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brickfrog,

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brickfrog,

You may want to update your post to mention which version of qBittorrent 4.6.0 you’re on.

e.g. are you using the build with Libtorrent 1.2.x or Libtorrent 2.0.x?

Libtorrent 2.0.x does tend to use more memory during runtime (especially when you have many actively uploading/downloading torrents) but it’s fine overall, the OS / kernel knows to redistribute memory away from qBittorrent to other applications as needed. In other words if nothing is crashing then you should be okay.

That said I’ve mainly tinkered with Libtorrent 2.0.x clients on Windows (Deluge & qBittorrent) so there might be something I’m missing specific to Linux or Docker. qBittorrent with “Physical memory (RAM) usage limit” set to its max will basically let Libtorrent use as much memory as it likes… it is lower priority memory so in theory as long as everything else in Windows is working the other applications can still request memory & run properly. Funny enough with Deluge I don’t think it even has a RAM usage limit setting so Deluge with Libtorrent 2.0.x will happily use the max memory available to it.

brickfrog,

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    brickfrog, (edited )

    FYI the community rules

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    Why isn't OnionShare more popular among pirating communities?

    I was just browsing some torrents lately and anything that isn’t on a torrent is on a website like rapidgator. Rapidgator is ok if you downloading audiobooks, but why aren’t more people using OnionShare to send and receive files? I haven’t used it and I don’t know it’s limitations, but if I ever wanted a file which was...

    brickfrog,

    Something like this would seem to make more sense to run over I2P I’d think. But it looks like the devs aren’t interested in trying to go that route

    github.com/onionshare/onionshare/issues/377

    Maybe in the future someone will fork the project to work over I2P eventually.

    brickfrog,

    Same here.

    Hoping they’ll offer a better discount + trade in deal later on, maybe Black Friday? Otherwise I may end up skipping the Pixel 8.

    TBH my Pixel 7 still works great so it’s not a big deal sticking with it but now that I cracked the exterior a nice trade in discount could convince me to upgrade :D

    brickfrog,

    The Vuze devs forked the code and went on to create and continue developing BiglyBT. So technically if you want to keep using that client best to switch over to BiglyBT.

    You can stay with the old Vuze if you want but it’s no longer developed since it lost its devs.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuze#Development_hiatus

    torrentfreak.com/former-vuze-developers-launch-bi…

    brickfrog,

    You can try !mediashare

    Or install Jellyfin and host your own media yourself.

    brickfrog,

    Hmm on the last few installs I’ve done (both Win 10 and 11) I just lead the installation to believe I’ll be doing a corporate/domain install & it always lets me create a normal user/password after that. Not necessary to unplug any ethernet/internet or anything of the sort.

    It’s always worked for me both at work and at home.

    Just to be sure, I spun up a virtual machine to install Windows 10 22H2, here are the steps I went through:

    1. Boot into the Windows 10 installer, jump into the installer & run through all the initial install steps until we get to the OOBE (Windows 10 out-of-box-experience post installer)
    2. Select your Region, click Yes
    3. Select your Keyboard Layout, click Yes
    4. Skip Second Keyboard Layout (unless you want one)
    5. Let it keep going, it might restart (mine did)
    6. At the Account screen select Set Up For An Organization then click Next
    7. At the “Sign In With Microsoft” screen select "Domain join instead"
    8. At the “What name do you want to use?” screen enter your new Windows user account name and click Next
    9. At the Password screen enter a password for your Windows user account and click Next
    10. Re-enter your password and click Next
    11. Set up a security question/answer - Or do like I do & fake them all e.g. select a security question then enter random gibberish alphanumeric text - and click Next
    12. (do the same for all 3 security questions)
    13. Select your Privacy settings then click Accept
    14. Accept or skip any customizations you want (I usually Skip)
    15. For Cortana you can click “Not Now” or “Accept” up to you

    Done! You now installed Windows 10 Pro without a Microsoft Account.

    brickfrog, (edited )

    You just need to select to “Domain join instead”, there is no need to actually go & set up an actual domain. See my other comment.

    brickfrog,

    LOL I didn’t know that works too, good to know :D

    Technically you can just click “Domain join instead” to go into the local account creation.

    brickfrog,

    Just to be sure, did you download some strange version of the .iso from some non-official source? Or did you modify your Windows install in some way?

    And you’re definitely selecting to install Windows 10 Pro, not something else?

