I also wholeheartedly recommend Restic. Hetzner Storage Box or Backblaze B2 are great storage backends and directly supported by Restic.

Borg is great too, though I’ve never used it because I’ve discovered Restic first.

Iirc it’s possible to include Google Maps traffic data as an overlay map on OsmAnd.

Idk whether there’s delay, but this also applies to minor version changes of Nvidia drivers. They must match exactly.

Interesting. I’ve had a worse experience with my music library because of how Navidrome didn’t support multi artist tags properly until recently. But while writing this comment, I checked again and they merged it in 0.55.0!

So I’d recommend giving Navidrome a try too. Symfonium is a great client.

Unless they didn’t enable file extensions to actually show, so an “.nfo” could actually be a “.nfo.exe”.

It does not seem to be the case here, but I really would be careful with double clicking untrusted files. Opening them through a media player directly is a much safer option.

That’s why private torrent sites & Usenet Indexers are mostly ignored by law enforcement. There’s bigger fish to catch than going after a minority who goes through the trouble of downloading first and then watching it. Not to mention the even smaller part who automates their downloading through the likes of *arr.

I’d argue torrent streaming (Streamio) is a major reason why many public torrent sites died over the last few years: Streaming and the big amount of users coming for the convenience paints a much bigger target on sites.

Torrents don’t do live streams. E.g. watching recordings of football matches is not the same as live, and free sites often struggle at peak times.

Some OCH groups might actually take issue with their stuff getting shared around, but there’s no way for them to restrict it. Scene is in a similar situation, where they want releases to stay in their circles but they get released to trackers & usenet anyway.

German releases by OCH groups are already shared widely through Usenet and private torrent sites, as OCH is such a big source of pirated content in Germany.

So yes, you’re free to share OCH releases to public sites. ZeroTwo releases usually include subtitles for all available languages so they might’ve a wider appeal than german-speaking countries.

Make sure you’re VPN & torrent client is properly set up, i.e. you’re torrent client is bound to the VPN interface.

I personally stick to private torrent sites as there’s less eyes on them given them being relatively small [1]. With so few people torrenting in Germany the speeds aren’t always great though. That’s why I mainly use Usenet.

[1] https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2

Well, enshittification usually only starts after a good while. If the parent company wants changes they can slowly press forward to achieve what they want, even if they are somewhat limited - those limitations are usually limited itself. E.g. WhatsApp data was seperate to Facebook at first, but slowly but surely they became more interlinked (at least internally).

Anyway, I don’t know enough about Nexus Mods and their owners to have any idea where they’re headed. As you’ve said, there’s been no indication of them doing something shitty.

I only use them to dry my shoes and to wrap bio waste, but there’s still about 3 (bi-weekly) newspapers getting delivered to my door. They are ad supported and I don’t know anyone reading them, except for a few people over the years which complained about not receiving theirs.

I almost forgot there’s also the community sheet (“Gemeindeblatt”), which includes local events, trash collection dates, job postings: coincidentally they are currently in need of someone delivering this local paper for the next few weeks.

Heise is a German specifically tech news outlet, so they are generally quite good with facts about tech.

These arrests are targeted at an illegal IPTV provider which restreams channels from licensed TV providers (Sky, DAZN, RTL+). These illegal IPTV services usually also provide on-demand content like Netflix shows, movies etc.

The CSAM incident is definitely an additional charge for a single individual and not part of the prior investigation about an illegal IPTV service which provides customers with otherwise legal TV.

The reason i cant get a vpn is because im just broke and im young enough to live with family so i cant really get a job.

I don’t know your situation (and age) but small jobs like delivering newspapers can usually be taken up at relatively you age. They should easily cover a VPN subscription.

E.g. I was delivering newspaper biweekly for a few hours at the age of 13. Even today, the monthly pay would’ve been enough to pay for a year of my current VPN. Your guardians will have to approve the job but legally it shouldn’t be an issue.

If you torrent without a VPN the conversation about a warning by the internet provider on behalf of some rights holder will be way worse than asking about ideas for a small (summer) job.

If you permanently seed all you’ve downloaded and you’ve been using a tracker for a while, bonus points + upload should usually cover all your downloading needs.

Starting out is difficult without a seedbox though. Especially of you don’t use Cross-Seed to seed to multiple trackers. In that case it is considerably easier to pay for a seedbox.

• Pay for a month for TorrentLeechs seedbox promo to get an invite.
• wait for opensignups. HUNO, FearNoPeer, onlyencodes are solid options.
• do an “interview” at MAM. After downloading and seeding all you’ve downloaded for a few months, you’ll be able to get into the trackers mentioned above and a few others (e.g. Aither).

Some game servers, some ISPs don’t provide IPv6 for (some of) their customers.

Unless they are taken down, it won’t be an issue. Given they’ve existed for a good while it’s unlikely to cause a problen. Even then, hopefully they delete your payment details after a few weeks/months.

If not, paying = assisting a criminal organisation could be a crime depending on your jurisdiction. But most of the time customers aren’t prosecuted, but that can change at any point in time.

Football is not usually distributed over torrents and thus seedboxes. These IPTV providers restream the live feed with a few seconds delay - just like their legal counterparts. They usually cost around 5-20€/£ per month, depending on the subscription duration (and number if simultaneous streams).

That was the case, but now that they no longer support port forwarding thinking about alternatives is a good idea. For me, a VPN without port forwarding is not an option (since I use private trackers).