Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins
To clarify, by “issues” I mean “system stoppages not precipitated by me fucking with something.” I screw up my own system way more often than that lol
I’m not familiar with ProtonVPN configuration so can’t guide you much there, presumably if the port forwarding option only allows for one setting then maybe it’s doing both TCP/UDP? I dunno…
Maybe that’s a good place for me to do some digging, but this is an issue specific to the new torrent I made. Things I download first seed just fine, and at much higher rates when I have the port open, so I think that’s working normally regardless of any TCP/UDP stuff under the hood.
can the test torrent client see that there is a seed on the torrent?
I think I misread this. No, neither client sees any peers, but when viewing the trackers within the client, the trackers are reporting peers. I’ll keep what I originally typed in the spoiler below.
Yes. Incidentally, when I opened the port on the leech client, a few other leechers joined the swarm as well, but I was only ever able to upload anything to my own test client. Even once the upload finished, neither client uploaded anything to those other leechers either. A few hours later, the count (looking from both seed and leech client) went back down to 1 seeder and 1 leecher.
Um. Just out of curiosity, I checked the peer list again, and while I’m still the only leecher, some of the trackers are now showing multiple seeders? I definitely only ever uploaded anything to myself, how is that possible?
Always good to double check, but yes, I used canyouseeme and the port is definitely open.
The port is configured through ProtonVPN. A few menu options below the one for port forwarding there’s another for configuring the connection as OpenVPN(TCP), OpenVPN(UDP), or Wireguard. I’ve had other issues in the past and Transmission’s internal port testing thing always specifies it’s testing TCP, so that’s what I had it set to with Proton. I switched Proton to UDP and am waiting a few minutes before testing it with Wireguard.
lol well with Proton’s Wireguard config it doesn’t seem like I can open a port at all, so I’ve set that back to TCP for now.
Could I be missing a step with the trackers? Do I need to upload something to them first? I looked around on opentrackr.org and didn’t see anything, plus in the client the trackers are reporting 1 seeder (me) and leechers, plus it worked when I opened the port on my test leech… I’m so lost :(
On the other hand, jellyfin’s identify feature works better than plex’s did for me, and it lets you rename stuff very easily whereas Plex needed you to find the exact piece of media in a database.
My mom asked me to rip a set of weirdo bootleg tai chi DVDs years ago, back when I used Plex, but I couldn’t figure out how to get them to show up in the library because, again, weirdo bootleg media and I have no idea where she got them. But I switched to jellyfin last year and on a whim decided to mess with them, and getting them to show up in my jellyfin library was basically automatic
Edit, another fun example of fucking with Plex’s identify feature just came to mind. For some reason it kept deciding that random movies were actually some movie named “A Fish Called Wanda.” I’d never heard of it before, the movies it would misidentify were entirely random as far as I could tell, and no amount of fuckery would get it to identify the movie correctly. It would decide that, say, The Matrix was actually AFCW, I’d remove the files for The Matrix, and it would decide something else was AFCW. Eventually I got fed up and downloaded an actual copy of AFCW, but it still refused to play the correct files if I navigated to AFCW in my library. Never did figure that one out.
The big difference is that hacky shit in Linux almost always happens because of oversights, whereas Windows actively fights you on things you want to do. This means that a solution that worked for some forum poster 10 years ago has a pretty good chance of still working today (if it’s even still necessary), whereas Microsoft would see that fix as a bug and try to “patch” it. You would never have the fuck around like this just to get your default browser to be, y’know, the default.
Not to mention trying to troubleshoot Windows always means having to browse through a half dozen forum posts of people having your exact problem, but the only replies are some IT script that takes 3 paragraphs to tell you to reinstall whatever program, with no follow up when that inevitably doesn’t work.
Would you mind linking your old account or some old comments? I’d love to have something substantive to show off to people who don’t believe how fascist Reddit is these days
“Ah but you see, it’s not misleading at all! You really are purchasing a temporary license to watch the content!”
Considering how much leeway we give food companies to lie about how they label their products, I have absolutely no faith we’ll correct the advertising here either
While the letters are adjacent, I don’t think that was a typo. “Finna” is pretty common slang, just a variant of “gonna”
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Also something to remember, if you really need Windows back it can be reinstalled almost as easily as any Linux distro. You flash an .iso to a USB, download massgrave, and you’re set.
For sure the ideal is not needing Windows at all, but as one of those people who do need it and find myself reinstalling it fairly often (niche VR hardware), it’s easier to make the leap to wipe a Windows install when you know you can get it back without too much fuss.