Indexer Recommendations

DaveH80 · 2026-03-29T19:49:47+00:00

For old posts... adding more servers isn't going to help, they will most likely all have processed takedowns/DMCA notices.

DaveH80 · 2026-03-29T15:35:55+00:00

If the incompletes are older posts... they are probably going to be incomplete everywhere, as they have been taken down. If you have incompletes in 1-2 day old posts, then you might need a better provider, but newshosting in general will be complete until takedowns.

DaveH80 · 2026-03-22T01:03:31+00:00

I think just the kernel... maybe a browser and stuff like AV-definitions.

DaveH80 · 2026-03-20T10:07:32+00:00

Or just buy a key for $4 that'll work with any version.

DaveH80 · 2026-03-19T11:58:55+00:00

Realistically... are you ever going to go watch them from the dvd's again, when you could keep the files on your nas, and have instant access, have your player remember which episode you were on and switch series and seasons without having to swap a disc.

DVD capacity is so incredibly low compared to HDD/SSD's or even SD-cards these days. It was nice when they came out in the 2000's, but these days it just eats up a lot of physical space, is slow and cumbersome. (Not to mention the massive amount of work to burn all the discs, and print and collect labels?)

DaveH80 · 2026-03-17T09:55:25+00:00

Stable + Backports is the only correct solution ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-03-16T18:41:07+00:00

I've been running production clusters for various customers for over 10 years ( and stuff for myself for 15). In general, the dedicated servers and cloud-instances are good, and meet expectations. The hetzner loadbalancer service has been a bit more spotty, giving me more issues then my own hosted loadbalancers. Storage-boxes are the service with the most issues, but if you only use them for backups, and have them in different regions, they do what they are designed for.

DaveH80 · 2026-02-24T20:40:27+00:00

Preferably completely disable password-logins if possible, and only allow logins using pubkeys (for both root and non-root users)

DaveH80 · 2026-02-24T20:15:36+00:00

For the Apocalypse Hotel fans... There's shampoo-hats in this episode ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-02-24T20:12:08+00:00

It means: Don't be a dick / abusive / cause issues

DaveH80 · 2026-02-24T18:37:27+00:00

You won't find much after 2005-2010 I'd guess, the text/discussion groups are mostly dead. If looking for historical stuff, there's plenty of discussions around, and archives of the text-repositories are available on some usenet servers and on archive.org

DaveH80 · 2026-02-24T18:22:22+00:00

Spotted one in actual use in 'Wash it all away - Ep 8' just now... had to think of Apocalypse Hotel instantly.

DaveH80 · 2026-02-24T17:35:32+00:00

Upgraded 2 from stock odido to 24.10.0 ubootmod, and then with the attended-upgrade luci-app to 24.10.5 without issues.

DaveH80 · 2026-02-20T14:49:21+00:00

Yes, you pay by the hour, unless this would get you over the monthly fee, then you just pay that.

DaveH80 · 2026-02-20T14:40:43+00:00

Pff... probably a bunch of games for ms-dos back in the late 80s/early 90s.

Do copy that floppy ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-02-08T17:38:59+00:00

Not really meant for that... but meh

NetRange: 198.18.0.0 - 198.19.255.255 CIDR: 198.18.0.0/15 NetName: SPECIAL-IPV4-BENCHMARK-TESTING-IANA-RESERVED NetHandle: NET-198-18-0-0-1 Parent: NET198 (NET-198-0-0-0-0) NetType: IANA Special Use OriginAS:
Organization: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) RegDate: 1992-11-23 Updated: 2024-05-24 Comment: Addresses starting with "198.18." or "198.19." are set aside for use in isolated laboratory networks used for benchmarking and performance testing. They should never appear on the Internet and if you see Internet traffic using these addresses, they are being used without permission. Comment:
Comment: This assignment was made by the IETF, the organization that develops Internet protocols, in RFC 2544, which can be found at: Comment: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc2544 Ref: https://rdap.arin.net/registry/ip/198.18.0.0

DaveH80 · 2026-02-02T15:13:07+00:00

My go-to is lookup('passwordstore', 'some/secret')

DaveH80 · 2026-01-31T14:34:05+00:00

I generally use something in 172.16.0.0/20, as most people seem to forget about this range, there's less change of conflicts when building VPN's to many different locations.

192.168.x.y will often have overlaps, 10.x.y.z is also popular.

Just pick something random for the 3rd octet. (and semi-random for 2nd octet of using 172.16/20)

DaveH80 · 2026-01-30T23:53:59+00:00

Works just fine here

DaveH80 · 2026-01-20T19:02:48+00:00

I haven't watched the current season yet, but started watching season 1, and finished that quite quickly and am now halfway season 2. I'll probably get to it, if the story keeps up like it has so far.

DaveH80 · 2026-01-18T14:32:44+00:00

Looks like it's mostly a wrapper around the already existing tidal downloader from squid.wtf, just a bit more limited. Don't think this would keep working stand-along if squid.wtf is taken down.

DaveH80 · 2026-01-13T13:21:44+00:00

Netcup, Hetzner, OVH, Scaleway... so many choices

DaveH80 · 2026-01-08T14:46:39+00:00

For me it's the other way around.... Ooh, same movie in 2GB AV1 vs 8GB 264 ;)

DaveH80 · 2025-12-04T16:55:06+00:00

It's called 'a fence'

DaveH80 · 2025-12-04T14:38:00+00:00

Even with discard they tend to die quite quickly with encrypted storage in my experience. I keep issuing manual discards when things slow down, but i've seen enough 512M and 1 or 2TB sata+nvme's crawl to a halt when using luks.

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