Brickfrog

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 :)

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 am downloading through Mullvad, which I know doesn’t let you forward your ports. So I can appreciate that that seeder’s settings and mine might not be super compatible.

Are there any other peers in that torrent swarm? If it’s just you (leeching peer) and the lone seed (seeding peer), and neither of you have ports open, then you won’t be able to download any torrent data.

If there is another peer in that swarm, or another peer joins later, and that new peer happens to be fully connectable (port forwarded) then you’ll be able to download the torrent data through them. If this is your situation then all you can do is try your luck and wait for another peer to come by.

Or if we rule all of that out - it’s possible that lone peer just has a very busy torrent client. They could be the lone peer on tons of other torrents so it would take quite a while before their torrent client gets around to sending you torrent data. If this is the case then it’s the same as above, just have to continue waiting.

Strange, they don’t even have support via IRC or similar? Most trackers handle support that way but I’m not sure how this one is doing things.

Hopefully a member there will see your post and maybe send you those details.

Not automatic (I think) and a bit clunky but the Strawberry music player does have a transcode feature so you could select music files and transcode them a certain way output to another folder. It’s not something I ever do but I did a quick test to a USB drive and it seems to work okay. It’s an option if you opt to use a gui to click through.

OTOH if you’re happy using the terminal and/or scripting then ffmpeg would be a better bet.

PS - Strawberry does have a panel where it lists “Devices” and maybe your phone could show up there and the transcoding would work a bit more automatically, wasn’t able to test that here.

VS HDD seems a bit unlikely. The typical cheap optical media isn’t designed or meant for long term archival. There are more expensive types that are meant for long term storage but I’m pretty sure that’s not what OP is talking about, especially if it’s just random blank discs from thrift stores, etc.

But to your point even cheap optical media might outlast SSDs since those tend to lose their saved data if stored unpowered for x years.

To be fair Ubuntu is still okay especially starting out, it’s one of the more polished distros with a ton of online documentation when you need to search around and figure out how to do things. And no one says you have to stay with a distro, once you’re comfortable with Linux it’s easy enough to check out other distros.

That aside a lot of people have been recommending Mint for new users so that’s definitely one you can check out if you want to try branching out now rather than later.

PS - Nvidia has a less than stellar reputation for their Linux drivers, you may want to consider reading up on that for whichever distro you choose. I have an Nvidia GPU (old non-Quadro class) running on Debian, works fine now but I did have a few false starts getting it going properly at first.

Slightly concerned about remote desktopping though. What do I replace xrdp with?

Xrdp works on Wayland, you can keep using it if you like. There’s also Gnome’s built-in Gnome Remote Desktop as well as KDE’s Krdp, both are also Wayland compatible (though I get the feeling Krdp is still in its early stages).

According to https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-keyboard-shortcuts.html.en you should be able to use Shift + Super + Page Up/Down to move application windows between workspaces, seems to work for me.

So for your example start Terminal, then maximize it (Super + Up Key), then move the application window to another workspace (Shift + Super + Page Up/Down).

Perhaps just uninstalling Nouveau and falling back to the Intel driver, if it’s already installed, is sufficient? Or if that doesn’t work, worst case OP could blacklist Nouveau and and update initramfs? I’m just guessing as long as the Nvidia driver is never actually active perhaps that’s enough to avoid excess power consumption.

OTOH there isn’t much harm in OP keeping Nouveau enabled and seeing how things go though I’m in agreement with you, on an older laptop there’s not much advantage to be gained with the older Nvidia hardware.

All the loaded torrents in a torrent client already get stored somewhere in the torrent client’s own settings folders. e.g. if you look in qBittorrent’s settings folders you’ll find a folder full of .torrent files representing every single torrent currently in the torrent client.

So if it’s a torrent I’m going to leave loaded in the torrent client then no, there’s no reason to save a second copy of the .torrent file. But I guess if it’s a torrent I’m not going to load in the torrent client, or will remove it from there, then maybe it’s worth saving depending how you do things.

I’m undecided. I figure if I save them and back them up to an offline/offsite device, then I can (mostly/hopefully) recover from hardware failure by simply re-adding all the torrent files to my favorite client.

It would be better just to back up your entire torrent client settings folders, you’ll save all the .torrent files along with the save folders and other information you have in the torrent client.

Nope, I prefer being able to run my own network router, open/close my own ports, block ads on the network, hopefully get as much bandwidth as I can, etc. so it’s usually better for me to subscribe to my own internet.

… But since you bring it up, coincidentally I currently live on a street with shops/restaurants on the main floor under me. And all their wifi networks are visible from my apartment… so technically yeah, if I go through the trouble of collecting all their wifi passwords I could just hang out on their networks for free internet. Internet probably wouldn’t be great and not very private without a VPN but for free web browsing it should work.

combine announce URLs into one torrent file

No.

or create a separate torrent file for each tracker?

Yes.

You can also check in the rules/FAQ of each private tracker but it’s universal that all private trackers require their torrents to exist and announce/share peers separately. That doesn’t mean the data has to be separate e.g. if it’s the same torrent data you can point multiple torrents to the same data.

You forgot to mention their Tor link, seems to be working fine http://l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion/

(also linked in https://1337x-status.org/ )

Eh, sure OP could do that. Does seem a bit over the top for OP to pursue the most complicated backup solution possible :D Maybe as a strange experiment to see how it goes, not as a trusted backup solution. (like you said not for critical data)

IPFS would also require more bandwidth vs just about any other solution since it has to constantly talk to other IPFS nodes. And more finicky, last I used IPFS the client would run into memory leaks and other weirdness requiring restarts every now and then (hopefully it’s more stable for long-term runs nowadays).

Similar but no, Syncthing does not use bittorrent or the bittorrent protocol.

Though if you’re curious Resilo Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) is similar to Syncthing and does use bittorrent.

Wouldn’t be a good solution, you’re hoping that other users are going to volunteer to pin (aka store and seed) your personal backup data for you.

Using IPFS for personal backups is exactly the same as creating a torrent with your backup data - With both it would be unlikely that your personal backup data will actually exist anywhere beyond your own data storage, no one’s going to freely volunteer to store your backups for you.

Not overly active but there are a few communities you could join if you like

!OpenSignups@lemmy.dbzer0.com

!Opensignups@lemmy.ml

!Opensignups@noworriesto.day

https://opentrackers.org/ is also a good site to keep an eye on (though it seems to be less active at the moment).

Ah yeah I saw that one but I don’t think it does quite what OP wants. Seems more like it is designed to monitor a running qBittorrent client and then copy the .torrent file(s) to Transmission, with all torrent data in the same data folder. Might not help much for OP with all the different data folders they have in their current setup.

My concept is as such: have a shared folder where everything is moved after download. I call this /mnt/torrents.

The script provided that makes all of this happen is a python script. It queries the qBittorrent client for uploading or completed downloads, checks to see if they are private or public torrents, then copies the .torrent files to the respective “watched” directory of the public or private (transmission) client. It just copies the .torrent files to directories, so it should be usable with other torrent clients that have “watched” directories.

But either way nice effort! I’m kind of surprised at the lack of scripts to import torrents into Transmission. The only related script I could find is to do Transmission --> qBittorrent but it doesn’t seem to do the reverse https://github.com/Mythologyli/transmission-to-qbittorrent