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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i dont have a desktop or a server that can run this stuff constantly yet. but is usenet still good for the "discussions?" i thought there were better free versions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you have the time to seed a lot then private torrent trackers can be just as effective for finding your ahem... linux ISOs without the cost. Usenet is most useful for people who are worried about repercussions from their gov for seeding (as many count this as "distribution" and it carries more weight than simply downloading)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would be torrenting with a VPN with multihop, and seeding is a bit iffy in my country becuase you cannot be charged here for downloading, but you can be charged with seeding.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Usenet is a bit more work to setup than bittorrent, but you will be able to find lots of movies and TV shows there without having to seed anything. Unfortunately, you have to pay for access to good indexers if you want to download more than a few files per day.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As far as I know, there's still a strong but small community on Usenet for discussions still

As far as server/desktop stuffs, many have had decent success running them on things like old laptops and raspberry pis to decent success. Won't be as powerful, but if it's just you and a spouse and maybe kids or something it should be just fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Just get an old optiplex in Amazon renewed

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

someone was actually selling some older dell blade servers on kijiji for 120. if it doesn't go down i might buy one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You sure you don't mean rack servers? The blade chassis is pretty expensive and power hungry.

If it's an Rx30 or newer that's fine. Rx20 or older is meh. M anything is the modular blades, and that needs the big chassis to be useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

sorry i meant rack. I was looking at a blade as well and got that messed up. i have to check the post again.