    I assumed you downloaded the generic .iso direct from Microsoft at www.microsoft.com/en-us/…/windows10 like most people do. (you can use the browser trick to get the page to give you .iso download options e.g. in Chrome I just hit F12, set the dimensions to something mobile looking, hit F5 to refresh the page, then go ahead & download the .iso)

    The generic .iso is indeed a multi with the download option named “Windows 10 (multi-edition ISO)”, that itself doesn’t affect any of the steps above.

    Then just use Rufus or similar to create a bootable USB with it.

    brickfrog,

    There weren’t any, it was just a troll account that asked admins at a bunch of different Lemmy instances to block anything related to piracy. Lemmy.world admins took the bait. Even in the original announcement they never mentioned anything about dealing with tons of takedown requests. In other words they were blocking piracy related content preemptively before any takedowns occurred.

    It’s nice they walked back that decision but I’m still not going to create an account there.

    brickfrog,

    Seems like another scraper site from therarbg team (they also run clone sites of TPB & others). Might be interesting if this one does indeed go independent & does its own thing.

    brickfrog,

    via Google themselves?

    Not sure which country you are in but you can try to look that up via Google’s website, e.g. in the U.S. you can browse to store.google.com/us/magazine/repaircenter & go through the steps to see what quote they give you.

    Not sure how that would work if you’re out of warranty but the website should be able to tell you those options.

    brickfrog,

    I wrote up a rough list of places to try in an earlier post you can check out, the OP in the other post added their own feedback. You can give those a go & see what you come up with, feel free to add your own comments as well :)

    lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/1882645

    Also related lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/3401527

    With public torrent sites a lot of them require you to apply to register & may/may not have their own requirements to be granted upload privileges.

    Smart Lock has disappeared from my Pixel - anyone else?

    I noticed today I was having to use fingerprint unlock every time I wanted to access my 6a, even though normally I use Smart Lock to keep my phone unlocked when it’s near my Bluetooth watch. I just checked through the settings and Smart Lock has disappeared, as has on-body detection. Has this happened to anybody else?

    brickfrog,

    Looks normal here on Pixel 7 / Android 13.

    I don’t use Smart Lock but it still seems to exist in the settings with the normal options (Security & Privacy / More security settings / Smart Lock)

    brickfrog,

    Yeah you’re right, mine only has On-body detection and Trusted places too. Haven’t been using Smart Lock so can’t say when that changed but there was definitely a Android 13 update that downloaded/installed a couple of days ago so maybe that was it?

    brickfrog,

    Check again it might be back on your phone? I just looked at mine & Trusted Devices is there, not sure if there was another update or maybe it came back after I restarted my phone in the last few days.

    brickfrog,

    Misleading, rarbg.to still has the same shutdown message. The owners of rarbg would still have access to their own domain - if they intend to update it with any news they could.

    Any other pretend rarbg domain is going to be some copycat site trying to coast on the rarbg brand. Just like the copycat KAT sites that are around now, KAT itself is long gone too.

    With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.

    I use Hetzner as a seedbox and then have PLEX as my media server ran on the same hardware. It’s worked perfectly fine for years. But recently PLEX says they will be blocking Hetzner hosting in the next few weeks. I’ve been considering moving to Jellyfin for a while, but I’m worried they will do the same thing in future....

    brickfrog,

    I’ve been considering moving to Jellyfin for a while, but I’m worried they will do the same thing in future.

    Currently would not be possible. Jellyfin does not have the sort of centralized accounts/logins that Plex does e.g. you’re not asking Jellyfin devs for permission to log into your own server. That’s just a Plex thing.

    If you’re asking could they add that “feature” in the future? Highly unlikely but I guess anything is possible. Were that to happen most likely the code would get forked into a new project.

    PS - Jellyfin itself is a fork from Emby back when those devs decided to close their source. Myself & tons of other people dropped Emby at that point & migrated to Jellyfin. jellyfin.org/docs/general/about/

    brickfrog,

    Offhand it sounds like it could be a drop in replacement for you. But there are a lot of other variables you’d need to consider e.g. if you require specific app/TV support & don’t like the current Jellyfin offerings.

    Maybe others can clarify or you can post with any specific requirements/questions in the Jellyfin forums or the lemmy communities !jellyfin / !jellyfin

    That aside you could always just try it out & see how you like it.

    brickfrog,

    Basically, the author of the project scrapes the torrent DHT network

    Is that accurate? Where is DHT mentioned?

