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I have usenet as my primary with torrent as a backup. I get probably 80-90% hits on usenet for the most part.

That’s exactly what I have set up too. I also have gluetun tied to my Prowlarr and NZBget containers. I know Prowlarr tied to VPN may be overkill but it doesn’t hurt anything so why not?

Switch to usenet and call it a day. Switched last year and am finding the stuff I want, new and old without issue. I still have some private trackers in my list but have usenet as #1 and rarely does it not pull what I request of it.

Switch to usenet and call it a day. Switched last year and am finding the stuff I want, new and old without issue. I still have some private trackers in my list but have usenet as #1 and rarely does it not pull what I request of it.

What files from your Mac are you trying to sync to next cloud? If you have a Truenas already, why are you hosting files from your Mac instead of mapping a share directly from your Truenas into Nextcloud and working directly off of the source instead?

As for syncing photos from my phone to Nextcloud, I’ve had no issues over the past 3 years hosting it myself. I had one problem with a lot of conflicts where permissions on my truenas wouldn’t allow nextcloud to delete them, so I had a manual cleanup process last month but that’s the only problem I’ve had. I just switched to Truenas a few months ago from QNAP and am still learning the caveats of their very granular permissions but everything generally works about 99% of the time.

I always end up over buying and want that candy GONE! No age restrictions for me either.

$120 a year and still limited to 3600 searches. Pretty sure I’m way above that number. I get they need to make up for lost as revenue but that’s still too much for me to justify. I’ll keep giving my data to a free engine.

That’s because it is considered part of the Midwest?? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States

Except if the malware has already infected the recovery partition or completely removed it. Personally I’d take no chances and just nuke the HDD and perform a fresh install.

Go on… As an avid non-apple\mac household I would install safari pretty quickly just to watch ad-less YouTube.

You’re going to build your own smart TV that can handle new HDMI and Displayport advancements too?

I just finished the series today and feel the whole thing was a huge nothingburger, and Thrawn was kind of a letdown after reading the books years ago. A coworker described it as rebels season 5 which I did miss watching that series, but a lot of the episodes just felt like filler with one major plot point happening in each. Overall a waste of time and opportunity imo.

I backup my ESXi VMs and NAS file shares to local server storage using an encrypted Veeam job and have a copy job to a local NAS with iSCSI storage presented.

From there I have another host VM accessing that same iSCSI share uploading the encrypted backup to Backblaze. Unlimited “local” storage for $70\y? Yes please! (iSCSI appears local to Backblaze. They know and have already started they don’t care.)

I’m backing up about 4TB to them currently using this method.

I’m sure you know this, but snapshots are not backups!

Worth mentioning that NZBget is no longer in development. It still works but there is a fork out of a new client someone is developing. I can’t recall the name but easily findable. This would be the equivalent of your torrent client.

It’s nearing year end and you can get end of year deals soon on providers and indexers so off hold off until November\December. I think I got a lifetime NZBGeek membership last year for like $100 or something. It was my first time doing usenet but I actually switched my instances to use usenet indexers first over torrent indexers its that good.

Funny enough I just cancelled my Hulu after they jacked the ad-free price up to $18. It was $12 when I first subscribed about 6 or 7 years ago.

I will say thier D+ and Hulu price doesn’t seem bad with the current promotion, but I’m getting D+ currently from family. I’ve always sailed the seas even when subbed to Hulu, but once D+ starts blocking sub sharing I’ll be shoving off for the long foreseeable future once again.

That was my thought too. Not knowing how much they cost and reading $100 I already knew that amount was way too low. I’ve gotten recalls on dehumidifiers in the past and the rebate usually equated to about half of a new unit. That’s obviously apples to oranges but still a rediculous offering given the price of a newer model.

That’s definitely a help, thanks for the details! The description of your plan sounds more along what was a available to us, but I’m currently paying off a 401k loan until 2027 so any huge project would need to wait for sure. I’m in Ohio and a few houses in my neighborhood already have solar, and we do get hail about twice a year here. I’d also want batteries as our neighborhood gets brownouts a couple of times a year too and that would help with it.

I also appreciate how you explained how the tax credit works too. I’m hopeful to do something before they expire it, and I’m also hoping they don’t end it early!

Yeah, I had a pushy door to door salesman shove a tablet in my face telling me that the solar “purchase” would be completely free. I’m interested in solar but know “free” always has a catch and told him to pound sand. I checked it out later that day and the website for the company he represented (I forget which) and they started nothing “free” about it.

I did learn that solar is quite expensive, from the install process to the leasing of equipment. And very little to no information is available regarding repair of the panels, from malfunction to hail damage. And what happens if it’s time to redo shingles on your roof? No idea, but I’m sure the salesmen will tell you something along the lines of “it’s covered” or “don’t worry about it right now”. Well that’s the way my brain works. I plan for long term and think of any obscure variables that may come along the way.

There’s also the ROI on solar. When you purchase or lease the panels it takes about 10 years before you can actually see a benefit in your bank account.

I’d love to go solar, but until it’s actually affordable and makes sense I can’t bring myself to pull the trigger. Maybe in 2030 when the US’s current tax incentive is due to expire I may take another look.

“Magazines” over in kbin. I’ve been using it and like it.