Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.

• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Too bad there’s no easy way for a tech illiterate dumb person such as myself to read a step-by-fucking-step instruction to get it all working for myself in an easy way.

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  • finestnothing@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You basically need 3 things: readarr, a torrent client, and a VPN.

    There are plenty of step by step guides and videos for most things, especially popular tools like this. The servarr wiki has install and setup instructions for all of the core arr suite apps as well, both install guides and quick start guides: wiki.servarr.com/readarr

    Qbittorrent (torrent client) is also easy to install on windows or Linux: www.qbittorrent.org . You’re also welcome to pick another one, I just like qbittorrent.

    Vpn installs vary from vpn to vpn, but pretty much all of them should also contain step by step install instructions

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    • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are plenty of step by step guides and videos for most things, especially popular tools like this.

      And of which you provided zero directions on where to look.

      The servarr wiki has install and setup instructions for all of the core arr suite apps as well, both install guides and quick start guides: wiki.servarr.com/readarr

      I read through the site and it gets to a part where it assumes I know how to setup a port reverse proxy on a server. Definitely not friendly for tech illiterate people such as myself. So this is a dogshit instruction.

      Qbittorrent (torrent client) is also easy to install on windows or Linux: www.qbittorrent.org . You’re also welcome to pick another one, I just like qbittorrent.

      Cool. Now where the hell do I find the books? Your instructions also suck for tech illiterate people.

      Apologies for sounding rude, but you guys all preach this shit but there’s nowhere to read where they teach dumb morons like me to do this without already knowing high level networking protocols and manual VPN configuration management. And it’s really frustrating.

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      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Just download a book on tech savvyness.

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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Vpn installs vary from vpn to vpn, but pretty much all of them should also contain step by step install instructions

        Apologies for sounding rude, but you guys all preach this shit but there’s nowhere to read where they teach dumb morons like me to do this without already knowing high level networking protocols and manual VPN configuration management. And it’s really frustrating.

        Respectfully, they literally said it varies depending on which you use and that the providers of the VPN you do end up using should provide you instructions.

        Examples:

        • support.mozilla.org/en-US/…/getting-started
        • protonvpn.com/…/installing-protonvpn-on-a-router/
        • …nordvpn.com/…/19472023025169-Installing-and-usin…

        (I just chose random VPNs I know that exist, this is not an endorsement or recommendation of these specific VPNs.)

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      • finestnothing@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For finding guides and videos - just search for {thing you want to setup} setup guide, there are plenty of results for almost everything. Also, I then showed links to where to setup readarr and qbittorrent.

        The only thing you need to get up and running is the OS specific guides (windows is download, run the installer, go to localhost:8787 in your browser, and macos is similar. Linux is a bit of a mess, and I would recommend going the docker-compose route if you are on Linux instead) which are short and tell you every step. The reverse proxy is just a recommended guide for setting one up if you want to access it outside of your network - I don’t recommend doing it, and it’s not necessary at all (I don’t have that setup, all of my stuff is only accessible on my local network)

        For finding books, use the readarr quick start guide - it goes over how to use the app, how to add authors and books to grab, etc. I also found this guide that appears to show how to do all of this including the install guide, adding authors and books, connecting to your torrent client, adding indexers, etc: www.rapidseedbox.com/blog/guide-to-readarr#05

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• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, it would be if Readarr worked consistently.

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  • finestnothing@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only issues I ever had were around authors having a bunch of books that weren’t released or were in different languages, that was solved by narrowing the profiles for what readarr finds which was a 2 minute task

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Years of ongoing issues with their metadata server bricking its ability to search for content.

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      • finestnothing@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Looks like it’s Goodreads fault since it’s their api (which they are also killing at some undetermined date), readarr is switching to openbooks which should solve a lot of the problems but it’s slow going since readarr doesn’t really have consistent contributors

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