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What about Jellyfin and it's tv plugins? Granted I haven't used the plugins yet but the rest of the software is pretty solid. Need to set up a server tho
 
Any one know how setup subtitle's for shows? I have vlc if relevants, it work bad when try add subtitle's
 
doomocract said:
Any one know how setup subtitle's for shows? I have vlc if relevants, it work bad when try add subtitle's
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Do you want to add subtitles to the files? or just play subtitle files that you already have?

If you want to permanently added them to the video file, https://aegisub.org/ is pretty much the go-to.

If you just want separate subtitle files to play at the same time as the video, name the subtitle file exactly the same as the video file and keep them both in the same folder. VLC should load the subtitles automatically. Same works on MPC-HC.
 
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If you want to permanently added them to the video file, https://aegisub.org/ is pretty much the go-to.
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There's also the option of burning in the subtitles via re-encoding if the device(old TV maybe) don't support subtitles or if the subtitles are too fancy. Handbrake can do it. MKVToolNix can also mux subtitles and different audio tracks into the file without re-encoding but the video ends up being an MKV.
 
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I cant bring myself to trust proton mail that thing smells like a honeypot . Also , the way they don't provide the bridge on any linux distro or even the srpm is very sus. Am not installing a binary from a site like is windows.
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It's because it's a Go binary so it's a fat binary with its libraries statically linked. There's really not much point building from source for most systems nor is it necessary to distribute it through repos since you don't need a distro-specific binary that's linked against the right libssl etc.

Also it is available as a package on Arch Linux anyway https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/protonmail-bridge/

You can compile it from source too https://github.com/ProtonMail/proton-bridge/blob/master/BUILDS.md
 
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In the year of our lord 2024, what torrenting software do people use? I'm running uTorrent 1.6 (from before they infested it with ads) but I'd prefer to run software that's not 15 years old. Not trying to pirate anything (right now), actually trying to download a Linux CD image. I've seen some older recommendations for qBittorrent. Is it still good?
 
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In the year of our lord 2024, what torrenting software do people use? I'm running uTorrent 1.6 (from before they infested it with ads) but I'd prefer to run software that's not 15 years old. Not trying to pirate anything (right now), actually trying to download a Linux CD image. I've seen some older recommendations for qBittorrent. Is it still good?
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I use the console version of rtorrent, it is a bit basic but it works for my needs (piracy of older media). Downsides to this:
  1. you need to remember three keyboard commands- 'enter' to add a torrent file/magnet link, ctrl-s to start torrent, ctrl-d to pause/delete torrent
  2. it doesn't support monitoring RSS feeds directly (this is the best way to get downloads from TV shows you're following directly pulled down to your PC)
  3. it doesn't support 'webseeds' (i.e. just including a link to a http source in a torrent to speed downloads up)
Otherwise it is great.

If you aren't a masochist, qBittorent is the right choice. It has a GUI, that GUI looks like someone who wasn't retarded/a computer programmer has touched it unlike Transmission/Vuze/Deluge. It supports RSS monitoring and webseeds.

If you watch a lot of new TV shows, you might be better served by some kind of more comprehensive solution which automatically downloads them into a media library.
 
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In the year of our lord 2024, what torrenting software do people use? I'm running uTorrent 1.6 (from before they infested it with ads) but I'd prefer to run software that's not 15 years old. Not trying to pirate anything (right now), actually trying to download a Linux CD image. I've seen some older recommendations for qBittorrent. Is it still good?
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qbittorrent is much better. the default skin is godawful, but you can get replacement skins like VueTorrent for it.
 
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0life said:
In the year of our lord 2024, what torrenting software do people use? I'm running uTorrent 1.6 (from before they infested it with ads) but I'd prefer to run software that's not 15 years old. Not trying to pirate anything (right now), actually trying to download a Linux CD image. I've seen some older recommendations for qBittorrent. Is it still good?
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I'm autistic so take this with a grain of salt, but I run rtorrent on a home server and I host rutorrent for a GUI I can hit from my browser. For cases where I need a torrent client on a workstation, qBittorrent or Transmission work just fine.
 
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In the year of our lord 2024, what torrenting software do people use? I'm running uTorrent 1.6 (from before they infested it with ads) but I'd prefer to run software that's not 15 years old. Not trying to pirate anything (right now), actually trying to download a Linux CD image. I've seen some older recommendations for qBittorrent. Is it still good?
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I use qBittorrent for "real" downloads where I might need to restart them, Tribler for if I'm not on a paid VPN (it has a sort of onion routing imitation that provides at least minimal shielding against the average copyright troll), or just download from Brave's built in torrent client if I don't really care about the torrent.
 
