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History Comes Inside! posted:You can get symmetric connections by paying out the rear end for them because then you’re obviously buying a bigger pipe to push all your poo poo through. Yeah I always thought it was a purely artificial limitation. The only people who want to upload more than they download are businesses and they can pay 100x more for it because  CapMoron posted:Anyone have any idea what happened to NZBCat? Not just me then:  Found a question about it on Reddit from 4 hours ago but no replies yet. Guess this is why we preach overlapping services for most things. Taima posted:Yeah that's fair. Torrents make me paranoid as gently caress, I know it's irrational but here we are. It makes me feel like an old in some ways, since it feels like everyone has a VPN. But it's not just that; torrenting never sat right with me because I have zero interest in giving back to the system, so it makes me feel ethically dirty to get something off torrent with no intention to then seed it after, right? My most complex setup is my Transmission/OpenVPN jail with a firewall killswitch to block all network traffic that isn't through the VPN. It gets used pretty rarely compared to Usenet but still comes in handy every once in a while, if nothing else than for grabbing actual proper Linux ISOs or stuff off archive.org. And if 'giving back' is really a concern for you, any modern torrent client will have options to set how long or to what ratio to auto-seed to, and the *arrs even have the ability to either symlink or just copy a file once it's done so it can seed and be used by your media player simultaneously.
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Takes No Damage posted:My most complex setup is my Transmission/OpenVPN jail with a firewall killswitch to block all network traffic that isn't through the VPN. It gets used pretty rarely compared to Usenet but still comes in handy every once in a while, if nothing else than for grabbing actual proper Linux ISOs or stuff off archive.org. This type of VPN-killswitch torrent client setup has become much easier thanks to the advent of Docker containers like docker-transmission-openvpn. I think it took me all of 10 minutes to add it to the Docker setup on my home server, plug my VPN details into the configuration, and get a working Transmission client that only runs when there is an active VPN tunnel. Parker Lewis fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Parker Lewis posted:This type of VPN-killswitch torrent client setup has become much easier thanks to the advent of Docker containers like docker-transmission-openvpn. The cool thing with that one if it’s the one I’m thinking about is you can use omega proxy chrome extension to pop into the vpn or specify on the Linux command line: docker run —network container:vpn and any container will come up just using the VPN.
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EL BROMANCE posted:It’s 11 years old, so probably in the most general way as nothing major has really changed in that time period but maybe the specifics aren’t all correct. Takes No Damage posted:A usenet account (Frugal is one of the better ones IMO) I'm glad someone else is asking for newbie setup guides, cause I'm in the same boat. My mate installed the following on my NAS ages ago: SABnzbd Sonnarr Prowlarr It seems Radarr is always mentioned so I suppose I should get that too. Then it's a case of getting usenet account and indexer (is Prowlarr an indexer or is that a media manager?)? Do I just google those things or do i search for them through one of the things i have installed on my NAS? Looten Plunder fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Looten Plunder posted:I'm glad someone else is asking for newbie setup guides, cause I'm in the <<same boat>>. Post/username does not compute  Looten Plunder posted:Then it's a case of getting usenet account and indexer (is Prowlarr an indexer or is that a media manager?)? Do I just google those things or do i search for them through one of the things i have installed on my NAS? Prowlarr is an indexer manager, so instead of setting each indexer you have up on each *arr app, you set them up once in Prowlarr then point all your other *arr's to it. Not necessary but convenient. For just getting started look through some Youtube vids, there's follow-along tutorials for just about everything. Right now you've got: SABnzbd > downloads from Usenet Sonnarr > TV Prowlarr > index manager You still need accounts for both Usenet itself (which you'll enter into SABnzbd) and an indexer (which can go directly into your *arrs or into Prowlarr as mentioned above). Takes No Damage fucked around with this message at 06:19 on Jun 18, 2023 |
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Takes No Damage posted:Post/username does not compute Hey, I sail the high seas regularly but the death of rarbg has made me finally take the plunge.
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How safe is it to download public domain movies, virus-wise? Does this eventually turn into what I saw on my friends laptop after several months of limewire?
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Sometimes things get packed with .url and .exe files which id never touch out of caution, but having a download manager handle everything pretty much takes the worry out of things. I’m in a Mac environment personally so less to worry about, but I’ve only seen one thing in forever that wasn’t what it claimed to be and I think that was simply down to someone’s dumb mistake rather than anything nefarious.
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Takes No Damage posted:Yeah I always thought it was a purely artificial limitation. The only people who want to upload more than they download are businesses and they can pay 100x more for it because It's only an artificial limitation on full duplex physical medium. When you have an inherently half-duplex medium like a single pair of copper wires or a cable loop the upload bandwidth has to be multiplexed with the download, meaning every bit of frequency/time dedicated to upload reduces download. In the case of fibre this apparently still holds true and they use different wavelengths of light to get full-duplex down a single strand fibre. And the business thing is because businesses being businesses are also paying for *guarantees* that the bandwidth is always available to them and not oversold like a residential connection. Effectively buying both the connection from the business to the ISP and again from the ISP to the upstream peering point. If it's symmetric they are effectively paying for two of these connections.
