Soulseek is the opposite of “tagged consistently”.

Oof. I give up after 365 days. I figure if no one has seeded by then no one will. Staring at that 98.7% completion makes me sad. :(

Fair enough. I actually posted my own comment after I downvoted Arcane’s due to their overly agressive and absolutist tone. It’s hard to have a discussion when personal attacks are in every reply.

if I write a loophole in your employer’s code, like a patch, that keeps them from having to pay you, and they like not having to pay you, I haven’t done anything egregious or unethical?

I don’t really care about the ethics in the Revanced situation nor the greater adblocking scene. That’s a moral question for individuals to answer. From a legal perspective, I don’t agree with the removal of original code. While I don’t know of a legal precedent for the digital age, the closest physical comparison I can make is to the distribution of a lock-pick or a gun. And we don’t prosecute lock-pick manufacturers for selling to a thief, we prosecute the thief for breaking into someone’s home with it. Exempting cases where the actual product is illegal, such as specific gun models, but as far as I am aware there is no such law against any software (yet). Even if there were, I doubt it would all under the perview of DMCA. Thus my reasoning for saying this is an abuse of DMCA and my reason for distaste towards the situation.

Bringing this back to your original comment:

I wouldn’t expect Spotify to just let people use premium services for free. Fuck Spotify, right there with y’all on that, but this isn’t egregious or unethical behavior for them.

I wouldn’t expect them to either! But I also don’t expect them to try and take down material they have no right to take down and I would consider that to be a bit ‘egregious’.

Edit: You know, I should have actually done the research before commenting. Anyway, I looked further into DMCA intent and it covers some circumvention tools which may(?) apply to adblockers, although I haven’t heard of that being tested in court before. Leaving my comment here since it’s already federated anyway.

Except that ReVanced is not distributing anything of Spotify’s (to my knowledge). By patching Spotify’s app on the user device instead of providing downloads to pre-patched apps, the only thing ReVanced is providing is their own code. The reason they use a patcher system is exactly to avoid frivilous abuses of DMCA such as this. They are not infringing Spotify’s copyright in any way.

Streisand effect at work, I see.

I have two identical HDDs as a mirror, another one that has no failsafe (but it’s fine, because the data it contains is non-critical)

On separate pools, I hope? My understanding of ZFS is that the loss of any vdev will mean the loss of the pool, so your striped vdev should be in its own pool that you don’t mind losing.

I have been using TrueNAS Scale for a while but have not used base Linux for my NAS. My opinion is if you’re looking for a quick initial setup or are like me and didn’t want to install ZFS yourself, TrueNAS is rather appealing, but otherwise it doesn’t offer much. It has ZFS pre-installed, gives you a webUI to monitor basic things about your machine, and has fairly easy ways to setup data protection with snapshots and backups with rsync or zfs replication. In the more recent versions it even has Docker apps built-in so you can host some basic things. The downside of TrueNAS is that despite being Linux under the hood, it’s a lot more locked down so doing advanced measures is more of a pain and much of their “simpler” UI-based stuff is exceedingly basic, half-featured, and lacks documentation.

The way I use TrueNAS right now is to treat the main OS as mainly untouchable. I don’t try to break out of the limits placed upon it. I instead use a “Jailmaker” machine (defunct wrapper script for systemd-nspawn) for all my Docker needs. This way the main system remains more stable. If I have to re-install, then it’s a simple config import and my NAS is back to how it was.

I would use the built-in VM tools or the built-in Docker tools for this, but A. they weren’t implemented or weren’t working when I set this up, and B. I found their setup rather… annoying. For instance, I tried to set up some apps with their previous app system and it required configuration before working and yet nowhere did anyone explain how to configure it so I was wokring blind. No one makes guides for setting up an app in the TrueNAS UI, so the extra layer of obfuscation was just a hinderance to me. Compare that to setting it up directly in Docker, there are a million guides and great documentation for everything I get stuck on. Thus, despite being the “harder” way to set it up, it was easier due to the existence of information about it.

So, looking at it objectively, what parts of TrueNAS do I even use compared to base Linux? Not much. I use the WebUI to accomplish basic tasks such as creating or modifying datasets and permissions, snapshots, SMB shares, etcetera. All the basic things are there and I use the UI for them. But ever since that initial setup I spend most of my time in the CLI adjusting my scripts and Docker config files, creating directories inside the datasets, fine-tuning permissions… I could definitely have gone for a base Linux install as long as I knew what to install for ZFS support, some manner of WebUI, and so on. TrueNAS just did all that initial setup for me, and having a more locked-down OS forced me to use safer methods of installing programs via containers and keeping my install a lot more portable which I plan to continue no matter what OS I use.

