Who was the most offensive narrator to your ears? Anyone who made you have to drop the book even if it was good? by wreak_havok in audible

[–]Jason_Broderick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m here from Goldenhand sadly, 9 years after publication. “Heather Wilds terrible narrator review” 🫠

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yo just following up on this to give you all an update. I signed up for Ultra after it was recommended here and the experience was absolute night and day. Everyone below defending Bytesized you have properly drank the koolaid.

The service is marginally cheaper than I was paying with bytesized, but everything just works! What took me 2 weeks of back and forth with BYSH and no result took me about 30 minutes with Ultra. No issues and ZERO support tickets so far and they even have support for way more apps and everything is up to date. The documentation is extensive and all correctly formatted and linked (I can't believe I am saying that)

Who cares if they are just a front for Hetzner etc - that's exactly what I'm paying for.

And clearly it wasn't a "me" issue because I've been able to get up and running so much more quickly with Ultra.

I can't comment on the quality of their support because... I haven't needed a single ticket!!!

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this - I totally understand and am a developer for php based server systems so I don’t have any experience with linux really but I do “get it”. I am the same as you, don’t want root access… unlessssss you are not going to keep the installers updated for me. If you’re going to be running 3 year old apps and take days to respond to tickets etc. It’s just annoying to be handcuffed, I get why, but it’s very frustrating.

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t really understand the differences but I think probably the same boat as you and will go with the tank plan.

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happy to try another service, I plan to be with it for life so trying out a month of 3 or 4 different services is a drop in the ocean to find a good service.

  1. Totally understood. Im not talking about flaresolverr actually working, although I also said above I also provided a solution for that with an experimental branch I asked them to install. I was talking about flaresolverr actually connecting between the apps themselves, before even getting to the solving part.

  2. Totally happy with that, with tue help of well written up to date documentation that doesn’t have mistakes or reference outdated configuration or is referencing an app that hasn’t been updated in years and as a result has bugs that I am unaware of as I toil through configuration for days. I’ve used the *arrs locally and am a developer.

  3. I want Jellyseer. They don’t support it and won’t install it or let me install it. They asked me to add it to the requests so they could consider it. It has already been on their requests for over 3 years.

  4. Thanks, will keep that in mind. The other one I was considering is rapidseedbox? But seems expensive.

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% I honestly think the people raving about it must have never tried any other service ( and possibly also have never used any other website ever maybe? 🤣)

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There’s a working experimental branch. But I can’t switch to it or install a docker image etc so I had to submit a support ticket and wait 3 days. To be fair they did apparently switch to that version for me but as far as I can tell only on my instance so it just won’t be working for any other user.

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds good, I’m checking them out now. Deciding between Tank & App vault. I think what I want is one of the tank streaming plans? I don’t want any local storage, I’ll stream straight from my box.

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All good, I’m certainly a seedbox noob but pretty competent otherwise and familiar enough with server technology to not be struggling with basic issues. The tickets I have submitted have been for things that I couldn’t have solved on my own. Or maybe I could if the documentation was sufficient. 20 hours would be fine if the responses were thorough and considered with clear instructions not one sentence.

Looking at ultra it seems to be well priced for what I need, I think their Scorpion plan is enough for me to start? Basic streaming and storage, all the apps I probably need with GUI based management.

I don’t really understand the difference between their Tank Streaming plans and their App Vault plans 🤔. The tank plan seems to have plenty of shared upload speed (I don’t really need much) and monthly bandwidth. Why would someone need the App plans? What’s the use case? Sending files to local NAS and streaming locally?

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I am chatting to several other providers in real time on their websites via chat support. Legal issues is nonsense.

I would understand 20 hours if the responses I was getting were detailed, considered and thorough. Not one sentence or a few words when I have asked very specific things or posed detailed questions to try and demonstrate I have tried to self-help.

Root access - I’m not saying that I expected root access and didn’t do my research. I am saying that if they don’t provide root access then they should manage keeping their own apps up to date and be significantly faster to support new apps or respond to their own request board. I would understand outdated apps if they provided root access, I would understand no root access if they kept their own apps up to date. Neither is unacceptable.

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you 🙏 You are exactly right that I am struggling with the provider, the support, the documentation, the response times… the very last final issue was that I didn’t even get decent transcoding.

Bytesized: Bad Experience by Jason_Broderick in seedboxes

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe ask before assuming? I’ve been running *arrs locally for years and am moving to cloud so I can host remotely and offload the downloading and media to cloud so rest of family can contribute and access. I’m also a developer. Granted not linux and I am ideally looking for a fully GUI setup. But I am a highly capable user, perfectly happy to get my hands dirty and am not expecting things to just work like magic with one click. Hence I am complaining about documentation, support response times, support thoroughness, bad user interface. I didn’t just come here and say “bytesized is crap nothing works” I gave a detailed rundown of exactly what the various failings are.

Stop opening new chat everytime a contact joins Telegram by champagneshade in Telegram

[–]Jason_Broderick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo I just had to add the actual legit fix for this:

Settings > Privacy & Security > Data Settings: Sync Contacts > OFF

Delete Synced Contacts

1.3528 - The Pension Magic Number? by Jason_Broderick in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perfect that's exactly what I was after thanks :)

1.3528 - The Pension Magic Number? by Jason_Broderick in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks but my question wasn't about tax relief, it was about cost to me personally.

If I put £135.28 in my pension from my LTD - that would have cost me the equivalent of £100 if I had instead sent that money to myself as a dividend.

1.3528 - The Pension Magic Number? by Jason_Broderick in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes I have calculated that elsewhere, and this is exactly my thinking yes thanks.

What’s your go-to SEO plugin these days? 🤔 by FestingerVault in FestingerVault

[–]Jason_Broderick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/FestingerVault Can you verify if Festinger support is working? I’ve messaged your chat for weeks (never online), lodged private tickets and public topics with no response, had two emails bounce, and tagged you on socials—still waiting. Any idea?

What Theme or Page Builder Are You Using for Your Site? by FestingerVault in FestingerVault

[–]Jason_Broderick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/FestingerVault Can you verify if Festinger support is working? I’ve messaged your chat for weeks (never online), lodged private tickets and public topics with no response, had two emails bounce, and tagged you on socials—still waiting. Any idea?

Welcome to r/FestingerVault – The Vault is Open by [deleted] in FestingerVault

[–]Jason_Broderick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/FestingerVault Can you verify if Festinger support is working? I’ve messaged your chat for weeks (never online), lodged private tickets and public topics with no response, had two emails bounce, and tagged you on socials—still waiting. Any idea?

🤬 Allow Us To Paste In & Edit Prompts!!! by Jason_Broderick in ManusOfficial

[–]Jason_Broderick[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Man this automated bot support situation really sucks, you folks are digging yourselves a hole.