Usenet pros:

• not p2p so no real chance of getting busted
• max out your bandwidth the whole time you’re downloading
• no need to seed, no ratios, etc
• Cheap AF

Usenet cons:

• Files aren’t forever. Servers do delete content after some time so search results aren’t always available on your server
• Usenet servers, especially in the US, are pretty responsive to DMCA demands
• Not free
• Complexity of setup (Sab + Arrs) are a barrier to entry
• Public nzb search engines aren’t always going to have what you need. Private search engines are usually invite only and/or cost money per year
• Far less variety for niche stuff than torrents (imo, ymmv)

Not the answer you want, but for me, I quit cold turkey after smoking a pack a day for 15 years.

The thing that helped is that I wasn’t being forced to quit for health or social reasons. I simply realized that all smoking a cigarette was doing was making me not want to smoke another cigarette for 30 minutes. I felt I had no more desire to continue the trend.

The first week sucked. I ended up rolling loose-leaf paper into the cylindrical shape of a cigarette, putting Scotch tape on one end, and poking holes into it so that dragging on it felt like dragging on a cigarette. That actually got me through week 2.

After that, the pull to smoke was far, far weaker. It’s weird. It ends up coming in waves. You’re fine, you’re fine, then you get an overwhelming urge to light up. The need lasts for about 30 seconds and goes away quickly. Over time, the frequency between those cravings gets longer, and the cravings get smaller. At some point, I just didn’t feel like smoking at all anymore.

But yeah, the first few weeks are not great.

Best of luck!

Edit: my main advice here is that if you don’t feel like you really want to quit, you’re going to have a much harder time. If your plan is to taper down, it may be torture. If you’re plan is “I’ll only show myself this one” every so often, it’s going to be a long, drawn out losing process.

Agree on all points.

DevOps guy here mostly working at scale in AWS. Learning docker should be priority 1 alongside learning Linux basics. Ansible should be second IF the plan is launching docker containers on a VM as opposed to a server less option (example: AWS Fargate)

1.0 ratio is the low bar, leech

Yet when my sourdough comes out this way, everyone acts like i shit my pants

You can absolutely do this. You can mount partitions anywhere off of /

I have 5 drives in a system and I mount them as /storage1 through /storage5

You can just create partitions and mount them at whatever path you like.

Hell, you can do /c/not/sure/why/you/like/this/better/clownfarts_penis

Ah. Interesting. For work I log in to a bunch of AWS accounts and I’m only able to do two at a time. One in a normal window and another in a private window. But I can’t open a 3rd private window. So this will be the answer, I think.

Thank you!

On android…Firefox refreshes the page any time you go to another tab or app and come back. That drives me batshit.

Containers?

I’m sorry what is the sky?

Sorry what is a computer?

No gambling

Sorry what is a cloud?

I just use my fingernail to make a small cut at the stem end and then it’s super easy to peel that back

I did. Pack a day since I was …14?

20 years later, one day I just felt I was done. Threw the rest of my pack out, and didn’t go back nor had the urge to after a week.

What exactly is danluu.com?

It would be amazing if lidarr could also interface with soulless. Id use it again but I’m way too lazy to go back to running randomly downloaded albums through whatever automated fingerprinting gui that went against musicbrainz I was using at the time

I haven’t used soulseek in probably a decade but are there really people in there expecting payment to let you download music from them?? wtf…