I did not use one for years with no problems but now I’m paranoid and use one since it is up 24/7 now.

With the Linux situation I am hopeful (I’m probably coping) but there alpha sign up talked about steam deck, destiny devs have as well, and the anti cheat will not be kernel level but no idea just speculation

Ah gotcha thanks lol

But then if I’m understanding correctly saber then Got them back. Right I could just be misreading/not understanding

That’s wild I had no idea actually

Yes to reach others you need the port forwarded and some users have have access blocked if you are not also sharing.

Yea it worked well enough from what I remember. I used it for awhile but ultimately only stoped because it (lidarr) still needs metadata from music brainz and if it’s not there lidarr does not have it. So ultimately for me lidarr is the problem/metadata for artists.

I gave up on private trackers for music tbh I can’t be asked to go through an interview for a tracker to be honest. I also don’t use lidarr I set it up once but gave up because it just does not work well for me I instead find my music (98% of the time) from a different site (not a torrent site it’s a direct download and has early releases updated all the time this is how I find new music aswell + last FM) and the rest I search for and find using slskd (old release s). If you want to use lidarr I would recommend setting up soularr (this needs slskd) or I believe there are lidarr integrations with deemix or others to rip the audio that way. But as said above I don’t use any of that anymore. I’m a huge fan of slsk though

As for the third one related to tgx you can look at this post https://sh.itjust.works/post/29312472

Tldr: it’s having problems and we don’t know why

Enter a contract no… you also don’t ‘enter a contract’ when you buy a dvd either or watch in theaters etc (no idea about streaming service tbh). As for ToS yes https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en

When you block YouTube ads, you violate YouTube’s Terms of Service.

IMO blocking ads is a form of piracy. You are circumventing there form (ads) of monetization. But yea Newpipe is great I personally use Tubular

Yes this is what I have found out for some reason thought radarr would make those collections in folders for me aswell not sure why. Plex, and kometa make collections for my viewing aswell but just liked the organization of sorted folders. I have changed to the recommended layout and all is good now. Thanks :)

Thanks yea I just followed that to get hard links but it did not cross my mind to change anything with old files…

Ok thanks. I gather that now it will be much faster for me to rip out all of my ‘self made collections’ and re import everything into radarr than doing what I mentioned in my post. I went crazy with manual collections and would take hours… most movies are in /root folder/movie/movie name/movie file format but some get crazy like /root folder/movie/DC/Animated/Batman/batmanMovieFolder/Movie

No problem glad you enjoyed :)

He apparently made both of these sites I found every noise interesting

https://furia.com/

https://everynoise.com/#updates

I heard that Spotify fired the guy who invented the original Spotify algorithm for everything from wrapped to the discover playlists. I’ll look to see if I can find link and update.

Edit: not sure if is what I read originally https://blog.tunemymusic.com/spotify-wrapped-2024-bad-users-complain/

But I remember the quote

“Everyone noticing that Spotify wrapped is weak this year should remember that Spotify fired the main dude who created the algorithm for them about a year ago (for no reason) and he was also the mastermind between all the genre related data that essentially keeps the place running.

“Enshitification at its finest folks.

I would probably still play if they didn’t block Linux

Didn’t know that interesting I wonder how there features compare to immich

Immich if you self host as others have mentioned but since this is the article shared and you don’t want to host it https://ente.io/ is what is talked about in the article

Something “more private, wholesome, and trustworthy,” he says. The paid service he designed, Ente, is profitable and says it has more than 100,000 users, many of whom are already part of the privacy-obsessed crowd. But Mohandas struggled to articulate to wider audiences why they should reconsider relying on Google Photos, despite all the conveniences it offers.

I have 0 experience with ente btw