I think it’s make the switch to proton unlimited
Streaming giants to piracy
Reddit to Lemmy
Any hints for an elder pirate trying to find a good torrent site? My buddy was kind enough to give me an invite to a decent provider but that was maybe a decade and a half ago…
My elderly ass just barely figured out linux, so you can see how behind I am.
- Get a good VPN that allows port forwarding. I can recommend AirVPN
- Use Linux (of course)
- Install qBittorrent as the torrent client.
- Enable the search tab, under plugins install the Jackett plugin
- Install jackett (on NixOS it is easy, otherwise you can use podman or docker to run the container image (preferrably NOT from docker hub but this registry, use podman)
- Open 127.0.0.1:9117 in your browser and set an admin password, copy the API key. Add all public torrent sites possible, it will take a long while and might make your computer go wroom.
- Search for something in qBittorrent, you will get an error as you dont have the API key configured.
- Open the description page, it opens the browser and explains where to find the configuration file. Add the API key here
- Search things
- More advanced shit
I will make a post about my setup
Basically, dont use the sites directly, use a search engine that scrapes them. You need flaresolverr for some sites using Cloudflare. Apply for some private trackers, join communities to get invites. Remember to seed as much as possible and avoid hit-and-run.
Use qbittorrent. It has torrent search and download integrated.
Oh interesting, I have qbittorrent but have always just used it to on torrents I downloaded from a website. I’ll look into this, thanks!
I guess you have to change somerhing in the program options in order to make the Search tab visible
Try Usenet and a Usenet indexer. There are multiple guides on the internet on how to set up and use it, even automatically with some r-apps on a home server.
Usenet is very weird but funny in a way. As it is not actually decentralized and often involves fiat payment (non cryptocurrencies) I would prefer a good VPN provider (or even i2p) and torrenting
arr-stack is the secret weapon.
But for starters just a usenet client, a good usenet indexer and VLC are enough.
Recommended Usenet provider: astraweb with a block account. Buy 1000 GB for 50 €$ and use it over time for years without any subscription necessary.
Neat, I’ve vaguely heard/seen the term Usenet but haven’t looked into it, will do so! Thanks!
downloading torrents is very 2010s. Now we use Stremio app with torrentio plugin (or MediaFusion, or Comet). You get streaming from many torrent sites. Works on ios, android, many tvs, pc, whatever. There’s tons of other addons too like trakt.tv integration, etc. If you setup RealDebrid (paid, but cheap) thats even better, it acts as one big server with massive library of torrents, but provides very high download speeds, so you don’t need to worry about dead torrents or lack of seeders. I watch 4k movies without any problems.
Well that seems just wild! I’ll be looking into it this weekend, thanks, much appreciated!
It’s an absolute godsend. It’s a Netflix like experience for 3€ a month, only you get every content from every streamer there is
This seems so crazy good. I’m looking forward to spending some of this weekend researching and hopefully trying it!
The trick is to sign up to private trackers. Sometimes they have a open signups period.
- x to mastodon (long before the movement, I guess when the Ewong had to let that sink in)
- reddit to lemmy
- google to ecosia
- google to mailbox (long before the movement)
- a google phone to GrapheneOS
- jotta cloud
- amazon to otto
- several food brands and consumer products
Sadly, there are several services I cannot switch yet, due to profession.
What’s otto?
Iphone > Fairphone
Windows > Linux
Google > Qwant
Gmail > Proton + My own domain
Youtube (music) > Digital audio player (it’s just a modern name for a good old mp3)
Gilette > Mühle DE shaver + Proraso ( That was because I worked for P&G who own Gilette and never use their products out of spite)
Netflix > nothing (I’m okay with that… for now)
Pornhub > Xvideos 🤣
Damn. xvids and xhampster are both European
yup, gotta change up your media consumption.
Netflix -> Yo Ho!
How do you like your Fairphone? Doesn’t it still run a Google based OS? I mean even if you “deGoogle” it, you’re still stuck in a rut of needing some amount of Google BS.
Also the > in your comment make it look your saying like… Windows > Linux lol. Might as a - so it looks like an arrow rather than a greater than. Pedantry, I know.
fairphones have support for e/OS
Not OP but I’ve had my fairphone for a couple of months and I love it. I use e/OS on it so being free of googles clutches alone feels great. But what I really like is the thought that I will most likely keep this phone for well over 5 years.
yeah, I get your point and technically you’re right.
I was going along the lines a small step is better than nothing.
Actually, Pornhub isn’t American, it’s Canadian, so keep using it all you want!
Thank you for the info! I didn’t know that. But still not EU 😁
Netflix > nothing (I’m okay with that… for now)
Just Watch is a German service, a kind of search engine, that shows what movies and TV shows are available in different streaming services. It supports many local streaming services. For example, some TV channels / broadcasting companies, and even libraries, might have streaming services in your country, and Just Watch likely lists their content as well. There are many filters, etc., you can use to narrow down your search.
Oh wow, what a great resource!
