brickfrog

Not sure if you already know, the Piefed software (and pifed.social site) does maintain a list of default domains they block. It's mostly right leaning/far right type stuff but still, hosting a conservatism community on an instance that censors/blocks a lot of those related links... is certainly a choice.

See https://lemmy.ml/post/47022286/25574741 and rest of the post discussing it.

I've no interest in the community, just letting you know in case you're wondering why certain news site links don't show up there.

Offhand I'd suspect a finicky adapter. Does the adapter work with other disks? Does the disk work when plugged into a server/computer directly?

Assuming it's the adapter being finicky - did you happen to try using other USB cables with the adapter?

When plugging into the system - Does the dmesg output display anything else useful, any warnings or anything? I would have thought it would give you the USB drive chipset vendor/model, I didn't think Sabrent builds their own chipsets but could be wrong.

Also would try doing a smartctl --scan followed by a smartctl -a /dev/YOUR-EXTERNAL-DRIVE and see what comes up. (those are part of smartmontools)

Intuit really is the worst.

I sort of expect them to conduct more layoffs / raise the price of their other software/services even more to compensate, greedy fuckers. Unfortunately a lot of businesses use their other software so Intuit is sort of embedded there. Outside of work/business stuff not sure why anyone willingly gives these people money.

tried it via tor

Doesn't load in Tor for me either but I suspect their site is simply blocking Tor. The site does load fine outside Tor in the regular clearnet.

9 times out of 10 these sort of things turn out to be a DNS issue on your end, you might want to double-check you're actually able to query their IP address via nslookup freedns.afraid.org or similar. (assuming you've already tried other web browsers to rule out issues with installed extensions or specific browser settings).

You typically need to enable the Windows Feature called "Hyper-V" if it isn't enabled already. There's a bunch of documentation online if you search around, offhand these two should get you going

https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to/virtualisation/ubuntu-on-hyper-v/

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-install-linux-ubuntu-on-hyper-v-in-windows

https://github.com/RidwanurRahim/Hyper-V-Ubuntu-Server (way more advanced than you need but steps 1-5 could be useful if want more how-tos)

Hints:

• You don't have to use Ubuntu if you don't want to, just do a VM install with any .iso image file (though I'd say Ubuntu is fine if you just want to tinker and get to learn basics, and Ubuntu itself is well documented)
• For the networking you typically don't need to do anything too advanced, a standard default switch to create a virtual NAT is fine for the most part. You only need to tinker with bridged networking if you intend to run a VM that pulls down its own IP address and has its own incoming internet traffic separate from your host Windows system.

Windows 10/11 Pro has Microsoft Hyper-V built-in for virtualization, that would be the most straightforward to use on Windows. It can run Linux guest OSes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V

Adding on to the earlier comments you can run tests against the drive with smarctl e.g.

smartctl --scan (scans and lists all drives connected to your system)

smartctl -t short /YOUR/DRIVE (short non-destructive drive test, usually takes 3 minutes or so, afterwards run smartctl -a again to view test results towards the bottom of the output)

smartctl -t long /YOUR/DRIVE (this is a long more thorough test, non-destructive, this can easily take a few hours or even days depending on the size of your drive and whatnot)

smartctl -a or smartctl -x will give you testing progress in its output.

Or another option, if you can't run smartctl for some reason, and you're just testing a regular HDD not SSD, look into running a badblocks non-destructive scan.

Adding onto the other comments, if you have admin access to your network router/firewall you can configure the incoming port forward itself to only allow specific IP addresses while dropping traffic from any other internet WAN IPs. It's a bit like using the Jellyfin whitelist/blacklist but doing it at the network level. This drops all unwanted internet traffic to that port at the firewall before ever reaching the Jellyfin software. Downside is having to occasionally update the firewall whenever there are IP address changes.

This is probably only feasible if you only have some specific Jellyfin clients in mind to accept connections from, not any random person from any random WAN IP address.

You didn't mention your laptop specs but I'd say if your laptop has USB 3.0+ ports then you should be okay with plugging in a multi-drive USB DAS (like the ones with 2-5 drive bays) or even a single drive USB enclosure if that's your preference. I have a few that I use on and off without issue.

Slower USB speeds are also functional but the performance hit will be noticeable.

I'm not on that specific tracker but some of the others have similar sort of rules

They have something about changing IPs, it seems you can’t change IPs too often and you can’t have multiple accounts in the same IP. Why?

That's generally for detecting ban evasion / duplicate accounts. But I think with most private trackers you'd just need to let staff know if you're in a shared IP situation.

They absolutely not allow mobile client, which means, you need to let your PC on all the time, sum this up with the fact that they require 72h seed within the next 30 days, this is a t least 2.5h of seed daily and if you miss one day for any reason it’d be even more for the next days. But my question is about the mobile, why the hell can’t I use my phone to seed? I talked to a mod and they argue mobile isn’t reliable due to battery optimization and it might kill the client. What does this even mean?

The mod is sort of right about that one. Most mobile users aren't even connectable (port forwarded) so that's problem number 1. And problem 2, yes Android does pause apps for battery optimization - but technically you can configure your Android to not do that for specific apps, not sure if it works for all phones but in mine I just bring up the App Info, go to App Battery Usage, and make sure to enable "Allow Background Usage".. most people wouldn't really want to do that and run down their phone battery constantly but I guess it's an option. Maybe bring that up as a tracker suggestion/rule change though it does seem easier just to tell members not to use mobile clients.

Why the torrent clients are so limited even the version you can use? What it has to do with anything at all? Again, is not seeding just enough?

Maybe specific to that tracker, not sure. But usually torrent client lists exist because the tracker staff tested those clients against the private tracker software to verify that stats are being tracked correctly. And sometimes they do ban clients due to being buggy, being used for ratio cheating, that sort of thing.

That sounds okay for what you're aiming for, maybe a bit overpowered on the CPU front but it does sound like you want this build to last a while. If you need to save some money on the build you could maybe step down on the CPU side of things but I totally get it if you want to stick to something higher end.. in 5+ years you'll probably be happy you went with the better CPU, IMO.

DDR5 RAM is going to be the pain point in terms of cost right now but 16 GB is okay starting out.

If the system case you get can handle an AIO liquid cooler then I'd go with that for sure. CPU fans are okay but they tend to be a tad bit noisier than a liquid cooler in my own experience.

Not sure if you care about fan noise but I've been using the quieter Noctua fans for my own builds, they're great and well worth it if you're doing a build and care about that sort of thing.