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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I guess this will vary across clients but I’ve used Voyager (formerly known as wefwef) till Boost for Lemmy came out. It’s funny because, on Voyager I would love that this bot exists cus the normal https hyperlinks wouldn’t work directly on Voyager, it would just open up an external browser tab and only the link posted by the bot would open in the app itself

    Meanwhile on Boost for Lemmy, the normal https links work just fine, directly pointing to the community in the app itself, but the one posted by the bot doesn’t work at all (it’s not even hyperlinked)





  • A1: Yes, but it depends

    I used to be someone who used to watch movies and tv shows on soap2day/fmovies/etc but once I tried watching a proper full release (Bluray encode, or even just a WEB release) I could never go back. If you have a good TV, and you want to maximise your watching experience, private trackers are easily the way to go. But it entirely depends on your needs.

    Even with a slower upload speed, it’s not impossible to keep a good ratio. As long as you have drive space to seed, you will get bonus points that you can use to keep your ratio positive. About being kicked, most sites are “one lifetime, one account” so you can’t just restart from RED if you get in trouble. Ideally, don’t get in trouble, stay off the forums except for recruitments, just keep a good ratio and don’t fuck up.

    A2: Depends on the content

    For Movies and TV you generally don’t need to care where you get it from. Even if the file is infected somehow, a competent video player will not allow whatever malicious code to be executed so you’re good there

    What you do need to worry about is for Games and Software. You are essentially running random .exe files that would even show up as a malicious file on VirusTotal if it’s a cracked program that bypasses some subscription or premium purchase.

    You said you don’t download much games and when you do it’s Fitgirl so you’re good there. Fitgirl is a trusted releaser and as long as you use fitgirl-repacks.site you won’t have an issue (double check the hashes anyway, fitgirl releases include a program that does it for you). It is true 1337x had that problem recently with the EMPRESS release for Baldur’s Gate 3 that included a Bitcoin miner (apparently EMPRESS was not responsible for it, and someone else had reposted it including the malware).

    If you do download games, the best tracker is GazelleGamesNetwork (GGn) and you should consider finding a way in if you want to play more games at some point. Releases there are thoroughly checked and the staff are very careful. People find out very quickly if something is questionable and will not hesitate to call it out so it can be considered safe.

    As for software, it’s tough because there is no big trusted private tracker for cracked programs for Windows. Rutracker is what I usually recommend, it’s semi-private and is atleast better than 1337x or TPB (try not to use those anymore). RuTracker also has m0nkrus releases, just translate the comments and see if anything seems off about it.





  • Yeah, the reverse proxy thing is kind of annoying. It seems for the most part, you’d just need to access them through http://IP:PORT which I understand you’d probably not want to do. Haven’t really found a way around that but Ultra.cc supports Overseerr natively

    HostingBy seems to have really good price, but I have heard that their support is lacking and if you want answers you’re better off asking in the discord for someone else to help you out.

    Ultra recently introduced a Singapore option for some of their plans which I would definitely recommend if you’re located in Asia and you’re getting it as a media server. They also let you install pyenv (for Python versions), nodejs and golang so it’s easier for you to install your own apps. There are a lot of ways to compile your own apps, it just takes a bit of learning and time






  • Don’t think about the speeds advertised by providers, you’ll never come close to them. You seem to require a media server, so give more importance to storage.

    From my research comparing HostingBy, SeedHost and Ultra.cc - HostingBy has the highest €/TB rate except for the 1TB box which is ironically the highest €/TB rate

    Here’s the Google Sheet if you’re interested Ignore the remarks and INR part, I’m Indian so wanted to see what I would end up paying

    I will add on more providers at some point, but these 3 are the big names with decent prices and support.

    As for your other problem of app selection, I don’t think you’ll find any of those in most providers natively (except for Transmission). You can request them, but its not a quick process. Instead of that, try installing them yourself. Even without root, it shouldn’t be impossible, the only thing that may be annoying is you may not be able to setup reverse proxy so you’ll need to access those services with http://ip:port