That’s not at all what I am saying. I am saying that Gen Z aren’t as tech illiterate as people seem to think and using myself as an example.

Why are you so negative?

Point being I’ve used tech from the era before smartphones.

I struggled majorly with XDCC weirdly enough.

Most ISPs I have seen these days actually block stuff properly. DNS hacks are no longer sufficient. Luckily VPNs are cheap these days.

Weirdly enough I have never used that feature. Only found out about it after I started using Usenet and the *arr stack. Now if I want to search for something manually I use Prowlarr that allows me to search both Usenet and Bittorrent at the same time.

The rest of the time Radarr or Sonarr finds it for me.

Usenet seems to work really well, and can be surprisingly cheap. Try FrugalUsenet. If you want both VPN and Usenet then try something like Eweka. They do deals where you get both Usenet access and a cheap VPN. It’s about €105 for 15 months or €6.99 per month.

I was born in 2001. I didn’t use a smartphone until I was like 16. We grew up with regular computers too. I also grew up with Windows XP and 7, as well as playing Doom using DosBox. Then again I am a computer science graduate, so maybe not the best example.

I think he means the cat

Already done that. This is the only one that supports working with sonarr and radarr afaik.

Trying to get a real debrid client to work right. It seems the internal downloader doesn’t work, and it supported using aria2.

AMBA/AXI-bus in the case of the Pi. GPUs existed long before PCIe did lol.

One some x86 systems the CPU and GPU aren’t connected with PCIe either. AMD has infinity fabric that they use for things like the Instinct MI300 and some of their other APUs

Edit: Oh yeah also ARM isn’t just low power anymore. It’s used in data centers and super computers these days. Even if it was there is lots of stuff you can do with a low power node, including running file servers, DNS or Pi hole, web servers, torrent/usenet downloaders, image and music servers, etc. I have also seen them used to maintain cluster quorum after loss of one more powerful node. A two node cluster won’t have quorum if one fails, so adding a pi as a third node makes sense.

Not all of them. Have a look at a Raspberry Pi or Apple Silicon devices. In fact most ARM SoCs I am fairly sure don’t use PCIe for their iGPUs. This makes sense when you think about the unified memory architecture some of these devices use. Just in case you aren’t aware Proxmox does indeed run on a raspberry pi, and I am sure they will gain support for more ARM devices in the future. Though I believe an x86 device with unified memory could also have problems here.

My point is it’s not actually much (or potentially any) simpler to use PCIe passthrough than using an LXC. Yet it comes with more resource usage and more restrictions. Some hardware is more difficult to pass through, especially with iGPUs. I don’t even think all iGPUs even use PCIe.

You miss the part about XDG dirs?

2-3 clicks? That’s hilarious!

These are the steps it actually takes: https://3os.org/infrastructure/proxmox/gpu-passthrough/igpu-passthrough-to-vm/

That’s the best case scenario where it actually works without significant issues, which I am told is rarely the case with iGPUs.

In my case it was considerably more complicated as I have two GPUs from Nvidia (one used for host display outout), so I needed to block specific IDs rather than whole kernel modules.

Plus you lose display access to the Proxmox server which is important if anything goes wrong. You can also only passthrough to one VM at a time. Compared to using LXC you can passthrough to almost unlimited containers, and still have display output for the host system. It almost never makes sense to use PCIe passthrough on an iGPU.

The reason to do passthrough is for gaming on Windows VMs. Another reason is because Nvidia support on Proxmox is poor.

This is a guide to do passthrough with LXC: https://blog.kye.dev/proxmox-gpu-passthrough

It’s actually a bit less complicated for privileged LXC, as they are having to work around the restrictions of unprivileged LXC containers.

That’s going to be almost impossible to do with an iGPU. Makes way more sense to pass through to LXC.

I am using this client: https://github.com/rogerfar/rdt-client

I might have to try JDownloader. I forgot you could use it as a debrid client.

Where would I find a device that could run DDWRT or OpenWRT? WiFi 6 is basically a minimum requirement at this point given I already have a WiFi 6 router and WiFi 6 devices. It would be silly downgrading just for the sake of using WRT.

I already have a router from another house. Not helpful given it doesn’t have 5G. Also walmart? I am not an American lol.

So what this would actually mean, is cancelling a 24 month contract, buying two devices, one a 5G modem, and another to run OpenWRT, for well over £300. Shipping the other device back to the ISP. All with no guarantee any of it will work, given my experience with buying cellular modems previously. This would take probably 1 week plus, and cause more disruption to my parents after having already moved house and one of them being in hospital. That’s not taking into account anything that goes wrong with using OpenWRT, which is any number of things given it’s unofficial firmware that I have no previous experience with.

Yeah no that’s not going to happen. They aren’t going to go for that and honestly I don’t blame them that’s a horrible deal, even if I pay for half the equipment.