Nitrate55

joined 1 year ago
[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't believe they've had any audits or court cases at any point. Generally, I view it as a bad thing when a VPN company gets taken to court or otherwise involved with the authorities, since it indicates they're in the crosshairs of the government and private lobbying interests, so the fact that they've gone under the radar all these years (they were established in 2010) is a plus in my opinion. I suppose a third party audit wouldn't hurt though.

I still switched to them despite the lack of any audit though because from what I'd read on their about us page, the company was established by privacy activists and hackivists, so that was enough for me to trust them, personally. I tend to trust idealist types over finance-driven entities that run tech companies in the pursuit of profit rather than true ideals like the preservation of a free and open internet. I don't fault you for going for a higher standard than that though, at least when it comes to proof.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Air supports gigabit speeds if you connect through Wireguard (which you should be doing anyway since it's just plain better than OpenVPN)

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'd recommend AirVPN. They offer IPv6 support and port forwarding. Speeds are good too. I switched to them after Mullvad removed port forwarding support and the speeds were consistent.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, it works on my end. I tested it just the other day.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They handle the downloading, extraction, categorising and naming of the media you want and they can do that automatically.

I'm good with handling this manually, or rather, I don't even have to handle any of this since Stremio takes care of it, and I have neither the hard drive space nor the bandwidth to devote toward allowing a bunch of programs to just start downloading large files perpetually in the background, filling up my hard drive and taking up all my bandwidth lol. The .arr suite is best combined with a seedbox and a dedicated computer. All I have is a 1.5 TB hard drive and no gigabit internet speeds.

And honestly, I don't see what appreciable amount of "time and effort" this is going to save for me. With Stremio, it's as easy as going into the catalog (or using the search bar), clicking a movie, and picking one of the releases from the menu. If I wanna watch a show or movie that isn't out yet or whose upcoming season is yet to be released, I can just add it to my library and turn on notifications.

It doesn't get any easier than that, doesn't require a massive hassle with a set-up process involving several different programs and trial and error, and I don't have to devote hard drive space for every show or movie I want to watch, since Stremio keeps files on a temporary cache that gets deleted at regular intervals, so it doesn't end up filling my hard drive. This system is perfect for me, I have no reason to change it.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

As I mentioned in a different comment here, I'm already familiar with the arr suite. It's how I found Jackett in the first place, and I've already determined that setting up the .arr programs isn't worth it for me. Stremio suits me just fine, the .arr programs appear to be better suited toward those with the time and money to setup a whole dedicated server for their media needs. I only consume media on my personal computer, so I have no need for that.

I have tried Prowlarr though, just yesterday in fact. I didn't really find its manual search feature to be any better than Jackett's, and in fact it had some issues. In any case, since I don't use the .arr programs, I've no reason to switch. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not sure if they have an android version of Jackett. It would be a dream come true if that were the case, but I'm sure it would be listed in the Jackett github page if a mobile version was available. Sadly, there's no mention of anything like that on the github page.

Really glad to hear you were able to get Jackett working, though! It really is an amazing program.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

See, I was hoping this meme would inform at least one person that Qbittorrent comes with an in-built search engine. That's how I found out about it in the first place, through a meme lol

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You probably have, but did you follow the official configuration tutorial?

I had no trouble setting it up before. Seemed very easy to me. Where are you getting stuck in the process?

Alternatively, you could just search directly in Jackett's interface with the "manual search" option. That's what I do. I find it preferable to setting it up with the Qbit search engine since Jackett's search has more features.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't use .arr programs, so not really, lol. At least not in my case, anyway. Stremio fills the niche for all my media needs quite nicely, and Qbit and Jackett cover everything else.

Edit: Really, downvoting someone for using Stremio instead of the .arr suite? Lol. Stay classy, c/Piracy.

[–] Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gotta say, in over 2 years of using this program, I've never had that happen even once.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

To be clear, this is just a joke, and I don't look down on direct downloading. It absolutely has its place, and sometimes I do it myself if it's just faster to download a file directly. Torrenting is just so much more convenient, though, especially when using Jackett's manual search.

 

I've deleted one of my comments, but I'm still getting replies on it, indicating that it's still visible to others and not appearing as "deleted" as it should be appearing. I logged in with my alt account on a different instance and verified that the comment was still visible despite the fact that it was supposed to be deleted.

Is there something I can do about this or is this just some kind of wonky federation related issue? The comment was posted on a different instance than my home instance, if that matters at all. Could that be why it won't delete and still seems to be visible?

 

So far, it seems that out of all the various Lemmy apps, Jerboa is the only one that actually shows downvote counts. All the other apps have it removed or abstracted into a percentage the way reddit handled it. It's very annoying. Will Sync have an option to see downvote counts for comments and posts?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Nitrate55@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
 

As in, how do you mention someone in a comment, so they get a notification that they've been mentioned somewhere? Is it even possible yet? I've tried writing @ following by the username (not screen name, though I tried that too) but it didn't work. Problem is, I've seen people do this in comments before, just can't figure out how.

Edit: Solved.

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