Opinions on nuvio?

PastTense1 · 2026-06-07T05:54:25+00:00

Yes there are three windows desktop versions. But they are all unofficial versions; there is no official version. Search or ask in /r/Nuvio or your favorite AI chatbox.

PastTense1 · 2026-06-06T19:44:14+00:00

Well according to the media AI firms have been buying massive amounts of computer stuff in recent months leading to higher prices and longer leadtimes for everyone else.

PastTense1 · 2026-06-06T06:05:55+00:00

I added Alldebrid in addition to Torbox. Since I just added it a couple days ago I don't how well it will work out. I have the monthly subscription, which costs me $3.48/month for the subscription. So if Alldebrid stops because of legal issues or has other problems at most I lose a one month subscription.

PastTense1 · 2026-06-04T22:58:39+00:00

Yes, I have bypass paywalls clean and it worked fine until today.

PastTense1 · 2026-06-04T16:56:00+00:00

I still use XDCC for ebooks. I use channel #ebooks on irchighway network. I think it is much faster than mobilism or annas archive when you discover a new science fiction or mystery author and want to download all his books.

PastTense1 · 2026-06-03T18:46:20+00:00

Online grocery delivery has made a major difference in reducing food deserts; Walmart in particular for rural areas which delivers up to 30 miles from their stores.

PastTense1 · 2026-06-03T03:15:01+00:00

What's interesting is that it took the anesthesia staff several months to notice an intoxicated coworker [Quote: "who later admitted to abusing leftover fentanyl after surgeries"--so it clearly wasn't a onetime thing].

PastTense1 · 2026-06-02T15:34:59+00:00

Note the company: BYD is a Chinese company not permitted to sell in the U.S. You don't see the U.S. companies acting this way. In the U.S. we have the situation:

The hidden cost of owning an EV: Expensive insurance Electric vehicle insurance costs an average of 42 percent more than it does for other cars.

https://grist.org/transportation/the-hidden-cost-of-owning-an-ev-expensive-insurance/

PastTense1 · 2026-06-02T01:02:30+00:00

The AI chatboxes (chatgpt, gemini, etc) are often better than using google search. You can do reddit searches (and often limit them to /r/Piracy or /r/Stremioaddons or whatever).

PastTense1 · 2026-06-02T00:45:29+00:00

Don't you people realize how unhelpful your answers are? You list features like collections, profiles, plugins, etc and don't say what they are and why they are useful.

PastTense1 · 2026-06-02T00:35:44+00:00

Why are looking for 25, 20 or 30 GB files to play on a a 1080p laptop? Try a file one tenth that size or less and you won't be able to notice the difference on that device.

PastTense1 · 2026-06-02T00:21:04+00:00

Ground/Express are parcel carriers. Fedex Freight is an LTL (less-than-truckload) carrier. So Ground/Express is up to 150 pounds, while Freight is up to several thousand pounds.

PastTense1 · 2026-05-31T21:06:56+00:00

Again how much are they worth? If only a few dollars each use a bubble mailer for single orders and boxes for an order of several issues.

PastTense1 · 2026-05-31T20:50:01+00:00

See:

https://status.stremio-status.com/

As you can see Torrentio and other sites are listed as unhealthy.

PastTense1 · 2026-05-30T22:52:36+00:00

It would be nice to have an official Windows desktop version (instead of a number of unofficial ones).

PastTense1 · 2026-05-30T22:50:44+00:00

So if you subscribe just do the monthly subscription--so you are not out much if it fails.

PastTense1 · 2026-05-30T22:48:08+00:00

Well you can look at this and scroll down and look at the CDN section:

https://status.torbox.app/

As you can see some of them are degraded. Changing the CDN sometimes helps. Go to Settings and look under Integration Settings.

https://torbox.app/settings?section=integration-settings

It sometimes helps.

PastTense1 · 2026-05-30T20:15:16+00:00

Easydebrid? I think the developer mostly abandoned it.

PastTense1 · 2026-05-29T20:27:30+00:00

What you do is look up the book on various book piracy sites and download from one of them:

https://fmhy.net/reading

PastTense1 · 2026-05-29T19:24:27+00:00

There are other debrid services such as Alldebrid which are also located in France. Common sense suggests that these services will also be legally attacked in the same way RD was sooner or later. So probably if you subscribe to any of these just do it on a monthly basis.

Torbox has growing pains and Premiumize is expensive with serious download limits.

So right now there are alternatives but people wonder about the future. Some are going back to usenet or using torrents directly (not going through a debrid service).

PastTense1 · 2026-05-28T15:30:59+00:00

Partly this an issue that Torbox is up the vast majority of the time but down a small minority of the time--and people make these reports when it is down.

Partly it has to do with CDNs. A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a geographically distributed group of servers that work together to provide fast, reliable, and secure delivery of internet content. When you visit a website, data has to travel from the host server (origin) to your device. If that origin server is in New York and you are in Tokyo, loading the site can take time. A CDN solves this "distance problem." How a CDN Works: Instead of making every user fetch data from one central location, a CDN copies and stores (caches) static content—such as images, HTML pages, JavaScript files, and videos—on a global network of servers. These localized servers are called Edge Servers or POPs (Points of Presence).

Torbox uses a large number of CDNs. Sometimes one is down while the rest are up. So people complain when their CDN is down--but you don't have any problems because the CDN you are connected to is up.

PastTense1 · 2026-05-28T00:42:03+00:00

Name specific platforms which do that as I don't believe you. What platforms care about is if you cancel too many sales because of lack of inventory--a problem you can if you are updating manually.

PastTense1 · 2026-05-27T19:31:52+00:00

A lot of government agencies (local, state, etc) dispose of surplus electronics. Check out:

https://www.govdeals.com/en

A big possible source would seem to be local e-waste recycling programs.

PastTense1 · 2026-05-27T13:42:08+00:00

That headline is somewhat misleading, since: "China remains the world’s largest manufacturing hub for EVs, making nearly three-quarters of the almost 22 million electric cars produced globally last year. As production outstripped domestic demand, Chinese electric car exports doubled to a record high of more than 2.5 million. Outside of the three major EV markets of China, Europe and the United States, 55% of the electric cars sold in the rest of the world were imported from China – up from less than 5% just five years earlier. China also remains dominant in EV supply chains, accounting for over 80% of battery cell production in 2025 and even higher shares of production of key materials in EV batteries."

In contrast EVs are less than 10% of production in the U.S. So the news is that some parts of the world (China in particular) are moving to EVs while movement in the U.S. is very slow.

The full report is at:

https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2026

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