I've been using qBittorrent since uTorrent went to shit all those years ago. In the last year, I've switched over to running the headless qBittorrent-nox under an LXC container and just using the web UI. There's a nifty Chromium extension Remote Torrent Adder for adding torrents to the web UI. Torrent Control is a good Firefox equivalent. One annoying thing I discovered with the Linux version is there's a longstanding bug with libtorrent 2.x that leaks memory. Work around is to change disk IO type from memory mapped to POSIX-compliant, or go back to libtorrent 1.x. No idea why the libtorrent don't fix it or the qBitTorrent developers don't default to POSIX disk IO.
 
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What's the opinion on Arc browser around here?

I've been using Firefox for years, but recently it's been pissing me the fuck off. Randomly refuses to load pages, starts loading it and it just stops and stays on a blank page. Or it loads it halfway with most functionality missing, yet JS is allowed. Occasionally when playing videos from Twitch or other sites it says the format is not supported and I need to CTRL+R the page like 5 times before it starts. Sometimes when I start typing a comment here on the farms it kind of lags, I type and it takes 2 more seconds for letters to appear in the text box and it's not a hardware issue, got plenty of ram and cpu to spare.
Reinstalled it a few times, tried tweaking settings, removed all privacy adjustments and it still does this shit. I just can't be fucked with tinkering and troubleshooting every single thing happening in my PC these days. It also does this shit on my Linux laptop. Updated it, rolled it back, no luck.

Gave Arc a try and it feels great so far. I know it's Chromium and it doesn't have a mobile version but whatever, I'm thinking of sticking to it. Anything I need to know about this browser? The company behind it is turbo faggy but so is Mozilla, all I want is for things to just work. I don't keep passwords saved there and I don't give a single fuck how I'm being tracked.
 
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What's the opinion on Arc browser around here?
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Never heard of it but my personal recommendation for Chrome clones is Brave given it's open source, Brendan Eich is based and they give Google the middle finger at every opportunity. Arc doesn't have a Linux build apparently and is closed source so I don't see why anybody should use it unless you really love its UI.

As for the Firefox issues, did you create a new profile? I'm not sure reinstalling it would create a new one unless you wipe out %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox (Equivalent is usually in ~/.config/ on Linux) so you should at least give that a go. They have a tool to recreate your profile without wiping out your bookmarks and browser history in about:support, "Refresh Firefox..."

Alternatively you can pass "-p" as an argument to Firefox to open the profile manager and blast away your old profile but then you'll lose your browsing history.

I would be suspicious of bad extensions causing these issues and one way you can try to identify them is using about:performance which can tell you which tabs and extensions are sucking down CPU and lagging your tabs.

If you don't want to fuck with your profile at all while troubleshooting to see if it's profile related, you can create a brand new profile through the profile manager and launch Firefox with that. If suddenly everything is working properly, then your old profile was messed up.
 
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Never heard of it but my personal recommendation for Chrome clones is Brave given it's open source, Brendan Eich is based and they give Google the middle finger at every opportunity. Arc doesn't have a Linux build apparently and is closed source so I don't see why anybody should use it unless you really love its UI.

As for the Firefox issues, did you create a new profile? I'm not sure reinstalling it would create a new one unless you wipe out %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox (Equivalent is usually in ~/.config/ on Linux) so you should at least give that a go. They have a tool to recreate your profile without wiping out your bookmarks and browser history in about:support, "Refresh Firefox..."

Alternatively you can pass "-p" as an argument to Firefox to open the profile manager and blast away your old profile but then you'll lose your browsing history.

I would be suspicious of bad extensions causing these issues and one way you can try to identify them is using about:performance which can tell you which tabs and extensions are sucking down CPU and lagging your tabs.

If you don't want to fuck with your profile at all while troubleshooting to see if it's profile related, you can create a brand new profile through the profile manager and launch Firefox with that. If suddenly everything is working properly, then your old profile was messed up.
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Arc's UI is what really grabs me. I use similar custom theme for Firefox and I'm used to the tabs sidebar. They don't have Linux build, their Windows build released a few months ago and it was a dumpsterfire on release but they seem to have fixed everything at this point. I don't think they even have Linux and Android planned for the foreseeable future.

On Firefox, last week I tried refreshing the profile and purging it completely then making a new one. I've got like 5 addons: tampermonkey, ublock origin, i still don't care about cookies, internet download manager's addon and the gnome shell extensions for my Linux laptop. Tried removing them all, nothing changed.
This has been bumming me more than usual because apparently I'm the only one with this problem, it's happening on 2 different devices and it's reoccurring after complete reinstall with all browser data completely removed.
I give up. Life's too short to fight browsers.
 
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