This was probably not helpful, but that’s been my experience of TrueNAS for what it’s worth. Whatever you do, just remember: RAID is not a backup. It is protection against drive faults, but an error in the RAID system itself or the RAID pool’s data requires a separate copy of the data stored elsewhere to restore.

Good find, that method is what I used too when I was still split tunneling my regular PC apps. Since then I have migrated to a docker setup using Qbittorrent’s webUI and I just run it’s network through a Gluetun container. Haven’t thought about it in ages.

Fair point. Although the problem with those sketchier sites is they usually slap watermarks all over the images and scrape the first release of a chapter regardless of the translation group, which results in very spotty quality. There are absolutely series where certain translation groups or anonymous uploaders snipe it with terrible quality and it’s not worth reading until the better group translates it, but the scraper websites don’t update their chapters.

Not sure why you’re being downvoted for expressing an opinion… an opinion based on current trends, at that. Mangadex just had a large chunk of work wiped out and many translations are only on Mangadex or translator websites with no torrent. This is a fact. Not hard to be worried that further takedowns will affect access to niche manga.

Just filled it out in case you still need answers. Small note, your education answers don’t include “none”. While uncommon, some people never finished school and there is no option for that.

Soulseek is a simple peer-to-peer sharing network. You can share directories and see other users shared directories when they are online. It can be a bit flaky but is a useful tool.

yt-dlp downloads from youtube will be in youtube quality, so ~128kbps VBR opus most of the time. Sometimes ~256kbps VBR if you have Premium. I still find it handy for hard to find recordings and new albums etc that have not been shared in flac yet.

I use Bitwarden (as far as I know these are basically the same) and have had issues with the app too, from long delays before it autofills, to the popup jumping around the screen or vanishing after 1ms, to just never showing up on some screens. I would recommend trying some of the other autofill options they provide in settings to see if they work better for you. I have had much more luck with “inline autofill” than the accessibility-based autofill, but currently keep them all enabled and the experience is much smoother than it was a year ago.

Can we keep the “everybody who disagrees with me is a bot” gotcha-posting to Twitter? This place will be a lot better for it.

I have all my apps running in Docker under Jailmaker and I don’t intend on moving to TrueNAS apps unless I am forced to. Currently I could move this entire setup to any machine I want, set up my jail mount points, launch up Dockge and I’d be up and running (with the same static IP at that!). If I moved to TrueNAS apps I think the transition and handling of mount points would probably be painful. If they remove jailmaker support in 25.xx like I’ve heard I’ll look into Incus or other solutions before using their apps.

I installed this after seeing your v1 post and already got use out of it resizing some images on mobile. The only thing I noticed as lacking was a multiple file selector, so this is a great first update!

I see it in the default WebUI, perhaps whatever app you’re using doesn’t support it?

I added a cheap PCI 4 slot NVMe expansion card and a couple of SSDs for a new pool and then migrated all the database-heavy stuff over to it. Required some use of local ZFS send/receive which I didn’t know was possible, but it has gone smooth so far. Very happy with it! It no longer sounds like my HDD pool is trying to escape from hell and some of the services are much snappier, especially Bitmagnet. I’d highly recommend it as an upgrade for anyone still running purely HDDs. I thought I could get away with it but ZFS speeds are no faster than single drives and the amount of stuff I had was hammering it non-stop.

I also bought my own domain finally to escape the free-tier dynamic DNS woes and I can finally feel good about sharing links with other people. I slapped a file share container with disabled registrations on a sub domain. I put it all behind free tier Cloudflare to hide my server’s IP, it took a little bit of learning what the different records are but so far much easier than I thought. Although I have yet to do the hardest part of setting up dynamic IP for my DNS records. I see a bunch of scripts floating around, but none seem that easy or well-maintained…

Oh, and the PI I’ve had running Pi-Hole v5 for god knows how long with no maintenance couldn’t run Tailscale, so I wiped the entire thing to start fresh and got it up and running with Pi-Hole v6, Tailscale, and Unbound. I like having these separated from my other services as they are more critical to have at all times and I have had 100% uptime with my Pi so far. Although I chose Dietpi for my OS on a whim because it looked interesting and am not sold on it. I like that it has easy software installs with sane defaults so I probably saved time overall, but the amount of time I spent debugging the weird choices Dietpi made for basic shit like networking options really threw me off.

I just wish more of the non-US ones supported .ca domains. :(