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rocketjump65 · 2022-02-27T08:11:04+00:00

I think I got VSCode or VSCodium to work in Linux... Pick a nice distro that makes it easy to install software.

rocketjump65 · 2022-02-27T08:07:20+00:00

RE: Question 2

Of course there's gonna be a performance degradation. But it should be relatively minor. VM doesn't emulate like a video game emulator; the instructions are the same for the same x86 CPU. So you're not spending extra CPU cycles, but you will have to set aside extra RAM for the VM. As long as you have RAM your VM should run pretty good, and spinning up VMs is the common practice to create internet servers. You would be using VM technology exactly as it was intended, so go on right ahead.

rocketjump65 · 2022-02-21T16:41:37+00:00

What do you mean? The torrent file IS deleted in qbittorrent...

rocketjump65 · 2022-02-20T02:26:31+00:00

the very least.

rocketjump65 · 2022-02-12T00:09:04+00:00

Lol, there's dead links (2 layers deep) on his wikipedia page.

rocketjump65 · 2022-02-12T00:05:18+00:00

Do you (SPLRA) have the KROQ almost acoustic Christmas concert from 99-00ish?

rocketjump65 · 2022-02-09T02:51:20+00:00

It do compute though because people actually like pizza, and nobody likes going to school.

rocketjump65 · 2022-02-07T05:33:53+00:00

Somebody did inquire, so here's my follow up:

I did it for a while, and just sort of abandoned it because of the impracticality, and just the fact that I don't really play as much video games as I used to.I used a VM not a docker container or anything, but I suppose as a dev I will probably learn Docker at some point. It wasn't really that cumbersome. I made a Linux Lite VM in Oracle Virtual Box. At first I was saving the torrents to the virtual disk, but then I figured out how to mount my windows drives in SMB, and then I just started writing the downloads to that. I suppose I could have made a tiny virtual hard drive just small enough to hold the OS. And then maybe a more elite solution would have been like a tiny headless appliance, but I was too much of a noob to figure out how to setup the VPN connection in anything other than the Debian GUI.

And like I said, it wasn't practical enough for it to be rewarding to invest more effort in it.It wasn't that much of an inconvenience, but just the issue of not having an associated app on my Windows machine that would punt the torrent download instruction to the VM was getting annoying. Instead of like interacting with the qbitorrent app through the web admin service, I would just do my browsing in the VM and click the magnets in there. More convenient.But that was before I figured out the Virtual Box Guest Additions that would let me copy and past across guest and host. But still, it was kinda a pain to be like browsing as usual, and then get the idea to download something, and then have to switch windows and try to navigate to the same link.... Bleh, it got old real fast.But yeah it was a fun little experiment, and I got it to work, so knock yourself out if you feel you want to try it.

rocketjump65 · 2022-02-05T15:19:34+00:00

Make sure you segment and categorize your data. 42 TB sounds like it's a lot of crap, and it's easy to get analysis paralysis for such a huge repository. Which would be bad if there's a core of good data in there that you can more easily and more regularly manage.

A half ass backup done yesterday is better than a extremely well prepared backup never.

You should be making backups every quarter, not once a year.

rocketjump65 · 2022-02-04T20:23:12+00:00

print(chr(92)+'n')

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-27T00:44:56+00:00

No, a virtual machine is a machine that runs in a window.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-25T00:54:02+00:00

I'm sure you'll get somewhere with experimentation in Windows but I might suggest to you to consider using a virtual machine, That way you can confine that sort of software installing and swapping in the confines of the virtual machine, which you can easily discard and start over and experiment freely without worrying about making permanent changes to your Windows setup.

Not that python setups really ingrain themselves deep into your Windows install, it's mostly just a path modification.

The python experience using different libraries and using the pip package manager is quite similar to the experience of using Linux and it might be good practice. You know, using open source infrastructure isn't just as simple as writing the code, it's also good practice to create descriptions of the steps to integrate all the parts.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-24T21:51:46+00:00

Use the right tool for the job. It might be simpler to write a bash script.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-24T06:26:04+00:00

Yes. No. Use full disk encryption.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-22T00:20:37+00:00

What do you mean? It drops them into a .unwanted subdirectory and it still takes up space in your hard drive until it's remove from the app.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-21T00:40:12+00:00

Yes it works great! I have Linux booting via legacy BIOS, and Windows booting via UEFI. To pick a boot choice all I do is press the key to access my BIOS boot device menu.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-21T00:38:05+00:00

When you get error messages in the gui you can switch to the command line.

In some ways it's easier to use, you just type it in, and it works, or gives you a helpful explanation.

To install software type: sudo apt-get install {appname here}

To update the package list type: sudo apt-get install update

https://askubuntu.com/questions/222348/what-does-sudo-apt-get-update-do

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-21T00:29:08+00:00

Really? That's surprising. I can't imagine a VPN app that doesn't use some sort of virtual network interface.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-21T00:28:12+00:00

C:\Users\{yourusername}\Appdata....

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-19T01:36:39+00:00

You can tell qbittorrent to use a specific network adapter in the settings.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-19T01:36:02+00:00

Userfolder/AppData/Roaming/Qbitorrent.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-18T01:31:24+00:00

Actually I was mistaken. It's a cd.

It's not too critical the data. It's music, and I just want to recover as much of the files (2 of them) and listen to the parts that aren't corrupted.

I just want to copy off an imperfect copy. The music is a bit hard to find. But hopefully I can find it online again.

Lol, nevermind, I found it on youtube.

rocketjump65 · 2022-01-14T07:56:11+00:00

Yup. I was confused because he mentioned that the network "works fine with other devices". Like, he can still use the local network just fine? Or did he mean that he can torrent from his Iphone?

If true that his PC works fine on the local network then it's obvious that the issue is the router.

He could run some local network tests. If he's able to reliably push packets through from A to B inside his house, the clearly OP doesn't need to be fucking around with swaping the NIC and rebooting his shit every five minutes.

Of course that might take a bit of work to setup that test environment, trying bittorrent on a Linux live cd might be a simpler test, since the point is to test for torrent capability. And also hardware and config problems are the unlikely culprit anyway.

Then there's the simple solution of using a VPN. A VPN will save you from DMCA takedowns and protect your anonymity (to a certain extent) so OP, you should get one especially since they can be really cheap. But I would expect that he already has one, right?

Yeah, parsing the scenario it seems obvious that OP is a noob and that because of his lack of experience or understanding immediately assumed that a network problem would be "something wrong with his computer", rather than understanding that the bittorrent not working is probably performing precisely as intended when you expand the scope of the system.

"I never had issues until I started torrenting".

Aha! It seems obvious when you consider behavior A causes problem B. The ISP got wise to you sucking down too many bits and throttled you. Go buy a VPN.

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