Your question is so generic that it is difficult to reply. I'll tell you about my use case then so that you can try to figure out yours.
My goal is to be a respectful citizen. I divide my torrents in three categories:
rare stuff: for example project 4k77 or the John Wick regrades or Rashomon
italian stuff: it can be either popular stuff and also rare stuff; italian content is not seeded much so I need to do my part
common/popular stuff: for example the barbie movie or every marvel stuff
I bought tons of space (recently converted to three drives, 20tb each) and use a virtual machine locked behind a vpn.
Even if I forget to paid, the virtual machine is bind to the tunnel so that traffic doesn't go out except for LAN, so no leaks.
The VM has two torrent client:
qbittorrent: seed the torrents in the common / popular categories, speed capped to 1/3 of my bandwidth
transmission (previously using rtorrent) for the other two categories
I tend to leave everything in transmission seeded forever, the stuff in qbittorrent seeded until 2.5 ratio or 4.0 depending on my mood.
At the moment I have 90.2 ration on transmission and many many many TB of uploaded stuff. That should be enough to feel like you are giving back
Very interesting project, thanks for sharing and working on this. I am actually one of your target user, where I have enough knowledge to implement my own router, at the moment running on gentoo.
I would like to use this but it lacks port forwarding and a firewall, that is a must. I'll try it out nevertheless. I'm quite impressed by the stylish HTML graphics, and I appreciate your departure from the typical "modern" gray corporate Bootstrap UI design. It's really, really cool.
One question. how do you envision exposing this service to the internet? I quite despise rust but I wonder if the use of a memory safe language would help with the inevitable bugs, especially if you put even more features into gatekeeper.
you are literally just posting buzzwords. You can be lean with mysql, you can write bloaty programs with rust. I would argue most rust webservices are shittier than java ones
I don’t since I live in a third world country. Can seed at 1Gbps with no warnings whatsoever, 20€ monthly
I read
I don't since I don't live in a third world country.
Give your country more credit if you have a 1Gbps connection and it doesn't enforce draconian idiotic laws. Just out of curiosity, can you name the country?
Back to the point of money and piracy, like I said, one “pays” for media in one way or another.
While I agree with you on everything this point is not 100% true. I am paying thousand of $CURRENCY on disks and other hardware every few years but I feel that for every side of the coin, there is a minimum situation (let's call it a floor situation) on which less privileged people may find themselves.
For example if you are a bachelor already struggling to pay to be in college or a child that has only access to their parent's computer, piracy is literally free and you can reach to it without paying anything on top of what you have already. On the other hand, netflix is always $CURRENT_PRICE regardless of your situation.
Btw, thank you for making articulate posts. This is why I am on lemmy.
My point: if you’re getting started selfhosting you have to embrace and accept the self-inflicted punishment. Good luck everybody, I don’t know if I can keep choosing to get disappointed.
I would say that your self inflicted punishment is using windows. Switch to debian and thank me in six months
Tbf, you don’t really need any app. With Mullvad I just download configuration files and import them in KDE. It really is dead simple. Now enabling VPN at will is just two clicks with the possibility do make it automatic with three to four clicks.
you should use openvpn in difficult network configurations such as college dorm blocking everything except tcp 443 and tcp 80 or with old clients that don't support wireguard
nope. Every time I try them, they fuck up my movies / series categorization. They have bad support for multilingual content (or maybe the releasers should use better naming). To be honest I never understood why radarr and sonarr is useful. How many movies are you watching that downloading becomes a time wasting effort? For TV series, why don't you download packs that contain the entire season?
For each movies I spend less than a minute for the torrent search, for tv series less than 5 minutes just because I am picky on quality. Given how many problems people have with the -arr stack, I think my time is better spent like this. Maybe stuff would be different with usenet
In Italy between the movies were screening in the cinemas and dvd releases there was a wait time of 3 months. Exactly three months. The most common way of piracy was streaming websites (like cineblog nowadays) pestered with ads. Before the age of WEBDL most people who couldn't pay for the cinemas and everybody who wanted to have lots to talk about pop arts and trends was watching cam rips. The quality of cam rips were ever increasing every year with specialized forums discussing hardware to do it. I remember you could find everything from low quality phone cams (we are talking 2006 phone cameras) rips to tv quality cameras pointed to the screen from inside the cinemas with tripods.
Project X was such a hyped up movie in Italy that I personally witnessed a bunch of people recording it in the cinemas and everybody at school was sharing the phones on which the movie was recorded during lessons.
To be honest camrips started to disappear during and after covid, but even now for very famous movies like Barbie and Hoppeneimer of Marvel stuff people are still downloading those.
For reference:
avg ticket price in italy: 6.25 euro in 2022, 5.75 euro in 2016. If you count inflation, price basically decreased over the years
most cinemas do many cheap ticket nights like for students or young people aimed at 2-5 euro range for tickets once a week or once a month
more realistically, most cinemas have tickets for 8 or 9 euros, 10 to 12 euros in big cities
around 60% of people earn less than 1300 euro net per month. That is an hourly pay of ~5 euros. You can understand how much a movie night for a family with popcorns and various extra may cost for a family.
that is an interesting advice. Regarding containers, they don't fit my use case.