TCB13

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in Yes, Ubuntu Is Withholding Security Patches for Some Software

What a fucking shock. #not.

This is what you get when you use questionable open-source.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch?

:)

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch?

Its simpler than having to learn another torrent client or whatever, at the end of the day what I’m suggesting is adding a line to a text file with the interface.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch?

It’s not just about being simple, it’s about 1) still using transmission - because some people like decent and simple torrent clients and 2) a systemd enforced network restriction is way safer than whatever bind to interface / IP setting a program might come up with.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to selfhosted in Best Network File Sharing before a NAS

You can follow the other recommendation about mounting SMB shares under Linux or eventually setup an SSH server on Windows and use SSHFS to mount it on the Linux machine.

SSH is usually faster than SMB however both of them will have issues, what if the network goes down the windows machine sleeps, reboots, crashes or someone steps on a network cable etc? You are better by avoiding those kinds of setups all together. It is very likely that the connection will drop and the Linux machine will have trouble writing on the mount causing errors and screwing the files. Those setups won’t also translate unix permissions and other details very well and might create other issues for you.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to selfhosted in Best Network File Sharing before a NAS

I assume your PC is at home and the server at the datacenter. If you actually try to this you’ll most likely end up with broken files and I/O errors because your home’s internet connection might fail, drop or whatever… and you’ll have to deal with port forwarding and the fact that is a very bad idea to expose SMB to the internet.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to linux in cheapest new computer running linux <$500

Forget about those, for 100$ you can get a second hand HP Mini that has a full i5 8th gen CPU and 16GB of RAM. Way better in all possible ways. Those systems also run very well with Linux.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Sailing safely with a VPN

In you case setting bind-address-ipv4 and bind-address-ipv6 to your VPN IPs should work. According to this under macOS settings are stored in $HOME/Library/Preferences/org.m0k.transmission.plist. Not sure if the format is the same tho and don’t forget that editing a plist on macOS isn’t just always just editing a text file, it might be encoded and cached by the system, do your research.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to selfhosted in Selfhost dog/cat tracker?

It’s not, it’s just that forests are really bad for phone signals. Trees disrupting the signal, valleys and sides of mountains with no direct view of antennas and just remoteness in general. I’ve been in a lot of forests with no cell reception, that’s why you always go with an offline map and tell someone where you are going.

Yes but still I’ve had very good results even on 4G in large forest patches while hiking and whatnot.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to selfhosted in Selfhost dog/cat tracker?

Your cell coverage must really fucking bad for you to say that.

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Sailing safely with a VPN

Here: lemmy.world/comment/5269089

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Sailing safely with a VPN

Not sure that transmission supports it

Yes transmission does support it, however if you’re running in Linux you can also just restrict it to run on the VPN IP or interface. Read more here: lemmy.world/comment/5269089

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Sailing safely with a VPN

If you’re running Transmission on Linux know that I can be set to only use the VPN IP, there’s also another good way to implement a kill switch: lemmy.world/comment/5269089

TCB13 , 8 months ago to piracy in Once a pirate, always a pirate

I just don’t want my content scattered across different platforms in suboptimal quality and be forced to pay

That and also the fact that sometimes content vanishes from those platforms because of licensing agreements and/or get censored like many older TV Shows have gotten.

TCB13 , 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to piracy in Favourite FOSS Torrenting Client for Linux that has a VPN killswitch?

you’ll need to reconfigure Transmission with the new IP. Sure your method works for a kill switch. But it requires manual intervention every time it gets killed.

It doesn’t. You can specify your VPN provider range instead of a single IP and you won’t need manual intervention.

If you go the systemd route you can do it even better with RestrictNetworkInterfaces:

RestrictNetworkInterfaces= Takes a list of space-separated network interface names. This option restricts the network interfaces that processes of this unit can use.

So I guess this is a better option than doing IP or IP range restrictions - zero manual intervention like you do in qBit. I’m so used to work with IPs instead of interfaces (because of the issues that can cause) that I even forgot about that option.