I’m 30 today. I’m supposed to be all wise and responsible now…

That’s how that works right? Now I know things?

Who gives out the knowledge sheet…? I don’t think mine showed up.

JFC. 🤦

My dumb ass forgot ponys exist. I’m sitting here staring at this thing wondering why that dog looks so much like a horse…

I’m baffled at my own stupidity and had to share.

Now for someone to unknowingly press it and torpedo this persons career while burying them in lawsuits…

I use Emby instead of Plex or Jellyfin; mostly because it has an Xbox client, and I’ve already got a lifetime licence. One of my most active users only watches via Xbox.

Really don’t like Plexs centralised user system or the overall direction they’ve been headed for years, so I moved away from that long ago (8+ years ago at least). Jellyfin wasn’t up to par at the time (though they’ve made leaps and bounds of progress in that time), and Emby has always supported more types of devices\clients. Their device limit (the client count limit with premeir) has never come into play for me, but I know there are larger user bases out there where that is a problem.

Embys development is extremely slow though, taking YEARS to implement simple features or even address major concerns. Plus their support sucks without the community stepping in and providing it on behalf of the staff. Luke (the main dev) is better at copy+pasting candid responses than he is at actually interacting with human beings.

Noone is 100% trust worthy. I’ll still appreciate when they fight for the right things.

😂 Yeah, it was pretty good for that too. I always thought it was really cool being able to play multiplayer games like SOCOM via AD-HOC networking. No server, no internet/wifi, not even a link cable you had to remember to bring; just two devices talking to eachother and creating great memories.

Ah, the PSP… First personal device I owned that had a web browser.

So much porn, lol.

A couple of interesting reads:

https://thenvm.org/exhibitions/piracy/

https://www.ifixit.com/News/42453/five-weird-ways-old-games-tried-to-prevent-copying

Not a lot of anti-air defences at a data center. Maybe this type of protest should become more common…

To avoid this, you will need an IPv4 address on your client, or an IPv6 address on your server.

This confuses me because I have an IPv4 address on the client, and that IPv4 is what the server is seeing make the connection…

/edit

I think I get it.

The client actually only has IPv6. The IPv4 address I’m seeing in the log and whatismyipaddress.com is the address of my mobile providers NAT.

Thanks. I still haven’t totally wrapped my head around IPv6. Stubbornly happy with IPv4 tbh, but it seems the rest of the world is moving on, understandably.

We’re not saying Americans should move somewhere else; we’re saying Americans (collectively) need to fix their broken ass country, looking at others for inspiration.

Easier said than done OFC.

Revanced has had that for YEARS

They were going to have to let someone through; the US doesn’t manufacture networking equipment…

In addition to the damages award, Rakoff entered a permanent worldwide injunction covering ten Anna’s Archive domains

Bahaha, Fuck Off. The world doesn’t recognize your authority.

The first time, I just saw it’s not working; the second time, I was paying attention to the details to see what specific parts aren’t working and clues as to how/why.

What kind of moron puts a Microsoft product on a spacecraft computer? These astronauts will be lucky to make it back to earth.

Why would the DNC fix it; I thought your supreme leader had everything under control? Isn’t he going to make America great, or do you need someone else to clean up his mess?

So thaaats why orientation is in the office across the street…

For me, Usenet isn’t about availability; but speed, risk exposure, and convenience.

Torrents take longer, even with lots of quality seeds and fast network speeds; mostly because of the seeding process. Plus, while you are seeding: you have to publicly expose yourself as a content host, even if just through a VPN. Hosts are what copyright holders target, they don’t GAF about the people downloading, they try to take down the hosts to stop the spread. Finally you have to keep the content you downloaded in the format you downloaded, at least until seeding is done.

I prefer to use Tdarr to automatically transcode downloaded content into h265 (HEVC) to reduce it’s size. Most content is found in h264 (AVC); converting it, on average, reduces its size by ~30% while maintaining good quality. Overall this step has saved me at least ~7TB so far (Tdarr reports it’s saved 4.8TB, but I converted a ton of stuff with Embys convert feature before implementing Tdarr). That conversion can only be done after seeding or the torrent breaks as the original files are no longer available to seed. Usenet removes the seeding step completely, so I can do whatever I want with the files as soon as they’ve downloaded, which in it self only takes 5min.

You’ve done a pretty good job here, so I’ll just add this:

A map of providers and some info on their benefits.

https://www.ngprovider.com/current-usenet-map.php

There’s also a ton of info about usenet, how it works, and what to look for, on that site. (you may have to manually go to the homepage to see the rest)