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copyrightviolation.bsky.social
Hyperfixations may include: selfhosting, torrenting stuff, 3D printing, and beatsaber. PFP borrowed from analognowhere.com
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Dang, that's a little more than twice the cost of my usenet bundle, which includes 4 backbones and a VPN that I use for torrenting and soulseek.
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It's not on any of my usual indexers but it looks like btdig picked up a copy floating out there on DHT. Info hash for the inclined: D4A6469EC5F69A36C0366B4873611D41EBF6A21D
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archive.is/ecrZb
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This really makes it seem like they set the upload speed limit to 0, which I'm pretty sure still seeds a tiny amount.
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*taps brid.gy mic. Never used that thing before 😅 My last reply maybe didn't bridge but I have 4 leftover months on a mullvad account I used before I got a usenet provider that bundles a VPN. It's too little to try to sell and none of my friends need another VPN.
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So I recently moved to a usenet provider that bundles a VPN so I have a mullvad account that still has 4 months on it that I'm not using and isn't worth trying to sell - I can DM you the account #
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I just put my entire movies collection on soulseek 😅
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I want to try Funkwhale for this, but there's no way I'll get any friends to switch unless they have more friends on Funkwhale than on Spotify. So I feel like I might as well just run Navidrome in solitude instead.
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This is pentalobe erasure
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I feel like subscription tiers have enshittified from "different tiers have different usage amounts and add non-essential bells and whistles" into "we will annoy everyone into feeling like they need the top tier so they will only get lower tiers if they can't afford higher ones".
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Inshallah
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The S7 Ultra Dock also has an add-on for automatic water refill and drain (called the "water change kit") and I love it - it runs in quiet mode every night without disturbing anyone and we wake up each day with freshly mopped floors. I usually only need to check the dirty water strainer once a month
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DHT is so underappreciated. I had my sonarr/radarr hooked up to magnetico instance and it basically mirrored the results of all the major public indexers. I want to set up a better DHT crawler at some point.
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The benefit of it being built into the torrent client is that it's active even if you turn off the kill switch to use your normal internet, which you may need to do if you need to access sites that blocks VPNs or if you get stuck in VPN captcha hell.
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Interface bindings tell the torrent client to only bind to the named VPN interface, so if the tunnel goes down, nothing needs to be done as it was already isolated to the VPN interface - it's a more passively safe protection.
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You can use both together - kill switches are often active protections that react to the tunnel being disconnected - so unless you make sure your VPN client starts with your PC, the kill switch might not block your connection until the VPN app is opened.
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My only problem with VPN kill switches is that they only take effect when you turn on the VPN - ie they typically only guard against a connection failure, but not forgetting to turn the VPN on in the first place. Interface bindings always take effect.
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For ultimate safety I like when torrent programs let you lock them to the VPN interface so that even if you forget to connect or accidentally disconnect, nothing leaks. I know qbittorrent and biglybt let you do that but others might as well.
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I really enjoy buying and collecting flac copies of the music I listen to the most. I wish more artists made all their stuff available on Bandcamp or through other means of selling downloadable files. I'm so done with renting music.
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You also definitely shouldn't get a usenet subscription that includes a VPN that can be used for torrenting. Getting access to both for less than $10/mo is terrible and nobody should do that.