Transmission is free, free of bloat, and it works well. Cannot ask for more.
Transmission v4.0
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Re: Transmission v4.0
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want quicker speeds, look into usenet. Have to pay for a decent news hosting and indexer, but after some tweaking you can download new releases so much quicker without worrying about vpns and ratios. At this point I have Plex and Overseer hooked up to Prowlarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Radarr, with Prowlarr connected to my nzb client and server (it was easy to cut over from transmission, using the secure ports to ta…
I don't think I've ever found torrent download speed a limiting problem. I've much more often had problems finding peers to enable downloading 100% of the file at all, because most of what I download is stuff that's old enough (in time since the torrent was created) that mostly the torrent isn't being actively seeded any more. How long do files generally "stick around" on Usenet?
Last week I downloaded a torrent of a rather obscure series that I ripped from DVD and uploaded 16 years ago (I no longer have the DVD).
I was rather surprised to find my old torrent still hanging around. I thought it was pretty neat.
Re: Transmission v4.0
#163Related: the Transmission Remote GUI that allows to control the client from elsewhere. I use it with the Transmission client contained in the XigmaNAS NAS software which I run headless. https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui
The release notes say, "The remote control GUIs (transmission-qt and transmission-web) now use the RPC API "table" mode, resulting in smaller payloads / less bandwidth use.", but the GUI hasn't been updated in 3+ years, so what is this referring to?
It probably refers to the official remote gui which is not the one I linked. Mine works because I'm connecting to the transmission daemon shipped with XigmaNAS, an older version since it updates with the NAS firmware, which currently is the latest stable one, yet over 1 year old.
Re: Transmission v4.0
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
is there something for books and audiobooks in particular? i am hoping for a audible-like experience which can easily be created using booksonic and other servers but the retrieval part is the most troublesome imo. movies and tv shows have the best experience
There is: https://lazylibrarian.gitlab.io/ Libgen has almost everything I need and when it doesn’t I can usually find it in #bookz on undernet. If all else fails, bookfinder.com usually knows about used copies. I don’t have the luxury of an English speaking public library where I live.
There is also Readarr, which has a similar interface to the other *arr software.
It was in it's pretty early stages last time i checked it out, but that was a couple years back now.
Re: Transmission v4.0
#165Honest question. What kinds of things are people using torrents for in 2023?
Owning their media.
Re: Transmission v4.0
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which indexers do you use?
Quite a few people I know use https://nzbs.in/login/ and swear by it. The admins of that site try to masquerade it as another WordPress site. Ingenious. But it is by far the biggest, and the best I am told.
Seems their start was less than savory. Dog and Slug are the usual starter pair and cover 99% of folks' use cases.
https://old.reddit.com/r/usenet/comments/20v5es/so_apparentl...
Re: Transmission v4.0
#167> The entire codebase has been migrated from C to C++. In the process, we've removed thousands of lines of custom code and used standard C++ tools instead. The core's code has shrunk by 18%. The core codebase has been extensively refactored to be more testable and maintainable. I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.
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Re: Transmission v4.0
#168> The entire codebase has been migrated from C to C++. In the process, we've removed thousands of lines of custom code and used standard C++ tools instead. The core's code has shrunk by 18%. The core codebase has been extensively refactored to be more testable and maintainable. I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.
Program size has not shrunk though. 3.9M static binary for 2.84 9.0M static binary for 4.0.0
My god, that's $0.00014 worth of disk space! Or $0.00063 on SSD! Do they think we're made of money?
Re: Transmission v4.0
#169Still no proxy support, so still no dice.
Yep, I need to make sure my ISP doesn't figure out that I'm torrenting Ubuntu.
Re: Transmission v4.0
#170> The entire codebase has been migrated from C to C++. In the process, we've removed thousands of lines of custom code and used standard C++ tools instead. The core's code has shrunk by 18%. The core codebase has been extensively refactored to be more testable and maintainable. I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.
Program size has not shrunk though. 3.9M static binary for 2.84 9.0M static binary for 4.0.0
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