u/Salvadorfreeman

I've been downloading a show with a really small number of seeders, talking about just 1 to 3.

I've downloaded most of the episodes, but one is stuck at 99%. Every now and again a single seeder connects, my software downloads at a very low speed, 8.19 kb/s, for just a few seconds three or four times. Then nothing else for another hour or so.

Two other episodes are stuck at 50 - 70%, but I suppose that's just due to the small number of seeders. The remaining episodes all downloadd completely.

What's going on here? It's really puzzling.

Hello,

When I run OpenVPN (in Ubuntu 24.04) I get different results from the WhatsmyIP and WhatismyIPadress web sites. On WhatsmyIP I get the location showing up as my real physical location. On Whatismyipaddress I get the altered IPV4 address, but the site lists my real ISP.

Any idea what's going on?

I came home from vacation and found that the battery on my laptop had run down. But then, after connecting power, it wouldn't boot at all.

So I put in another SSD, running Ubuntu, and connected the defective drive via a USB connector. It doesn't even show up. On the Disks application it shows up as 500 GB unknown format. The "repair file system" option is greyed out.

Is there any way I could recover at least some of the files on this SSD?

I've had SDNSP for years, working perfectly pretty much all the time. Both the DNS rerouting and the VPN.

However, the VPN, using OpenVPN, does not work on the recent versions of Ubuntu, from 25.04 onwards. It's still working fine on my Android devices and on a computer running older versions of Ubuntu.

Has anyone else had this problem? The support line does not seem to be aware of nor have a solution to this problem. The installation guide is based on Ubuntu 22.04.

I am surprised that this is not a known problem.

New to Thunderbird. I've gone through all the menus. Preferences, appearance etc.

According to the help site I have to go through all kinds of hoops to change the date format from yank to EU.

That is something that should just be in the settings!

I've just downloaded a couple of episodes of what was supposed to be season 2 of a series. They were listed as season 2. But they turned out in fact all to be season 1.

Is there any way to check what I'm getting before downloading the whole thing? This is the first time I've come across this. Although once I downloaded something and it turned out to be a completely different show. I guess it was a mistake by whoever seeded them in the first place. The description didn't list the files,

Maybe there is a way to view an excerpt once the downloading has begun? I'm currently using Transmission software but open to other suggestions, in Ubuntu 24.04

I've just downloaded a couple of episodes of what was supposed to be season 2 of The Undeclared War (buffering makes Channel 4 unwatchable!). They turned out in fact to be season 1.

Is there a way of signalling this?

So I added a few torrents this morning to Transmission (+ VPN) and nothing had happened after 45 minutes. So I closed Transmission and started it again, then everything starts downloading.

Odd. I have added torrents to Transmission while open in the past and no problems.

Just wondering why this would happen. Maybe I could have achieved the same result by clicking on Pause All, and then Start All.

I 've set up Localsend on my latop (Ubuntu) and Nokia Google TV.

The trouble is that the client on the TV doesn't give me the option to change the path where the files are stored. The default location is on the Downloads folder on the TV's internal memory, which is really low. When I try to change the location, that just closes the LocalSend app.

I'm new to Localsend. In the past I've used Send Files to TV, but that doesn't work with Linux so I have to first transfer the files to an Android device before sending them to the TV.

It used to be possible just by going to the Amazon web site and using the manage devices option. But this is no longer possible for old Kindles.

So I do lots of reading and shopping using an Android tablet. But it would be nice read stuff on my kindle, which works perfectly but Amazon has deemed obsolete.

I thought maybe I could copy the relevant files from the tablet and load them onto the Kindle, figuring that DRM shouldn't be a problem since they are both registered to the same account.

However, I haven't even managed to find the files on the tablet. I suppose they must be in some other format.

Is there a way to do this? Or shall I just use the Kindle for reading books downloaded DRM-free from wherever I can find them?

I have two 64 GB USB drives plugged into the back of my android TV for recording live TV and for playing downloaded stuff.

