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Any camel can fit through the eye of a pin… With a Blendtek ©️ blender!

“However, this may prove challenging” … That sentence doing a lot of lifting, lol

It’s gonna get messy! Girls told me my mind will be blown!

Ding ding ding!

I’m in similar -ish…

Wife who is immature mentally and cheated for 25 years got called out. Now stays simply because she isn’t financially responsible and wouldn’t survive on her own. My extended family is now blocked from contact after my mother croaked, so they no longer influence her. Quote my mother “I wanted a daughter instead of you”… Her second husband literally was one of the guys, set up by my mother.

Wife lives in separate bedroom. Not a romantic partner.

Girlfriends (2) live in other part of house with me. They are platonically connected to each other, and the 3 of us fully integrated.

While there’s tension with the wife still occasionally, the original arrangement was due to being stuck where not only would she have likely wound up homeless, it would have also made me and our kid homeless too. Now kid is adult, and things are mostly stable so no major changes unless the wife can become financially stable. If to when that’s not an issue, we will separate amicably.

Preconceived notions of “that will harm the kid!” Etc have all been amazingly strong baselines for identifying and stopping contact with toxic people who use labels instead of just asking the kid how they feel about it.

We have never tried to have the kid call anyone else “Mom”. Weird how far that one goes.

As today is my 45th birthday, I look forward to my mistress showing up as described. My girlfriends will probably have a problem.

My wife likely, also, but she has no part in this adventure.

Gonna be a fun day I hope!

Second the suggestion for *Arr here! It’s clever enough to rename to exactly what jellyfin wants as well as in place hardlinks if you are Linux, so that the original names persist in qbit while jellyfin sees the good stuff.

There’s other benefits like tracking quality you have on disk for if you are wanting something better down the line, but allowing it to handle naming and sorting is a huge life saver.

Drive failures have almost nothing to do with access if they are mechanical. Most failures are from bearing or solder interconnect failures over time.

Also, most seeding is in smaller chunks that are read and cached if popular… Meaning less drive hits than 1-1 read vs upload.

You will almost always have drives fail from other aspects like heat or power or old age before wear from seeding would ever be enough to matter.

I have drives in the excess of 10+ years, with several seeds that have been active for many years of those, that are still running just fine.

Actually there’s a better reason for the encryption! You are correct that they use torrent clients to connect and record swarm nodes.

It prevents an ISP from traffic shaping against known torrent traffic!

Many ISP will watch for certain unencrypted headers and if it sees torrent will throttle it to nearly nothing. With the encryption, it all just looks like SSL.

It was one of a few stupid things and I wound up just telling him to leave.

Kinda wish it was more dramatic and/or gory, but I usually am just too tired to turn to violence.

Besides, I’d never admit to owning that chipper shredder anyway.

This!

I haven’t had one since an idiot roommate decided they wanted to fuck around. I fixed the problem (no more roommate).

Been 20 years now.

VPN seems a way to screw up decent performance when all you need is to stay away from public trackers.

Ironically I’m ok with this in moderation… But scalpers that charge a high price, more than materials and maybe a small fee, I dislike.

Filling a void is a service. While there a grey area, there’s a balance between acceptable fee and blatant junk.

Region locking of any type I feel should be outright illegal, but I’m just a lowly pirate with bent ethics.

I think you are right on the money (heh pun).

It’s one type of pirate to hoard and spread about the booty, but it takes a special form of hypocrisy to turn around and charge for hard money.

As to communities, I can’t help too much there but instead offer that there actually do exist groups that effectively have created swarms that are like a private tracker but for live/on demand viewing. Think an invite group of dozens of jellyfin servers. It might be safer to work toward identifying and joining one of those, depending on your desire.

I personally have dedicated machines per task.

8x SSD machine: runs services for Arr stack, temporary download and work destination.

4-5x misc 16x Bay boxes: raw storage boxes. NFS shared. ZFS underlying drive config. Changes on a whim for what’s on them, but usually it’s 1x for movies, 2x for TV, etc. Categories can be spread to multiple places.

2-3x 8x bay boxes: critical storage. Different drive geometric config, higher resilience. Hypervisors. I run a mix of Xen and proxmox depending on need.

All get 10gb interconnect, with critical stuff (nothing Arr for sure) like personal vids and photos pushed to small encrypted storage like BackBlaze.

The NFS shared stores, once you get everything mapped, allow some smooth automation to migrate things pretty smoothly around to allow maintenance and such.

Mostly it’s all 10 year old or older gear. Fiber 10gb cards can be had off eBay for a few bucks, just watch out for compatibility and the cost for the transceivers.

8 port SAS controllers can be gotten same way new off eBay from a few vendors, just explicitly look for “IT mode” so you don’t get a raid controller by accident.

SuperMicro makes quality gear for this… Used can be affordable and I’ve had excellent luck. Most have a great ipmi controller for simple diagnostic needs too. Some of the best SAS drive planes are made by them.

Check BackBlaze disk stats from their blog for drive suggestions!

Heat becomes a huge factor, and the drives are particularly sensitive to it… Running hot shortens lifespan. Plan accordingly.

It’s going to be noisy.

Filter your air in the room.

The rsync command is a good friend in a pinch for data evacuation.

Your servers are cattle, not pets… If one is ill, sometimes it’s best to put it down (wipe and reload). If you suspect hardware, get it out of the mix quick, test and or replace before risking your data again.

You are always closer to dataloss than you realize. Be paranoid.

Don’t trust SMART. Learn how to read the full report. Pending-Sectors above 0 is always failure… Remove that disk!

Keep 2 thumb drives with your installer handy.

Keep a repo somewhere with your basics of network configs… Ideally sorted by machine.

Leave yourself a back door network… Most machines will have a 1gb port. Might be handy when you least expect. Setting up LAGG with those 1gb ports as fallback for the higher speed fiber can save headaches later too…