I'm gonna second Soulseek. It is pretty old, but so many of the people who use it are collectors who organize their collections well, and I've found some pretty obscure stuff on there as well.
I haven't tried it myself, but I want to try Soularr, which apparently lets Lidarr use Soulseek as a source.
Another +1 for CWA. I tried several solutions and it was the right one for me.
If you reach the point of looking for a different solution, check out Calibre Automated. I tried several different things and this was the best one for me.
Wonder what I could get for XP Pro in the box.
This is what I use. Once you get it working, it's a great setup. I have it running on my mini HTPC under the hood, and it really doesn't use much in the way of resources.
It has a webui that I can use to search and add torrents, and you can choose an alternate UI for the page if you want (I used VueTorrent, it looks better on mobile).
And, like others have said, you can bind it so that if your VPN disconnects, torrents won't just keep running in the background.
Worried that AI is going to overthrow humankind? Cripple it by making it run off a mechanical hard drive!
Oh God, if anything they're even worse. Same page, friend.
Housing costs are such a racket.
I'm inclined to agree. Lower bandwidth might make some tasks take longer, but you can still accomplish them if you're patient. When you're out of RAM, you're out of RAM.
I feel like part of the insult is also not just with this particular company, but with the industry in general. I worked on the sound side as both production and post, and the amounts that places are willing to pay these engineer roles always seems to be insulting.
But either you take it or leave it, because there's someone else out there who is desperate enough to work for what they offer. Maybe this isn't the same across the pond, but it's sure been my experience here.
A bit somewhere gets flipped from 0 to 1, and the ridiculously complicated program that's designed to output natural language text says something unexpected.
I know it seems really creepy, but I don't personally believe there's any real sentience or intention behind it. Stories about machines and computers saying stuff like this and taking over the world are probably in Gemini's training data somewhere.
Man, that takes me back. Several gaming groups I was part of had Hotline servers. The role they served for us was probably closer to a Discord server.