Thanks for that, worth knowing.
Thanks for that, worth knowing.
True, but OP refers to ‘some cherished items’
I assumed the context here was torrenting rather than streaming, download blu-ray remuxes and encode to your liking.
A 16Tb manufacturer recertified drive is USD160 which should sort storage (and later get a second for offline backup). I’m actually holding out until I get GPU encode (apparently CPU is somewhat better, but power considerations, maybe next gen). Do wish the scene would get on with switching, though, are we dinosaurs?
Nah, I’m suggesting you actually use some human agency. I’ve found it pleasing, a couple of hours can often net thousands of hours of listening time. You’ve got a list to start from, why not give it a go ?
While I love the *arrs for video, I found Lidarr pretty damn awful, perhaps it’s OK with usenet but not torrent without specialised private trackers. Anywho, I found the Soulseek network, spiritual successor to Napster, which has most of everything, usually at high bitrate, and take pleasure hand curating a personal library. I like the Nicotine client. There’s so much more music than video that it makes sense to be choosy, I’m my own personal DJ…
So, by way of answering my own question, I found this map, which lets you work it out for yourself. Interesting stuff.
Which brings me to the question of how to benchmark now that I can make good guesses. Speedtest to US and Europe?
ETA: For those that follow, what I did was spin up multiple gluetun instances, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, hook them to firefox with FoxyProxy (different ports, duh) and compare speeds on https://librespeed.org/. Bottom line was the bottleneck was my ISP (surprise!!)
Still, I suspect there are ways to leverage crap internet to useful torrenting.
I’d be going through Singapore to get to Japan, so I doubt that’d be better… Hmm maybe, after looking at the map, it might actually work out better, depends on how saturated the direct cable is I guess.
Good point, but if I’m going to the bother of transcoding remuxes to AV1, I’ll probably knock up a script, at least for the first while.
I’m resigned to probably giving up youtube (at least for a while, as the ad cat and mouse continues) in the not too distant future. Little of value will be lost… and going back to seeing ads is not worth the price.
So far fine in FreeTube, touch wood.
Cheers.
I’ve had MeGusta at top weight for quite a while (years I think), should probably try ELiTE, wonder what the bitrate diff is…
Interesting, do you have an automated workflow for this?
The *arr suite, e.g. rando hard drive TV show, add show to sonarr, import (yes it’s usually that easy), movies - radarr, seeking out stuff you’re watching now - prowlarr. Quite mature and way easier than hunting through streaming services.
Thanks, literally the second option. Blind!
Figured that was likely, haven’t found it yet.
I ran across it somewhere, greed makes it sound plausible, but I have no direct evidence.
Yeah, some dickheads apparently want to monetize and should die in a fire, but it doesn’t hurt to ask. Patience usually does the trick, but I need to work out how to filter Private out of search results.
You dropped this - /s