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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • Don’t get me wrong I don’t regret setting it all up as it was a good, if somewhat steep learning curve for me as someone with no Linux experience beyond installing a couple of distros and using them solely as GUI OS’s. In all honesty though keeping it simple and having full control over the files I’m getting is working absolutely fine for me and I don’t feel the need to make it any more complex with the various arrs, the only exception being I want to look deeper into bazaar as I need subtitles for everything.

    Anyway I do absolutely nothing to clean up the files. I copy my magnet links into qbittorrent and set which folder I want it to download to, movies / shows etc. Jellyfin libraries are set to each of these folders by their respective type and then when some new stuff is downloaded I’ll just access my jellyfin dashboard and scan all libraries.

    So far with zero file cleaning jellyfin has detected 85% of things correctly regardless, for anything not detected it takes barely any time to go into the identify menu, search for the correct title and choose the relevant correct info.

    I’m running proxmox with 3 VMs, one for docker with the arr stack, qbittorrent and gluetun to direct all that traffic via my VPN. One for a Plex server (which hasn’t failed to detect anything so far without file cleaning) and one for the jellyfin server.


  • I recently had my first foray into this setup and I have found the arr stack to be all but useless on public trackers. I haven’t setup flaresolvarr so that I can use 1337x and maybe that is why it is so terrible for me but prowlarr couldn’t even find a fast and furious movie that is a popular, well seeded film.

    Maybe the addition of 1337 would make it much better but I’m skeptical as to how much difference that one place can make.

    I ultimately now just find what I need manually and add the torrent to my server via the web interface then leave it and everything else sorts itself, which I’m fine with doing.

    Maybe I’m missing something but I think the arr stack is massively overrated on public trackers. I’m going to look into Usenet next as someone else suggested but it isn’t anything I’ve ever used and I don’t have the money to pay for any right now anyway.


  • According to this list the switch currently has around 40 exclusive games. The majority of these I’m guessing are Nintendo games and will probably be ones that emulators prioritise working with.

    For everything else you could want there is probably going to be a PC version or another console that could also be emulated should the switch version not work. The PC version will probably be superior anyway as switch games are mostly running in an inferior manner.

    I dont think this is even a question that needs considering when you factor in the sheer amount of other game options you have for the steam deck whether you are pirating them or actually purchasing them. In my opinion you’d be foolish to get a switch, not least because Nintendo are a deplorable company and personally I think their first party games are shite.





  • You are in the UK now so the chance of it being underfloor heating is very slim indeed unless you are in a new build from the last 5 - 10 years or so, even then I would doubt it though.

    It is probably a combination of the amount of insulation we put in walls, floors and roof spaces along with the fact you downstairs neighbour or neighbours if there is a basement will be using theirs and obviously heat rises.

    I know many people here that live in flats above other people that will never switch their heating on and live comfortably.

    It is likely that those radiators are your only heat sources coupled with presumably a gas boiler to serve both the radiators and your hot water taps. There will be some kind of controls for it somewhere though, not all systems with have a thermostat in place. My current house has 3 radiators with no thermostat. It is either on or off or you can set time intervals for it to switch on and off by itself but there is no temperature based control.





  • Except for the fact that it is designed to keep you coming back and hopefully paying them for the privaledge whilst making people believe they are learning something useful.

    It is in fact counter productive to actually learning a language properly. I used it for a year and a half trying to learn Spanish and in that time I never really learnt anything of worth. On top of that my native Spanish speaking girlfriend told me on numerous occasions that the things it was “teaching” me were flat out incorrect.

    I learnt more useful language skills in a month on Busuu than I did in a year and a half using Duolingo. So yes there is a lot of hate because it wasted a lot of my time for absolutely zero benefit and in some cases taught me the wrong things so I had to go back and “unlearn” all the bullshit it constantly pushed to me.

    It isn’t a tool to bridge a gap, it is a word game designed to get you addicted to “streaks” and then hopefully remove money from your wallet under the guise of teaching you something.

    People that seriously want to learn a language should be dissuaded from using this trash app as it is only counter productive to the learning process, they should instead check out Busuu or listen to Language Transfer which is free and vastly superior!