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buglord posted:How safe is it to download public domain movies, virus-wise? Does this eventually turn into what I saw on my friends laptop after several months of limewire? Never seen anything like this from Usenet. As said above some will pack the vid in a folder with other stuff that i just delete anyway.
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CapMoron posted:Anyone have any idea what happened to NZBCat? Official status page: https://status.nzb.cat/
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Fart of Presto posted:Official status page: https://status.nzb.cat/ “Problems detected” indeed.
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I’m down to three indexers now with cat down. I like to keep four at all times because of stuff like that, have to go scrounge up some new ones. Still missing nzbs.org 
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Cat has been pretty bad for a while according to my ARR's so it's no big loss to me. Geek and Drunken Slug are very good.
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Takes No Damage posted:Prowlarr is an indexer manager, so instead of setting each indexer you have up on each *arr app, you set them up once in Prowlarr then point all your other *arr's to it. Not necessary but convenient. It also can function as a decent way to search for content across all your indexers without having to log in and do it on each. Good for items you are looking for but don’t want to be assed with setting up in *arr.
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I broke my Synology on migration, and I'm needing to start fresh. What's the current docker setup? I was using linusserver io before. But looking around I fell into https://mariushosting.com/ which uses primarily ghcr.io. The big diff so far is the default user. Any guidance if one should be preferred?
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deong posted:I broke my Synology on migration, and I'm needing to start fresh. What's the current docker setup? I was using linusserver io before. But looking around I fell into https://mariushosting.com/ which uses primarily ghcr.io. They have pretty much all of them on the syno community app store now and tbh they work just fine.
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The Gunslinger posted:Still missing nzbs.org Oh dude, when org went down one of the bigger, more private ones gave amnesty to the users and let everyone move over. It was essentially seamless and tbh I forget the differences between the two as it’s run so similarly. I use it for 99% of my hits.
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deong posted:I broke my Synology on migration, and I'm needing to start fresh. What's the current docker setup? I was using linusserver io before. But looking around I fell into https://mariushosting.com/ which uses primarily ghcr.io. The linuxserver versions have been fine for me for a while so I haven’t felt the need to look elsewhere. But I’m not needing any fancy addons beyond the basics.
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Warbird posted:It also can function as a decent way to search for content across all your indexers without having to log in and do it on each. Good for items you are looking for but don’t want to be assed with setting up in *arr. This is a good point. A lot of times for series I'll search for an entire season directly in Prowlarr to make sure I'm getting the same group release and then just manually import the files when it's done. Unless I've been vigilant in setting up filters and tags in Sonarr it will grab whatever it finds first. e: buglord posted:How safe is it to download public domain movies, virus-wise? Does this eventually turn into what I saw on my friends laptop after several months of limewire? 
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Alright, I'm up and running but everything around configuring/setup i'm confused as gently caress. Despite watching multiple videos and reading a ton of guides I can't quite translate them to my current setup. My main confusion is setting up SABnzb and Sonarr and having them talk to each other. I currently have a System warning in Sonarr that said something about downloads are going to root folder which is a no-no (I've since deleted the root folder path in the Sonarr -> Setting ->Media Management tab which has removed the error but I assume that has now broken the connection to SABnzb as well.) Now to actually formulate some questions so I don't just sound like a complete rambling idiot. 1. In SABnzb, the guides tell me to set up the completed downloads folder to be something like "/volume1/downloads/complete" and then configure the Categories tab to point to the same place for TV shows and Movies, so folder paths are /volume1/downloads/complete/TVShows and /volume1/downloads/complete/Movies Is this where I should be putting in the path of where all my media is stored for my Plex Library or should i leave it like this as the guides say and point to my Plex server somewhere in Sonarr instead (perhaps the individual show folder when I add a new series?) 2. When I downloaded my first show - it added it to the "Completed/Movies" folder istead of the TV one. I added SABnzb to the Download Clients in Sonarr and entered "tv" as the category as per the guides (to match the "tv" category i created in SAB, which I assumed was the instruction to add it to the TV folder) but it hasn't seemed to work.
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Parker Lewis posted:Docker containers like docker-transmission-openvpn. Late reply but I happened to see this. I also recommend that Docker container. I pretty much have the same setup, using it with PLEX, Nefarious and NGINX in a set of VM microservices. I'm still kind of a container noob, so it took me a few hours of tinkering, but I got it working. The hard part for me iirc was setting the HOST_PATH to a good directory where transmission could specify further down that dir path. Also making sure it had correct privileges to actually write, though that may have actually been fixed by my HOST_PATH stuff not the thing I did. If you're better at reading and following directions than me it's probably quite simple. In any event, its super cool and I love having it even though my friends don't really take advantage of it like I wish they would 
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Post your docker-config file. Also I'd strongly suggest going through the TRaSH guides walkthrough for this as it handles all the "put the downloads here" stuff pretty well. Also gluetun is a pretty good "I want this container to use a VPN" solution as well. Works out of the box with a bunch of providers and has stuff like healthchecks set up as well.