Until recently all worked fine until recently. Now the TV doesn't see one of the drives. I've tried swapping the drives round and restarting the TV. I checked the misbehaving drive on my computer. It's formatted Exfat, hasn't reverted to read only. In short, it works fine. I've also tested it on the cheap Chinese streaming box in the bedroom. It works fine there too.

OK, I can get by with just one USB drive plugged into the TV, but I'd like to know what's going on.

I have the BBC iPlayer app on my Google TV, geounblocked via a DNS config on my home router.

But BBC Iplayer just simply isn't listed among the list of possible streaming services.

Same goes for Channel 4.

Maybe the country settings need to be changed in the Plex set up, but I haven't found where they are, if any.

Uses for strutto

I bought some strutto at an Italian supermarket. It was in the refrigerated fresh cheese section, along with straciatella, mozzarella etc, and packaged similarly, so I thought I was getting some kind of fresh cheese.

Now I find I am the owner of a lump of lard, something that I don't usually use.

So I am looking for ideas. Or shall I just leave it aside until the next time I make roast potatoes (which is not very often).

Are there any advantages in using it for frying over cooking oil?

Uses for strutto

I bought some strutto at an Italian supermarket. It was in the refrigerated fresh cheese section, along with straciatella, mozzarella etc, and packaged similarly. Now I find I am the owner of a lump of lard, something that I don't usually use.

So I am looking for ideas. Or shall I just leave it aside until the next time I make roast potatoes (which is not very often).

Are there any advantages in using it for frying?

I've installed a few apps, not really very many (hbomax, BBC, itvx, VPN, FreeTv, Plex), and running it under Projectivy. But I get an " insufficient memory" message when I try to add more.

First question: why ship a TV with so little memory

Second question: what T do about it.

I already have a USB dongle for PVR, maybe I could move some apps to it, but how?

Hello, I cooked a mackerel in my air fryer - 12 minutes at 200 degrees (that's about 390 F) - turning it over half way through.

The skin was crisp, but the inside of the fish had turned into a very unusual floury texture. The mackerel seemed very fresh, so I don't think that was the problem.

Maybe the cooking time was too long? Or something else?

I switched from Netflix to Hbomax (cos I got a really good deal) a year ago. My main problem has been finding what to watch. Netflix has a whole pile of cheat codes enabling you to search by genre, sub-genre, sub-sub-genre, language, and a whole lot of other criteria.

On HBOMax, the search possibilities are far more limited. The HBOMax recommendations are totally useless.

And then, when you do find something that could be worth watching, there is almost no information. A couple of lines of vague summary and possibly a trailer that doesn't give a real impression of the nature of the film or series. I have to go to Google or IMDB or something similar just to find basic information, like the names of actors and directors.

The only way of getting any useful leads is reviews in the media and word of mouth!

Pull your socks up HBO.

Un parent âgé habitant dans une villa près de Nice cherche personne à tout faire. Logé, nourri, blanchi. Permis de conduire obligatoire. 40 h par semaine. Convient pour quelqu'un qui souhaite quitter la region parisienne pour vivre sur la côte. 3 000 € mensuel (brut).

I have been given an old laptop to restore, with just two USB connectors One is a standard USB A socket. The second is only a very marginally smaller, but is too small to receive a standard USB A plug. I thought of maybe filing the sides of one of those very small USB memories that have no casing.

My questions are:

1. what is the point of such a connector? It is hardly any smaller than a standard USB A, so there is no space saving. In any case, on this computer it was sitting next to the standard USB A.

2. What is it called?. I've tried googling to find an adapter, or maybe an extension lead, but I only come up with mini-USB and micro USB.

3. Are the connections completely compatible with USB-A

I've seen another thread on Reddit, where someone asks for help because they got something jammed in the socket. But it doesn't answer these questions.

At first I thought it must be an old standard, but recently a friend told me she had had the same problem with a computer she had just bought new.