    Neither their github nor their main site makes any mention of DHT, also don’t see any DHT scraper in the git page git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic but maybe I’m not looking in the right place?

    brickfrog,

    You can create a new torrent for that data if you want, that way you can continue seeding it in a new torrent swarm.

    Otherwise if you intend to seed in the old torrent swarm then you need the old .torrent for that. Search around maybe you’ll find it (or if you remember where you downloaded it originally that’s even easier).

    brickfrog,

    Seems to be down, hopefully just temporary.

    brickfrog, (edited )

    and opened port 587 in my router

    Agreed with the other comment, you definitely don’t need or want to do that on your end. Note that your self hosted instance is trying to establish an outgoing connection with a random port to port 587 at wherever your hosted email is e.g. yourdockeripaddress:randomport --> mydomain.com.au:587

    I don’t have Bitwarden self hosted so can’t offer much advice on a solution but…

    I’ve also tried to connect with my gmail but no luck. When I try to verify my email I just get “An unhandled server error has occurred”

    This makes me think there’s something off with your environment, or the Bitwarden instance itself. Is there a way for you to verify that you can actually use those SMTP servers outside of Bitwarden? This sounds silly but in the past I’ve done a test installation of an email client with ability to connect to 3rd party SMTP servers e.g. Thunderbird just to verify my own internet connection can actually initiate an SMTP connection to an external server. You want to at least rule out that the hosted email server isn’t blocking you and/or have some over-active firewall on your end blocking things.

    This is all in the absence of more verbose logging (not sure if Docker or Bitwarden can give you that, something worth checking).

    Some noob questions about seedboxes

    I apologize in advance because I’m sure these probably feel like some stupid and duplicate questions. However, my attempts to find answers to these online have been met with answers that are sparse, oftentimes old (8+ years), and conflicting. I am looking into getting a seedbox. I decided to go with Whatbox because they seem...

    brickfrog,

    May also want to try !seedboxes and !seedboxes

    Whatbox (and a few other seedbox companies) offer seedboxes in the US. How can they do that without being immediately shut down? Do they have some kind of restrictions that could cause problems with using a US-hosted seedbox?

    AFAIK they do honor DMCA removal requests so if you happen to load a public torrent there & receive a notice Whatbox staff will ask you to delete that data. You could contact their support on that if you’re not sure on their procedure.

    How safe is paying via your real payment details?

    I’ve only used crypto for those things. But presumably if you find a pre-paid credit card they accept you could buy it with cash & then pay the seedbox provider with that.

    How safe is connecting via your real IP

    The seedbox service itself is essentially a VPN so you either trust it, or you don’t. You could just as well ask how safe is it to connect to your VPN, or if you need to use another VPN to connect to your VPN :P

    One thing to keep in mind is that seedbox services probably do log more data than the typical no-log VPN.

    brickfrog,

    That’s not the total subscriber count. Sounds like you’re viewing the subscriber count from your specific instance at lemmy.sdf.org - The 3 subs you mention are subs from users at lemmy.sdf.org specifically.

    To see the total subscriber count you’d have to view the communities home instance directly e.g.

    brickfrog,

    For future reference for invites there’s also

    brickfrog,

    Possible that all the mods are on holiday this week. Or they only log in 1-2 times a week.

    brickfrog,

    There’s very little info to work with so it’s unlikely you’ll receive any specific advice.

    But mainly you do want to be fully connectable (port forwarded) so check that. Go to any port test website (www.canyouseeme.org, www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/, etc.) and enter your torrent client’s incoming connection port there. (for qBittorrent that is in Tools / Options / Connection / Listening Port)

    If that test fails then you need to figure out what is blocking your torrent client’s incoming connection port.

    • If you’re using a proxy that’s the issue, won’t get an incoming connection port via proxy
    • If you’re using a VPN service that does not support port forwarding then that’s the issue, it is impossible to port forward on a VPN without port forwarding support
    • If you’re using a VPN service with port forwarding support then go to their website & figure out how to configure it, each VPN service is slightly different
    • If you’re not using a VPN/Proxy then most likely you’ll need to log into your network router/firewall & configure a port forward there. Basically create a port forward for your torrent client’s incoming connection port & point it to your local system on the network (your NAS)

    Also make sure to whitelist your torrent client in any anti-virus/malware software you are using, those will definitely slow you down and/or block connections to your torrent client.

