This is the most useful response in this thread. I’ve been here a month and didn’t know that votes are public or that moderators can be judged. I hated that about Reddit. Also didn’t know that Mastodon users can post here

If they had even the slightest rumour that it was Russia then it would be plastered all across news in Europe

I don’t know why you’re getting pushback on this, what you’re saying is 100% correct. I spent around a decade just using Usenet and not bothering with torrents. Then I got into one highly sought after private tracker. I spent several months not downloading a thing except freeleech to create a buffer, which was going absolutely nowhere. Then recently I decided to test out this seedbox thing I’d heard so much about. I set it up to automatically download freeleech torrents the second they’re posted. Even with that setup I discovered that I still can’t get a 1:1 ratio. A bot that downloads the freeleech torrent the instant it’s posted still only achieves a 0.5 ratio. It’s madness. Within 20 minutes of being posted, the torrent will have 150 seedbox users seeding it and no one else will be able to upload a single byte.

Before this I was manually downloading freeleech torrents that I found interesting, and was literally getting a 0 ratio by doing that. Now I know why. This system encourages everyone to buy seedboxes, which then makes it impossible for regular Joe shmoes to use private trackers, unless they signed up back in 2013 or something

So I discovered and bought the DVD for Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Heurtley House and also Frank Lloyd Wright’s Home and Studio. And because I’m a nerd and it popped up as a ‘you might be interested in this’, I got a CD titled Frank Lloyd Wright Companion, which is a catalog of plans and sections of varying quality. I also managed to find torrents for An American Home - Frank Lloyd Wright’s B. Harley Bradley House. Didn’t love that one honestly as there was very little content about the house itself and more about the history of the area and the people who owned it.

What about you? Curious to hear if I’ve missed any good ones

Because everyone these days is used to the USraeli style of warfare where you just target schools and hospitals and bridges.

I did exactly this. Generally find everything on Usenet, but I’ve bought several DVDs of things I couldn’t find. Most recently some really niche Frank Lloyd Wright documentaries 😆

What is eyedex? Never heard of this before

Wow what a flashback. I was using that about 15 years ago at university

Infomaniak Ksuite. Migrated a year ago and been happy so far.

Other options I looked at:

Murena

Internxt

PeerGOS

Pcloud

I’m so glad I went with Infomaniak instead of proton. And when Tuta comes out with a drive replacement I’ll try that too

I spent 13 hours at work yesterday. So no fun whatsoever