Media server client, pihole, emulation, programming or home automation project. You could even prop it up as a standalone web server and make some kinda creative thing.

I checked out the main feed, OP. Not sure this is going anywhere based on the content I saw. I have no opinion on the site as a technical work.

I think this is what you’re looking for?

https://es-de.org/

cs.rin.ru

Make an account and seek the relevant thread.

Check out the russian site known as rin, they have most everything.

I’ve noticed some scene game/software releases have blake3 hashes now. That doesn’t account for everything else, but I’d say it’s a good step.

TVV or CRT are good trackers for old stuff, might have what you want.

I think so, but don’t quote me on that.

I’ve had a great experience with ovpn after Mullvad shut down port forwarding. You get 7 ports per account and the server I use is very fast. You can also purchase a public IPv4 with all ports open if you like.

Before ovpn I tried AirVPN. It’s a great service, but their servers are too busy/slow if you need a lot of bandwidth.

Yeah this is honestly how I find/download most stuff. Almost all trackers on I’m on have jackett support, and then I can choose the exact release I want.

Another +1 for gitea. It works quite well and is easy to setup.

It’s fairly easy to add local domain names with pihole, so presuming all devices on your network are using it, you shouldn’t have a problem.

Yes I believe so

P7 has an additional layer, the enhancement layer. It’s currently not possible (far as I know) to preserve this when encoding, so it is discarded. You end up with the encoded base layer which has the DV rpu injected.

It’s done usually because of compatability. You can take a base layer HDR/HDR10 video, then extract the DV rpu, sync it, and inject it into the HDR stream. To answer your question, it is using both the HDR base layer with DV dynamic metada.

For webs, it’s usually P5, and the conversion is apparently good enough that it doesn’t make a difference for most people. For P7, you are going to lose the enhancement layer when encoding, but that’s the price you pay for saving space.

There are instances, especially with discs, when the film is indeed graded differently, but the good encoders/remuxers pay attention to this.

• StaxRip (Windows only)
• A terminal emulator
• Jellyfin (think FOSS plex alternative)

Check out veracrypt. It’s free and easy to use.