• Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Usenet.

    EDIT: I still don’t understand the general dislike towards Usenet in this community. Once I took the plunge, I honestly couldn’t dream of going back to torrents again. It’s just so damn convenient and reliable.

    • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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      2 months ago

      I think it’s a bit unfair too, buddy. Usenet with the *arr stack and Jellyfin is such a great experience with all that automation, once you’ve got it all setup. Mine’s setup to preference H265 and 5.1 channel audio, and specific resolution/quality. I mean, yeah you can access much the same content completely for free using torrents instead, but it feels like going back to the steam age now to do it all manually.

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        2 months ago

        You can automate the same way with torrents, can’t you? I mean, you can even use indexers of both types at the same time.

        • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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          2 months ago

          Yeah, you can integrate torrents into the stack, afaik. But due to some technical considerations I don’t like to run a VPN on my media server, and in my country you definitely need one for torrents.

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            2 months ago

            due to some technical considerations I don’t like to run a VPN on my media server

            What’s the reasons against using a VPN here?

            • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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              2 months ago

              Getting into the weeds a bit here lol. I do use a VPN on my personal PC, but on the media server where I have my *arr stack, I’ve found that using a VPN, even with split tunneling configured, allows certain TV websites to detect I’m using a VPN and block streaming content. If I wasn’t using a DNS proxy, or if I ran the stack on a separate server, it probably wouldn’t be an issue, but I’m not so it is :p. I’ll add that if I am using only Usenet then I prefer not to run a VPN since it’s reasonably safe IMO to raw dog that content, since a VPN always has some overhead involved in terms of bandwidth and latency.

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                2 months ago

                Why not just run the torrenting stack behind the VPN in a separate docker container? Then the rest of your media server is completely unaffected by the VPN and no need for any split tunneling.

                • Unruffled [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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                  2 months ago

                  That’s a good suggestion, I just haven’t had the motivation to get that setup yet since Usenet currently meets my needs. But I’m sure it would work, yes.

                  • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
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                    2 months ago

                    Gluetun works great for this. It’s a VPN docker container that you can route other containers’ network connections through. Super lightweight and fast

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      2 months ago

      Once I got into decent private trackers, I stopped paying for Usenet. That said, it was great for when I was starting out.