I have been using private trackers for 15 years now and have been extremely happy with them. I dont mind seeding back, plus not all of them have the ratio requirement. My tv show site knows it would be very hard to keep that from slipping so instead of ratio its just a certain length for episodes and season grabs. I really dont care about keeping my bittorrent app running since i leave my pc on anyway. As for sonarr it just copies the file to the new directory and renames it, after a few months ill do a cleanup that takes 2 min.

As for usenet, my coworker loves it but he definitely says it has issues which may or may not be an issue today or workarounds for it? He has said the takedown requests are so fast now that finding a lot of stuff that releases quickly can be difficult if you dont use sonarr or radarr to grab right away. Every now and then he has to ask me to find stuff.

The only real issues ive ever had is the instability where sometimes theres outages and not much you can do. I remember last year or maybe year before that one of the biggest had a 2 month outage and things looked bleak.

Thats crazy that you now need to prove you have a business to get that service? Don’t worry, it cost way more anyway and offers very little extra to be worth it at least in the US. I used to use duckdns years ago, and now I just said screw it and purchased a domain name from namecheap for a few bucks for the year and a few more bucks for the ssl cert then use the ddns service through them and link it to a pc on my network using the small app they provide to keep the IP updated. I use the name for all my services. Sometimes the name will cost way more when renewing in which case ill just pick another one because screw them. Ive used a .co and now using a .space.

Great! Glad to know its tranferable. I have an AMD gpu, not sure if that was the reason for the glitches.

Amazing! I have no idea how I missed this game when it first released outside I really didnt follow or have an xbox 360. I found out about it last year and quickly tried to play it using the emulator mentioned in the article. It was ok, but there were clearly a bunch of issues still and did crash. The worst was each fight didnt seem to be able to render the dragons that sit behind you. I think i played about 5 hours of it before i moved on, but i really enjoyed what i played. I will defintely be playing this over the weekend. I wonder if there is anyway i can import my current save.

I brought it day 1 on PS4 (it didn’t even release on the PS5 for a while after) and played it for like 2 days straight and barely looked online. I came to my own conclusion that it was awful and felt good knowing I wasnt alone once I did look. Sony then refunded everyone and I took it. Then sometime later that year or maybe the year after when it was at its lowest it was also selling for basically nothing and swooped it up for $5 bucks on PC. I didnt touch it for years and think I played it finally once it dropped the last big update which may have been 2024? It was a great game at this point and fully worth a regular price.

As for the Witcher 3 it was always a great game and as far as I saw they did everything right for that game. Its probably a top 3 all time game for me since idk if I ever felt so emmerssed into a game like this one did. Attention to story was and is still peak gaming.

Whats the gameplan here for the future? Im guessing a lot of these companies are going to have to close down when they can’t sell their stock anymore? I would have to imagine most people can no longer afford this or will hopefully choose not to because it was already crazy high. I got a good 5 years before i may need something new and I really hope something collapses and things are forced to go back to what they were.

I dont use Jellyfin, but I heard of some of the things it did and jellyfin sounded like a step above due to its dedicated music app and similar songs for playlists.

I use Navidrome as the server and Symfonium for the mobile app. It is by far the best option I have ever used in the 20 years of setting up a personal server. I used Subsonic before this but it was abandoned years ago and Navidrome is a fork of it. The amount of continuous effort put in and new features that still get released is fantastic. Im always excited when i see a new version drop.

But it’s not possible to do this joke since ipv6 does not have subnets.

I can still buy my digital games from multiple sources that I choose on PC. I can only buy PS5 digital games from 1 source only. It is not nearly the same at all. If i want to actually own my PC game then I can still buy it from GOG and maybe other places i dont even know of. PS5 will not. It will never be the same if I only have 1 option to buy from.

I had been using the ps3 and xbox 360 emulator a bunch in the past year or so. I was basically using it to play only the games that were never released off those consoles which was a handful of games. I kept wondering are there people who are playing other games on these emulators that can be played better elsewhere? I loved being able to play all the exclusives or games just not released anywhere else.

I absolutely hate the network settings now as well. Its now easier to just get cmd to find out my IP if needed instead of getting to the adapter and open to see the info and up time. Its just extra steps to do that same thing now and i always forget what to click on when under the new settings network page. If anything it should just be info displayed there by default which would be nice…

I still type appwiz.cpl into search to open the old add and remove programs box to uninstall or see whats installed. I am not a fan of the newer looking one at all located in the new settings area. It is pretty funny that they have been working on trying to fully replace all the old windows elements since the beginning of 10 and still not even close. Even funnier that when it is replaced the old stuff still gets left behind and not removed either.

Good luck with innovation when your engineers’ morale is in the shitter. I honestly don’t even believe they want to innovate. They probably want to coast off name recognition and what they have for a while and see how long it takes before they start losing ground. The problem with this is it almost always comes back to kick them in the ass. Here is hoping for just that. Besides screw Cisco, I’ve only worked for companies that hate them and use everything else that gets the job done just as good for a fraction of the cost and way easier to set up.

What about Firefox? Looks like it exists for more than just chrome. I know because I literally used it this week for the first time ever due to being on vacation in a state that wants my photo to view porn… I couldn’t believe this shit actually exists now.