I disagree with the other person, rsync + ssh is faster even in my own benchmarks. But samba is plenty fast enough these days, I can easily have it max out my gigabit network so I don’t need anything faster. So for me (and I would guess the majority of people) speed really isn’t a concern anymore, so I use samba because it’s easy to use and it makes sharing network folders to anything else a breeze.

It’s like phones. Yeah technically the newest iPhone is faster than this years budget Samsung. But when’s the last time your phone was actually a bottleneck? (Unless you’re one of those people who play games, in which case, actually please respond cause I could use some really nice idle city builders for my phone pls)

I wanna know who refactored all of the fucks out of 4.18

Haha unfortunately the music on YouTube is not especially well managed. Ive been using YouTube for music for a long time so a lot of my music is uploaded by Vevo or “{Artist} - Topic” and stuff like that. Plus (IIRC) YouTube music doesn’t give things like what album a song is from or when it was released

They also have a bunch of integrations already built in! I use Cloudflare so all you gotta do is throw an API key into the config file and it does the rest. Which is nice cause DNS records can take some time to propagate

Yeah I am using yt-dlp to download the music, and I can set that on a cronjob no problem.

I am specifically asking for better downloading (I don’t want just the raw YouTube title most of the time), album art, and ID3 tagging. But that beets.io thing looks super cool! I might integrate that into my existing python scripting instead of trying to build it all out myself

Yeah but they’re mostly “sane” conspiracy folks. I miss the absolute bat shit insane ramblings from reddit haha

Yeah I’m aware, it’s more of an exercise in research for me. They send me down some crazy rabbit holes and it’s just super interesting a lot of the time.

Like I said, I miss r/Conservative and r/conspiracy the most from reddit

The story was really good, but the game just becomes an absolute grind fest towards the end. The survival parts of the game just completely fall apart and you have to spend so much time getting food, leveling up your armor, building defenses, and just doing the “tedious” parts of a survival game.

A buddy and I finally forced ourselves to finish our playthrough in March. I’m really glad we did because the story was genuinely good, the early survival parts were really good, and its really pretty. I just don’t think I could force myself through that again.

I am very excited for this one though.

Just use this. It’s by far the best option

And having a friend-to-friend piracy network absolutely pushes you into “power user” territory lmfao

Yeah you’re right, I was simplifying to the point where I was a little mistaken. I was assuming y5ou’re network was connected to the Internet and was just a standard residential setup, but this is a much better explanation.

That literally is though? NAT stands for Network Address Translation. It’ll take you public IP and translate those packets to use your internal one.

If your computer has an address that starts with 169, 168, or 10 there is a NAT somewhere in your network.

And it’s a “security thing” in the same way that asking someone’s name over the phone prevents impersonation haha

All routers have NAT, that’s sort of their entire role. Are you maybe talking about “double NATing” where you have your router behind the ISP modem/router?

As far as I’m aware Skype does not support actual VOIP calling anymore, at least according to Microsoft and the couple forums i just skimmed through. But it’s been probably 10+ years since I’ve actually used it or interacted with anyone who used it haha

And I was talking about static IPs, which are different. And at least in the US (in single family homes) its crazy unlikely that your router is behind any NAT. Unless you’re talking about CGNAT but anything short of a dedicated fiber run or dedicated wavelength (which are not options for residential people) you will be behind a CGNAT anyways. Even if you have a public IP.

And, anecdotally. In the last 5-8 years I don’t think I’ve had any issues with NAT when hosting games, it’s just firewall rules or my public IP changed. But ymmv on that one when playing 22 year old games haha

Xfinity in the states is like that too. Technically I don’t have a static but it’s only changed twice in 4 years or so.

Once was during a really really bad storm which took power down in my state for days so I don’t blame them, and the other one was when they did work on my local node but they sent out an email and a letter before hand lol

There’s pretty much no use for a normal person, just for business and power users like the person above you.

For your couple examples, nobody at home actually runs VOIP except a couple nerds just like nobody has home phones except a couple of old people. And quick game servers don’t need statics, and if you are hosting something long term that would push you into the power use space.

I thought at some point they dropped all those and it’s just .net now?

Edit: nope, you’re right. Here’s the explanation from Microsoft

There are multiple variants of .NET, each supporting a different type of app. The reason for multiple variants is part historical, part technical.

.NET implementations:

.NET Framework – The original .NET. It provides access to the broad capabilities of Windows and Windows Server. It is actively supported, in maintenance. Mono – The original community and open source .NET. A cross-platform implementation of .NET Framework. Actively supported for Android, iOS, and WebAssembly. .NET (Core) – Modern .NET. A cross-platform and open source implementation of .NET, rethought for the cloud age while remaining significantly compatible with .NET Framework. Actively supported for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

God damn you. I had Epicor seared from my memory and now you reminded me that it exists

Well yeah duh windows and Linux use the same resources. I don’t put more memory in my computer when I boot into Linux…