I’m not a cop

I use qbittorrent, and even popular or legitimate torrents get zero uploads.

Can you explain how this works? My seeding is garbage and I’m not sure how to set it up to work better.

Seeding is crippled due to no port forwarding. You can download, you just can’t really share back.

Always put a pepperoni in the exact middle. It’s like a wishbone, but for pizza. The person who gets the majority of the center pepperoni gets a wish.

Powered off it uses almost twice the energy of my server.

That’s insane.

You have to get the file from Amazon first in a format that deDRM works on. That’s the trouble here.

Kindle for PC still works, but you have to find an old version and disable updates.

I have Plex running alongside Jellyfin.

When transcoding video, Plex uses an extra 5 watts of power. Jellyfin uses an extra 55 watts.

Jellyfin also has security holes for accessing videos via URL without being authenticated.

I don’t feel like Jellyfin is ready for being exposed to the internet.

I had a 212j for about 10 years before I got a 720+.

The j series are so underpowered the dashboard took literal minutes to load.

The + series is extremely energy efficient, but still powerful. I was running a Plex server along with a Terraria server on it and had no hiccups.

Now they were designed nearly a decade apart, but still. The + series is the way to go, don’t get anything else if you go with Synology.

There’s no such thing as too simple to document. If you spent time learning how to install it, you’ll need to relearn it if you want to make any changes in the future. If you don’t leave at least some notes as to why you make some decisions, you’ll have to redo your work.

It’s also good to make notes on every configuration setting. That forces you to understand why the settings are the way they are. If you have a -f in a docker config and you don’t have any understanding of why that’s there, you might not know if it’s a development flag for getting things set up, or if it’s a critical part of your environment.

It is especially important if any of those parts are exposed to the public Internet. You might have a config set to allow unauthenticated connections and not know it.

I think we’d all enjoy a fresh take on SDV. There’s probably a ton he’d like to change, but can’t without having to rework the whole thing.

He did a fantastic job making the game what it is by adding slowly to the game, but it’s certainly pretty disjointed and limited in a lot of ways.

There is an API that you can call to sync Kobo e-readers with calibre.

https://jccpalmer.com/posts/setting-up-kobo-sync-with-calibre-web/

It just depends on if this would work with your current thoughts on how your app works.

I would be interested in something that can sync with Calibre-Web

Kinda cool how the configs work, but it feels like you need to rely a little too much on having premade configs available for the things you want to do.

That was a hypothesis until just recently, where they measured it and found that it has regular mass.

https://home.cern/science/experiments/gbar

I write an average of about 3 checks per month, even now.

Easy, be me.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/roku-says-unpopular-autoplay-ads-are-just-a-test/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/i-threw-away-audibles-app-and-now-i-self-host-my-audiobooks/

Check out this arstechnica article on AudioBookshelf. Should cover most of what you need to get started.

https://youtu.be/qW9mZLnQ7Yc

You want to listen to some Cake today? Sure you do.