Dev needs to eat.

• xtream
• mpv

It’s a simple IPTV app. It supports m3u as well as xtream. It can be controlled by keyboard and opens videos/streams in a new mpv window.

I really like it although it does not do advanced things like showing program etc.

Arch requires reading the manual to install it, so installing it successfully is an accomplishment.

It’s rolling release with a large repo which fits perfectly for regularly used systems which require up-to-date drivers. In that sense it’s quite unique as e.g. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has less packages.

It has basically any desktop available without any preference or customisations by default.

They have a great short name and solid logo.

Arch is community-based and is quite pragmatic when it comes to packaging. E.g. they don’t remove proprietary codecs like e.g. Fedora.

Ubuntu is made by a company and Canonical wants to shape their OS and user experience as they think is best. This makes them develop things like snap to work for them (as it’s their project) instead of using e.g. flatpak (which is only an alternative for a subset of snaps features). This corporate mindset clashes with the terminally online Linux desktop community.

Also, they seem to focus more on their enterprise server experience, as that is where their income stream comes from.

But like always, people with strong opinions are those voicing them loudly. Most Linux users don’t care and use what works best for them. For that crowd Ubuntu is a good default without any major downsides.

Edit: A major advantage of Ubuntu are their extended security updates not found on any other distro (others simply do not patch them). Those are locked behind a subscription for companies and a free account for a few devices for personal use.

I thought the verses might be relevant in some way to the project but they seem to be pretty generic.

Weird choice to put them at the top of their refreshingly comprehensive readme. I believe I’ve seen projects with a quote at the top before, although they’ve been shorter.

Some books have quotes before each chapter and they can be inspiring and/or interesting.

I’m using zram on all my systems, be it 4GB or 16GB. Usually swap is empty, so there’s no compressing for the CPU to do anyway. If a RPI is capable of ZRAM, your PC won’t break a sweat.

ZSTD is really fast. I’m using btrfs compression too, and don’t notice any performance impact either.

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/

In the devices list of lvfs/fwupd there’s a bunch of controllers supported. But it seems like it’s mostly their retro controllers. XBox-style controllers like their Ultimate C etc. are not supported.

Unless they are taken down, it won’t be an issue. Given they’ve existed for a good while it’s unlikely to cause a problen. Even then, hopefully they delete your payment details after a few weeks/months.

If not, paying = assisting a criminal organisation could be a crime depending on your jurisdiction. But most of the time customers aren’t prosecuted, but that can change at any point in time.

Football is not usually distributed over torrents and thus seedboxes. These IPTV providers restream the live feed with a few seconds delay - just like their legal counterparts. They usually cost around 5-20€/£ per month, depending on the subscription duration (and number if simultaneous streams).

That was the case, but now that they no longer support port forwarding thinking about alternatives is a good idea. For me, a VPN without port forwarding is not an option (since I use private trackers).

See my comment here. An open port is only required for TCP connections. uTP/UDP allows the tracker to open up a port temporarily in many cases. This won’t work for those stuck with ancient torrent clients.

That’s partially correct, partially wrong. An open port is required to allow for incoming connections for torrenting over TCP.

For TCP:

If a seed does not have an open port, a potential leech with an open port shares their IP & port with the tracker. The seed regularly asks the tracker for potential leeches. If the tracker provides a leech with an open port, then the seed connects to the leeches open port. This connection then allows the leech to download from the seed.

If neither of seed and leech has an open port, no connection can be established and thus no torrenting is possible.

For uTP/UDP:

If both peers (seed & leech) have no open ports, the tracker can use UDP hole punching to temporarily open up a port for the peers. The second peer can then connect directly to the first peer’s port which has been opened up by the tracker.

This only works for public torrents and with PEX enabled. For private trackers an open port is required.

It worked because the other people you connected to opened up a port themselves.

Edit: In some cases the tracker can open up a port for the peers. See https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/18977148

Yes. If you’ve got enough buffer anyway there’s not much reason to set up Cross-Seed.

Depending on the tracker this can work better or worse. E.g. I was on a tracker with minimal free leech content, so Cross-Seed helped me a lot.

https://www.cross-seed.org/

It takes a bit of time and careful reading until it’s set up.

For matching existing data you need to set up dataDirs and partial matchMode. Ideally your local files are organized (e.g. TRaSH guide) to improve cross-seeds ability to find matches. If you need help there’s a Discord linked on their website.

1337x.to works well too. If you use a website translator, like Firefox Translate, rutracker is great too.

Otherwise, private torrent sites (e.g. TorrentLeech) are the best addition to Usenet.

Keeping ratio is pretty easy if you set up Cross-Seed. It finds torrents matching your local files (e.g. Usenet downloads) and adds them to your torrent client without using additional space or downloading them again.

I […] Always care to have a VPN (Mullvad and Proton) active and also integrate it as an interface in BitTorrent.

If you set your torrent client to only use the VPN network interface, it’s much more likely to be CGNAT. In other words it’s been some other customer.

If you still use BitTorrent, I’d recommend switching to qBittorrent. The former is outdated and ridden with ads compared to the more performant qBittorrent.

Most trackers provide points for seeding torrents. Usually the amount of points depends on the size and the amount of torrents.

These points can be exchanged for “upload” (or other things like an invite), which helps with increasing the ratio.

• epub is the best ebook format. Use Calibre to convert to it from e.g. azw3 (Amazon)
• m4b > mp3. The former is better suited for audio books.
• archive.org for archiving websites