Thank you for the tip! (that’s what she said)
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Reddit to Lemmy has been hands down the best one so far. You lemmlings may be wierd at times, but not nearly as toxic as redditors.
Also moved from Gilette Fussion to a safety razor, cheaper, better quality (my skin is less irritated after shaving), and I feel like a boss when shaving.
From Chrome to Vivaldi & from Google to Ecosia.
And for lots of hygine products I moved to EU brands from US - ones. (Palmolive,Colgate, Lenor etc). I know Loreal, Beiersdorf and Unilever aren’t great companies, but local alternatives are crazy expensive.
Deleted Insta, unfortunately way too many people refuse to move from What’s App to Signal.
Switch from Vivaldi to Firefox.
Use Vivaldi only for Gather.town at work. PITA with FF
firefox to icecat
You lemmlings may be wierd at times, but not nearly as toxic as redditors.
This seems to be true for most users. However, I feel that the administration is toxic and nontransparent. It is not very transparent on reddit either. However, maybe I should go for a different instance.
Which safety razor?
Mootes & Tiger platinum blades.
switched from bourbon to scotch
Any recommendations? Love bourbon and a few Irish whiskies but scotch always tastes too smokey and… ionidy? to me.
Glenmorangie is a good “entry level” Scotch that isn’t smokey and peaty at all.
But if you like the taste of bourbon and don’t like smokey and peaty, there’s nothing wrong with sticking to Irish whiskies. Or Swedish. Or Canadian.
They’re more similar to bourbon.Oh yeah, I do like me some Canadian whiskey! But I’ll grab a bottle of Glenmorangie if I see one around 🙂
Balblair 12 year old.
Gmail to Mailbox.org. Whenever I’m using it to login somewhere I get reminded that no US corporation can steal or shutdown my identity.
I tried switching to Tuta, but I got annoyed at only being able to use their email client, so I can’t mix and use my work email there and have to have two email clients. What made you choose mailbox?
I did not consider Tuta at the time. It either was not around yet or too new.
I compared Posteo and Mailbox. Since Mailbox gives me the option to use my own domain, I picked that one. (I don’t have my own domain 🤡)
Mailbox provides normal IMAP access. I use Thunderbird and the iOS Mail app as clients. (Annoying: iOS Mail does not delete mails in a way that is recognized by Thunderbird)
I didn’t understand the last part. Why do you use both?
I do use both because I want to read my email on my phone and on my desktop.
If I delete a Mail on iOS, it is not deleted in Thunderbird though. The iOS client only marks it as deleted instead of actually removing the data and Thunderbird does not understand the mark.
What does using thunderbird add for you?
I like having a native Desktop client and Thunderbird is a reasonably good one.
@copacetic
Check the settings in #Thunderbird. I think, it can deal with deletion markers. All clients have to agree on how to use a shared mailbox.
@atcorebcorI looked into this again. I misremembered: iOS Mail does not “mark” deleted mails but is supposed to move deleted Mails on IMAP into a Trash folder (or Archive). That does not happen in my case and I have no clue why. The mail disappears in the app but is unchanged on the server.
moved here
Windows -> Linux CachyOS Google Mail -> Tutamail Amazon -> Buying local where possible
Best decision ever…
And quitting all the social media crap and using feddit now.
Still looking for a Twitch alternative. There are some, but the content is lacking…
Watch Twitch with Firefox + ublock origin maybe?
- Windoof -> Linux
- WhatsApp -> Threema
- Google Mail -> Proton Mail + mail at hoster with my domain(s)
- Google Maps -> OpenStreetMap
- Google Drive -> Nextcloud
- [no social media] -> Fediverse
- GitHub -> Codeberg (partially)
- Reddit to Lemmy
- iPhone to Fairphone
- Apple Music to Qobuz
- Google to Qwant
- Gmail to Protonmail (and other tools like Pass, Drive)
- WhatsApp to Signal
- Audible to BookBeat
- Microsoft Office to LibreOffice
- ChatGPT to Mistral.ai
Various cloud services replaced with selfhosting, like Immich. And quit and deleted X, Facebook, Insta. No shopping ever at Amazon. No eating or drinking ever at McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, Starbucks.
Signal is not a EU switch,btw.
It isn’t, but it is definitely the best switch if you have privacy in mind. A lot of other options have various areas they are lacking in. Signal is a real gold standard of privacy and security, and open-source, so location matters much less.
It is not even close to the gold standard of privacy and still falls within the Homeland Security act as well as Trump shenanigans - and are hosted on Google, Amazon and MS servers.
While as far as we know their encryption is close to gold standard, the foundation and concept itself has massive issues one should be aware of.
There is no european alternative though. Maybe threema, but people don’t want to pay for a messaging app. (Even though they did in the past with WhatsApp on iOS)
Or Matrix…
There are unencrypted messages in Matrix though. Not by default, but it’s there.
Hardly an argument. The clients warn against it,it’s not default, has to be done very intentionally,etc. That’s on one level with “I screenshot messages and post them on facebook” - and in that case the other end would not be warned about it.
