I2P works fine, qBittorrent supports it now too. There are earlier posts in this community discussing it.
Like you said it's mostly a popularity problem, less users = less seeds/peers.
I2P works fine, qBittorrent supports it now too. There are earlier posts in this community discussing it.
Like you said it's mostly a popularity problem, less users = less seeds/peers.
Was MakeMKV ever claimed to be open source?
Not sure if it's exactly what you want but I've used MKVtoolnix in the past for .mkv operations, worked fine for me. And ffmpeg also works great for general audio/video stuff though I've never tried bluray -> .mkv with it.
Agreed, I always leave everything seeding and also disable queuing. Leaving "Global maximum number of connections" at default setting (can be set lower) along with configuring Global Rate Limits Upload/Download to something appropriate works perfectly.
Torrent clients are smart enough to juggle the active torrents and share the allowed bandwidth between them without you having to micro-manage the whole thing.
The qbit logs just say “torrent removed” without further explanation
So the logs don't have the torrent finished line right? e.g. It never logs "Torrent download finished. Torrent: "YOUR-TORRENT-NAME" ?
If so my guess is what the other commenter mentioned, try changing the settings not to remove the torrent & see how it goes.
To be fair that would help out a ton for the less technical users that aren't too familiar with needing to browse and click through a ton of different menus just to get to something they can watch for free. This kind of stuff gets challenging for the older non-computing crowd.
And honestly if these remotes are going to have a default "Netflix", etc. button they may as well have a button for the default Google free channels.
FYI Dorsey left Bluesky
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board
Currently Jay Graber is the CEO and has the largest ownership in Bluesky
What's going on in Quebec?
The federal government is following the same strategy as some provinces. British Columbia has recently banned Tesla products from its EV charger rebate. Nova Scotia just announced that it has excluded Tesla from its $2,000 rebate at the purchase of a new EV.
Quebec just relaunched its own EV incentive program today. It will come into effect next week, and so far, Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles are still included in the list of eligible vehicles.
Should be able to do that with Jellyfin, no Plex/Plex Pass needed (if you really want to use media software for this).
That said I suspect your current method with creating a torrent to share is much more resilient when dealing with choppy internet connections. With Jellyfin/Plex it's more of a direct download situation, not sure if either can resume broken downloads.
Syncthing is not just for LAN use. Even their homepage mentions transmitting data over the internet
I've been using it to sync devices over the internet for years. It's also how people use it to sync from say their desktop to their phones, remote server, etc.
If you watch your network firewall Syncthing does reach out to servers on the internet to help it find other devices so e.g. if you enter the other device's ID (example ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG-ABCDEFG) it can reach out over the internet to find that specific ID to pair with. I think Syncthing uses a sort of DHT resolver to find other devices, I know on my firewall I had to whitelist Syncthing's servers to make it work.
I was going to try to link you some references but their forums seem to have connection issues at the moment, you may want to search around later if you're interested how Syncthing works over the internet.
I'd say it's worth it. Another bonus with your own domain is that you basically have an infinite amount of receiving email addresses you can use for no extra charge e.g. you can just keep making up new email addresses @ yourdomain whenever you need to register to a new website or whatever.
Drastically cuts down on the amount of spam you get at your main/personal address(es). Also helps whenever a website or whatever has a data breach, just means your random made up email address was leaked and it's easy enough to mark that as spam going forward.
i know the bitcoin atm’s and banks do “know your customer” stuff (basically they id you first)
Depends on your area so make sure to double-check. Many (most?) BTMs only require KYC for larger amounts. e.g. buying $800+ might require KYC, buying less than $800 may only require text message verification. For text messages you can buy a temporary burner phone with cash, or if you're lucky you can find a SMS service that works with the BTM - just be aware most BTMs don't work with virtual SMS phone numbers.
Or your other option is maybe buy bitcoin via cash by mail, some crypto trading websites/platforms offer that.
Or going non crypto you could technically just purchase a pre-paid credit card with cash, you'd just need to make sure the card would work with whatever services you are subscribing to.
Cash is still more anonymous than cryptocurrency, I suppose you can ask the services you're subscribing to if they accept cash by mail (I don't know of any offhand).
PS - Not sure if your post is breaking rules here, this Lemmy instance is anti-cryptocurrency and does have a rule forbidding crypto shill topics. But it might be okay if you're just asking a general question.
I'd recommend I2P.
But sure, you can use Tribler if you prefer just don't set yourself to be an exit node if you're worried about other users' torrent traffic going out your own internet connection. Been years since I tinkered with it back then Tribler felt even slower than I2P torrenting and the Tribler torrent client would crash every few days/weeks, I sort of gave up on it after a while but maybe it's better nowadays.