Air VPN has port forwarding, been using them for years.

It is weirder to me that people back shit like this up. I have zero desire to keep a backup of chat and random images people have sent me.

Shame it is only 128 MP3s, I’m guessing that is what the audio is streamed at.

I agree but mixcloud isn’t far behind it I don’t reckon. Especially as they used to have unlimited free uploads. I have 60 or more mixes on there myself and I’m just a bedroom DJ

You could be talking about either company here. I’m no fan of AI but you know this will set precedent for scummy companies like Warner Brothers to over reach into other things for “copyright reasons”.

!drumandbass@lemmy.world

Or

!jungle@lemmy.world

May also appreciate this :)

I doubt anyone cares at all. You get a fair amount of snobs who will lock their files up and ask for specific trades or for bandcamp vouchers in exchange for access to what they have but I don’t converse with those types personally. If I see them I usually block them from downloading anything of mine out of principle because I can’t stand that attitude.

However everyone else I’ve interacted with there are more concerned about the quality and don’t really care of origin or anything like that.

I was looking at the nvidia before getting this current one as everyone recommends it but it is so old now and yet still absurdly expensive that I just didn’t think it was worth it, so if you could buy it and force a new iteration for us all that would be great!

Good luck with whatever you buy, if I had my way we would have a PC hooked up to the TV and do everything via that but I would probably be kicked out just for suggesting something so “absurd” xD

We used a firestick for a few years which was more than adequate in my experience once you’d set it up initially. Earlier this year I switched over to a cheap Chinese google box by “mycool”, so far this has been working fine too with no issues aside from the cheap remote (I didn’t like the fire stick remote either but it at least felt a little better quality)

I absolutely hate both Amazon and google but my primary concerns were more about the girlfriend acceptance factor as it had to be something that was easy to use as she does not want to put any effort into it. It also needed “Netflix certification” so that the Netflix app would work as she belligerently keeps paying for and using that despite me providing multiple alternatives.

I added a custom launcher to the googleTV one so it literally displays the 6 icons of the things we use and none of the other shit so the experience is easy and streamlined with no adverts or bullshit and this has passed the test with no complaints.

For my sister I got a fire stick up and running as she is, again, very against using anything that requires any kind of effort and she seems happy with that so far.

I’d like to move away from both Amazon and google at least in my own house but not sure how to yet and still get the A OK from the other users, I tried kodi in the past but they both refused to use it due to the interface, which to be fair is fucking dog shit in my experience.

So for now I’ll be sticking to the fire stick and googletv options I have running.

Cheers for the info and mentioning it in general, I never thought to look for ones made of a different material before but now you’ve said it it makes a lot of sense.

I understand exactly what you mean about the grip too as my thumb is perpetually slipping off after the thumb stick rubber gets worn down a lot. Other than a general clean the thumbsticks are what I have changed the most.

Hmmm interesting, how do they feel to use?

Love soulseek but please do try and share some stuff and leave you computer on from time to time so that other people can search / download what you are sharing. Whilst it isn’t a requirement and you won’t get banned for not doing so it is basic etiquette in my opinion and without people sharing resources like these will slowly die.

In terms of clients I would suggest trying both out. The majority of people recommend nicotine+ but personally I don’t understand it, I find the official client much better even though it has a few quirks mainly due to searching and navigating others files seems to be a lot better in my experience.

Xbox controllers have always been the best option for me. They are well built and last for fucking ages. Easy to take apart to replace things like thumbsticks if the rubber wears off or to clean out when they get a bit older.

I currently use an Xbox one controller and it cost me under £20 second hand, I have a second one that I got as a back up purely because it was about £5. They can be had for absolute bargains second hand!

I know another replier mentioned a dongle for wireless play which I believe is for the older controller as the “one” controller has Bluetooth which syncs up with my steam deck flawlessly and has just worked with no fucking about.

This is my main issue with it, it is so uncomfortable. It is too large, weighty and the buttons are not all comfortably placed in my opinion.

The PS Vita feels so much better in hand but then becomes a bit cramped after a few hours play so I’d really love something in between the two for me personally.

I feel your pain man.

All the tutorials I have read and watched say to “just” do x, y and then z and it will all work fine! It never does. I have spent multiple hours trying to get a few different repacks to work in a few different ways and it never just works as it supposedly should.

I got one game to run once after 4 hours and thought j had it figured out then the next day it didn’t work again xD

I now have two machines, one running Linux and one running windows for my DJ software and repacks, that doesn’t help you but that is the best solution I found xD

I would love an updated key2 form factor more but any physical keyboard phones are better than none to choose from.

I’m looking forward to my titan 2 from unihertz, I just hope someone makes a postmarket ROM or similar cause I can’t go back to regular android -_-

I appreciate the info, which of those two do you think would be the best to try to get into. I am a myanonamouse member in good standing with uploads as well as a good ratio / uptime etc so I may have a look on their invites section to see if I can get in via there.

Failing that I’ll have a look at other ways of getting in as maybe it will be beneficial in the long term for me.

Thanks for taking the time to have a look for me :)

Hmmm intrigued, what one are you part of?

Im mainly looking for dubstep, the “real dubstep” side of stuff.

Artists like:

Gisaza Lowcase Headland Argo Zha Teffa Kercha 7kidz

Etc…

Meh. Private trackers is just this same attitude of elitism that I don’t like bundled into a different form. On top of that I can’t even be sure that they would even have the kinds of things I’m looking for, it isn’t like I can browse their catalogue first to see if they catered to my niche music taste.

I like soulseek because it is open to everyone and I can just host my entire library for people to go through. I don’t have to jump through hoops to get invites and have interviews and all that shit.

Not exactly the same as your example but I love getting hard to find stuff and then putting it out there for the public to get.

I’m mainly talking soulseek here but within my preferred music genre there is a lot of elitism and manufactured rareness of tracks what with a lot of vinyl only releases with minimal pressings or digital downloads that are only available for x amount of hours, that kind of bullshit.

This then promotes this culture on soulseek of people locking all their files out to everyone so you need to either trade things or a lot of them will ask you to buy specific releases or send them bandcamp gift cards and the like, to me this goes against the very nature of piracy and really boils my piss.

I love to get access to these people files and getting as much as I can, or ripping vinyl only tracks where I can for myself or buying these “limited” digital tracks when they come up and I have the money (less often these days) and then just sharing them with no locks or trading bullshit.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is it is really satisfying (for me at least) to share this harder to get stuff that people aren’t going to find anywhere else and even better a massive fuck you to the elitism and manufactured scarcity within the genre. If you are a soulseek user with locked files reading this, fuck you!

Also torrents are pretty easy to make. I use deluge and qbittorrent and there are options in both of those to create a torrent. You will need a tracker to link to, free ones can be found, then it is just a case of pointing to the files on your computer and it’ll create the torrent file for you.