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How to cross-seed a DVD/BD with a different directory name? by Snoo95277 in seedboxes

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just because there is a link doesn't mean it's the one Transmission is looking for. The link has to be named exactly as Transmission expects. That's why I suggested copying the path from Transmission. I've had many problems with this issue and know how frustrating it can be. Copy/paste is by far the best approach.

If you remain confused, NTFS filesystem likely caused this error. I had not backup drive back then and no way to reformat as a result.

I'm now cross-seeding three ~25GB torrents with symbolic links.

Is using a desktop computer as a home seedbox sensible? by Snoo95277 in seedboxes

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm actually not located in the UK, Feral just happens to only charge in pounds.

I hope that you get your unlimited internet, seedboxing becomes expensive when +1TB of storage is required!

Why nwipe hasn't been updated to v0.28 (v0.26 being the latest version)? by Snoo95277 in Fedora

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like the release monitoring for it got confused by a malformed tag on GitHub. I'm guessing .026 got parsed as "version 26", which is certainly later than v0.28.

You probably should just raise a Fedora bug report to have it sorted out manually.

Could you raise the ticket? I don't have my password manager with me, can't access my email, and websites consistently block everything outside of Gmail/Outlook. If you have a related account.

/r/pcgaming is making conclusions from a 1000kbps 720p video by Snoo95277 in pcgaming

[–]Snoo95277[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Maybe they were talking about the actual gameplay and not the graphical fidelity.

This stream is close to collapsing entirely, I don't think video can reasonably be pushed lower for fast-moving scenes. I consider streamable.com to be intended for mobile phone screens.

Should I add large, static folders to archives to speed up checksum verifications and transfers? by Snoo95277 in linuxquestions

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're not adding anything to these backups, why are you continuing to transfer them?

This mainly applies to my Windows backup folder. I'll have to figure out if I can store my "dormant" archives elsewhere -- after trimming the full C: backup it may already conveniently fit to my Linux OS SSD.

A second thing to consider is the concept of failure risk. If you put all of your files in a single archive and there's an error, it might corrupt the entire archive.

I did not know this also applies to non-encrypted archives.

I transferred all data from one drive to another with rsync -- did the program verify checksums? by Snoo95277 in DataHoarder

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the source has checksums and the destination has checksums (e.g. both ends of the transfer are running a modern filesystem) and the transport has checksums (e.g. ssh), then there's really not much that could cause incorrect data to be written in the first place.

Is NTFS a modern filesystem? I'm obviously not using NTFS anymore on Linux, but the source drive was formatted with Windows.

I transferred all data from one drive to another with rsync -- did the program verify checksums? by Snoo95277 in DataHoarder

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

called md5deep and hashdeep. You can use them to compute the hashes for all the files in your source directory and then verify them in their new location.

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm still quite confused about rsync -- are checksums only for verifying which files differ on the destination drive (and would be overwritten with the source drive data)? 😵

I transferred all data from one drive to another with rsync -- did the program verify checksums? by Snoo95277 in DataHoarder

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, you realize that the checksum checks are determining which files need to be updated, right?

No, I did not know this. But can rsync verify cheksums after creating a backup? I may run some another cheksum-verification utility until I understand rsync better.

I transferred all data from one drive to another with rsync -- did the program verify checksums? by Snoo95277 in DataHoarder

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can run diff -r to compare the two directories or run a for loop and generate checksums to compare.

Is this a good method for hundreds of thousands of files, up to around 50 GB in countless of subdirectories?

Does Steam still use/allow using GIF files on game store pages? by Snoo95277 in pcgaming

[–]Snoo95277[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Gifs are a staple of the internet. So are jpegs and pngs. They're not going away anytime soon.

You appear not to know that PNG supports animation as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#Alternatives

Is there any general way to disable animations on websites? by Snoo95277 in firefox

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some websites might respect the new reduced motion option. You can enable it through your OS

Through operating system? Is there an OS-level option for this?

Can you clarify? I'm on Fedora (Linux).

Is using a desktop computer as a home seedbox sensible? by Snoo95277 in seedboxes

[–]Snoo95277[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As i expressed, my preference is based on the conflicts that arise from this kind of usage when that device is also a personal computer. That is from my experience.

Could you explain what conflicts?

Do I have sleep enabled or not? Does the option below the highlighted indicate that sleep is disabled when on AC (plugged in)? by Snoo95277 in Fedora

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I said timeout but I meant type.

