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I'll start. Did you know you can run a headless version of JD2 on a raspberry pi? It's not the greatest thing in the world, but sometimes its nice to throw a bunch of links in there and go to sleep.

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[–] neomis@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Usenet is worth every penny

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a very good guide somewhere for usenet?

[–] amprebel@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago
[–] Shere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Is it? I never used it, i went down the torrent path. Usenet would have to be super easy to use for me to consider paying for it

[–] Pacers31Colts18@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is. I torrented for years, Usenet is so much better once setup with radarr/sonarr. So much faster

[–] Shere_Khan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah but sonarr/radarr works for torrents too. I can see the speed argument tho.

[–] Derproid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hear the big downside with Usenet is availability of old or obscure content. Not sure how true this is though as I've never used Usenet myself.

[–] rustic_tiddles@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've used it for 15+ years and it's a huge downside. Older content used to be widely available, but more often then not anything popular is removed within a few months of posting. It is actually pretty great for obscure content that won't get taken down. It's cheap but a whole new thing to learn. It is faster than torrenting directly to your own computer but a seedbox blows usenet out of the water as far as speed. 50-100 MB/s easily (at least using private trackers).

[–] Derproid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what the reason for that speed difference on a seedbox is. I'd like to set up a custom server for other things at home so I'd prefer to use that over a seedbox.

[–] rustic_tiddles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

They're running in a datacenter in the netherlands with a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. I did find out they're classified as an "isp and web hosting company".

All our Dedicated Servers have 1Gbit connections with a dedicated 1GigE uplink.

I'd also guess that many of the seeds on any torrent (on a private tracker) are going to also be coming from seedboxes. That might explain why it's so fast too, there is tons of bandwidth between the datacenters themselves. I'm definitely throttled at 100MB/s regardless of how many torrents I've got running (1 or 100), but if they're running 50-100+ instances along with dedicated servers they must have tbps of bandwidth.

So long story medium, unless you can install your home server into a datacenter with a multi terrabit link to the backbone, it will be tough to replicate

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Plus the cost of the subscription. You should be using a VPN with torrents which has its own fees, but at least the VPN is useful for more than just that one thing.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just jumped into Usenet a year ago, been torrenting for decades. I concur, worth every single cent spent, and I messed up and overspent when I was setting up…. Still worth it.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I miss when Usenet subscriptions just came as part of your ISP package. What the hell ever happened with that?

[–] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Seems like it was a mix between usenet being a magnet for piracy, which all the ISPs were getting pressure to combat, and demand for usenet cratering - as newer users came on the internet they went to other places (myspace had started which appealed more to young users)

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to agree but retention is a killer for a lot of older content.

For new releases its pretty great though.

[–] tok3n@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a tracker on standby for this reason. What indexers were you using? I haven't had too hard of a time finding some older stuff so far.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I was on geek, dog, and a few others. Been considering going back because I'm sick of seeding a bunch of shit.

No matter how good your indexers are you still might not get retention no matter the provider.

[–] Acid@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100% get 2 providers 2 indexers and setup the Arr stack and never touch it again

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Make sure they're not from the same company though.

[–] Acid@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

One of the first things I made sure of

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This comment 100% .... You get popped uploading not downloading.

[–] rustic_tiddles@lemm.ee -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usenet was great 10-15 years ago but nowadays it's flooded with fake / private downloads and retention is shit simply because the few remaining backbone providers comply with takedown requests. Absolutely useless for older content by any major studio. It's all new stuff which is mostly garbage anyway. We were able to get a ton of "this old house" recently though.

[–] PolarisFx@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its important to have a supplemental block account, that won't generally accede to DMCA requests. The big guys will of course, but they don't get rid of the whole file, so you can grab the remainder from the block account. I can't even think of the last time I wasn't able to download something between my main and block account.

[–] rustic_tiddles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

appreciate the advice, would make it less aggravating. Which one do you recommend? I'm on newshosting and have no problems that aren't just general usenet problems.

I'm just gonna to invite you to google this and see where it takes you. Might not be up your alley, might be a compete gamechanger: InviteHawk