Brickfrog @ brickfrog @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Slightly concerned about remote desktopping though. What do I replace xrdp with?

Xrdp works on Wayland, you can keep using it if you like. There's also Gnome's built-in Gnome Remote Desktop as well as KDE's Krdp, both are also Wayland compatible (though I get the feeling Krdp is still in its early stages).

According to https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-keyboard-shortcuts.html.en you should be able to use Shift + Super + Page Up/Down to move application windows between workspaces, seems to work for me.

So for your example start Terminal, then maximize it (Super + Up Key), then move the application window to another workspace (Shift + Super + Page Up/Down).

Perhaps just uninstalling Nouveau and falling back to the Intel driver, if it's already installed, is sufficient? Or if that doesn't work, worst case OP could blacklist Nouveau and and update initramfs? I'm just guessing as long as the Nvidia driver is never actually active perhaps that's enough to avoid excess power consumption.

OTOH there isn't much harm in OP keeping Nouveau enabled and seeing how things go though I'm in agreement with you, on an older laptop there's not much advantage to be gained with the older Nvidia hardware.

All the loaded torrents in a torrent client already get stored somewhere in the torrent client's own settings folders. e.g. if you look in qBittorrent's settings folders you'll find a folder full of .torrent files representing every single torrent currently in the torrent client.

So if it's a torrent I'm going to leave loaded in the torrent client then no, there's no reason to save a second copy of the .torrent file. But I guess if it's a torrent I'm not going to load in the torrent client, or will remove it from there, then maybe it's worth saving depending how you do things.

I’m undecided. I figure if I save them and back them up to an offline/offsite device, then I can (mostly/hopefully) recover from hardware failure by simply re-adding all the torrent files to my favorite client.

It would be better just to back up your entire torrent client settings folders, you'll save all the .torrent files along with the save folders and other information you have in the torrent client.

Nope, I prefer being able to run my own network router, open/close my own ports, block ads on the network, hopefully get as much bandwidth as I can, etc. so it's usually better for me to subscribe to my own internet.

... But since you bring it up, coincidentally I currently live on a street with shops/restaurants on the main floor under me. And all their wifi networks are visible from my apartment... so technically yeah, if I go through the trouble of collecting all their wifi passwords I could just hang out on their networks for free internet. Internet probably wouldn't be great and not very private without a VPN but for free web browsing it should work.

combine announce URLs into one torrent file

No.

or create a separate torrent file for each tracker?

Yes.

You can also check in the rules/FAQ of each private tracker but it's universal that all private trackers require their torrents to exist and announce/share peers separately. That doesn't mean the data has to be separate e.g. if it's the same torrent data you can point multiple torrents to the same data.

You forgot to mention their Tor link, seems to be working fine http://l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion/

(also linked in https://1337x-status.org/ )

You see proponents of both views engaging in egregious argumentative practices at times and it is clear that this situation is continually degrading and needs something to be done about it.

Does it? I'm kind of thinking if people insist on browsing Lemmy in All mode, and forcing themselves to view everything they they don't want to view, then it's on them to learn how to block communities in their own profile settings. Or if you want to help them somehow, maybe some way to display a quick how-to to show people how to block communities and/or browse in Subscribed mode could be useful. Just not sure how feasible that would be overall if people are browsing All and just reacting to things they don't want to see.

For me browsing Lemmy in Subscribed mode and purposely subscribing to communities I'm interested in works well enough, no need to wade into the for/against AI drama or any other topics I'm not interested in.

Eh, sure OP could do that. Does seem a bit over the top for OP to pursue the most complicated backup solution possible :D Maybe as a strange experiment to see how it goes, not as a trusted backup solution. (like you said not for critical data)

IPFS would also require more bandwidth vs just about any other solution since it has to constantly talk to other IPFS nodes. And more finicky, last I used IPFS the client would run into memory leaks and other weirdness requiring restarts every now and then (hopefully it's more stable for long-term runs nowadays).

Similar but no, Syncthing does not use bittorrent or the bittorrent protocol.

Though if you're curious Resilo Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) is similar to Syncthing and does use bittorrent.

Wouldn't be a good solution, you're hoping that other users are going to volunteer to pin (aka store and seed) your personal backup data for you.

Using IPFS for personal backups is exactly the same as creating a torrent with your backup data - With both it would be unlikely that your personal backup data will actually exist anywhere beyond your own data storage, no one's going to freely volunteer to store your backups for you.

Not overly active but there are a few communities you could join if you like

!OpenSignups@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!Opensignups@lemmy.ml

!Opensignups@noworriesto.day

https://opentrackers.org/ is also a good site to keep an eye on (though it seems to be less active at the moment).

Hmm I can see all current 13 comments here (via web ui), granted I'm looking at it one hour after you posted. If you can see all the comments now then maybe federation with lemmy.world was slow for a bit?

Or could just be new account though you could probably rule that out after like a day if the issue still persists.

Not sure which country you're in but in the U.S. I haven't seen many gift cards that are contactless tap-to-pay so you would want to double-check. Without tap-to-pay those type of cards would need to be added into a phone app (Google Wallet / Apple Pay) to be able to tap-to-pay using it.

It's possible outside the U.S. it's more common for gift cards to be able to tap-to-pay.

