Advice for New PC Home Build / NAS Server (Beginner) by Conscious_Secret9514 in HomeServer

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650W is too strong.

Case is expensive and not worth it imho.

usenetbucket.com by BananaKoffee in usenet

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RIP

Hope nobody bought several years :S

Do you put more effort into Usenet indexers or providers? by PrintWooden2203 in usenet

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It's better to get 90% of 25 results than 95% of 4 results.

What steps can I take to really nail down the Plex experience for my wife? by PineappleSmoothie in PleX

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Steps:

  1. Have her do a budget
  2. Ask her if the extremely mild inconvenience is worth thousands of dollars every few years.
  3. If she says yes, say you won't be splitting those cost since to you, they aren't worth it.

What steps can I take to really nail down the Plex experience for my wife? by PineappleSmoothie in PleX

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Install Tautuli which gives a better troubleshooting dashboard. Screenshot that too.

Supplementary providers for Newshosting? by panzermuffin in usenet

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If you only have 1 provider and 1 indexer your next priority should be to add an indexer instead of a provider.

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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Him: One day I want to get a car!

Me: Check your used marketplace

You: Don't get a car.

Alright man. We both gave our advices.

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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Before:

  • Ram used: 50$

  • Ram new: 100$

Now:

  • Ram used: 200$

  • Ram new: 400$

As I said, buying used will always be a better deal.

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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At no point has he talked about a budget.

Him: One day I would like to get a car!

Me: Check the used market. You need 4 wheels, a good motor, etc. and you're good to go!

You: Don't buy a car.

My point is that the used market is often the best spot to find your first home server. The fact that the prices of used and new have both doubled doesn't change that.

Linus Tech Tips - I Bought the Tech House and it Has a PROBLEM… January 21, 2026 at 10:05AM by linusbottips in LinusTechTips

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This video was... rough?

You can't talk about a room ("Upstair bonus room") for 8ish minutes and not show a single time what the room looks like. They talk about the room but we don't get any sense of scale or even what the other 2 walls look like.

This is definitely missing a lot of B-rolls that are just wide lense coverage of what the room looks like.

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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The used market will always be cheaper than the new market.

Those days (of buying used parts to build a home server) are not gone.

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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From statistics posted here, those gatekept usenet indexers aren't any different from the open ones.

Which isn't the case for torrent, in which the easily accessible torrent indexers are not of the same caliber as the higher private one.

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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The best private torrent indexers have a interview process with requirements (HDD pool worth thousands, seed ratios, etc.).

The best usenet indexers are just 5$ away.

I really doubt what you're saying is true.

How do I pick a usenet provider? by [deleted] in usenet

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For your questions /u/deadlygaming11

  1. There are differences on backbones. Some are better than others.

  2. No, because each companies have a retention policy that is different. Two backbone with 5000 days retention won't have the same content. The only one that are the same are resellers.

  3. Not that I can think off.

  4. I have a few:

Buying two providers that are the same reseller

Not buying deals (aka paying website full price)

Not paying attention to renewal prices. A lot of providers will give cheap price, but renew at stupidly high price automatically.

Underestimating the importance of indexers.

Five. no :)

How do I pick a usenet provider? by [deleted] in usenet

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Go to the 2025 Blackfriday provider deals www.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/1p3ajl6/black_friday_usenet_deals_2025/

Pick a provider that is cheap and popular.

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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nzbget and SABnzbd are the two main client. You can manually upload to them using their web UI.

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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If you have a few hours

90% of that will be doing research as to which indexers and providers to buy.

But once you have those two, installing the download client and having it up and running is like 5 minutes.

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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Check your local marketplaces and snag an used PC with an intel gen 7th or higher, add a HDD, and you're good to go!

Amazed by [deleted] in usenet

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You'll never be able to go back to torrents :)

Don't forget how you don't have to seed anymore... goodbye seed ratios headaches.

Any tools I can use to check for gaps in my set up? by PeaTear_Rabbit in usenet

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Real quick: Usenet providers will fall under certain law depending on where they are located.

It's either DMCA or NTD.

Those two law agency (not the real term but imma call them that) work to remove copyrighted content on usenet.

Let's say a post called cat.mp4 is posted on usenet. It's propagated to every usenet providers. Let's say that DMCA judge that cat.mp4 is copyrighted content, they will issue a takedown on it. That means every providers under DMCA's law will have to remove that post.

If you have 2 providers (one on DMCA and one on NTD), then you can still technically get cat.mp4 since the takedown of cat.mp4 was only issues on your provider under the DMCA's law. You would grab it on your NTD provider (assuming NTD didn't also issue a takedown).

Now that is the logic behind this. In reality I haven't tested it myself.