It’s better since it supports hardware transcoding and seperate user profiles including age ratings.

With the lifetime pass I’d say Plex is better, but without it there’s too many missing features.

Don’t worry it opens up pretty frequently.

Seeding 1 for 1 isn’t what they’re looking for in users as a general rule, they’re looking for people who will seed forever.

You’re probably more likely to meet people who have access to those sites in self hosting communities where they can share with friends who they know have the infrastructure to benefit those communities.

I’m on a dynamic ip and I’ve been considering doing this just to stop my remote services from being glitchy whenever the ip changes.

But I need to setup pfsense or OPNsense first so I can route everything properly.

I’m excited to see what happens, a significant amount of knowledge is moving to a much more democratic platform. If the people who can give useful answers to questions are here others will end up moving here to get access to that.

I know that I’m going to make an effort to help make this place worth using.

And yet these places succeed in creating true archives because they don’t allow free loaders

People​ who think like you do so because you don’t appreciate the effort that’s put into creating an environment where torrents don’t die.

From those top sites stuff can then be spread via people making requests at more accessible trackers.

The general pattern is that 4k will be x265 and 1080P encodes with DV / HDR10 need to be x265.

But non HDR / DV 1080P and below is x264.

That’s what the encoders on the cabal trackers are doing.

How’s the community for that?

I use Endeavor which is what I was going to suggest as an easy to install Arch based distro.

For anyone wanting to learn then going for something Arch based means you’ve got the Arch wiki to back you up.

If you want transcoding then you want an Intel processor as their iGPUs can handle plenty of streams without breaking a sweat.