The religious marriage to rule them all: doom Emacs (or other packages that do similar things). All the excellent text editing of vi/vi/vi/vim, the ecosystem and all the features of emacs.

For anyone who hasn’t heard of doom Emacs, it’s emacs with a lot of customizations baked into it, one of the biggest selling points is that everything uses vim keybinds now (where it makes sense). You get the amazing ecosystem of emacs with the ease of movement and editing of vim, plus a lot of other QOL features. It’s also just vanilla emacs with pre-made (and easy to edit) config files and helper functions so you can move over existing stuff if you want, and you don’t have to worry since all the emacs packages will still work, since it’s still emacs

So far I really haven’t had musicbrainz be missing any artists or songs, idk if its different if you listen to indie or niche music though

You should check out last.fm (or musicbrainz, which I prefer since its open source). You connect your apps to it (Plex, tidal, Spotify, etc), they send over songs as you listen to them, you can rank them as love or hate (and some other stuff) and they curate playlists and artists that they think you’ll like based on your listening habits

DayZ mod?

I second cloudflare. When they announced that squarespace bought Google domains a couple months ago I immediately switched over to cloudflare, no issues so far (plus additional features are a plus)

Basically any site then find they can add to lidarr and use, it sounded like they didn’t want to deal with hopping between multiple sites, so they can just add several from the list

My go to for audio privacy is lidarr (radarr for movies, readarr for books, and sonarr for TV). Let’s you connect to multiple torrent sites (and usenet indexers which I highly recommend), add the artists and tracks you want to get, and it does the the rest. The *arr suite in general makes piracy so much nicer and easier tbh. One bit advantage is that once you add a track/album/artist that you want to track, you don’t need to worry about it unless you come across a file that isn’t what it was reported as. No way around it sometimes things are mislabeled when they’re uploaded, so you can just go in, blocklist that release and delete the file, and lidarr will grab a different version. Want all new albums or songs by an artist? You can set it to automatically monitor those and download them when it’s available on one of your torrent sites.

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Not bad at all, set it to sync the photos on my phone with the app and imported photos I had on a drive previously, I still need to get a download of all of my Google photos that aren’t on my phone though

I was the same way for a while, but the last few years have just gotten worse and worse for streaming. I have a handful of streaming services I don’t have to pay to access (some through phone provider, prime video, parents accounts, etc), but anything not on there I’m just going to pirate. I use sonarr/radarr with Plex so it’s super easy to get and maintain media and it’s easy to access on all my devices, and my 4 tb hdd was $100, which I more than made up for after 4 months or so by not paying for hbo max and Netflix. No way in hell I’m going to pay for every streaming service for every show that looks good, or buy them individually.

Gluetun is the answer! Just setup the gluetun container, then for the other containers do network_mode: “container:gluetun”, and it’ll route all of it’s traffic through gluetun

Moved to immich from Google photos recently, it’s an awesome replacement and the ml stuff works really well actually

To build on this since I have this setup now, it basically creates a new docker network that you can attach containers to, and have all of their traffic routed through it. Basically I have the gluetun container running, then in my qbittorrent docked-compose I have network_mode: "container:gluetun".

One thing to watch out for is you have to specify the ports in the gluetun docked-compose instead of in each docked-compose.

Additionally, if gluetun shuts down and the apps using it don’t, you’ll have to restart the apps using it. Not an issue if it’s all in the same docker-compose file, but I like separating docker-compose services so I have qbittorrent/docker-compose.yml and gluetun/docker-compose.yml

I definitely recommend adding some torrent indexers too (and using prowlarr to manage all of your indexers) if you aren’t already! Also, don’t forget to stick your download clients behind a VPN! If you’re running them all from docker (highly recommend doing this), you can route all through a gluetun container to help protect yourself from being tracked

Plus, you can setup multiple and it will search them all for you. I have mine skip anything with fewer than 10 seeders and I basically never get stalled torrents now. If I do, I just add that release to the blocklist and try again

What do you mean? I played TF2 yesterday, proton has been a massive game changer for gaming on Linux. Most games without official support still work and run perfectly, the main things that hinder it now is anti cheat since some anti cheat is built around monitoring the entire system and intentionally only works on windows

Seconding this, steamos (or whatever is on steam deck) is just arch Linux with steam installed. They may have some extra little goodies in there… But nothing major. When you install steam on Linux, you can change a single option in setting and steam will download proton for you. You can attempt to run any steam game and most will work fine. Battlebit remasted isn’t officially supported, but it’s worked since day 1 on my arch install and I’m just using that since it’s the most recent hugely popular game.

