Would you only be duplicated content from wikis already available and simply cherry picking from those lists instead? I don’t see how FMHY is difficult to navigate. Yes it has 10,000 links, but you go to the topic you need and it has 10-20 links of which you can pick and choose.

Pretty much every software crack says ‘Block this application in your firewall’. I guarantee most people don’t. Following these instructions would have prevented this entirely.

You are looking for the arr scripts (formally arr-extended). https://github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts/blob/main/lidarr/readme.md

No, this is a bookmark software. You can probably use JDownloader for this to scrape a URL for downloadable content, depending on how the site you use is formatted.

No, but it is in the megathread both here and on Reddit. It’s practically the largest video game soundtrack website/forum that exists right now with the exception of maybe Soulseek.

Is it really underground if you can just go to the website and sign up?

squid-board.org

Back in 2019 some releases installed directly from IGG-GAMES contained crypto miners. They also added their own DRM to releases. Since then I have stayed away and never looked back.

Best of luck with your endless tech support anytime something doesn’t work.

A small whiteboard on the fridge perhaps?

If you need to throw in the towel on email self-hosting, don’t be ashamed. Mail servers are one of the more difficult projects to run. If you do end up outsourcing this, I recommend SendGrid, it’s reliable and free.

hallowed is the internal release group at MTV. Their aim is to produce highly streamable (think Plex/Jellyfin) but still high quality encodes. They also always include English subs and dual audio for foreign films. The quality of their releases are good but very few as they only started releasing under that name about 5 months ago.

However, if you are gunning for highest possible quality/bitrate (and file size) you can get, go with releases by CtrlHD, MainFrame or W4NK3R.

Windows - JDownloader

Android - Unchained

Tixati isn’t whitelisted on pretty much any private tracker because of how easy it makes spoofing other clients.

Sorting a music library is a very manual process. Your best bet is MusicBrainz Picard to clean up your metadata then use something like Lidarr and Lidarr Extended to maintain and continue to add to your library.

FraMeSTor is the internal group at BHD. EPSiLON was previously releasing on PHD but left a couple years ago. They release to TL but are not nearly as active as they once were.

I prioritize FraMeSTor, and they have more releases post-2020.

I’ve started using Hoarder and am enjoying it. I really like the page caching and automatic AI tagging so that I don’t have to.

My Prowler stats over the last 90 days are ~1600 usenet grabs vs ~40 torrents. Definitely worth it not have to seed and constant gigabit speed.

I have run Jellyfin for about 3 years. Plex has a lot of community support and praise so I spun up a test instance. Unfortunately for Jellyfin, Plex is much most reliable for me in pretty much every way. I would love for Jellyfin to keep improving but the switch to Plex just made the media experience so much nicer.

You can but you don’t need to. All they really do is organise everything. Any requests go through Prowlarr/Jackett which do the API calls then push that to qBit. One could argue you should put Prowlarr behind a VPN as well but it depends on the trackers you have in there.

This isn’t true. I used a debit card from a different country and it worked fine.

Microsoft Defender is good and free, but it is heavier on system resources than any reputable AV. Kasperskey is near the top for least impact on system performance.

And a lesson to all as to why backups are essential.

There is with Purelymail. And it’s only $10/year.

Have you tried using Calibre with Readarr? You use Readarr and the request tool then you can tell Readarr to use Calibre to manipulate the library. I find that this does a fantastic job of sorting out all of my ebooks with all their editions and naming conventions.

That depends on the site. With a seedbox for even just one month (€6, one time), anywhere with freeleech becomes trivial with autobrr and a little bit of setup. I joined IPT not long ago and got over 1TB of buffer within 2 weeks. Music trackers and unforgiving niche are generally the hardest.

MaM is definitely not for movies and tv as OP request, only books. You can get invites here though for other entry level private trackers.

That sounds a bit suspicious to me.

NVMe isn’t the compactness. That’s just the interface that is used. The form factor is M.2. You can get SATA drives in the M.2 form factor as well. So if you do want an small form factor drive, make sure you look at if it is SATA or NVMe and which one your device supports as they are keyed differently.

I use it in two different ways. If I am using OIDC (e.g. Audiobookshelf), then I will only use Authentik. If I need to use a proxy outpost and pass those credentials to the server (e.g. Navidrome), then I need to use NPM to do that.

You can use only Prowlarr. Add all of your trackers and download client to it then you can search there and it will add the torrent to your seedbox.

If you still use CreamAPI instead of Koalageddon, you can use the GetDataFromSteam-SteamDB userscript to automatically create CreamAPI.ini files to unlock dlc in your legit steam games.

I prefer Symphonium. Tempo isn’t nearly featured enough for me just yet.

I’m sure your aware but for people who aren’t… Only changing your DNS doesn’t hide your traffic, only your DNS query. They can’t see you are resolving 1337x.to but they CAN see you access 104.31.16.118. This is why a VPN is important as it stops your ISP from seeing all of your traffic.

Yeah, that basically it. If you download the torrent, your ip is visible, they don’t care if you upload or download. As far as they’re concerned, if your IP is there, they’ll snatch it and send you a letter.

It’s not possible to ‘not upload’. While you are downloading, you are simultaneously uploading. If a rightsholder or copyright troll is monitoring a torrent, they don’t care home much you have downloaded or uploaded. If you’re in the swarm, that’s good enough.

According to the Kemono telegram channel, there isn’t any site that does this unfortunately.

Cloudflare with CloudflareDDNS

The Amber Room on Telegram is the spiritual successor to The Trove that is actively updated. I can confirm it does have the World of Darkness books.

Usenet > DDL > Private > Public

Usenet is the easiest to automate. I can set it and forget it. For DDL, I use two private sites so I know the quality of what I’m getting. Private I need to worry about ratio, but quality will be more controlled than public.