I’ll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It’s not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.

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I run everything with saltbox (cloudbox fork) it’s ansible, it’s automated, and I hardly have issues. I host from home but have a 10gb uplink.

Being consistent and seeding is what makes everything work. So my best advice is seed! (Private trackers are a no brainer). Using a few and backups. I have replaced all the streaming services with a self service portal and all I need to do is updates and every few year upgrade the hardware.

I have and do purchase lots of movies and entertainment. But I’m tired of services deleting shit.

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I host from home but have a 10gb uplink.

Fuck outta here (as i cry in american)

Swizzin is definitely the most prominent solution for selfhosting a seedbox. I highly recommend it.

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I am American!!! Swizzin is much easier then my ansible answer.

Fiber is getting bigger and I’m in a small city. Only had cable and dsl and I could see downtown San Francisco…

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Oh man, now I’m even more jealous.

I really like ansible and have played around with using it to deploy a seedbox. I still want to get it working, but I’ve given up on doing it all purely through ansible. At this point, I’m thinking the best route is using ansible to deploy swizzin with an environment file and unattended install

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Not that advanced, but two things I found useful:

  • If you’re in a country that blocks torrent websites but not trackers (eg. UK), visit the sites via Tor browser.
  • Rutracker.org and Rutracker.ru are surprisingly not blocked in the UK and have lots of good software. They’re BBCode-style forums, so fairly obvious how to navigate/search them even if you don’t speak Russian. If you want to read the description or comments of a specific torrent, pop the page into google translate.
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I really want to thank you for this post, it opens up some long hidden secrets and gems inside the piracy world <3

I want to add something to this thread for my advanced pirates: irc xdcc chats for directly downloading content use http://sunxdcc.com to search for the content you are lookin for! (though, it’s very manual)

I legitimately forgot about this option - XDCC searches are a real boon

@Yolotan@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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OSMC (a Kodi OS) on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Seren Addon + a Real-Debrid or Premiumize.me account is the absolut shit.

Idk why you got downvoted. I wouldn’t call that advanced. But, we could all be happy with that setup too :)

@Alkider@lemmy.world
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If you have a large steam library, the rin forum has some tools to help backup a good chunk of those games. Usually you can’t run a steam game without the steam client, but steamless and goldberg can make them run without needing the client.

@roon@lemmy.ml
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Won’t you lose out on achievements and stuff if you run it without the client? 🤔

Also what’s the safest/cheapest/possible free(?) VPN you can use to torrent? Thinking about doing that as Direct Download, while nice and more safe, can definitely be time consuming

Protonvpn claim they have a few VPN. Honestly one of the easiest ways to torrent imo is to get a real Debrid subscription let them torrent them download the file through them without a VPN.

Rise Up VPN seems to work pretty well and is based on OpenVPN. It crashes less than my qbittorrent client so I’ve had minimal issues with it.

@Emu@lemmy.ml
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Why would you need a free VPN? They are so cheap, and the safety and security and features that comes with a paid subscription is more than worth the very small yearly cost.

I’m more interested in paying for a VPN that isn’t a subscription. Are there any good options?

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There isint. This is your moment, do you take the plunge and buy a vpn, sign your soul to a pirates life?

@TenSlot85@lemmy.ml
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I’d rather pay for a decent Usenet backbone and use exclusively SSL downloads than rely on a VPN with torrents.

You don’t want a free VPN. I’d cough up for Mullvad if I was going that route.

@tabularasa@lemmy.world
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I couldn’t agree more. Usenet all the way.

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Which one do you personally prefer? I used to use easynews and some giganews back in the day but dunno how the latest and greatest is these days.

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It’s been a couple years since I set it up so I couldn’t tell you what’s the best deal these days.

I use Newsdemon’s 2tb/mo plan (Black Friday deal, it’s almost free it was so cheap) and a Blocknews block for completion. I don’t have any issues with downloads being incomplete but YMMV.

Nzbgeek indexer (lifetime sub), Sabnzbd downloader, and the full *arr suite for automation, and an Emby server running on my NAS.

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Thanks for all the neatly packed info. Seems like I nailed with the indexer but will check the rest out. Cheers.

Windscribe. It’s free but has a 10gb cap per month. I’ve used it plenty of times to torrent movies and they don’t do logging.

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Usenet is worth every penny

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100% get 2 providers 2 indexers and setup the Arr stack and never touch it again

@Jivebunny@lemmy.ml
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Make sure they’re not from the same company though.

