JustEnoughDucks

Spinning metal storage is cheapish now, but now a 4K movie takes up a much larger amount of space.

If you measure storage by €/1 hour media with 4k HDR vs older prices and 720p, it is likely quite similar.

I got in one private tracker and I like that system a lot. I seed my torrents for years because I don’t do a ton of very popular stuff, and I like some older shows. Like The Mentalist season packs on TG are at like a 30:1 for me because not many others seed them.

However, the private tracker doesn’t use standard naming which sometimes fucks up searches and *arr, also, there are barely any seeders or leechers so a lot of media is hit or miss both downloading and uploading. Of the 50 or so things that I downloaded since I got on, 1 has a positive seed ratio, so thank mods for duration seed points…

Why not just spin up Syncthing, sync your music between your phone and server, and then use one of the countless good local music players.

You own the music anyway, you have a limited library, and there is 0 delay having your music locally along with no buffering, offline access, and it will always be at max quality.

(Of course, not realistic if you have 500GB of music and no SD card slot in your phone)

Lol this was one of the earlier nature valley bar, before their single packed one. They were around 15 years ago at least. Always been packed per 2 with the hope that you will just eat 2 at a time

Also lesser known PrivateVPN has no ties to marketing companies. Supports port forwarding, Wireguard, decent price, and is no log.

Been using them for years without complaints.

Duolingo is quite terrible at teaching a language. It gives absolutely no context of grammar or conjugation besides what it beats into you through repetition. Don’t get me started on their “pronunciation recognition”.

It is pretty much only valuable as flashcardish games for vocabulary building.

Babel is expensive, but much better.

Actually textbooks are even better if you are dedicated to learn, but of course the best is a combination of that and a language partner and native person to talk with.

Hmmm. What is the catch? Seems like a honeypot a little bit.

Lemmy also doesn’t get indexed by web search engines. I have yet to find a single post from lemmy on google or DDG even when specifically searching

Which tracker is this on?

I don’t know what to do with my stuff from RARBG anymore because nobody can connect to it, but I don’t want it to go to waste.

Maybe I should repackage it is AV1 and put it on a tracker or something.

Being able to find, download and seed old series and movies.

Nobody ever stays seeding anymore because big private trackers make it all about ratio and small ones simply don’t have to userbase to support “old” series.

Back with RARBG I had every season of that 70’s show and had around a ratio of around 50. For old scooby doo, red green show, Mr. Rogers, Tom & Jerry, some cartoons from when I was a kid, etc… Now it is difficult to even find a lot of that media, much less have a good ratio from it on smaller private trackers where it might get 1 download per 6 months or so. There is absolutely no incentive for keeping around older media. If you want to get in good in trackers, you HAVE to pump and dump the most popular torrent of the week once a month or so to get a good enough ratio.

For example, on SceneTime I have a ratio of like 0.1 because it simply doesn’t have users. However, they assign bonus points based on how long your torrent is seeding, if I am not mistaken, so my site “effective ratio” has gone up to 2 because you can spend the bonus points to add “upload GB” to your account if you are keeping alive “unpopular” torrents.

I would argue by virtue of their constant bribery… I mean lobbying… that each of their votes is more like 2 million votes as far as getting policy changes enacted…

USB-C sockets are the bane of my existence lol. My older Nokia (HMD Global) phone the port broke 5 times from cheap connector parts, now in my Sony Xperia 5 ii, it is happening after 2 years and I have had to clean fuzz out of the socket with a toothpick like 5 times lol.

USB c collects crap

Recently jellyfin has added audio and subtitle track delay options. That has been an amazing workaround for all of my subtitle woes because on Chromecast, it will delay more and more until a fixed point. When I find that fixed point (usually 1-3 seconds) then it is perfectly in sync again. Takes 2 seconds to adjust. I wish it was perfectly synced in the firstplace, but this is good in the meantime.

Then why can over 100,000 other sites show their cookie banners as required by GDPR while Firefox + unlock origin is active, but somehow one of the largest media companies in America “just can’t do it” without disabling your ad-blocker?

If they really couldn’t do it, they would do like Home Depot did and block anyone in europe from accessing their site.

This is not about GDPR at all! This is exclusively about forcing you to disable your ad-blocker so they can make more money from offering a bad browsing experience.

I did for.the last year and a half. It has yet to block a single sponsor while the Firefox sponsorblock works fine lol.

It also, for the past few weeks, now has a “report problem” banner at the start of every video. Might look at an alternative.

For desktop, Firefox + ublock origin has yet to have me see a single ad.

What about the many that say something like 7(0). Maybe it is connected peers (non connected peers)?

Yeah I also paid for it.

I would rather let the project die than my data being sold out to a gang of parasites like it has been

Well then allow me to name a few:

• Battlefront 2 (the original), still active when the servers have been down for years

• Titanfall 2. Official servers aren’t technically down, but pretty much unusable and NorthStar is the alternative

• Counter strike 1.6 is pretty much just community-run servers, same with day of defeat: source. I don’t know if they are tied with valve that if valve shut them down, they wouldn’t be searchable.

• Supreme commander: Forged Alliance

Hell, Battle for Middle Earth II still has a small community

• Valheim has never had official servers. I run my own via docker on debian

• Unreal Tournament 1999

• Minecraft (official servers aren’t down, but if they shutdown there would still be 2000 servers)

It’s very similar to wingspan.

Collection game where you try to build a village of critters. You have “seasons” where you get to place workers to get resources and get cards by spending those resources.

A bunch of different cards with effects! Very fun in my opinion. It can also be played with 2.

You might like Everdell.

Also Kwakzalvers (don’t know what it is in English)