newer/ still airing…
Thanks! Interesting, if I can get better-categorized releases that would for sure be a plus. And I’m always happy to have faster downloads!
Interesting, faster downloads would for sure be a plus as you’re right that sometimes you get stuck with something crazy slow using torrents
That would work fine for linux, but the folks who need to upload stuff to me server can’t do that. They’re running Macos which doesn’t really support webdav well (and SMB is a mess too), plus they’re on an external network and I don’t want to have to get them on my VPN
Oh, didn’t know that. Sadly I’m only on Mac & Linux
Yeah, I’m doing a test-run rn with syncthing and finding it pretty slow. Not sure why but it’s downloading files at like 100Kbps even though I know the upload speed of the network is much higher. I don’t have any bandwidth limits setup in syncthing so I don’t think that’s why…
Transfer.sh seems cool enough, but I’d rather avoid having to coach non-technical folks on how to use the command line
I love rsync, and also have been using croc a lot recently for similar stuff. It’s not really feasible for non-technical users who don’t even want to think about using a terminal though.
It’s not really the workflow I was imagining for this, but it might actually not be a bad idea. It might be a bit weird to use, but if I setup a “drop folder” on his machine that he could plop folders/files into then maybe it could work. Thanks!
Huh yeah that’s not a bad idea. I actually sort of dislike the nextcloud client normally (as I’d prefer it to not actually download the remote files, but act like a virtual filesystem). But in this case, it might actually work…
Thanks! I already use NextCloud and quite like it! Hover, I find their file upload feature to be lacking for this use-case. Sadly, it crashes/freezes the browser when I try to upload a folder with a lot of files (which is the main thing I’ll need to do with this)
Yeah, I used to run on proxmox and tried to roll-my-own stuff. I found it to be a lot of work in the areas I was less interested in, if that makes sense. I liked unraid for it’s ease of use, although I think in the end the gameplan is still to eventually move docker/applications off of the unraid box and have it be only for storage. Then I can have a regular linux box for all my applications & vms.
Yeah, I had plex forever and I spend way more time on the phone with people trying to explain how to use it’s god-awful UI than I ever did on regular tech-suport. Plus it made me cringe every time I had to use it. One day I tried Jellyfin and instantly knew I could never go back.
I’ll admit, though, that Plex has better support for more platforms which is super nice.
I use cloudflare’s firewall for some security rules, one of which was to block “known bots/scrapers”. This was blocking Google from accessing/scraping my site, and my theory is that they flagged it just because of that. I’ve turned it off for know, so we’ll see.
I use Authentik for SSO, and I think it has some reverse-proxy features built into it. This would be a really interesting idea, I’ll look into it. Thanks!
Miso soup is my go-to breakfast. You can get dashi powder and miso paste, then just heat water in the kettle and combine. I love that it’s warm and flavorful, but actually a pretty light breakfast (which I prefer).