Brickfrog

Agree with you, SO is great for finding info. There are solutions on there for niche problems that I haven’t been able to find elsewhere, the type of thing where someone actually took the time to type out a step-by-step answer and it’s now there and searchable on SO. It’s a bummer that so many people seem to hate on the site nowadays.

And lets not forget the whole reason SO came out in the first place, back then web results were littered with question/answer links to sites like Experts-Exchange. I hated trying to figure out if an answer was on there, most of the time you ended up with a link to a question that you think has an answer but oh no you need to subscribe to view an answer that may or may not exist.

Core 2 Duos are slow, yeah. I’ve got an Asus F8SP-X1 laptop from ~ 2008 with a Core 2 Duo T9500, 4 GB RAM, and a SSD SATA drive in it. It was originally a mid-range Windows Vista system. Over its years I managed to upgrade it as far as it could go. It does run standard Ubuntu and Windows 10 - Certainly not fast but it does run. Performance would lean towards unbearable without the SSD. I suspect Gnome isn’t doing it any favors and switching to a lighter DE or distro would help (or maybe just ditching the DE altogether) but since it’s just a spare laptop it’s no big deal.

One of the takeaways from your experiment is if it the system was already crap at running Windows 10 it’s not necessarily going to fare better with Linux, at least if you’re expecting a nice desktop environment. I don’t know if in 2025 we need to equate the “will this run Linux?” challenge on old Windows XP/7 hardware aside from the geek/techie users that want to do something with that old hardware. Anyone else non-technical stuck with that type of hardware isn’t thinking about Windows 10 being retired.

OP can go from Comcast Xfinity to 2 gig fiber, seems like a good call. Hell I’m jealous, still stuck with the Comcast Xfinity cable shit where I’m at.

You may as well call them and ask. Main things you want to find out are what plans/prices they offer and if they have any data caps. And/or if it’s still under construction definitely ask to be put on their list of interested customers.

Honestly just about anything fiber is going to be an improvement over Comcast cable internet… if I were you I’d at least inquire if they have a 1 gig download/upload plan and work from there. Good luck!

How to block Stremio peers from qBittorrent?

You can’t AFAIK.

Disable DHT

Don’t do that, DHT is one of the baseline methods of public torrenting. You’ll just end up cutting yourself off from tons of public torrent peers.

Unclear why you think DHT is strictly something specific to Stremio (?)

Use blocklists (I am also looking for suggestions, currently considering using this one)

That doesn’t sound overly reliable, I’d guess if you want to go that route you probably want to install all their stuff including that peerbanhelper thing they are relying on. If you do all that feel free to report back to the community and let us know if it actually blocked Stremio clients for you.

Some things you could try:

• In qBittorrent you could try using a different Upload Choking Algorithm, it’s not a real solution but it does help. (Tools / Options / Advanced / Upload Choking Algorithm) There you can try setting it to Anti-Leech or Round-Robin.

  • Anti-Leech is an attempt to stop uploading to peers that seem to request data while trying to mask their activity (e.g. leeching clients), it’s not perfect but can help. See https://www.libtorrent.org/reference-Settings.html#enum-seed-choking-algorithm-t and https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/4217 for more discussion.

  • Round-Robin isn’t blocking leeching, what it does is tell your torrent client to split the upload evenly between the requesting peers on a torrent. The result is that you will be uploading slower to a leeching client so those type of clients will prefer to get their upload from other faster peers rather than wait on yours.

• If you’re desperate you could switch to an alternate torrent client, something like https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition it’s not an official qBittorrent client but rather qBittorrent with some anti-leech additions. They mainly focus on chinese leeching clients so I’m not sure that would help at all with Stremio but you could try opening an issue if it looks like Stremio clients are still leeching off it, maybe the devs can figure something out https://github.com/c0re100/qBittorrent-Enhanced-Edition/issues

Me personally I don’t worry about this stuff, for public torrents qBittorrent along with Round-Robin or Anti-Leech is enough. Otherwise just stick to private trackers where this sort of leeching is a non-issue.

PS - The more active piracy community is over at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com you may want to subscribe there too.

Sort of. Orbot is fine but for it to work it does have to modify the system’s networking. It installs itself as a VPN so if I try to use it it’ll kick me off the VPN my Android was already using. So yes Orbot can sort of let me pick apps to run over Tor but to do so it forces me off-VPN for all my other apps. Maybe that’s an Android limitation or an Orbot quirk, not really sure.

The nice thing about this new Oniux is that it works more like a container for applications rather than have to modify the system’s network.

Just did some quick testing, most are open trackers operating in I2P (meaning they will happily track and announce to any torrents/peers using them).

Working I2P Trackers, these should work with any I2P public torrents:

http://opentracker.bt.i2p/a
http://opentracker.dg2.i2p/a
http://opentracker.eeptorrent.i2p/a
http://opentracker.fattydove.i2p/a
http://opentracker.r4sas.i2p/a
http://opentracker.simp.i2p/a
http://w7tpbzncbcocrqtwwm3nezhnnsw4ozadvi2hmvzdhrqzfxfum7wa.b32.i2p/a

Working I2P non-open trackers, meaning they only track torrents published at their own website.