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Is it? I never used it, i went down the torrent path. Usenet would have to be super easy to use for me to consider paying for it

It is. I torrented for years, Usenet is so much better once setup with radarr/sonarr. So much faster

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Yeah but sonarr/radarr works for torrents too. I can see the speed argument tho.

I hear the big downside with Usenet is availability of old or obscure content. Not sure how true this is though as I’ve never used Usenet myself.

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I’ve used it for 15+ years and it’s a huge downside. Older content used to be widely available, but more often then not anything popular is removed within a few months of posting. It is actually pretty great for obscure content that won’t get taken down. It’s cheap but a whole new thing to learn. It is faster than torrenting directly to your own computer but a seedbox blows usenet out of the water as far as speed. 50-100 MB/s easily (at least using private trackers).

I wonder what the reason for that speed difference on a seedbox is. I’d like to set up a custom server for other things at home so I’d prefer to use that over a seedbox.

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They’re running in a datacenter in the netherlands with a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. I did find out they’re classified as an “isp and web hosting company”.

All our Dedicated Servers have 1Gbit connections with a dedicated 1GigE uplink.

I’d also guess that many of the seeds on any torrent (on a private tracker) are going to also be coming from seedboxes. That might explain why it’s so fast too, there is tons of bandwidth between the datacenters themselves. I’m definitely throttled at 100MB/s regardless of how many torrents I’ve got running (1 or 100), but if they’re running 50-100+ instances along with dedicated servers they must have tbps of bandwidth.

So long story medium, unless you can install your home server into a datacenter with a multi terrabit link to the backbone, it will be tough to replicate

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Usenet was great 10-15 years ago but nowadays it’s flooded with fake / private downloads and retention is shit simply because the few remaining backbone providers comply with takedown requests. Absolutely useless for older content by any major studio. It’s all new stuff which is mostly garbage anyway. We were able to get a ton of “this old house” recently though.

Its important to have a supplemental block account, that won’t generally accede to DMCA requests. The big guys will of course, but they don’t get rid of the whole file, so you can grab the remainder from the block account. I can’t even think of the last time I wasn’t able to download something between my main and block account.

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appreciate the advice, would make it less aggravating. Which one do you recommend? I’m on newshosting and have no problems that aren’t just general usenet problems.

I’m just gonna to invite you to google this and see where it takes you. Might not be up your alley, might be a compete gamechanger: InviteHawk

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I used to agree but retention is a killer for a lot of older content.

For new releases its pretty great though.

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Anyone got good options for ebooks? Currently got calibre setup but only sourcing my books from libgen. Tried using jackett + readarr but the indexers didnt seem great… is it worth paying for indexers? Which ones?

Bit tired to format, but these should help. Start here:

  1. https://sh.itjust.works/post/583550
  2. https://links.hackliberty.org/post/4006

Zlib via tor is fantastic

http://myanonamouse.net/

EBook tracker, read their rules then hop on irc for an interview. You can use jackett/prowlarr with MaM to automate Readarr

ebooks, and manga! advice would be appreciated

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I recommend tachiyomi for manga / graphic novels for mobile, which is where i read most manga. you can get series from a lot of different sites, add custom sources, and locally download. it rules

Myanonamouse is the best tracker for books, audio or digital.

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LibGen?

@fixmycode@feddit.cl
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Follow up question: does anyone have a good source for ebooks in Spanish? currently using lectulandia

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Avoid TS, HDCAM, CAM movies

and DOLBY Vision or DV movies if your hardware doesn’t support it.

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Mmmm, that green and purple filter that you realize wasnt an artistic choice until 15 minutes in. Are there any workflows to play them on windows yet?

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Thats the first thing you learn unless you enjoy trash quality movies

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If you really want to build an awesome Plex/Jellyfin library, start using Usenet instead of torrents.

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Please tell me what I can get on usenet that isn’t on PTP, BTN, or RED.

I would bet that 99/100 releases are uploaded to private trackers before usenet.

I’d like to know this as well. Haven’t used Usenet for over 10 years. PTP, BTN, and Red are all I need. Seed box and Plex. I’m into indie/obscure films also, so what would Usenet offer that they don’t?

You should look into Karagarga

It isn’t availability that makes me prefer Usenet, but its speed and security features.

