Reddit is awful. Digg was awful. Facebook… awful obv..
We had an amazing system, it was way decentralized compared to today. There was no shitty Silicon Valley CEO who controlled the whole thing or more importantly shitty shareholders.
Didn’t like your news server, too much censorship? Go find another. Didn’t like your newsclient? Go dl another.
Didn’t like the ads? Oh wait, there weren’t any.
I’ve always dreamt of a way to reinvigorate Usenet discussions, but it’s discouraging seeing other systems with similar aims sputter. Mastadon and others.
Two big issues in my opinion a) free newservers - who pays for it? Once ISP’s / Uni’s got rid of NNTP stuff it was over. and b) UI/UX issues. FB / reddit etc might be shit, but they have an army of people making it easy to use.
Fantasy or possible reality? Could it ever be resurrected in 2.0 form? If we did, I think the world would be better off.
https://www.newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2024/06/03/new-crypto-payments-available/
This should drastically reduce the fees for paying with crypto and increases the level of privacy by cutting out the middleman.
I just tested a $9 transaction. BTC was 0.00012914 BTC with BTCPay and 0.00016307 BTC with Bitpay so you save about 20% if you pay with BTCPay.
You can still choose to pay with Bitpay if you like, it does still offer support for BCH, DOGE, and XRP which we do not currently have added in BTCPay.
We will manually add an additional three months of service for the first TWENTY-FIVE people who sign up using BTCPay. We would like to get some live tests going to help find any bugs we may not have located.
Received the following mail from them:
Dear valued user,
Since 2001, Eweka has consistently provided access to the most reliable European Usenet backbone, the most accurate search results, and an industry-leading 5400+ days of binary and text retention. Providing the best Usenet experience is our highest priority, and we have always invested in our service to optimize for speed, performance, and retention.
Although we’ve kept our prices stable over the past 20 years, we are required to make substantial investments into our infrastructure. Due to the exponential growth of the daily Usenet feed, as well as higher energy costs, and increases in hosting and network costs, we are required to raise prices by €2 per month to maintain our premium service levels. This will take place on your upcoming billing cycle.
In addition to expanding our network, we have formed a partnership with Easynews which gives you access to a web-based Usenet search tool, along with PrivadoVPN to improve your …
I was searching around last night and found a post where someone compiled the percentage of downloads that were successful for every provider they tested. I for the life of me cannot find this post now.
Is there anyone familiar with something like this that may be kept anywhere?
So i’m currently using thundernews but i have trouble with some posts being hit by dmca. I’m tempted by the triple play offer, but feel wary due to the talk about omicron having data loss? I’ve seen it talked about in here. The binaries i’m getting is a mixture of 10+ years old and brand new ones and it’s really a hit and miss with thundernews.
So what do you guys use? Any you can recommend? I’m not looking for blocks but for subscriptions. 50 bucks for a year is fine for me as long as its reliable.
Hey everyone, I shared the initial launch of my Plex music app here a couple of months ago and was overwhelmed by the response! It’s so amazing to see people still using it.
I’ve been slowly adding features - it’s now much more stable, more tightly integrated with Plex, and includes a lot of the basic features that were initially missing, including:
Most importantly, there’s now a downloadable Mac app available!
(I hope to package it for Windows soon too, but don’t currently have a Windows environment to test on.)
Of course there’s still loads to add - these things take time! But I hope this proves increasingly useful for people.
I’ve also setup my own subreddit at r/chromatix for anybody who wants more frequent update posts, or to share …
Hey guys! I’ve just become acquainted with Plex overall and am thinking about using Plex rather than pay for subscription services. I know I can rip my blu rays and put them on my plex media library, but can I bring my purchased YouTube movies over as well? Is there a way to do that? Possibly a stupid question, but I thought I’d ask.
I have been running my Plex server on a 2015 NVidia Shield for almost ten years, and while it’s actually been running pretty well lately, I’ve decided to join the N100 Intel mini PC party to see what all the fuss is about.
Been reading through a lot of posts and watching a lot of Youtube videos about the different ways to get started, and I am completely overwhelmed. Had no idea there were this many different ways to setup a Plex server. I see Proxmox, Unraid, Ubuntu, etc. etc. etc. There’s a learning curve for any of that for sure, but all of those options seem to be preferred over just running it all on windows, which I could probably set up in 5 minutes or less. So, my questions is: why? Would there be differences in performance? Or is it all just a way to keep things tidy and safe?
Hi all,
Sonarr has the capability to sync your Plex Watchlist, however there’s a fixed 6 hour interval, so real-time Watchlist syncing isn’t possible.
Based on this pain point, I set out to build something that works in real-time with Sonarr and Plex, and I’m excited to share Watchlistarr. It’s been tested by the community for a few months now and works great. It’s an improved version of the Sonarr Watchlist sync because:
I hope this project comes in handy for some people, I’ve been humbled by the response by the community so far and will be improving the project as I get more feedback!
I tell it to download a movie, I have a few public trackers added and have all of their minimums set to at least 40 seeders. In Radarr’s interactive search I can see that there’s a few torrents with thousands of seeders, 4K quality with hundreds of seeders. on the public trackers own sites I can also see that. Yet Radarr decides to download a torrent with only 25 seeders? wtf why? What is the point of this if I have to go and manually download all the movies because it sucks at picking them?
And I know that indexers can be lying about the amount of seeders but in Radarr’s own search it shows options with MANY more seeders, so why?
I am still trying to learn all the formats, but hoping someone here can help me sort a bit out.
I want a profile that will attempt to get a 2160p format, but I know that lots of them are much higher filesize than others.
What is the best way to find a good quality 2160p result without completely being reckless on disk space?
Thanks!
Hey guys, so my Radarr is nicely configured and is pulling all new and old movies that are at certain level of popularity. I just wondered if there is some way to set up Sonarr like that as well? I know that there is way more TV series than movies, but it’s kind of hard to keep track on what good is currently airing. If you have some nifty tricks for automation or easy way to find what is currently hyped, please share your wisdom :)
Came across this tool, and my understanding is – this will sync with trash guides to pull in known ‘formats’ that are out there. As opposed to using Radarr’s built in formats.
I’m guessing the built in formats are bad? My understanding is they have a group for 1080p, 720p, 4k, etc.. What does recyclarr do to change this?
Do I also need to run this program regularly, or is it a one time thing to set up the format settings?
In some of my research I found people filter out things like DTS-MA and other codecs “in case” someone doesn’t have them. Shouldn’t those just be a separate profile or something? One of my machines has support for these advanced codecs, and I’d like to take advantage of them there. However if I am having someone else use my stack and they don’t know if they don’t have it, then I would understand omitting these formats so they can watch. Shouldn’t these just be different …