• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    20 hours ago

    It’s also a fscking mess to set up a Usenet downloader, especially since it’d be a bunch of buggy weird stuff ending with -arr in the names and web UIs.

    And no, torrenting isn’t outdated and isn’t amateur. In Usenet messages are replicated over all services offering that newsgroup. I hope the downsides are clear.

    Some kind of Usenet with global identifiers of messages and posters, and with something like Kademlia to find sources for a specific newsgroup(to get all the other side has in it)/post(to get it specifically)/person(their public key), would be much better than just replicating each message everywhere with a local identifier.

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      10 hours ago

      Well you could use the -arr stack but you could also just set up SABnzbd which is the same difficulty to set up as qbit/jackett.

      I haven’t touched the -arrs myself, just go to my indexer, click download, it goes into the correct folder which sabnzbd automatically picks up and starts a-downloadin’, then it transfers the complete files to another folder.

      But I use both, and slsk, and ytdl. Why limit myself?