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You can use hardware acceleration with nvidia cards and ffmpeg with a 980 or better (YUV420), more info here
Site seems to be down or at least extremely slow right now so linking to an archive.org capture
This is copy pasted from the #tuning channel of the autobrr discord
Tuning for 4.3.9-4.5.2 on 1gbps libtorrent 1.2
Speed
Unlimited on all, rate limit µTP and LAN
Connection
Peer connection protocol: TCP
Global max: off
Max num per torrent: off
Global max number upload slots: off
Max number of upload slots: off
Advanced
Interface: Bind your interface to prevent leaks
File Pool Size: 5000
Outstanding Mem: 128
Disk Cache: 1024 (or -1 if you feel ballsy, 0 if you experience memory leaks)
Disk cache expiry: 60
Disk IO Type: Default
Disk IO Read Mode: Enable OS Cache
Disk IO Write Mode: Enable OS Cache
Coalesce reads and writes: OFF
Use piece extent affinity: ON
Send Upload Piece Suggestions: ON
Send Buffer Watermark: 5120
Send Buffer Low Watermark: 512
Send buffer watermark factor: Between 200-250, adjust as needed
Outgoing connections per second: 50
Socket Backlog: 1000
Peer TOS: 128
utp-tcp mixed mode algo: Prefer TCP
Support IDN: ON
Allow Multiple Connections from the same IP address: ON
Validate HTTPS: OFF
SSRF Mitigation: ON
Upload Slots Behaviour: Fixed Slots
Upload choking alogrithm: Fastest Upload
Always announce to all tiers: ON
Max concurrent HTTP Announces: 50-75 (only increase if experiencing announce issues with very high amount of torrents loaded in client)
Peer turnover disconnect Percentage: 0
Peer turnover threshold percentage: 90
Peer turnover disconnect interval: 30
Max outstanding requests to a single peer: Leave as is
I personally left “Validate HTTPS” enabled since i haven’t researched what security risks might come from disabling https
I use kenmei.co for manga tracking. Supports a bunch of sites but not all of them and depending on the site the updates can be quite delayed.
I really need to start downloading manga as well. I find it to be the most ephemeral type of content with all the takedowns, groups stopping scanlations or frequent site issues
This might help some https://github.com/KasperSvendsenGit/Decrypt-Pluralsight-Videos/issues/5
Be careful with downloading random executables and only run them in a VM without network access
nyaa.si has some officially translated Japanese light novels but for some the non-mtl fan translations are better than the official like for Overlord.
Some manhwa/manhua scanlators also translate Korean and Chinese light novels like reaperscans.com (site down), flamecomics.com (stopped novel tl)
This is very technical but if your ISP has unmetered Netflix or Spotify you could have a VPN on a server that spoofs the hostname (easier) or IP (harder) which only works for downloading and i imagine using >50GB of data to Spotify might make the ISP ask some questions. Netflix would be easier since 4k movies are a thing
Look into Jellyfin and the *arr suite for automating downloads. If this seems too complicated for now, just get a cheap 1 TB external SSD, a VPN (check out mullvad), a torrent client (i suggest qBittorrent or Transmission), bind the torrent client to the VPN to prevent leaks and off you go!
The simpler method has some drawbacks, not all TV’s support all codecs and formats, you have to move the external drive from your computer to your TV for example. Getting Jellyfin setup will give you a more streaming service type of experience and if someone else than you might want to watch something, start with Jellyfin.
If the Jellyfin experience is horrible and you just really wanna watch a movie to relax on a saturday, maybe take a look at Plex.
If you already have the MiniPC just lying around then great, just use that! If you don’t have it, you can also host Jellyfin + the *arr suite on your PC (unsure about Windows compatibility) and start them when needed or have them run in the background when your computer starts.
If you use Firefox on Android you can use uBlock Origin and custom filter lists to hide sites from search results like the uBo dev filter does
Only NVIDIA 3000-series cards and up support hardware AV1 decoding and only 4000-series cards support both hardware AV1 encoding and decoding, so only just about 3 year old cards! source
All Intel ARC cards support both decode and encode, (released October 2022) source
AMD 6000-series cards (November 2020) support AV1 hardware decoding and only 7000-series cards (December 2022) support both hardware AV1 encoding and decoding. source
The releases with ads are often CAM or TS releases which are recorded at the movie theater with a camera
At least torrentgalaxy marks ad-ridden releases with a small red “ad” label which i filter out with a ublock origin filter torrentgalaxy.to##.fa-adversal:upward(3)
On other sites releases with ads might have the advertisement in the name like XBET
I’m usually not in a hurry to watch the newest movies so i wait for the webrip/dl versions of which the highest seeded versions have an extremely low probability of containing ads
Possibly(?) related official notice https://devicepartner.microsoft.com/en-us/communications/comm-windows-ends-installation-path-for-free-windows-7-8-upgrade
Never spent the time to figure out what KMS actually did but seems like licenses weren’t validated when upgrading from 7 -> 8 / 11
i find most music i search for in higher quality (doesn’t have everything) on https://slavart.gamesdrive.net/
it’d be a pain to download full playlists tho
qbittorrent w/ public trackers (1337x torrentgalaxy nyaa) + torrentleech
yt-dlp
slavart for flacs
hakuneko for manga
revanced
mullvad
It’s called change edition and it in the extra menu