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Looten Plunder posted:Alright, I'm up and running but everything around configuring/setup i'm confused as gently caress. I have separate paths for downloads and the media itself, something like: /downloads/usenet/incoming /downloads/usenet/complete /downloads/torrents/incoming /downloads/torrents/complete Then Soarr/Radarr just monitor the /complete folders and move new files over to: /media/movies/... /media/television/... Can take some screenshots of my config later on if needed, I forget what I used to set things up initially (not trash) but yeah hooking all the folders together took a while to wrap my head around.
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Looten Plunder posted:Alright, I'm up and running but everything around configuring/setup i'm confused as gently caress. Are you following this guide? https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/Hardlinks-and-Instant-Moves/ If not it should really help you untangle all of this.
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Matt Zerella posted:Are you following this guide? I'm surprised I didn't paste this in all of my rambling, but yes, i stumbled across that. I was getting confused by it because it's all focused on; and keeps mentioning, Docker and I'm not using Docker. I'll give it another go tonight know that I know I'm on the right track. Takes No Damage posted:Then Soarr/Radarr just monitor the /complete folders and move new files over to: Knowing this also helps. I wasn't sure if I sposed to be handling that in SAB instead.
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Looten Plunder posted:I'm surprised I didn't paste this in all of my rambling, but yes, i stumbled across that. I was getting confused by it because it's all focused on; and keeps mentioning, Docker and I'm not using Docker. I'll give it another go tonight know that I know I'm on the right track. https://drfrankenstein.co.uk/category/initial-setup/ This guide has a pretty good set up of **arr on synology dockers.
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Looten Plunder posted:I'm surprised I didn't paste this in all of my rambling, but yes, i stumbled across that. I was getting confused by it because it's all focused on; and keeps mentioning, Docker and I'm not using Docker. I'll give it another go tonight know that I know I'm on the right track. For the "how to set up for" page pick "native"
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Looten Plunder posted:Knowing this also helps. I wasn't sure if I sposed to be handling that in SAB instead. Don't know if this will help or hurt as I'm doing everything through separate jails in my NAS, but my folder setup looks like this: SABnzbd:  Those are mounted back to my /usenet/incoming/ and /usenet/complete/ folders in my NAS. Any torrent client will have similar settings for its downloads. Sonarr:  Under Download Clients, monitoring the download folders for Usenet and torrents. And the root folder:  This is mounted to /media/television/ in the NAS. Radarr:  Looking at the same places as Sonarr. Root folder:  And then obviously have stuff like /media/movies/ and /media/television/ added as libraries in Plex or whatever.
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i’m just starting and tinkering around with geek and giga news (3 day and 14 day free trials) and probably will try to use an old laptop as a media centre (?) but it is very funny how people keep referencing downloading linux isos, dude must have 1000s on his nas
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Jel Shaker posted:i’m just starting and tinkering around with geek and giga news (3 day and 14 day free trials) and probably will try to use an old laptop as a media centre (?) I’m not sure there’s anything *else* on Usenet.
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Jel Shaker posted:quick question, is jellyfin better than plex? or just different? Just different as far as I can tell. After you ignore the religious types they pretty much do the same thing and preference tends to be based on what works/doesn't work for you.
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Charles Leclerc posted:Just different as far as I can tell. After you ignore the religious types they pretty much do the same thing and preference tends to be based on what works/doesn't work for you. Mostly this. Plex tends to be better at sharing with non technicals. Otherwise it almost feels like a different skin to me.
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Jel Shaker posted:quick question, is jellyfin better than plex? or just different? It's a bit basic in some UI elements and was on less client devices, though the gap has narrowed considerably over the past few years so most major platforms should be supported. On the flipside it's open source and there is no expensive pass required for any functionality. I've used both but was more comfortable with Plex and had a lifetime pass so I just stayed with it. Plus it's easier to explain to friends and family to get Plex as opposed to "oh hey get JELLYFIN" which sounds like you're trying to infect them with malware or something.
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Plexamp is quite good, that might be the one big advantage I think plex has. Only applicable for music though.
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I like how you can disable episode descriptions in Jellyfin. Every time I tried Plex some spoiler was shoved in my face, and I didn't see any way to turn that garbage off.
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Jel Shaker posted:quick question, is jellyfin better than plex? or just different? I’ve never found anything Jellyfin is better at. But plex is much better at some edge use cases that if it matters to you, you’ll never use anything else. (For me, I YouTube-dl tech channels then watch at 2x speed on a iPad. Jellyfin and Emby are both horrible for organizing YouTube dl content)
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