When I had 500gb of storage (cheap external SSD), I had a decent range of movies and tv, and whenever I finished watching a movie or series I would delete it unless I knew I would watch it again within the next year or so. Out of 500gb, I had about 200gb that was pretty static, and 300gb of space dedicated towards new stuff. I recently upgraded to a 4tb internal hdd for storage so I’m having more movies and tv available, but I still get rid of movies and tv that I likely won’t rewatch within the next year. I have 125 ebooks downloaded but it’s only at 400 MB so I’m not going to bother trimming down that collection except when I don’t like a book.

Games and music are the two things I don’t have an overwhelming urge to pirate, I mainly buy indie games on steam and pay $10 a month for the convenience of streaming music through tidal (I tried pirating my music with lidarr, but it was such a PITA to get everything I wanted, especially since I love trying new artists

Because I’ll shamelessly throw this on every related post: I highly recommend looking into the *arr apps. There’s Radarr for movies, sonarr for TV, readarr for books, lidarr for music, and some other smaller ones for stuff like subtitles, nsfw, comics, anime, etc. You basically setup indexer sites to search, connect them to your download client(s), add whatever you want to get, and they take care of the rest. You can even use an app called prowlarr to make a single list of the indexers and sync that list across all of your apps so it’s super easy to add more.

Personally I have 1337x, piratebay, and internetarchive tied for highest torrent indexer priority and they get most of what I want, but I also have badasstorrents, bitsearch, eztv, kickasstorrents, torlock, torrentgalaxy, and yourbittorrent that will get searched if those three don’t have it. You can even use prowlarr to search all of your indexers for a file if you really want, but the only case for that that I’ve seen is for very niche things or things with messed up titles in the other arr apps (series scene 1 instead of the actual title is the main example, but I’ve only run across that once)

Want to go balls to the wall with your piracy, I highly recommend looking into usenet! It’s basically like torrenting, but with a handful of massive servers that store stuff. You need to pay for an indexer which basically keeps a list of all the stuff it’s found to be uploaded on the usenet servers (I use nzbgeek since it was recommended by a friend and I have no complaints, but you’re free to find another one) so it’s not entirely free, but I get ~95% of my stuff through usenet instead of torrenting. I have it listed at a higher priority than my torrent clients since it’s a lot more reliable and safe, plus you can basically max out your bandwidth instead of fucking around with slow or stalled torrents which made the cost (I got lifetime) entirely worth it to me.

The best part of the arr apps? You can add and use both usenet (called nzb) indexers and torrent indexers/sites! Anything that isn’t found on usenet (not found, worse or higher quality than I want, missing tags, etc) is basically always found on one of the torrent sites I have added in.

Another huge benefit, you can also add things that have been announced but not released yet, and it will grab it for you when it’s released. Want something asap? Set it to “announced” and it may find some leaked copy of the movie when it’s available on one of your indexers. “In cinemas” is normally what I go for, then set it to webdl, Blu-ray, webrip etc to avoid cams. You can also do released to wait until it’s fully released. And you aren’t stuck with the version you have initially, the apps will automatically grab you better quality versions until it’s at the desired quality (e.g. you get a crappy 480p leaked version because you allowed it, when a 720p version is released it will grab and replace it for you). A concrete example is I have the latest season of Futurama, sonarr (handles TV shows) will grab the first episode that’s releasing tonight and it’ll be downloaded overnight most likely.

I’ve been trying to get docker swarm running across my 4 rpi’s, but traefik hasn’t been able to discover services (can find them on the same node if the network is a bridge, can’t find anything with overlay network) which has been frustrating to try to figure out the problem. That said, here is what I plan to host on the swarm:

• traefik
• grocy
• nextcloud
• vaultwarden
• plex
• nginx (portfolio website that I currently just have on GitHub pages)
• lemmy instance (for some of you beautiful bastards)
• readarr, sonarr, readarr, lidarr, prowlarr, sabnzb, and qbittorrent