"borka borka antifascista" is now one of my favorite things.
Private trackers are closed communities for sharing torrents. Often you can either interview to get access, or occasionally one with have open sign up for access. These usually have strict requirements to maintain a reasonable ratio of seeding for your downloads to prevent greedy users from ruining performance of sharing.
Redacted is one of these communities, based strictly around music and maintaining quality, refusing to allow low quality encoding of the data. It is harder to get into the community, as well as very strict seeding requirements to maintain.
Information about who they are and how to apply for access can all be found at https://interviewfor.red/
Yeah, Lidarr and Red are not a great fit... Too many options and unless you wrote super complex filters you'd wind up with the weirdest version of each album.
It took a bit to get established there, but with the tokens they've been more freely giving lately it's not too bad. There's also a point when you are perma seeding that it starts to coast along and just take care of itself... I now see more seeding after I download something ironically.
Seeding is a fickle beast there, but I'm glad to have em.
If you have access to certain music-focused private torrent trackers, many will do spotlight articles on independent or smaller artists who are also members.
This kind of sharing is often welcomed and a valued thing, so could even be a way in to some of those communities.
Redacted does this, and I've been introduced to some really good music this way.
Alternately, as others have noted, Bandcamp is a good way to offer as well. If you go this route, even with setting the music as free, you might make some small money... I've often tipped a bit via the "Pay what you want" pricing tier.
Alas, I'm the sysadmin. It's not domain joined.
Microsoft is forcing it, but many configurations are delayed due to the critical issues they've been hitting.
For my larger boxes, I only use SuperMicro. Most other vendors do weird shit to their back planes that make them incompatible or charge for licenses for their ipmi/drac/lightsout . Any reputable reseller of server gear will offer SuperMicro.
The disk to ram ratio is niche, and I've almost never run into that outside of large data warehouse or database systems (not what we're doing here). Most of my machines run nearly idle even serving files several active streams or 3gb/sec data moves on only 16gb RAM. I use CPU being maxed out as a good warning that one of my disks needs checking, since silvering or degraded in ZFS chews CPU.
That said, hypervisors eat RAM. Whatever machine you might want to perform torrents, transcoding, etc, give that box RAM and either a good supported GPU or a recent Intel quicksync chip.
For organizing over the arrays, I use raided SSD for the downloads, with the torrent client moving to the destination host for seeding on completion.
Single instance of radarr and sonarr, instead I update the root folder for "new" content any time I need to point to a new machine. I just have to keep the current new media destination in sync between the Arr and the torrent client for that category.
The Arr stacks have gotten really good lately with path management, you just need to ensure the mounts available to them are set correct.
In the event I need to move content between 2x different boxes, I pause the seed and use rsync to duplicate the torrent files. Change path and recheck the torrent. Once that's good I either nuke and reimport in the Arr, or lately I've been doing better naming convention on the hosts so I can use preserving hardlinks. Beware, this is pretty complex route unless you are very comfortable in Linux and rsync!
I'm using OMV on bare metal personally. My proxmox doesn't even have OMV, it's on a mini PC for transcoding. I see no problem running OMV inside proxmox though. My baremetal boxes are dedicated for just NAS duties.
For what it's worth, keep tasks as minimal and simple as you can. Complexity where it's not needed can be pain later. My nas machines are largely identical in base config, with only the machine name and storage pool name different.
If you don't need a full hypervisor, I'd skip it. Docker has gotten great in its abilities. The easiest docker box I have was just Ubuntu with DockGE. It keeps it's configs in a reliable path so easy to backup your configs etc.
Ugh that is extra shitty. Yeah eBay is absurd sometimes with the risks.
For anyone skimming, my cards are all based around the ancient but great LSI 9211-8i chips.
I flash my own, so I can disable BIOS and efi. I suppose if someone gets to the larger hoarding, they should be comfortable flashing their own cards too.
Most of my drives are in the 3tb/4tb range... Something about that timeframe made some reliable disks. Newer disks have had more issues really. A few boxes run some 8tb or 12tb, and I keep some external 8tb for evacuation purposes, but I don't think I trust most options lately.
HGST / Toshiba seems to have done good by me overall, but that's subjective certainly.
I have 2 Seagate I need to pull from one of the older boxes right now, but they are 2tb and well past their due:
root@Mizuho:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdc|grep "Vendor|Product|Capacity|minutes" Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST2000NM0021 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 41427:43
root@Mizuho:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdh|grep "Vendor|Product|Capacity|minutes" Vendor: SEAGATE Product: ST2000NM0021 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 23477:56
Typically I'm a Debian/Ubuntu guy. Easiest multi tool for my needs.
I usually use OpenMediaVault for my simple NAS needs.
Proxmox and XCP-NG for hypervisor. I was involved in the initial development of OpenStack, and have much love for classic Xen itself (screw Citrix and their mistreatment of xenserver).
My dockers are either via DockGE or the compose plugins under OMV, leaning more toward DockGE lately for simplicity and eye candy.
Overall, I've had my share of disk failures. Usually from being sloppy. I only trust software RAID, as I have better shot at recovery if I'm stupid enough to store something critical on less that N+2.
I usually buy drives only on previous generation, and at that only when price absolutely craters. The former due to being bitten by new models crapping out early, and latter due to being too poor to support my bad habits.
Nearly all of my SATA disks came from externals, but that's become tenuous lately... SMR disks are getting stuck into these more and more, and manufacturers sneakier about hiding shit design.
Used SAS from a place with solid warranty seems to be most reliable. About half my fleet was bought used and I've only lost about 1/4 of those with less than 5+ years active run time.
24h2 has tried to force install on my machine I work with 4 times now. It wastes an hour or so each attempt, then crashes and automatically rolls back.
This machine otherwise is up to date and has no other issues.
The failed attempts have forced me to plan on the machine being unusable for the first chunk of my morning, and on each attempt performance bogs down while it does the pre-game crap.
I'm not wanting to disable security updates... I want to disable the forced "feature" update.
And the chosen wording will piss them off even more.
Quick: how do we leverage this to disable forced updates?!
95 can suck eggs... The GUI was largely items they had co-developed with IBM for the next release of OS/2 that they instead split last minute due to contractual arguments since Microsoft wanted a larger cut of profits. There's more depth of course but tldr version.
It's a large part of why 95 was so crashy until osr2.5... it was largely 32 bit GUI stuck onto rushed 16 bit DOS with some quick protected mode hooks.
That said, XP was the first version I could stand.
7 was actually pretty good.