    There’s potentially other issues but everyone starts with being connectable first.

    brickfrog,

    For any of this to make a difference you should disable µTP in your torrent client, or make it prefer TCP over µTP.

    Just as a caveat, people disabling/throttling µTP may want to manually set appropriate global rate limits (upload/download bandwidth) otherwise it’s possible the torrent client will actually hit the maximum upload/download limits of the ISP or router forcing everything else on the network to slow down/time out during other internet usage. You’re obviously more advanced so you already know all this :)

    Mainly it’s extra info for noobs messing around with their settings, often times noobs mess around with settings, disable things, etc. & then wonder why their torrent client keeps “crashing” their internet :P Making changes to µTP should be more of a last resort IMO.

    µTP itself is a pretty big topic, there are a fair amount of people testing different settings in the qBittorrent / Libtorrent Github Issues but I’m not sure there’s even a consensus on a proper default setting. e.g. qBittorrent’s devs specifically chose different µTP defaults vs the Libtorrent library’s own defaults. qBittorrent defaults to having µTP enabled with preferring TCP (throttles µTP), Libtorrent defaults to having µTP enabled with peer_proportional (does not throttle µTP). The qBittorrent default is reasonable though I wonder if the Libtorrent default is the more “correct” approach but that’s certainly up to much debate. In both cases µTP is never disabled completely.

    With my own testing I tend to keep settings at Libtorrent defaults just to observe behavior, with mainly private tracker peers I’ve noticed at least ~60% of my incoming connections are from µTP peers so at least for me it seems reasonable to keep it enabled.

    BiglyBT Download Issues

    Hello, I just downloaded BiglyBt after seeing it on this community. I found some files that I want to download. I got a 30% through and now its completely stalled. It seems it lost connection with all peers/seeds. I’ve tried restarting the program and computer. Still unable to reconnect. Could I get some help on how to restart...

    brickfrog,

    I would look into port forwarding, but it seems like Mullvad doesn’t support that anymore?

    Correct, in your case it is impossible to use any port forwarding until you switch VPN services. In the meantime you’re basically stuck with whatever torrent speeds / connectivity you manage to achieve.

    brickfrog,

    You can double-check but AFAIK that VPN service does not offer port forwarding. It’ll probably be even slower than your current VPN service since it’s not really meant for torrenting or heavy usage.

    Search around for earlier posts on VPNs with port forwarding e.g.

    lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2311570

    lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/969323

    lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/465513

    lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/312389

    etc.

    brickfrog,

    Not anymore

    mullvad.net/…/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-…

    brickfrog,

    However, the server doesn’t have the best power consumption, so I’d like to use WoL to remotely turn it on.

    When you say remotely you mean over the internet, right? Or did you mean remotely within the same LAN e.g. from your living room or wherever.

    By default WOL doesn’t work over the internet AFAIK. The wikipedia page mentions it a bit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#Subnet_directed…

    Like others said you may be able to get that going with a VPN or anything VPN-like that allows broadcasts between connected systems. Or if your motherboard supports IPMI / IMM you should be able to connect to the system & perform power functions that way.

    In my case my motherboard doesn’t have those sort of management functions so in the end I settled on logging into my router remotely & initiated WOL through there. That could be another option for you if your network router is capable of sending WOL packets to the LAN.

    However, the server doesn’t have the best power consumption, so I’d like to use WoL to remotely turn it on.

    Jackett Alternatives?

    Is there anything Jackett does that can’t be manually installed to qBittorrent as a search plugin? I ask because Jackett DOES NOT work for me. Trust me, I’ve tried everything even with tech support. Its not my VPN and its not my ISP, because the sites are accessible and qBittorrent is definitely configured to work (and...

    brickfrog,

    Is there anything Jackett does that can’t be manually installed to qBittorrent as a search plugin?

    Well yeah, Jackett supports around 585 public/private torrent indexers and trackers. You can view them all on their Github page github.com/Jackett/Jackett

    AFAIK there are not 585 existing search plugins you can install into qBittorrent so Jackett has way, way more functionality in that sense.

