i got the random Dell SFF optiplex with 16gb of upgraded ram and a i5-4690 sitting at the girlfriend’s house because she’s the only one with an ISP that still allows public ip’s.
It runs Minecraft.

at home i have my old 9yo retired gaming desktop doing seedbox work and mostly just running BOINC to donate compute power to science… and also keep my feet warm lol

yeah. that’s it. i really don’t do shit even though i totally could.

glad to have been of service. good work.

real pro strat is to buy an ATSC tuner card for your PC and record or stream that shit too

Yes they do. The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur frequently enough to be obvious they are trying to keep their user dta drsgnet uninterrupted under the guise of “stopping bots”.

The block is intermittent on Reddit, but it does occur.

He’s probably talking about reddit They no longer allow vpn’s or any user obfuscators to browse the site

the difference is sig sauer has money, lawyers and a few centuries of lobbying on their side, plus being the right side of capital… your average torrent client developer has none of those to fight back with, and is the wrong side of capital.

me after 15 years of intermittent learning self hosting:

i have the one random office PC that runs minecraft

…yeah that’s it

anything under about 20kb/s is pretty much dead on the larger torrents… a lot of people will turn down their upload limits so that protocol traffic can pass but actual pieces never get sent. It’s irritating to say the least.

What’s even worse is when a torrent is stalled at around 94%, there’s exactly one seeder with a full copy in the peer list, but he has fucked up networking rules (or an intentionally choked upload because he’s a dirty leecher) so that despite having an open connection in the peer list, they never send any data…

Why do people do this? Readmes and nfo files take up literal kilobytes… even over hundreds or even thousands of downloads, at most it’s going to take up a few extra megabytes of download/storage, they’re not saving anything at all. And it can be nice when the nfo includes all the releaser’s original encode settings and stuff.

A lot of people, myself included, got pissed off at the Pi Foundation during the chip shortage for exclusively shipping boards to business customers who vacuumed up every single one of them faster than any consumer could. You couldn’t shake a stick at any Pi for less than 3x MSRP from scalpers, which at that point, you’re literally better off grabbing a NUC. They showed their true colors and it left a bad taste in all our mouths, and I will never be buying another Pi.

Really the ARM hate just comes down to ecosystem support. A lot of the SBC’s from other Chinese suppliers have mid kernel/OS level support at best, and a limited range of compiled software. For a lot of purposes, going x86 simplifies setup and opens up the software realm so, so much.

I know, that’s my point! PDF’s are inherently superior BECAUSE you can usually CTRL-F them.

I’m not talking about the storage requirements. I have terabytes of unused SSD; that is irrelevant. The direct links for most zlib or libgen books download at 10-30kb/s for me and can take a few hours for one book, often failing multiple times in between. I was trying to find an alternative, something distributed was likely to be faster.

Very helpful comment.

I might just do that and reupload the OCR’d copy. I already have 3 or 4 books that I’ve saved out to cut the binding off of and scan in- gonna need OCR for that too.

In my free time, of course. University waits for no student…

I’ve found 1337x’s search engine to be a little special. It’s very prone to giving zero-result searches if you over specify your search terms especially with how variable some people can be when they post torrent names and tags.

Search for “qxr” with zero other qualifiers and make sure it reports something. Then start narrowing it down with additional terms and backtrack once it gives you no results.

I’ve always just spammed refresh as soon as it takes longer than 2 seconds to load and it usuaally goes back to normal.

Generally speaking, any device (“server”) hosting a “service” NEEDS to be assigned a static IP. It simplifies routing significantly and avoids random break problems because DHCP is incredibly stupid at times…

Is there any specific reason you need DHCP to assign an IP to your main hosting server vs setting it all statically?

Moving it to it’s own system will not fix the routing problem. You can probably still leave it on the USG.

You should be able to set a fixed static IP on your server, and then also statically assign that same IP to your server in your USG DHCP config- as long as they both are “thinking about” the same IP I think routing should work correctly.

If that breaks, try just assigning the static IP only from the USG side or only from the server’s side. I’m 90% sure that even if the USG does not have your server machine in it’s client list, if it sends broadcast packets to an entered IP looking for the unifi server, and the unifi server is listening on that manually set IP, they should be able to talk.

disclaimer: i am high as shit right now and this may be bullshit

Yeah libgen and Anna’s both didn’t have this specific book. I got it figured out once I remembered I had an ancient protonmail account to use for sign-ups

I know, and I remembered I already had a protonmail set up for junk like this. So I got the direct downloads to work after logging in this morning. Very helpful of zlibrary to NOT tell you anywhere that an account is actually required for downloads and not just “additional features”…

However, I like to mess with new tech when I come across it. IPFS seems very useful and a nice bridge between p2p resiliency of torrents with the convenience of direct download and since it seemed like I could use it for zlib, I just wanted to try it…