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Browsing through the list… ok how do I tell ifmy server has been compromised, because I run a fuckload of those…

I probably miss out on that aspect as I have everything automated 🤷

The two main benefits I’ve seen of private trackers are that you avoid the issue in the OP which happens all the time on public trackers, and that shows download in seconds.

Not sure how helpful they would be if things weren’t automated. I just have things set up so my Jellyfin users can request shows and they get downloaded automatically.

But with that said, “private” doesn’t mean it costs money, just that it requires an account (and usually that is an application process). It means they can kick people off for uploading things they shouldn’t.

Oh on private trackers it’s hard to keep a genuine ratio like that. Instead they typically assign points for time you spend seeding, and you use those points to “buy” upload credit that counts for your ratio.

Most private trackers have a requirement to log in every X months so occasionally I just go log in to each and spend all the points.

This seems like a one off for them, but for me whenever tracking ongoing TV series I would regularly get malicious files as they appear before the real ones, and get found and downloaded by sonarr.

These days I only automate from private trackers, and enable a public tracker for an interactive search only if something can’t be found on the private trackers.

I’ve recently started Metro 2033 (I don’t think I have played any of the rest of the series).

It’s been fun so far, and is the right age to have some pretty normal keyboard and mouse controls (which can be a problem if you go back too far).

I recently played through it. It was good but I’m not sure how much it was my kind of game. I hate the boss fights when they are way too hard, then you search for help online and they say “just use a melee weapon” and then it’s way too easy. I want a boss that adjusts to my play style, or at least has checkpoints if I die.

I also couldn’t get used to the driving cameras. I just want a camera that is above the car but follows me as I turn. Is that too much to ask 😭

They are open source so they can do it anyway. And most are on github anyway so it’s already being trained on.

Looking at last year’s survey, the number of self-hosted devices has 2-3 first. And Raspberry Pi is most popular.

I wonder about this, because I have Pi for Pi hole, and one for Home Assistant, each dedicated. Then almost everything I self host is on a different server. But this still represents Raspberry Pi twice as much as the main server. I think Pis may be most popular because there’s many single-purposes uses for them.

I grabbed Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

On a whim I also grabbed Middle Earth: Shadow of War since the bad reviews are about it being woke or having black characters, so I figured it’s worth playing.

There’s quite a learning curve if you’re not familiar with self-hosting. Doing it through a managed service sounds like a good idea.

Have you got experience self hosting other things?

I really think that it’s good to start with something small and personal (say, a wiki or Jellyfin) where you can build some skills around hosting, reverse proxies, security practices, backups, etc.

Hosting a service as part of a wider interconnected network of sites isn’t as difficult as it sounds but there is definitely potential to screw it up beyond repair.

I thought the implication was that you may only be able to buy from that registrar if you’re from/in that country?

I don’t think this helps in that situation. My battery system will continue powering the house on loss of power from the grid, it just will not feed power back to the grid. That shutoff isn’t that helpful when firefighters are probably worried about the power in the internal wiring.