It’s public domain? archive.org

If it needs to be chipped, absolutely do not try to do it yourself without microsoldering experience. I can do basic soldering just well enough, but for this I wrecked one switch before paying someone to do it for me.

You really trust the US government to control your communications? Especially given the last 20 years?

There exist plenty of free email platforms right now. I’m not against the government providing one, but unlike physical packages, sending an email to Bumfuck, Missouri doesn’t cost any more than sending it across town.

There’s the cost of the ISP, and for that I think there should be a municipal option for sure, to provide service to unprofitable regions just like postal mail and rural electrification.

Why in the world should it be?

Search engines don’t treat Lemmy specially. They index the pages just like any other site. If it’s discoverable through the crawling process, it’ll be indexed.

A couple dozen times yesterday.

Why not just have a website?

Why do you want that?

I put that music on archive.org too. If there’s no market for selling it, I don’t think there’s much of a legal argument.

It depends. If you want to split the library by movies/shows/seasons/whatever, you can probably do that with a small shell script. If it’s by folder, that’s very easy. If for some reason you have an XML database and a flat file backend… well, you’d have to put the files into a folder tree for the torrents anyway. It would be much easier to actually move (or better yet, symlink or hard link) the files into that folder tree, unless there’s some kind of industrial-grade torrent software I’ve never heard of that can integrate with that, instead of just the filesystem. I’m sure they exist, given that bittorrent is used for stuff like video game updates, but that seems like a lot of work for not much gain.

It’s easy. Create the torrent, upload it to a public tracker. Or send it to your friends. Or post the magnet link and rely on DHT.

No, it was only up or down, but you could also choose to add a descriptor, funny, insightful, informative, flamebait, troll, and a few others: https://slashdot.org/faq#meta3

low Karma accounts can post in Lemmy as opposed to Reddit

But should they?

One of the things I miss about reddit (and slashdot before that) was that if you got downvoted/downmodded a lot in a short amount of time, it would tell you to slow down (, cowboy). It helped to limit the damage when someone would go on a troll spree before they got banned.

Some subreddits did implement a “you must have x karma to post” rule, or account age, which I wasn’t always a fan of, especially if it was karma within a certain subreddit. I understand the logic, that it was intended to make people read the community before posting, but I’m not sure if it hit the mark. But it did limit brand-new spam accounts, which are already here on lemmy.

And Lidarr for music. But the option is hard links, not symlinks.

Dolby Atmos is a surround sound thing, not video. This sounds more like a video codec thing. What codec is your video using exactly? Can you provide the original release filename?

You should upload it to archive.org too.