The ARR tools are basically a search engine website you host. The interact with a few other tools you have to have access to/pay for. Namely an indexing service and a (for some) a download service. They can use torrents, so you dont HAVE to pay for downloading, but using something like newsgroups is really nice and add reliability and security.

THe “ARR’s” basically then are just a fancy UI and scheduler and just search the indexing service, download the files you want, re-assemble them and copy them to the location you want (often a file share that your media player like Plex or Jellyfin will use).

You can set them to continually look for something too. So for Sonarr, it will auto-download new episodes as soon as they appear in the index. Or if you see a commercial for something upcoming, you can add it and monitor it and as soon as it starts showing up in the indexes it will download.

All the aarrrs. Saturates my isp bandwidth, have no issues with finding stuff, no takedown or piracy warnings…

Ah. That makes sense.

Interestingly the game is downloading for me. I have had it in my library for some time now.

Is it saying its been pulled for new sales only?

NGL it totally depends. For general news/politics etc yeah.

Some of the more niche subreddits…Its definately much less of that and some of the folks that have been around, arent using default subs. My “home page” looks severely different from the default.

Yeah it mostly seems reactionary nonsense.

Like you ca. swim at the top of a pool in a tractor coolant tank. Water is very cool at diffusing radioactivity (if that’s the right term, it’s probably not).

Heck we have legit crashed nuclear subs at the bottom of the ocean, and places we have just straight dumped waste much more potent than this water.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

Eat it every Sunday. Family comes from three counties to join.

The pasta does get a very small amount in it after it’s strained. But pasta is never used for leftovers. More pasta is made if eaten the next day.

Again. Y’all do you.

My family is Italian. From Italy. I’m pretty sure we know how to make sauce. But hey. You do you.

Sauce is scooped out of the pot while it’s on the stove and mixed with the noodle of choice in my house.

Edit: to add my wife, who isn’t Italian, knows how to make ketchup and noodles with the best of them and even then it’s scooped from the pot onto then noodles while plating. And she puts fuckin ground beef in her spaghetti

Normal folks put pasta on their plate and then sauce. They aren’t cooked together, and only combined when plated unless you are wasted and trying to cook it on a George Forman grill or something.

Yeah. Like I said, i have no idea what the conditions are. Maybe its Cloudflare threatening/applying pressure and LW has been getting smacked with DDOS etc.

But maybe not too. I strikes me as a excuse but honestly i dont know all the details or variable and frankly i dont care all that much.

Yeah im similar. I still use 1080 monitors and just 2 at a regular workspace. Its about the perfect DPI for reading text. Things like 4k just make it harder or you have to bump up the fractional scaling, in which case why the more pixels?

Im fine to keep it to a laptop monitor when im mobile, and 2+laptop monitor for email when at a desk.

Text is copied. Media is simply linked back to the original location I believe.

Also dmca just means that the admin has to make a reasonable effort to remove things reported as no compliant. Aka they ban or remove offending posts and they are in the clear.

I’m gonna be honest. And I run my own instance, albeit solo, this content isn’t my concern. It’s the CP/CSAM shit that folks like burggit.moe we’re spreading that got my liability concerns up. The feds go hard on that shit (as they should) and will hold a hosting admin accountable as if they were the ones viewing and reading it.

Dmca is pretty clear cut and toothless. I’ve dealt with it plenty as a network admin. As long as you remove it when notified, you are in the clear. This strikes me as the admins having a political opposition to it and using their made up code of conduct as a reason and when pressed just saying “well liability”.

That said I don’t know where they live and the laws for me may not be the same as someone hosting in Germany, who may go hard on that stuff. So who am I to judge? Just saying dmca isn’t really a concern.

Also they’re hosting provider could just cut them for “abuse” especially if they are already using a lot of resources and if that’s a concern I get it. .

I have NSFW unchecked on my instance, so no porn is ingested/federated. Also because its just me, i have to seek out communities to federate with via search.

I did this via https://lemmyverse.net/communities and changed the linked names to my domain and just ran searchs to start the federation for the specific communities i found interesting.

It does mean things like “Local” is useless and subscribed and all are the same filters since its only stuff i subscribed to.

Occasionally I will browse one of alts on a different instance and check all, or local there and see if theres anything interesting. I have also re-run through the link above here and there to find new communities to join. Those are probably the biggest “pain points” in that it takes more effort to find new communities. But once you start the feed its fine.

I also use different default filters on my alt’s in different instances (ie: ALL:HOT on lemmy.world) or whatnot if im feeling like finding new stuff. But honestly the lemmyverse stuff gets like 99% of the content here, and theres been a dip in participation, so some communities are idling (which just means I dont see anything)

Are you hosting it on personal hardware?

Not currently, though I am considering it. Right now I host mine on a VPS in linode. Though i need to downgrade it, I built it with the expectationg of allowing joins, but recently decided just to keep it private.

Can you just choose any free name for the domain if it’s on your own hardware or do you need to rent one regardless?

This wouldnt work. You not only need to have a routable/real domain name, but the server likely needs access to the internet to allow fro federation, specifically ingress traffic, to work.

Do you keep it active all the time or turn it off for the night/other periods of time where you know you won’t use it?

Mine runs 24/7. Even if i hosted it at home it would be 24/7. Only issue is

1. I already use port 80/443 at home. So i would need to reconfigure NGINX to use a proxy, which could also break federation. I could do that, in fact I am pretty sure the ansible config uses NGINX proxy commands, just that I would have to customize it and Im lazy. I already have stuff on VPS systems in linode (blog, teamspeak etc) so its no biggy to have another one.

2. My internet at home can be flaky. For example I currently dont have power at home and while I normally run on UPS for a time, and can cut to generator when I am home, my network just went into auto-shutdown.

Excatly why I never opened my instance. With it just being me, i can control what is on it and what is synced. There was too much risk with CP/CSAM type stuff. Heck I didnt even want to risk my linode account (aka they shut my other VPS systems down) due to TOS from shenanigans.

That said, I can still contribute just fine with my own instance and dont have to be involved in these drama defederation actions.

I would encourage anyone that is willing to criticize an instance maintainer for their decisions on risk to just roll out the lemmy-ansible setup and go your own way. If you troll or act in bad faith, you will get defederated. If you act like a reasonable person, no one will even notice. And that way you are in control of uptime, patch cadence, backups etc.

I have a guy that does this. He puts so much effort in weird mobility solutions (ie: Dual monitors on a rolling table so he can work outside sometimes) or having a setup like this with TV’s, monitors etc all cobbled together.

Would you be surprised to hear hes not the most organized or efficient.

Echo $RANDOM og ai

At this point i just interpret AI to be "we have lots of select statements and inner joins "

Lol. Thanks. I hope so to!

While true. It’s because a lot of homeless are really unpredictable for various reasons.

The “down on their luck” homeless you see panhandling etc are generally the exception. Most have legitimate mental illness or drug problems. At least in my neck of America.