I keep a single bill in my phone case for emergencies (be it an actual emergency or I just want to eat at some place which only takes cash).

If my phone battery runs out I’m stranded anyway, since I can’t call anyone or use my public transport ticket.

Don’t trust a VPN kill switch, they can fail. Bind your torrent client to your VPN network interface.

Yes, but you should use a reverse proxy for anything open to the internet. If you use a reverse proxy (without passing X-Forwarded-…), Plex and Jellyfin should have feature parity with this change.

Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer.

In my opinion they should be safe legally because extensions are developed and distributed separately.

But I don’t think companies like Kakao care for that. If they DMCA (or sue) Mihon devs, they’d have to de-anonymize themselves to properly fight the claim. If not, at least their website or source code repo could get taken down. If they’ve used Discord or a similar platform, chats could be used to identify them.

Ryujinx, a Nintendo Switch emulator, stopped development a year or so ago. As far as we know, it was developed cleanly without doing anything illegal. But Nintendo somehow found the developer (in Brazil I believe) and threatened them so they folded. Nintendo didn’t even need to sue them.

It’s not even piracy. The license permits redistribution and profiting of it.

The issue is that this increases the risk of Mihon getting shut down. Mihon devs don’t make any money. Nobody profits of those downstream developers using the name of the original project to make money besides them. It’ll just result in Mihon ceasing to exist.

Better back up your list somehow in case they go down.

Given the list is local Mihon would continue to work for the foreseeable future. The first thing to break are the extensions which doesn’t impact exporting the reading list.

If an entity makes money using a name similar to Mihon, rightsholders like Kakao are more likely to issue a cease and desist.

Kakao likely doesn’t care to differentiate between the original developers who don’t make any money and the other entity using a similar name. They might even think both projects are from the same people. Thus the downstream making money threatens the existence of the original project.

Mihon does support local sources.

https://mihon.app/docs/guides/local-source/

OpPS does not do interviews atm, so I’d recommend interviewing for RED.

Yes. Some cracks don’t replace the call to a server entirely, and instead use a local server to return the expected response. In this case, the DRM would run normally, except for it not contacting the offcial remote server.

Obviously if a crack removes a DRM completely, there might be a performance advantage. It depends on several factors.

DRM tends to mess with your game, framerate even. People who pirate don’t have that problem.

Not necessarily. Often times DRM doesn’t get removed or completely bypassed, instead they only make the license check pass. In this case performance should be identical to the licensed original.

There’s non-streamable MP4, which have index metadata at the end of the file. For those you’d have to download the end first to be able to play anything before it. But I don’t think I’ve stumbled upon it (not that I download any MP4 in general, as there’s the superior MKV).

Yeah, music slowing down jellyfin search was the reason I moved to navidrome.

How big is your library? 1min is excessive but I also noticed jellyfins search getting slower with an increasing amount of shows and movies. There’s projects like jellysearch which improve search noticeably.

Iirc it’s possible to include Google Maps traffic data as an overlay map on OsmAnd.

Unless they didn’t enable file extensions to actually show, so an “.nfo” could actually be a “.nfo.exe”.

It does not seem to be the case here, but I really would be careful with double clicking untrusted files. Opening them through a media player directly is a much safer option.

That’s why private torrent sites & Usenet Indexers are mostly ignored by law enforcement. There’s bigger fish to catch than going after a minority who goes through the trouble of downloading first and then watching it. Not to mention the even smaller part who automates their downloading through the likes of *arr.

I’d argue torrent streaming (Streamio) is a major reason why many public torrent sites died over the last few years: Streaming and the big amount of users coming for the convenience paints a much bigger target on sites.

Torrents don’t do live streams. E.g. watching recordings of football matches is not the same as live, and free sites often struggle at peak times.

Some OCH groups might actually take issue with their stuff getting shared around, but there’s no way for them to restrict it. Scene is in a similar situation, where they want releases to stay in their circles but they get released to trackers & usenet anyway.

German releases by OCH groups are already shared widely through Usenet and private torrent sites, as OCH is such a big source of pirated content in Germany.

So yes, you’re free to share OCH releases to public sites. ZeroTwo releases usually include subtitles for all available languages so they might’ve a wider appeal than german-speaking countries.

Make sure you’re VPN & torrent client is properly set up, i.e. you’re torrent client is bound to the VPN interface.

I personally stick to private torrent sites as there’s less eyes on them given them being relatively small [1]. With so few people torrenting in Germany the speeds aren’t always great though. That’s why I mainly use Usenet.

[1] https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2