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  • Similar to the other comment, not sure if you’ve ruled out writing a Python script? For what you’re describing Python would be able to easily tackle your requirements and still be readable since it’s just a script you can launch whenever you need. Python is also pretty easy to pick up so if you’re familiar with scripting then it could be a fun learning experience (if you don’t already know it).

    Other scripting languages could work too, just feel like Bash will be less readable if you’re writing a massive script like that.


  • Like others said dd should work.

    If for whatever reason you prefer cloning software I’m pretty sure Clonezilla will easily do a disk-to-disk clone, just double-check if you still need to expand the partition on the new drive after cloning (I don’t remember if Clonezilla does that for you).






  • That’s weird, maybe an update broke something? What I would maybe do is uninstall Xrdp (and maybe remove/rename the old config files just in case), then re-install and configure it. From there if it’s still not working try to see what’s showing up in the log files maybe.

    I did notice that Xrdp requires some extra configuration to work properly with Linux Mint Cinnamon, you apparently need to create a .xsession file in the home folder of whichever user(s) you’re trying to remote into. I’m not on Linux Mint myself but maybe searching around will give you some tips e.g. this seems like a good rundown https://gist.github.com/ParkWardRR/2ab9b5d41bbaceca8471d591755a1898

    EDIT: You probably already know this from using it before but for RDP on Linux you’d need to remote into a user that is not already logged in… it’s not like in Windows when you can RDP into any user regardless if they’re already logged in or not.








  • I don’t remember how Jellyfin installs on Windows nowadays but if it’s just the Jellyfin tray icon executable giving you issues maybe a simple fix is just to remove it from being autostarted? This is assuming the rest of Jellyfin starts up fine without needing that tray icon in the Windows taskbar.

    If that doesn’t help it might be that .NET is broken on your system. That’s a lot harder to fix unfortunately… you could try to see if the Windows add/remove programs gives you an option to re-install/fix the current .net installation but that may not help you out much.

    You could also check that your Windows system files aren’t themselves broken. Google around for running SFC and DISM, offhand I typically do something like (in an elevated cmd.exe window):

    sfc /verifyonly
    

    if the above tells you there are system files to fix run

    sfc /scannow
    

    Restart the computer, repeat the above until sfc tells you there’s nothing to fix.

    Then run

    dism /online /cleanup-image /scanhealth
    

    if the above tells you there are files to fix run

    dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
    

    Restart the computer, repeat the above until dism tells you there’s nothing to fix.

    If none of the above fixed anything then it may be time to consider reformatting and re-installing Windows fresh.

    (at home I’m on Linux myself but still support Windows systems at work every day)


  • Ah true, Fopnu is his other non-bittorrent p2p app. In some ways Fopnu is the spiritual successor to WinMX. It is clearnet only so it’s a bit outside the scope of I2P.

    The same dev did also create DarkMX (https://darkmx.app/) which was Tor only up until more recently when he added I2P support around the same time frame he was adding I2P to Tixati. DarkMX (IMO) seems more interesting for I2P users since it was designed from the beginning to work within darknets. Haven’t had a chance to play around with it so can’t say that it has much of a user base but could be worth a look.


  • Not un-useful, but the number of Tixati users is already limited on the open internet (and heavily slanted towards certain unsavoury interests). Finding other Tixati users on i2p just limits your potential peer group further.

    To be fair Tixati is a bittorrent client using the same standard bittorrent protocol that other clients use. So it will connect to bittorrent swarms, peers, trackers, etc. just like any other I2P bittorrent client. So Tixati users will connect to I2P bittorrent peers using I2PSnark, XD, qBittorrent, and BiglyBT. (and any others I missed)

    The big limitation is that there are less bittorrent peers on the I2P network vs the clearnet internet… it’s a big difference. It’ll probably stay that way until there’s more people keeping torrents active within I2P, hopefully in the future.

    Other minor limitation is that I2PSnark (& and maybe Tixati) are the only bittorrent clients that can use the bittorrent DHT within I2P, all the other bittorrent clients can only find peers using bittorrent trackers. It’s not a big deal as long as people remember to add I2P trackers to their torrents but it does make things less decentralized. Tixati does claim I2P DHT support but I’m not sure how well it works in practice.


  • Interesting, I did not realize Tixati had I2P support. Actually it has had I2P support since January 15 2025 so it’s had that for a year now.

    Tixati itself is not new, the torrent client has been around since 2009 (surprisingly the developer kept all those release news updates on the website https://tixati.com/news).

    For darknet p2p file transfers the same developer did create DarkMX (https://darkmx.app/), that itself has had I2P support since June 2025. It used to be Tor only up until then… I haven’t used it personally but it would make more sense for people to use DarkMX rather than Tixati since DarkMX was developed from the beginning without requiring clearnet internet. Using Tixati with I2P is fine but you’re still relying on the Bittorrent protocol for Tixati to work.

    Fun fact: This is the same developer that created WinMX back in the day (Kevin Hearn), his software has never been open source but he’s been developing p2p software for a long time now.