• @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      12 years ago

      This is also possible using QBit’s webui though I mostly just have radarr/sonarr handle everything these days.

        • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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          12 years ago

          You might consider pulling the drives and sticking them into your own pc case. That way you can add more or upgrade the hardware if needed without having to buy a whole new NAS.

  • @OscarRobin@lemmy.world
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    1742 years ago

    Transmission is awesome because it’s simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.

    • @wahming@monyet.cc
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      152 years ago

      Given the community we’re in, majority of us are power users and transmission is just way too feature light for most of us

      • Zekromaster
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        82 years ago

        If you need extra features you use extra programs which are tailored to those features. Unix philosophy.

          • @uis@lemmy.world
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            52 years ago

            Depends why you want it. If you want it to reduce fragmentarion, then just enable fallocate. If you want it to download files in sequence, then XML RPC. If you want file to be downloaded in very inefficient way, then be patient.

            • @wahming@monyet.cc
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              42 years ago

              Or, I just right click and select sequential download so I can start watching a movie immediately. This logic of breaking everything down into the tiniest possible bits is how we ended up with ridiculousness like the lpad debacle.

              • @uis@lemmy.world
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                82 years ago

                Well, torrent client should leech and seed very fast and very efficient, watching videos is not on this list. XMLRPC also makes it convenient and expandable.

                And sequential downloads are bad for swarm, please don’t do this.

                • @wahming@monyet.cc
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                  42 years ago

                  Just because your use case is different from others does not invalidate all other use cases.

                  Also, there’s a reason no clients support sequential download as a default option. Having the very occasional download where I would like to start watching immediately upon starting the download is not going to break the swarm, or even affect it.

      • @pascal@lemm.ee
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        312 years ago

        if the community we’re in puts rtorrent in C tier because it’s “UNIX only” then you and I have a different meaning of “power users”.

        • @wahming@monyet.cc
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          52 years ago

          Given I was replying to a comment in a totally different context, sure, whatever floats your boat.

        • @uranibaba@lemmy.world
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          22 years ago

          Being a power user does not automatically mean you need to use Linux. Not trying to defend any other OS out there, just don’t like this gate keeping attitude.

          • @pascal@lemm.ee
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            12 years ago

            Being a sports car enthusiast does not automatically mean I hate Lamborghini because I own a Ferrari.

            You are totally right, what I mean is you don’t have to use Linux to be a power user, but despise it it’s not a power user attitude.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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      292 years ago

      I’m caught between the dual urges of “reject tierlist, embrace tradition” and “I’ve been sleeping on over a decade of FOSS torrent client development, maybe it’s time to up my game”.

      • @frazorth@feddit.uk
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        232 years ago

        Nah, someone is just using their torrent client as an F grade *arr and nbz360 solution.

        All the “features” listed as Pros is just bloat.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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          82 years ago

          Yeah, I’m comfy with my torrent workflow as it is. I don’t pirate enough volume to make it worth the time to revise something I spend 0.0006% of my overall time on.

      • @oddspinnaker@lemm.ee
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        42 years ago

        I will say, as someone who used rTorrent some time ago to automate torrent downloading and whatnot, it was awesome. I’m glad to see it still going and gaining popularity.

        Stable software doing its job out of the way is what I want.

    • @Opeth@lemm.ee
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      12 years ago

      And if you wanna put on your naughty shoes you can theme transmission just drag flood-ui files in and tada

    • @ArtificialLink@lemmy.ca
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      152 years ago

      Qbit has been around almost as long and has almost always been better. Qbit got apl the nostalgia i need lol

  • @Jourei@lemm.ee
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    32 years ago

    Oh, so I wasn’t going crazy after all, when my antivirus started getting hostile at uTorrent.

  • Gunpachi
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    32 years ago

    On android I’m currently using Libretorrent, how does biglybt’s android app compare to it ?

  • @FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 years ago

    I really like biglybt, but why is it so… slow to add torrents or shut itself down? It seems as if the app does so many different things simultaneously that it doesn’t do them seamlessly or instantaneously. I mean, why does it need ‘up to twenty seconds’ to close after you’ve downloaded something? Is it bloat? Is there a way to streamline its running?

  • @eee@lemm.ee
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    22 years ago

    Deluge has so much potential but it just crashes so often on windows.

  • @GenBlob@lemm.ee
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    642 years ago

    I have seen this same image circulated for years. We need a new one because transmission in D tier is unacceptable.

    • @elscallr@lemmy.world
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      502 years ago

      Yeah “it does nothing but downloads torrents” is the selling point. It’s the reason I exclusively use Transmission.

    • @FartsUnited@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      12 years ago

      Transmission used to be my preferred app hands down but recent updates have negatively impacted its performance on my end. If all it needs to do is download torrents, why does it now sometimes seem incapable of connecting to a given (popular) swarm ?

      Particularly unfortunate is that once it does connect, the download speed has now become arbitrary: it keeps alternating between ‘incredibly fast’ and ‘surprisingly slow’ and takes three or four times as long to complete. I’ve become so exasperated with it that I’ve been forced to move on (deluge instantly connects and consistently downloads at five times the speed).

    • David Phillipps
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      32 years ago

      I run Transmission on a VM that is permanently connected to a VPN. It dumps the completed files on an NFS share. I’m open to trying something different. Transmission seems like the best option.

      • @sanzky@beehaw.org
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        42 years ago

        I run it headless in a small pc in my basement that I use as server. it also has an http api so other systems can integrate with it (eg another program that looks for torrents and pushes the torrents into it.

  • @artaxadepressedhorse@lemmyngs.social
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    182 years ago

    I’ll never understand the FOSS mentality of “There’s already a quality project out there with active development and most of the user-share. Perfect, so I’ll utilize my off-time to create my own inferior competitor and fragment the users instead of contribute to the existing one”.

    I mean, I get it if the existing project maintainers start acting with shady interests - the threat of the fork can be a powerful tool. But it seems like many of these alt projects do it right out of the gate. Meanwhile, it took linux desktop how long to get a functional wifi driver out of the box??

    • @sanzky@beehaw.org
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      72 years ago

      A lot of it is just difference in vision. FOSS projects often have an owner and they might not be open to switch the direction of their project or be willing to maintain a large feature that someone wants to contribute.

      there is also the “I rewrote it using Rust/Go/whatever because that makes it better” people.

    • @PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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      252 years ago

      Likely what happens is that while the existing options are fine for the masses, a power user has a specific use case that is not covered by said options, so they create their own program to fit their specific needs. Eventually this new program evolves into something that is also useful to the masses, and that’s how we get to where we are now with several good FOSS options.