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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I jumped into Usenet as an experiment and, once it was setup, it was ok. Although it is definitely not simple to get started and it seems you are constantly having to pay for stuff, even to access the trackers, which don't even have all the content!

I decided I didn't download enough and what I wanted was too hard to find, so I went back to Torrents. Way simpler for my occasional use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Is SpaceX failing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I did check Trash guides before posting but it doesn't cover installation, much less Linux user naming and groups, unless I missed it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That makes sense. Thank you so much. That is a question that has caused me issues for a long time. Now I understand it.

 

Sorry if this is the wrong place, it's a Linux question but it's come about whilst trying to build my arr-Plex stack.

So, Linux (Debian) user accounts; What is best practice for running applications as their own UID? Why should I do that? and how can I avoid file permission errors.

I see advice such as "create a new system account called radar/sonarr/Plex". So I do that, and then find all my downloads are owned by qbittorrent user and it doesn't have permission to move them into my Plex library and Plex can't view them either.

All seems overcomplicated. Why can't I just run everything all with username 'Plex'?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Which parts of Europe is that?

Is it Germany where you can only buy shnitzel, sausage and cabbage in various different forms?

Or Italy, where they're so proud of their food it's basically illegal to serve anything that isn't Italian?

Or France where spice and chilli is outlawed, only garlic and herbs allowed?

It's true that a lot of traditional British food is bland, but there are way more Chinese, Indian, Thai, mexican, Italian restaurants in any town in England than you'll find anywhere in Europe.

 

I'm looking for a reliable source of theatre scripts for musicals and plays. Any specialist IRC channels or the like?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Thanks, great reply.

I'm not willing to give up just yet. So I'll try a block account from a different provider and see how it fares.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm just trying the scene out, but so far I'm put off by having to pay for both indexers and providers, and now I need multiple of both to get what I thought was basic content (a film about a boy wizard).

Maybe it's a different problem causing my downloads to not even start, but the help page suggests DMCA as likely cause.

 

I'm in my first month of Usenet. I own several popular BluRay Movies but thought I'd save time ripping them manually and instead see what I could get off Usenet (NZBGeek + Eweka) now that my niece is visiting and needs entertainment.

I noticed a number of popular titles are consistently difficult to obtain ("aborted, cannot be completed"), even when live within only a few days, or even hours.

I assume this is a very vigilant DMCA takedown bot. How commonplace is this? And why does it only apply to some titles and not others?

Is it worth continuing with Usenet? I thought paying for content would ensure a certain "quality" of experience. So far, I'm a bit disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Arghh, two conflicting replies. What do we do?!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

What would you recommend instead?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago

Read the full comment before replying you lemon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why? We all know LLMs are just copy and paste of what other people have said online..if it answers "yes" or "no", it hasn't formulated an opinion on the matter and isn't propaganda, it's just parroting whatever it's been trained on, which could be anything and is guaranteed to upset someone with either answer.

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