I also wholeheartedly recommend Restic. Hetzner Storage Box or Backblaze B2 are great storage backends and directly supported by Restic.

Borg is great too, though I’ve never used it because I’ve discovered Restic first.

If you can solder I’d say most mice are easily fixable. The most common defect for mice are the switches, which are usually quite simple to desolder, as there aren’t any components near them.

E.g. I don’t have much experience soldering and it took me under an hour replacing both switches on the G Pro Wireless as well as the battery. I’ve bought this mouse used about 5 years ago and I wouldn’t be surprised if it lasted another 5 years.

Edit: The annoying part is the screws being below the feet, so you have to replace them after opening the mouse. But it’s all screwed in.

Interesting. I’ve had a worse experience with my music library because of how Navidrome didn’t support multi artist tags properly until recently. But while writing this comment, I checked again and they merged it in 0.55.0!

So I’d recommend giving Navidrome a try too. Symfonium is a great client.

Unless they didn’t enable file extensions to actually show, so an “.nfo” could actually be a “.nfo.exe”.

It does not seem to be the case here, but I really would be careful with double clicking untrusted files. Opening them through a media player directly is a much safer option.

That’s why private torrent sites & Usenet Indexers are mostly ignored by law enforcement. There’s bigger fish to catch than going after a minority who goes through the trouble of downloading first and then watching it. Not to mention the even smaller part who automates their downloading through the likes of *arr.

I’d argue torrent streaming (Streamio) is a major reason why many public torrent sites died over the last few years: Streaming and the big amount of users coming for the convenience paints a much bigger target on sites.

Torrents don’t do live streams. E.g. watching recordings of football matches is not the same as live, and free sites often struggle at peak times.

Some OCH groups might actually take issue with their stuff getting shared around, but there’s no way for them to restrict it. Scene is in a similar situation, where they want releases to stay in their circles but they get released to trackers & usenet anyway.

German releases by OCH groups are already shared widely through Usenet and private torrent sites, as OCH is such a big source of pirated content in Germany.

So yes, you’re free to share OCH releases to public sites. ZeroTwo releases usually include subtitles for all available languages so they might’ve a wider appeal than german-speaking countries.

Make sure you’re VPN & torrent client is properly set up, i.e. you’re torrent client is bound to the VPN interface.

I personally stick to private torrent sites as there’s less eyes on them given them being relatively small [1]. With so few people torrenting in Germany the speeds aren’t always great though. That’s why I mainly use Usenet.

[1] https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2

Current Pixels sadly no longer have a headphone jack.

The Pixel 8as battery can be replaced through the back side, but the 8 & 8 Pro battery can only be replaced by removing the screen first. Idk about Pixel 9/10(a/Pro).

GrapheneOS is like any other Android for things like data transfer. Plug in via USB or your preferred wireless protocol.

The dev did develop most things himself so they have the copyright and can relicense freely. Also, they’ve asked other major contributors whether they agree with him relicensing their code, which they were seemingly okay with. Small contributions aren’t copyrightable anyway, and/or the dev likely has rewritten them already.

Imo open sourcing is not necessary, as that is unrealistic depending on the licensing of libraries etc. Just distributing the server and making it possible to selfhost would be enough.

Or, built local network play in to the game itself (although this requires most of the work necessary for creating a selfhostable server anyway).

I only use them to dry my shoes and to wrap bio waste, but there’s still about 3 (bi-weekly) newspapers getting delivered to my door. They are ad supported and I don’t know anyone reading them, except for a few people over the years which complained about not receiving theirs.

I almost forgot there’s also the community sheet (“Gemeindeblatt”), which includes local events, trash collection dates, job postings: coincidentally they are currently in need of someone delivering this local paper for the next few weeks.

Heise is a German specifically tech news outlet, so they are generally quite good with facts about tech.

These arrests are targeted at an illegal IPTV provider which restreams channels from licensed TV providers (Sky, DAZN, RTL+). These illegal IPTV services usually also provide on-demand content like Netflix shows, movies etc.

The CSAM incident is definitely an additional charge for a single individual and not part of the prior investigation about an illegal IPTV service which provides customers with otherwise legal TV.

The reason i cant get a vpn is because im just broke and im young enough to live with family so i cant really get a job.

I don’t know your situation (and age) but small jobs like delivering newspapers can usually be taken up at relatively you age. They should easily cover a VPN subscription.

E.g. I was delivering newspaper biweekly for a few hours at the age of 13. Even today, the monthly pay would’ve been enough to pay for a year of my current VPN. Your guardians will have to approve the job but legally it shouldn’t be an issue.

If you torrent without a VPN the conversation about a warning by the internet provider on behalf of some rights holder will be way worse than asking about ideas for a small (summer) job.

If you permanently seed all you’ve downloaded and you’ve been using a tracker for a while, bonus points + upload should usually cover all your downloading needs.

Starting out is difficult without a seedbox though. Especially of you don’t use Cross-Seed to seed to multiple trackers. In that case it is considerably easier to pay for a seedbox.

• Pay for a month for TorrentLeechs seedbox promo to get an invite.
• wait for opensignups. HUNO, FearNoPeer, onlyencodes are solid options.
• do an “interview” at MAM. After downloading and seeding all you’ve downloaded for a few months, you’ll be able to get into the trackers mentioned above and a few others (e.g. Aither).

Some game servers, some ISPs don’t provide IPv6 for (some of) their customers.

Dev needs to eat.

Yeah it’s so sad seeing studio after studio being closed down. So many commenters thought Microsoft will revive old IPs after buying studio after studio.

Now it seems like those IPs will just rot at Microsoft in their intellectual property graveyard.

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