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So there's the "official" set of tools from servarr.com, but there's a few "unofficial" tools as well, but they all function similarly in that they glue several things together to make workflows nicer.

1. A downloader (either a Bittorrent client or Usenet, but I will focus on Bittorrent).
2. An Indexer, some remote site (like thepiratebay.org) or BitMagnet (local DHT scraper) for searching for torrents. Prowlarr is the generic indexer component, so it can provide Indexer's to other components (Sonarr, Radarr, etc.), but you don't need to use Prowlarr if the site
3. A downloads folder.
4. A media library folder.

After adding your media library so the component knows what you "have" already, you tell the component (say "Sonarr" for TV shows) what you "want" and it's added to a wanted list. It also knows what you already have. When you add a new show to your wanted list it can immediately download it, or it can wait for new episodes to be released and only download those. When downloading it will download to the downloads folder and then copy (you can change settings so it uses hard links, so these copies don't take up extra space). It will only copy the media files and ignore .nfo/readme.txt style files, and it will change the format to the one Plex/JellyFin want (with //S__E__ - Episode title.mkv) By default it will seed for a certain amount and then delete the files from the downloads folder/remove from the torrent client, but this is configurable. It can also look for higher quality versions like if you have 480p versions of a show and 1080p versions become available it can download them and replace the lower quality versions with higher quality (it does not do this by default).

But that's fundamentally how they work, they have a media library with certain things, and a list of things you "want" and then a way to download things to get from the want list into the media library without needing to do any manual intervention (except manually adding things to your wanted list)

Presumably CBS/Paramount does have the recordings in a vault somewhere... but it's probably not worth it for them to put them on Paramount+ (Who knows what will happen when they go bankrupt). As it is you're limited to the few episodes individuals bothered to tape, and then digitize.

How did you search archive.org? I see several hits on https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Craig+Kilborn%22

For example this full episode: https://archive.org/details/kilborn.-0743

A fair number of them are "streaming only" due to them being some sort of agreement between archive.org and CBS.

I also see some on Youtube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR1fJIqpVrI

BitTorrent does seem to be completely dead. bt4gprx is a very thorough DHT search, so it will find basically anything on a public server that's actually being seeded, https://bt4gprx.com/search?q=Craig+Kilborn and it has no hits for the Late Late show, (but a few other appearances by Craig Kilborn on other shows.)

I don't think yt-dlp can crack DRM... most sites don't bother using it.

Older Boox's weren't certified for the Play store, so you couldn't run play store apps, but that hasn't been true for a while. You can run pretty much any Android app (though many don't work well on e-ink), and the older Boox's run older Android versions that aren't compatible with many apps in the Play store even if they can connect.

I think you're referring to "koreader" which started life as alternative kobo e-reader firmware, but now has an android port, but it just runs as an android app, that's what I run on my Boox Palma, but if it reboots, I have to relaunch koreader.

I do this, but with keepass (keepass on all devices and then sync with nextcloud). Saved my butt a few times, I can go into the file history and pull an old version of the keepass db out of it, and then keepass has a merge feature, so I can pull the old file out, and merge with current to find missing records.

Anyway... backups good.

worldcat lists the institutions with this book https://search.worldcat.org/title/1048005393, you'll probably have to show up in person. You may be able to do an inter-library loan if your local library doesn't have the book, you could get it from a sister library. However, the only public library that lists having the book is the Austin Public library in Austin, Texas.

I received a notification to use Door Dash yesterday, to order food... while I was cooking soup.

Alison also made a compilation of all the tik-toks of people reacting to the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNa-8tFoUxs which I think adds a fair amount of humor (but I'm sure some people will feel this is beeting a dead horse)

No thanks, I think I'll install Linux onto a dead badger

Right, only one side of the connection needs an open port (and most clients will let that be either seed or leech side)... this is why having an open port on your end is useful if you're downloading, since you can download from seeders that don't have an open port.

If you want the instances to sync, you just need to sync the directory. (I currently use nextcloud sync for this, but in the past I used synching and before that btsync)

If they dont try to modify the files at the same time (with sync delay) there won't be any issues. If they do grow out of sync, you can fix pretty easily with db repair.