Idk if you tried this, but I run all my stuff on docker and put specific things through gluetun (arrs and qbit).

It’s not how you build a ratio, but helps so much more than seeding the latest Marvel thing. Thank you.

I have a jellyfin+arr+qbit setup. i just tell it to prefer av1. It usually doesn’t get any, but once av1 becomes more common I will probably switch, but I will have to re-download everything as av1 so I can continue seeding.

Great idea, can’t believe I didn’t think of that.

Assuming I read that right, and assuming that’s right: Person bought Disney+. Clicked accept in the EULA when they did. Was served food that gave them allergic reaction. Binding arbitration agreement basically means their case against Disney was tried by Disney employees instead of in court. If they pirated content instead of paying, they never would have accepted the EULA, and they would have gotten to sue Disney in a real court.

I looked at your other comments on lemmy for 30 sec and found that you are clearly joking. So glad everyone understands sarcasm.

I was thinking a vibrator from a device with haptics, but if that’s what you want, go for it.

One of the rare cases where this is a serious option: just don’t buy it. People say that for phones that spy on you, but that’s ridiculous because that is quite hard for some people. This is not. Use a regular toothbrush. Duck tape a vibrator motor to the handle if you really feel like that helps. You don’t need the ai, and it is unlikely that you will only ever be able to buy ai toothbrushes.

Username checks out.

I agree. Ads are just completely scummy. If I am interested in buying something, I will research and decide for myself what I want to buy by looking at marketing material, specs, etc. The only thing ads are good for is making you subconsciously more likely to think of mc Donalds over bk when deciding where to stop for food, and that kind of subtle manipulation should be illegal. Sorry for ranting about something you seem to agree with me on, but a little circle jerking is nice every now and then.

You can say size, just say it’s all old public domain stuff like mine is.

I think you’re talking about that public domain movie with a similar title.

I don’t have VPS recommendations, but may I suggest using a VPS as a proxy to your home server (running gramps) through wireguard? The lower system requirements would allow you to choose a cheaper server, and the fact that the server is only a proxy would simplify the process of moving to a different VPS if you need to.

My advice for finding torrents, so long as they are not insanely obscure, is using qbittorrent with tons of search plugins. It may be hard to find av1 but if you have a new GPU you can transcode quickly, or if you don’t you can always use software encoding.

I have a static IP and I didn’t recognize the stuff after the top few things.

Yeah I am not familiar with mobile data, but I suspect mobile ips are dynamic or shared. Apparently my mobile-data-neighbor downloaded porn.

I accidentally clicked on one of the similar IPs links without realizing and someone with that ip happened to have gotten some of the same stuff I did. I was briefly quite worried.

As a rule of thumb, the vpns you see the most ads for are the worst (assuming you see ads). I like airvpn, but mullvad is good if you don’t need port forwarding. NordVPN, as far as I know, is one of the worst.

I tried that. I woke up at 1:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep for no reason. Same thing happened yesterday too.

First, I am writing this on 4 hr of sleep. Apologies if I get stuff wrong. I would say there are 3 main levels of privacy for OS.

1. Normal OSs - Stuff like windows and macos. I might put Ubuntu here too, that one is somewhere between 3 and 2.

2. Decent stuff - Most Linux is here. OpenSUSE and other mostly free distros fit here. Best mix of privacy and daily drivability for general use.

3. Extreme privacy - I don’t know much about this one but it is for stuff like Tails. It offers the best privacy but unless you are a darkweb drug lord / whistleblower / journalist it is probably not for you.

My point is for the most part, anything in 2 should be fine, and that is most conventional Linux distros. A quick list of stuff I would put in 2 in no particular order:

• Debian
• Fedora
• Nixos
• Arch
• Endeavor os
• Opensuse
• Mint (or lmde)
• Slackware
• FreeBSD

There are tons more but you can probably get the gist from that.