It was not personal, and I know that. I also know there’s a massive growth currently so I don’t let it bother me. I can be patient until things settle down in a couple of months or so, then I’ll weed out my wall from what I consider spam or not. I’m not letting this growth taint my view on communities I am potentially interested in. The only reason I said that was to give an example of what I think of as spam, not to be critical.

And I’m looking forward to artworks. Especially mecha ones. :)

That’s a great idea actually. Though I don’t envy you the extra workload. It would help both as an aggregator and to foster conversations. As for suggestions, I actually like the one that this post was based on. Be more…open to subjects. Ones of course that still fit the subject and the purpose of the community, but are not limited to just AI.

Also I haven’t the simplest idea of how moderation is on lemmy but I think my biggest problem with the subreddit was that daily partial doom and gloom post that we’re all going to die yesterday and partial deification of the AI. I found humour into it at the beginning, but got tiring fast.

And while I doubt I bring any value to it, my hope is that the community stays focused on science and AI and the discussion of it, be it scientific papers and progress reports or helping each other out (if someone for example needs help with running some AIs locally, long as it doesn’t become a ‘how do I get tits to smile at me. Folk said SD is good at that’) type of thing.

…if my rambling makes any sense, I’m awake for about 42h and my head feels mushy.

It’s definitely worth it. I had it for years and it worthed it just to stream stuff, but the functionality that let’s me bypass limits of hosting sites is just a bonus. Now I don’t have to sub for every damn file sharing site under the moon.

Nobody stops you from uploading stuff and sharing it. But certain communities like for example private trackers have a process to allow you to become an uploader.

As for money, ask yourself, it’s piracy, which by definition means that you want to download stuff without paying for them. Why would they pay you instead?

There’s a few cases that it worked before but is generally frowned upon, as if holding the files hostage. Now if it’s a service that nobody else can do, or files that nobody else has laying around or easy access to buy and share for free, you could try that. Again, nobody stops you, but most people wouldn’t see kindly to that. From leechers to other uploaders.

You will not get banned for not sharing. What actually happens is that some people have scripts to see if you’re sharing, if not they refuse you access to their files until you start sharing. That has to do with each individual and nothing to do with the network itself, other than the fact that it gives you the option to deny access.

Not a server solution but it’s not a desktop app. On androids there’s Seeker that does an excellent job of connecting to the network and downloading what you want.

But honestly, if I found someone reputable selling modded consoles, rather than picking someone random at etsy, I’d be their income for a year or so. After finishing my Roms and redumps collections, getting modded and working (to refurbished standards) hardware would be the next step. I love emulation but I much prefer original hardware if given the option.

But I suck at soldering and hardware modding/fixing in general. I don’t even care if games are included, just give me the option to pop an HDD in on some quality modded console and I’ll be happy.

I thought it might be an update issue, but I didn’t check github, only F-Droid. Thanks for the idea.

Edit: Yup, that worked.

No it’s not. You can find literally everything on torrents. Even with Kodi/Stremio, I could always find what I wanted to stream when my debris ran out.

There’s only one case that I can’t think of a way without premium link generators and without waiting for months on end, and that’s switch emulation, and that only if you want the latest updates/dlc.

Sonarr and radarr can use torrents just as much as they can use usenet. I used them for both, now I dropped usenet altogether.

I find it easier to either DDL or torrent, plus a lot of the stuff I’m after recently proved hard tto find on usenet for whatever reason.

It’s more hassle to search usenet for my usecase and while it’s true that maxing out download speeds is awesome, I’m not in a hurry. I let the .arr apps do the work while I’m busy with life and when I get back home I have it all ready anyways.