http://tracker2.postman.i2p/announce.php

Currently Down I2P Trackers:

http://ahsplxkbhemefwvvml7qovzl5a2b5xo5i7lyai7ntdunvcyfdtna.b32.i2p/announce.php
http://atia42hvtnklmilskllirvl5e27letgqghyuvrlvtaktyg32kqwq.i2p/announce
http://crs2nugpvoqygnpabqbopwyjqettwszth6ubr2fh7whstlos3a6q.b32.i2p
http://lnQ6yoBTxQuQU8EQ1FlF395ITIQF-HGJxUeFvzETLFnoczNjQvKDbtSB7aHhn853zjVXrJBgwlB9sO57KakBDaJ50lUZgVPhjlI19TgJ-CxyHhHSCeKx5JzURdEW-ucdONMynr-b2zwhsx8VQCJwCEkARvt21YkOyQDaB9IdV8aTAmP~PUJQxRwceaTMn96FcVenwdXqleE16fI8CVFOV18jbJKrhTOYpTtcZKV4l1wNYBDwKgwPx5c0kcrRzFyw5~bjuAKO~GJ5dR7BQsL7AwBoQUS4k1lwoYrG1kOIBeDD3XF8BWb6K3GOOoyjc1umYKpur3G~FxBuqtHAsDRICkEbKUqJ9mPYQlTSujhNxiRIW-oLwMtvayCFci99oX8MvazPS7~97x0Gsm-onEK1Td9nBdmq30OqDxpRtXBimbzkLbR1IKObbg9HvrKs3L-kSyGwTUmHG9rSQSoZEvFMA-S0EXO~o4g21q1oikmxPMhkeVwQ22VHB0-LZJfmLr4SAAAA.i2p/announce.php
http://omitracker.i2p/announce.php
http://opendiftracker.i2p/a
http://opentracker-actix.i2p/a
http://opentracker.skank.i2p/a
http://psi.i2p
http://tracker.crypthost.i2p
http://tracker.killyourtv.i2p
http://tracker.thebland.i2p
http://tracker.welterde.i2p
http://tu5skej67ftbxjghnx3r2txp6fqz6ulkolkejc77be2er5v5zrfq.b32.i2p/announce.php
http://uajd4nctepxpac4c4bdyrdw7qvja2a5u3x25otfhkptcjgd53ioq.b32.i2p

Unsure if all the ones currently down are just down temporarily. Some I suspect will come back (e.g. skank.i2p has been around forever so I’d be surprised if they’re permanently gone).

EDIT: Browse notbob, especially their tracker listing for hints on current I2P torrent trackers and sites http://notbob.i2p/cgi-bin/defcon.cgi?category=tracker

Would be cool if this could work on Android and essentially be able to pick and choose which apps to run over Tor.

Was going to comment the same, this issue has existed for some time for other apps. LibreTorrent ran into the same issue and now the F-Droid version is their full-featured app while the Google Play version is restricted due to Google.

Interesting that Nextcloud managed to last this long on Google Play without running into the same limitations (until now that is).

Your post title is a bit misleading, I think you’re talking more about trying to speed up the process of finding nodes/peers?

All torrent clients including qBittorrent already have a built-in method of finding new DHT nodes and will find new nodes automatically. If the torrent client does not have any DHT nodes to contact yet (e.g. it’s the first run and hasn’t already compiled its own list of recent DHT node IP addresses) then what it does is reach out to DHT bootstrap node servers. Torrent clients usually have that coded in, sometimes you can change them - in qBittorrent you can go to Tools/Options/Advanced, under DHT Bootstrap Nodes you’ll see the current list of well known bootstrap nodes that qBittorrent uses by default

dht.libtorrent.org:25401, dht.transmissionbt.com:6881, router.bittorrent.com:6881, router.utorrent.com:6881, dht.aelitis.com:6881

I think most/all torrent clients use the same ones.

Not sure how current this one is, the code to compile and run your own DHT bootstrap node server is on Github

https://github.com/bittorrent/bootstrap-dht

Back in 2016 Libtorrent launched its own bootstrap node server, it’s now one of the default bootstrap node servers for most/all torrent clients.

https://blog.libtorrent.org/2016/09/dht-bootstrap-node

Agreed - I’ll also add that a lot of internet gateways/routers/firewalls also have a built-in feature to update a domain with your current public IP address. It definitely makes it easy, I haven’t thought about needing to update my dynamic IP in years since it just happens on the router.

Not everyone can do it but it’s definitely worth a look especially for those planning to do any real self hosting.

The good thing is that the public torrent itself can still be found at BTDigg and BT4G. Currently seems to be unseeded but with any luck someone will re-seed it for you. Might be worth keeping it loaded in your torrent client just in case.

Or if you ever manage to get the data from somewhere else you can re-seed it yourself for others to download.

Was MakeMKV ever claimed to be open source?

Not sure if it’s exactly what you want but I’ve used MKVtoolnix in the past for .mkv operations, worked fine for me. And ffmpeg also works great for general audio/video stuff though I’ve never tried bluray -> .mkv with it.

iOS is way too locked down. Granted, it depends on what you do and what you need, but since you’re asking in this community yeah… not the best choice.

Honestly just get a Android phone that’s just pure Android OS and nothing else, you don’t have to deal with the added junk that Samsung or whoever want to add on top of the OS. e.g. Google Pixel is quite excellent for this. And even still, if you end up wanting a different OS try installing GrapheneOS & see how it goes.

If PicoTorrent meets your needs then you’re fine, it’s a great torrent client.

I tend to use qBittorrent, Deluge, rTorrent/ruTorrent.

Below is the list of desktop/server torrent clients people have mentioned over on the old subreddit.

• BiglyBT
• BitTorrent Classic / uTorrent Classic (current versions are essentially the same client nowadays)
  • or uTorrent 2.2.1 (try here)
• BitTorrent Web / uTorrent Web
• Deluge
• Exatorrent
• FrostWire
• JSTorrent
• KTorrent
• PicoTorrent
• Porla
• qBittorrent
• rTorrent
• Tixati
• Transmission
• Tribler
• Vuze
• WebTorrent Desktop

I’ll just add that it’s best to avoid current versions of BitTorrent/uTorrent/Vuze nowadays. (Vuze users should migrate to BiglyBT)