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The download speed on any popular release will max out even the fastest connections. I assume the retention for less popular content is a lot better on trackers, but I don’t have enough experience with usenet to say that for sure.

security features

What features?

Usenet connections can be encrypted. No need for a VPN or any other obfuscation.

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Torrents can be encrypted as well, and there isn’t a need for a VPN unless you use public trackers, which I don’t recommend.

What is the monthly fee for Usenet? I’m more in favor of decentralized systems with the use of seedboxes to speed up distribution, but I’m not against usenet either.

What is the monthly fee for Usenet?

About 5 bucks a month or a little less if you pay by the year.

@sfcl33t@lemmy.world
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Idk man, Usenet was solid for me for years but now everything is DMCAd in a flash.

@Auli@lemmy.ca
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Huh, a couple years ago everything was being DMCAd haven’t come accross that issue in awhile, at least me personally.

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stop manually browsing torrent sites! You’re wasting your time.

Download qBittorrent. Download Jackett. Configure Jackett to work inside qBittorrent. You now have a way to search hundreds of trackers all at once within seconds and find literally anything you want.

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You should check out Prowlarr, its like jackett, but integrates better into sonarr/radarr

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I have all of these programs running on raspberry pi, including Flood (mobile friendly UI for qBittorrent, also supports Deluge), and plex media server. It can’t be easier to watch movies and tv shows that way.

Are they all running on the Pi, or just the torrenting tools?

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My 5¢, got a similar stack running fine on a Pi 4B 8GB (with Jellyfin instead of Plex). Just gotta make sure to direct play, it does not like transcoding too much, even with hw acceleration

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Transcoding is also turned off in my case. But I couldn’t get used to Jellyfin. I tried, but I just couldn’t.

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That’s fair, never used Plex but I suppose it’s more polished being a product and all. In my case, I read Plex requires an internet connection to work and I needed my media server to be available offline, so it was a deal-breaker

Jellyfin is actually very polished in my opinion. Using it very often

Works flakey at best. I could transcode but only 1080p anime caused by SSA subs. And it would buffer. A lot.
Today Jellyfin is really good with not causing uneccessary transcoding

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Everything is running on Pi. But I have Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB of ram. Actually I have Raspberry Pi 400, which is basically 4GB variant of Raspberry Pi 4, with slightly overclocked CPU and passive cooling, inside small keyboard, but I only got that because Raspberry Pi 4 was out of stock.

@rustic_tiddles@lemm.ee
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Make an image of your SD card if you haven’t already. Better yet run the OS over USB. sd cards to die.

@huojtkeg@lemmy.world
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Prowlarr has a prettier UI but the torrent sites they support are maintained by Jackett. It noone gives credit, at some point Jackett won’t be maintained and Prowlar neither.

Disclaimer: I’m qBittorrent, Jackett, Flaresolverr and Bazarr developer.

@tun@lemmy.world
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Thank you for your work on those beloved softwares.

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I dont need a fancy UI for jackett since it’s only needed for the API.

Prowlarr does have the ability to do a search of all indexers including usenet, combined into one results list, which is very nice for finding rare or niche things outside of Sonarr/Radarr.

So I have both installed and configured, but only ever use prowlarr for manual searches cause jackett is working and i’m too lazy to change all my settings in my 6 separate ARR instances.

Made the reverse. Switched to prowlarr and keeping jackett if something does not work on prowlarr.

Hey thanks for your work. QBT and Jackett are super stable and well done.

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Damn, I’m huge fan of yours. Using qBbittorent, Jacket, Flarsolverr and Bazarr in docker. Thanks for your work.

But I never managed to get Jackett plugin to work x)

@huojtkeg@lemmy.world
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https://github.com/qbittorrent/search-plugins/wiki/How-to-configure-Jackett-plugin

It has limitations, but qBittorrent is used by 40M users aprox and we are only 3-5 active developers. Managing the open issues don’t let us time to work on new features…

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Thanks for the link. I’ve been following these instructions from start. Looks like it’s searching for a while, but ends up saying “Jackett: connection error getting indexer list!”

Who needs new features when the most important ones are working perfectly anyway :)

I was looking into this like last week but paused it because I’m an idiot who can’t figure out which package to grab off their git lol. I think it is amdx64 but I have intel everything, I know it isn’t arm though.

It’s called amd64 because AMD invented the x86-64 processor instruction set, it works both on Intel and AMD

Thank you! I’m just not used to seeing things named like that, it’s usually just x86 in my experience for some reason so I wasn’t sure, and had nobody to ask haha. Thank you, setting that up immanently!