The downsides of Matrix exist (key exchange, performance, audio/video, federation issues), but this is not one of them. Overall it’s as secure as Signal but, I totally must agree on that, not as easy as signal. Which partially comes with the federation, but partially also due to ongoing issues the current development fails to adress so far.
Threema has the downside of being swiss hosted (which sadly is an issue by now due to their legislation) and being from a company very close to the swiss goverment but at least the Orange Tittler can’t shut it down directly.
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Moved business and personal email from ms to Proton. Wow turns out I really missed a simple email interface. And it’s saving me about 23 hours a day not logging back into o365 for the thousandth time.
Dunno why it took so long, we’re full Linux with the odd mac. The office admin panel is so fucking awful I could never work out how to backup. Turned out Proton can just import…
Proton is nice and surely better than Office, but let’s not forget that the owner of Proton publicly supports Trump, so I’m planning to move out of Proton ASAP
Lol nobody supports trump, they had one unfortunate post on twitter that some people (un) intentionally misinterpreted. The drama is over, so maybe time to move on?
Different to what most people are doing, but I’ve been thinking about dressing more European. So many popular casual clothes come from the US: bomber jackets, duck chore jackets, baseball caps, most sneakers, jeans. The last two alone are permanent parts of “default dude uniform”.
So I now e.g. have:
- a harrington jacket (ironically the name comes from an American show, made in China from UK brand) - it’s an English golfing jacket by origin
- a Shetland sweater (made in Shetland)
- a tartan wool scarf (made in Scotland)
- some corduroy and moleskin pants for the winter (Made in Bangladesh, UK company)
- wool balmacaan-style overcoat from Italian tweed made in Portugal
- chukka boots (Made in England).
Also eyeing a French chore coat.
You’d think doing this would be really easy given how the US came to be. Say, a suit is European, but wearing one every day is not as common as before. The overall theme in the west is that democratization is cool, while tradition is not. But when I think Europe, I think tradition. Hence the suit is European, but it’s not “cool”.
Corduroy and shetland sweaters are pretty “grandpa” as well. But I guess this is the arduous process of re-learning an identity after being fed American culture all the time while growing up. You just don’t know what’s yours.
As you can see by the items it’s all clothes that come from the UK. Again, it was easiest to pick the UK because it was the purveyor of European style, back before, you know.
Man dressing made in EU is soooo expensive though.
I found a few sales on avocadostore. With the sale prices they were the same as other slavemade brands on normal price.
Yes, but most of the time more durable, fair working conditions etc
What items do you have in mind?
A good “gateway drug” is buying second hand. It lets you get acknowledged with a brand and let you decide if you’d like to drop the retail or sale price on an item from them in the future. They don’t necessarily even need to be made in EU, just they need to come from a higher price bracket.
Here are my Vinted filters for mostly EU brands (only some are made in EU), they link to the Polish Vinted so maybe change the .pl to your region:
Poland has the most connected regions on Vinted so your results may vary.
For Shoes:
Portugal, mayby most famously, as well as poland have very talented cobblers who make great quality shoes while not being nearly as expensive as some of the bigger brands (looking at you, doc martens). Unfortunately the best way to find out about them currently is etsy. But I‘d reckon there are other platforms where they are active. Maybe it‘s even possible to contact them for sales circumventing Etsy.
Google Android to e/OS. Fairphone 6 is great.
hell yeah brother 💪📱
Sister, but yeah. It’s fantastic.
Do banking apps work yet, because that forced me back to the stock install?
Only with MicroG. My workaround is to have a compromised computer at home that stays in my house, and then not have google on my phone at all. It’s an added layer that is supposed to obfuscate details about the user, but I don’t trust it. Also, you have a tracker that tries to call home, but you can disable it.
Banking worked once I added a Google account to microg. Which is not the best I know, but thats a compromise for now. With e/os and others you also habe to keep in mind that not all images allow you to lock your bootloader.
Any limitations you ran into?
I just don’t do banking or make transactions in it. It’s setup with MicroG by default. I used developer mode to get all that off and stop the attempts of google to call home. I guess without the ability to do those things they would lose market share. If you’re like me and refuse to tolerate, just remove it. Other defaults are fine. I didn’t like that I had to go through Dev mode if I wanted to remove the native maps app, but I ended up keeping it anyway.
Here is what’s good: modular design so you can replace parts,
battery is absolutely amazing, after two months it has never wen dead, best battery life I’ve ever seen
Ethical building, part of build in China is performed under a fair labor plan
Spoofs your ip
Fakes your geolocation
Has app tracker detection and blocks leaks
Forums with helpful community
No bloatware, just normal stuff
I have had no issues with this phone. Accessories are high but they are not a big company, so… You can use NextDNS to see any tracker queries if you want. You are able to disable the google tracker in MicroG if you just go to community forum and read how. If you block in NextDNS first you will not need to worry anyways.
Windows to Linux
