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check out /r/trackers

also watch entry level trackers for open invites. speed, iptorrents, torrentleech, etc

It's only as much effort as you want to put into it. Yes it's more effort than public torrent sites, but the tradeoffs are worth it.

Plus. most of these are setup once and forget. Automation & not having to seed is what makes Usenet worth it IMHO.

And of course, torrents still have benefits and their place as well.

I think this is a typo? should be 1337x.

Thanks, I didn't come across this one in my brief search. Would be nice to see this implemented in the awesome UI app they have.

I like the idea, but using the Mullvad Browser with Leta was mildly annoying, as I would have to sign in (acct#) for each search. I get it, but I wish there was a better way to authenticate. The search results were surprisingly good also (as expected).

I wanted to try it more, but unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to get Tailscale and Mullvad to play nice together on Windows (my work laptop) and on Linux (Desktop). There are some guides for Linux but none of them worked for me. Split-VPN feature didn't work for Tailscale either.

Even more savvy people use full automation with Usenet and torrents as backups.

If you can't bypass the Win11 online account requirement by being offline during install, then try this:

In the "Let's connect you to a network" page, use these steps:

* Use the Shift + F10 keyboard shortcut to open Command Prompt.

* Type the following command to release the current network configuration and press Enter: oobe\bypassnro

Note: The command is a single phrase without spaces.

Note2: This will reboot the machine and restart the installer again (why?? because fu for not wanting a MS account that's why)

They make decent products, and this announcement is interesting, but for some reason their Chrome browser skin is terrible for me. I feel like it's slow compared to other Chrome reskins (Edge, Brave, etc).

To each their own.

And if you need something a bit more robust and based on up-to-date FF code and maintained I've been toying with LibreWolf (https://librewolf.net)

I get 100% also, using Librewolf fork of FF (104.0.2). RFP is on and uBlock Origin enabled.

edit: MacOS and Windows.

I feel this year around the holidays (US) will see good deals on HDDs. Prices have held steady for a rather long time e.g. 4TB still around 80-120 for consumer and nas based drives.

Drive shucking is still viable depending on the external drive, for anyone who wants cheap(er) drives but with some work.

Most common method of using IRC is using the irssi client with autodl-irssi typically done on a seedbox. Everyone's setup is different though.

https://autodl-community.github.io/autodl-irssi/

I used it fine up until lockdowns and work from home stuff. Account was flagged sometime early 21 along with a flood of other users who were initially ignored and then told to fill out a form and hope to get allowed back on.

My AD use was three home computers to either view them (LAN) or to assist my parents with various questions occasionally. Never any server OS used or on the network. No domain controllers, no email servers, heck at the time I didn’t even have any Linux or BSD machines.. physical or virtual. It was baffling and forever soured my view of AD.

The performance was good (TeamViewer was still slightly better imho) I just took issue with the commercial detection problems and then having to go to a webpage to beg for them to unban you.

I agree given the two options I’d choose and recommend AnyDesk first.

Over a 50/50 commercial wireless link RDP over wireguard was best for most users that I had test. AD/TV a close second and VNC was so perceptually laggy that it was a no go from the start.

Worse actually. I was lucky enough to read the fine print and canceled just a month in. They called to figure out why I canceled so fast and when I pointed out the user hostile terms they said “oh ok thanks have a nice day.”

Yes. AnyDesk is often touted as a TeamViewer replacement but they’re just as bad and shady.

Both subreddits are full of users helping grandma only to get banned for commercial use, for example.

I gave RustDesk (FOSS) a try and it was nice but slow and I don’t currently have the time or resources to self host near me to see if that makes a difference.

There is a need in this space for a good home use Remote Desktop that’s easy to use and if touted as free for non-commercial use, doesn’t end up banning you later without hard evidence (or just limit free users to 1 session, etc).

Right now they all seem to be chasing medium/large/enterprise money which makes sense I suppose due to the current state of remote work.

.ace and WinAce -- which died out fast, and eventually had a nasty security bug in unacev2.dll that caused it to be removed from most 3rd party utilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinAce

AutoDesk (CAD/BIM/etc) is also getting like this. Maybe not totally Adobe yet, but they too also basically have a lock on their industry. Just like with Adobe, some alternatives exist and a few might be good enough, but AutoDesk bought so many competitors and/or companies that most of the time they are the only game in town.

Bentley (not cars) is another company I loathe, but I've already gotten off topic.

The professional software industry is a cesspool across all industries.

First bullet on qBittorent's changelog for v4.4.0 is that they do. So I'm sure it's rolling out quickly to others.

v4.4.0 changelog: FEATURE: Support for v2 torrents along with libtorrent 2.0.x support (glassez, Chocobo1) - https://www.qbittorrent.org/news.php

Sometimes you have no choice. Send an email to any @gmail.com address and you’re using a Google product. Then you have the myriad of analytics and tracking and such.

That's why I moved to using vlmcsd on a rpi.