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type uname -m in your terminal

Thanks!

Thank you for this. I set this up yesterday and started combing through my list of things that I’ve wanted to download but couldn’t find even on my private trackers. I wish I knew about this sooner!

Sometimes it’s cool to browse sites for FL alone.

When TorrentDB existed I liked zo browse the current hot section just to download stuff and 1. profit from it being FL and 2. increasing my ratio.
Other times I got a fee good recommendations because I was curious why so many downloaded something

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I’ve tried just about every type of automated system Sonarr, Radarr fully integrated with usenet and my libraries etc.

After a while I realised I quite enjoy doing things manually. I get to vet the content a little before I grab it, a bit like going to the video store.

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As long as you have your quality profiles set up correctly they very rarely grab a bad release, I’ve maybe had to throw out 3 movies and one season of anime it grabbed during the past year I’ve been using a full *arr setup combined with jellyfin and jellyseerr.

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If you set the series to “Anime” it should use both episode number and absolute numbering when searching for anime. It’s certainly not perfect but it gets the job done most of the time.

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Have you set it up like trash-guides does? Works well for almost any anime I watch. The only issues I have is not finding something because of localized/JP name release that are with embedded subs.

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Anime is my biggest use case, and it’s worked great for me.

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And generally it grabbing a bad release is due to it being uploaded on a tracker with little moderation. I tend to blacklist a site once this happens more than once or twice.

I only auto-dl with sonarr for anime and groups I know like SubsPlease, EraiRaws etc.

Movies are capped to FHD-BD and remuxes are only downloaded manually.
Also because I use a seedbox my storage quota is usually 99% in use and filling it 100% up causes me issues so I am usually paranoid about 1. the quality and 2. what size is being downloaded

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Jackett isn’t automated, it’s just a search tool. You can open any search result in-browser if you wish to double check it. I do it all the time

@CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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Get Prowlarr instead of Jackett and then install sonarr/radarr too. No more manual searching at all!

@orphiebaby@lemm.ee
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As a person who is not an advanced pirate, I’m reading the Jackett page and I have no idea what it is or how it works.

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If you are looking for German (or German + English dual language) content it can be very hard to find stuff on public torrent trackers and it’s pretty hard to get onto private German trackers - but don’t worry, there is a solution:

Usenet and the indexer sceneNZBs.com that specialises in German releases have got you covered!

If you want to automate the search for German Dual Language content using Radarr/Sonarr I made a guide (that also works for torrents too): https://github.com/PCJones/radarr-sonarr-german-dual-language

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As a German, I can confirm: Usenet is the way to go. For me it’s fileleechers (invite only afaik) for German content, and nzbgeek for the rest. All combined with Sabnzbd and Plex. Will have a look at your guide tho!

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fileleechers is a board and not an indexer though right? So you can’t add it to Sonarr and Radarr

Feel free to correct me, I don’t know a lot about them since they are invite only

A good IPTV service is worth it’s weight in gold. Yes, it’s paid, but thousands of live channels and some providers offer on demand video. The service dwarfs whatever price you pay. Run all of it through Tivimate.

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SlavArt Revolt bots are THE WAY to go for high quality music from almost any service

https://slavart.gamesdrive.net/

This is awesome. Any site to direct download entire playlists?

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Yeah, setting up the Servarrs (Lidarr/Radarr/Sonarr + Prowlarr) along with your bt client, then trawling opensignups to get onto private torrent sites.

Was does trawling opensignup mean ?

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I’m guessing he’s referring to r/opensignups but there’s probably a Lemmy community for it too

Anyway, these communities post updates when private trackers open up their registrations. These don’t happen regularly so it’s good to know when they open so you can register and access their content

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Sorry, yes that’s what I meant. The idea is to create accounts on private trackers, and one way to do this is to wait for open signups (which I used to use on Reddit, not sure what the Lemmy equivalent is). As you amass them, you can just input them straight into Prowlarr. Then, when looking for something; say, music in Lidarr, it will search all the private trackers and hunt for albums from that band (or movie, or TV show). Just set the seeding ratio on your Tracker to a high enough number to satisfy all the private trackers and Bob’s your uncle!

Looks like !opensignups@lemmy.ml exists. Not a lot there yet, but hopefully it can pick up some steam over time.

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