    The better question is whether you need all those as search plugins? Probably not, you’re likely fine with a few search plugins for the bigger sites.

    brickfrog,

    I’ve been using SystemRescue (formerly SystemRescueCD) since forever & it’s usually more than enough for anything I need to get done. Though nowadays just about any Linux live image can probably do the job if that’s all you have at the moment.

    brickfrog,

    There were no legal issues or threats, it was just some troll with a brand new account from a different instance that tricked admins into blocking those communities. See the other post lemmy.world/post/3175920 (if it loads, lemmy.world having uptime issues as usual)

    brickfrog,

    Most rational people choose to limit their exposure to liability before it happens

    I had a feeling someone was going to reply with the “let’s ban things because they might be problematic in the future” reasoning. What’s interesting with your line of thinking is that there are many more communities that Lemmy.world admins should also consider banning due to possibly being a legal issue later on. In fact Lemmy.world admins haven’t even banned all piracy related/adjacent communities, they literally only considered the select few that were mentioned by the troll account.

    I’d argue with this action Lemmy.world admins have actually put themselves in a more legally dubious position. They are now picking and choosing which sorts of liability to be exposed to. There is now historical precedence that the Lemmy.world admins specifically choose what to keep unblocked on their instance.

    Lemmy.world banning piracy made me realize it's something a client can solve

    If I was logged into several instances at once in the client and seeing the composite feed and then could choose instance when replying or posting (with some set default, like from: field in e-mail clients) lemmy.world could ban piracy all it wants and it’d still be in my feed without me having to leave it or change instances.

    brickfrog, (edited )

    Banning piracy? Like the mere encouragement or?

    Just the mere encouragement & discussion, yes. The banned communities do not allow direct links to pirated content (!piracy has a rule forbidding that).

    It’s strange to see people saying there was some sort of legit reasoning, the lemmy.world admins did not receive any sort of legal DMCA/NTD request or anything of the sort. They were simply trolled hard by a brand new account from lemm.ee asking to defederate from “piracy” communities and lemmy.world admins took the bait. See the post yourself lemmy.world/post/3175920

    Incidentally that same user has created troll accounts at other instances & have been getting themselves banned, they were already banned at the dbzer0 instance (see lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1956277) so it looks like it was simple retaliation to attempt to trick other instances into defederating/blocking them.

    brickfrog,

    Lemmy world is turning into Reddit v2

    Not really, even Reddit still has piracy related subreddits (at least for now).

    brickfrog,

    We already do :) It’s all federated so dbzer0 members can view/subscribe/participate in other Lemmy communities.

    brickfrog,

    Piracy subreddits still exist on Reddit. Lemmy.world admins are apparently blocking communities that even Reddit allows.

    brickfrog,

    Sounds like you’re assuming there was some legal issue that triggered this community blocking? Lemmy.world admins did not receive any legal notices prior to this action, it was just their kneejerk response to a troll from another instance. You can view it yourself, browse to the post via !support or see it directly lemmy.world/post/3175920

    brickfrog,

    Unclear what you are talking about, you mention Scene but also quote my comment about P2P. Which one did you mean? They are totally different.

    The scene doesn’t do anything with torrents/usenet/etc., they are all about their own FTP servers. Yes, other people do have access to them & then spread those releases over to torrents/usenet/etc. but that’s not the scene doing it.

    P2P are the internal release groups at private torrent trackers. Most of them are not interested in uploading anything to usenet/IRC. Other people do grab those releases & then spread them elsewhere e.g. usenet/IRC.

    brickfrog,

    I don’t know if I’d consider this a issue with Whisparr or with the tracker.

    Maybe a bit of both, you could reach out to both of them I guess. But overall I’d think the onus is on Whisparr devs to work towards being compatible with any indexer thrown their way. It is unlikely that any tracker admins will prioritize being compatible with Whisparr so tracker admins may not see it as an issue worth fixing on there end.

    EDIT: Not sure if you can see this reply since Lemmy.world just started blocking piracy related communities (see lemmy.world/post/3175920), may be worth creating an account here or another Lemmy instance that isn’t blocking !piracy

    Any torrent sites with relatively lax sign up/upload rules? Or some place to easily upload torrents

    I’ve been thinking about putting some stuff that I can only find on direct download sites up as torrents, but most places I can access either have fake sign up/login links, or have very strict rules, like torrentgalaxy requiring at least 5 uploads per month for 3 months

    brickfrog,

    Looks like you can add Ext to the list, according to this post in !piracy they do allow uploading torrents there.

    lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/3401527

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