You just crushed my soul again.

That’s absolutely in your right to do so.

Would you mind if I ask you what did I say that’s considered an asshole move?

Is there a way to technically deliver an unbroken user experience to a thread user without privacy issues?

A failed messaging system that nobody in the world uses except for the Americans?

How sweet.

Upvote for Frank, he’s such an amazing person!

Yeah, that's great.

Oh, my apologies.

I don't want to argue about that, I personally avoid Docker if I can, but can't deny it's a great tool and very powerful for the right use cases.

What I wonder is: to you, in your opinion, those commands are really easier than "apt install transmission"?

That's a great suggestion! I'll try this one, thank you!

Problem with that it's that it has Qt as dependency, therefore it's a bit of a hassle to run in a headless machine.

But it's still a very solid option.

Being a sports car enthusiast does not automatically mean I hate Lamborghini because I own a Ferrari.

You are totally right, what I mean is you don't have to use Linux to be a power user, but despise it it's not a power user attitude.

if the community we're in puts rtorrent in C tier because it's "UNIX only" then you and I have a different meaning of "power users".

Yes but running a web interface on top of rtorrent is not as easy as transmision.

I switched from rtorrent to Transmission. It's the only one with a ready-to-use web server so I can add and monitor my torrents remotely.

I would never run a torrent program on my main computer. Not that there's (more) risks, it just feels wrong to me.

Yes, ZFS is commonly known for heavy disk I/O and also huge RAM usage, the rule used to be “1GB of RAM for every TB of disk” but that’s not compulsory.

Meanwhile, about BTRFS, keep in mind that Synology uses a mixed recipe because the RAID code of BTRFS is still green and it’s not considered production ready. Here’s an interesting read about how Synology filled the gaps: https://daltondur.st/syno_btrfs_1/

Oh that’s great to hear. Thank you for sharing.

The most common software choices are TrueNAS and UNRAID.

Depending on your use-case, one is better than the other:

TrueNAS uses ZFS, which is great if you want to be absolutely sure the unreplaceable data on your disks is 100% safe, like your personal photos. UNRAID has a more flexible expansion and more power efficient, but doesn’t prevent any bit flip, which is not really an issue if you only store multimedia for streaming.

If you prefer a hardware solution ready to use, Synology and QNAP are great choices so long you remember to use ZFS (QNAP) or BTRFS (Synology) as filesystem.

Well, fuck.

I guess “that’s why we can’t have nice things” apply here.

Why would Plex block a specific hosting provider!?

What’s 32p?