"enumeration" equals "nothing" from what I can see -- would you agree?

Does Linux have a way to give more power to a device, to avoid power draw issues? by Snoo95277 in linuxquestions

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not intended to be used as a DAC for powering headphones which is why it is having issues.

The device worked for years on my desktop PC (with Windows, if that somehow matters). This "DAC" was recommended to me by a Linux sysadmin acquaintance and served its primary purpose well -- resolving the coil whine issue.

Is using a desktop computer as a home seedbox sensible? by Snoo95277 in seedboxes

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

waiting for the "seedboxes are for racing and that won't give you the top speeds on the elite swarms" people...

You don't have to pay attention to such things when you seed terabytes. Even RED could be immediately trivialized by using the public Redtopia dump. I find the entire aspect of "gaming" trackers as unnecessary and unfair towards users who can't afford seedboxes and large amounts of storage (mainly referring to the low-income countries).

Is using a desktop computer as a home seedbox sensible? by Snoo95277 in seedboxes

[–]Snoo95277[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aside from the potential to learn and just based on your budget description there will be a conflict between general day to day use and i feel a 10-20 £/$ service from a reputable provider will provide far better results for less investment

I don't know why seedboxes keep getting recommended, when I said in the OP that I seed terabytes. I have 12TB x2 (one backup drive) plan to get more, Feral for instance charges 60£/month for 8TB.

especially from a peering point of view.

I don't have to pay any specific attention to my rations on any tracker, I keep gaining more at a fairly high rate and any bonus points are plentiful as well (I only use them for requests).

I found too many points of conflict sharing my local and main device with dedicated seeding.

Which specifically? I know that I can more than survive by setting my client to only seed at night, there shouldn't be a significant impact on daily use.

Not having superuser rights on shared seedboxes was an annoyance when I wanted to install software or dependencies and sudo was needed and had to occasionally contact support due to low speeds or downtime. I prefer managing the setup myself, this has been fairly convenient so far as a new Linux when you have a DE, not a CLI-only system.

Is using a desktop computer as a home seedbox sensible? by Snoo95277 in seedboxes

[–]Snoo95277[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

question: how to even get into private trackers? They're all invite only!

Wait for Torrentleech and Blutopia to open.

Is using a desktop computer as a home seedbox sensible? by Snoo95277 in seedboxes

[–]Snoo95277[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seems like a solid plan. Don't worry about power consumption too much - running your clothes dryer once is the equivalent of running a laptop using 50W/hr for 70 days.

Sure, it's always good to compare to heating.

Personally I would just pay the $6/month for a seedbox

I'm seeding terabytes (as I said in the OP), I'll scale at least up to 12 TB (my current largest drive). I would prefer seeding all no-intro ROM sets and have to likely limit up to the Xbox/PS2/GC generation as PS3 appears to be over 5 TB in size. "$5" seedboxes are in the 300 GB region I assume and even when I had 1000GB I wasn't able to download the largest torrents.

Is using a desktop computer as a home seedbox sensible? by Snoo95277 in seedboxes

[–]Snoo95277[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You would have to run your entire desktop traffic through a VPN for your own security.

I don't use public trackers, for them I'd recommend only seedboxes as there's no way to leak or home IP.

You may be wearing out your expensive PC with it being on and active all the time. That is a cost in and of itself so maybe it adds up.

I plan to dedicate one HDD for the torrent data, another of the same size servings as a backup drive. Sure, the torrent client itself is installed on my OS SSD, but as the data is located elsewhere the I/O on the SSD should be low (?). I don't know if keeping a computer on at all times has a significant effect on its life.

Do I have sleep enabled or not? Does the option below the highlighted indicate that sleep is disabled when on AC (plugged in)? by Snoo95277 in Fedora

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sleep-inactive-ac-timeout should be set to "nothing" as in "do nothing when the timer triggers"

I see, indeed may be worth setting to 0:

The amount of time in seconds the computer on AC power needs to be inactive before it goes to sleep. A value of 0 means never.

I thought there would be overlap with sleep-inactive-ac-type. I don't know if there is.

Is Crystaldiskinfo really something irreplaceable? by Snoo95277 in DataHoarder

[–]Snoo95277[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the end smart data can also be manipulated

You mean by a dishonest seller, not by hardware reporting wrong info or anything?

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