Or if you're talking about store gift cards then the same applies, most of those aren't tap-to-pay either so you'd want to double-check.

Ah yeah I saw that one but I don't think it does quite what OP wants. Seems more like it is designed to monitor a running qBittorrent client and then copy the .torrent file(s) to Transmission, with all torrent data in the same data folder. Might not help much for OP with all the different data folders they have in their current setup.

My concept is as such: have a shared folder where everything is moved after download. I call this /mnt/torrents.

The script provided that makes all of this happen is a python script. It queries the qBittorrent client for uploading or completed downloads, checks to see if they are private or public torrents, then copies the .torrent files to the respective "watched" directory of the public or private (transmission) client. It just copies the .torrent files to directories, so it should be usable with other torrent clients that have "watched" directories.

But either way nice effort! I'm kind of surprised at the lack of scripts to import torrents into Transmission. The only related script I could find is to do Transmission --> qBittorrent but it doesn't seem to do the reverse https://github.com/Mythologyli/transmission-to-qbittorrent

and even then, I tried one and for some reason it wouldn’t verify my downloaded files and insisted on redownloading the torrent from scratch. Even though I had made sure I was pointing to the correct directory. This may be because I’ve renamed files in the past

That should work fine.. I suspect that failed maybe because you renamed like you said. Make sure Transmission is adding torrents in paused mode, then do another test with a torrent you definitely didn't rename. Maybe just do a test download in qBittorrent and then attempt to add it into Transmission e.g. a Linux Mint torrent or similar is usually a safe test https://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=319

Because of how you have your torrents organized it does sound like you'll need to tough it out and add each torrent and configure it manually.

It would be easier if you had all the torrent data saved in the same folder(s), in which case just configure Transmission to add torrents in pause mode, configure a watch folder, copy your qBittorrent's .torrent files into that watch folder, and finally do a re-check in Transmission and start all the torrents. Then just hardlink the torrent data out into your own nested folders how you want them set up, that way the same data exists and is linked in two places (torrent data folder and your own folders). Maybe it's something to consider for your future configuration but it's not going to help you much right now.

For now yeah, the best you could do is set Transmission to add torrents in paused mode, configure a watch folder, copy paste your current qBittorrent .torrent files, then afterwards in Transmission change each torrent's data location and re-check one-by-one. Not sure if it's any faster than just adding the torrents manually one-by-one :/

You should be able to find the current .torrent files wherever MacOS saves your qBittorrent files, look for a folder that looks like qBittorrent / BT_backup, all the .torrent files in BT_backup are your loaded torrents inside qBittorrent.

With some luck maybe you can find a tool that does qBittorrent --> Transmission migrations? I wasn't sure if any exist, all I can find are tools to do Transmission --> qBittorrent e.g. https://github.com/undertheironbridge/transmission2qbt

(note I'm not on MacOS so maybe someone else has more direct advice to offer)

and then aggressively super-seed that content back out.

What exactly do you mean by super-seed? In torrent clients there is indeed something called super-seeding aka initial seeding but that does quite the opposite of "aggressively" seed anything. The whole point of super-seeding is to encourage other peers/leeches to share data amongst themselves and hopefully become seeds themselves. This results in your own torrent client avoiding uploading torrent data to the swarm more than necessary, it's the opposite of building ratio if you're minimizing uploading data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-seeding

https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0016.html

It might be you meant to aggressively seed on an internet pipe with high upload bandwidth e.g. one of those 20 Gbps seedboxes or similar, that would make sense.

The vast majority of private trackers do not have a "hard" ratio economy like you describe. Most private trackers are flexible to give users ways to increase their own upload ratio without requiring that ratio to be "paid" by another user doing the downloading. e.g. when torrents are freeleech the users get to download for free but can still upload to improve their own ratio. And when there's bonus systems in place those bonus points can be used to add to the user's own uploaded data count. And sometimes private trackers have events where they make the entire tracker, or entire categories of torrents, freeleech so a whole ton of users get to download for free and will still be able to seed those same torrents afterwards.

does that mean that there are some users who will forever be below 1, and thus end up getting kicked out, thus resulting in the private tracker just… shrinking over time?

Sure, that could happen too. Private trackers will always get some users that just aren't going to cut it and eventually lose access to the tracker. In most cases the tracker will just end up adding new users and maintain the total user count. Each tracker is going to be different in how they approach this.. I think over time the user churn doesn't happen as much, at some point there's enough users on the tracker that are doing fine with ratio and whatnot while the tracker hits its own maximum user count so actually needing to replace users with new signups becomes less of a priority.

Agree with you, SO is great for finding info. There are solutions on there for niche problems that I haven't been able to find elsewhere, the type of thing where someone actually took the time to type out a step-by-step answer and it's now there and searchable on SO. It's a bummer that so many people seem to hate on the site nowadays.

And lets not forget the whole reason SO came out in the first place, back then web results were littered with question/answer links to sites like Experts-Exchange. I hated trying to figure out if an answer was on there, most of the time you ended up with a link to a question that you think has an answer but oh no you need to subscribe to view an answer that may or may not exist.

OP can go from Comcast Xfinity to 2 gig fiber, seems like a good call. Hell I'm jealous, still stuck with the Comcast Xfinity cable shit where I'm at.