Bit strange, the Strawberry app itself already mentions how to donate in the Help/About Strawberry window. Maybe the dev could distribute the Windows/MacOS binaries and simply code in a massive donation pop-up when the OS detected <> Linux.
brickfrog
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Post title misleading, Strawberry project still up and running at https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry , coincidentally I had just installed it on Debian 13. Then saw this post saying Strawberry was taken down except that it wasn't.
Like the other comment says this is just about unofficial binaries that were floating around. That said it's kind of a bummer that Windows/Mac users can't download pre-compiled binaries from their github page. Maybe someone can create a script that does the downloading/compiling for those OSes similar to how some ffmpeg scripts do it e.g. https://github.com/UBTL/ffmpeg-windows-build
Not sure if this answers your question, on my fresh install of Debian 13 it seems to default to using
/etc/apt/sources.list
For example, I had to go in there to enable non-free and it worked fine.
There is a newer/recommended format of sources files ending in .sources in the same folder. The newer format is supported as of Debian 13 but for whatever reason Debian 13 doesn't actually default to installing the newer version on fresh installs. I'm a bit confused by that but Debian's own docs do discuss it.
https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList
On my fresh install the /etc/apt/sources.list.d still exists, it looks like other software still create their own sources .list files in there when adding their own repos. Debian 13 itself does not seem to generate any files there.
My suggestion is to install Ubuntu with whatever desktop environment works for her. Since you're using Ubuntu too, and you're essentially going to be her tech support, it'll just be easier all around to stay on the same distro at least for now.
More importantly, how Windows-centric is she? Some people may prefer Gnome since using it is just a bit less complicated to use without needing to set a bunch of different settings. But if she's expecting the Windows style start menus and such then maybe she'll prefer KDE. Or there's always installing Linux Mint's Cinnamon on Ubuntu, Cinnamon would be easier than KDE for a ex-Windows user I suspect (https://ubuntucinnamon.org/ also exists apparently).
Hmm I think your issue is specific to Windows Sandbox. I've only ever used full VM software (Microsoft Hyper-V, VirtualBox, etc.).
Never touched Windows Sandbox but it sounds like a sort of hybrid VM/Container thing.. I could be wrong :) hopefully someone else knows more about using that or maybe you'll need to post in another community to ask about it.
EDIT: Looking into it a bit more, Windows Sandbox isn't actually a VM. So you're really asking if you can run multiple apps (VPN+torrent client+whatever) inside a sandbox app like Windows Sandbox..I don't think that's how sandbox apps work, they usually are for sandboxing a single app, so you may need to experiment and figure it out. Everyone looking at your post is thinking you're asking about VMs, not sandboxes :P
e.g. see this https://superuser.com/a/1775271 answer
Yes that would work fine, you can pretty much run anything inside a VM. So yeah a properly set up VM with internet access + VPN client + anything else you want to install will work.
Not too sure what the issue is that you are encountering, you'd need to update your post with a lot more info. My suggestion is to start over and make sure the VM is set up correctly e.g. install the OS in the VM, verify it has normal internet access. Then install the VPN client in the VM, verify VPN is working properly. After that qBittorrent or anything else can be installed inside the VM. (probably best to save snapshots of your VM after each step in case you screw up and need to roll back)
Not as popular but there are other apps that do TV automation, SickChill and Medusa for example are still active forks of the old SickBeard/SickRage software.
There are probably others I'm not thinking of right this second, nowadays people mostly prefer using the *arr stack for automation (Sonarr, Radarr, all the other arrs).
More likely those seeds are super-busy so it just takes a while to keep a consistent upload. these type of seeds tend to be on a ton of other low seed torrents. So any new seeds helps.
And of course there's the seeds that just don't have great connections e.g. could be a laptop that is literally only online x hours a day or even week, or they can only upload at night or whatever.
4 seeders
4 seeds means it's not actually a dead torrent. Slow uploading sure, but not dead. I'd suggest just leaving it alone, if it's going at 8% per week it should finish on its own in roughly 13 weeks assuming the speeds don't change much. That's going to be a while but once you've got it you'll be seed number 5 as long as you keep seeding it on your end.
If I can find find the exact releases of as many roms as possible in the collection from other singular sources, can I resurrect this torrent by just copy+overwrite into the unfinished folder?
Sure that may work in theory. Just keep in mind you'd need to find tons of ROM files that are exact bit-by-bit matches of the files in the torrent - otherwise overwriting mismatched data into your currently downloading torrent would make things slower for you since you'd now have to re-download that data to get back to 8% or whatever.
EDIT: Looks like you lucked out, congrats seed #5 :)
Already using Debian on my desktop so an upgrade will happen sooner or later.
The WD sales are decent if you're buying new so if you're feeling like it's time for a purchase this might be worth it for you.
I did the same earlier this year though in my case I tend to buy the current gen large capacity WD Reds & stick with them for a few years at least. When their 24 TB / 26 TB drives went on sale they actually were cheaper than what Newegg / Amazon had done with their own sales up to then so for me it was worth it.
The other thing to keep in mind, if you're in the U.S., the whole tariff situation isn't going to make this stuff any cheaper in the future.
I don't use Air Pods or AAC, just taking a guess...
By chance did you already try the steps in the last comment of that link you posted? On my fresh install of Debian 13 I see that pipewire-audio-client-libraries, libspa-0.2-jack, pulseaudio-utils were not installed, makes me wonder if you somehow lost them or the other packages during your Debian upgrade (if that's possible)?
What I'd do is run
apt search pipewire-audio-client-libraries
apt search libspa-0.2-bluetooth
apt search libspa-0.2-jack
apt search pulseaudio-utils
For your system they should in theory display as something like [installed, automatic]. If any of those don't show as installed then run
apt install PACKAGE-NAME
Then restart the system and check if the aac codec is in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/spa-0.2/bluez5 (and/or test your Air Pods and see how that goes).