But the article explains that there is a technical reason.

Debian for all things.

Well that's an easy fix. I just won't use those apps.

I just received mine a few days ago!

I am excited to have it and start using it but I would also caution people interested in it. It is currently a little rough around the edges software wise but I'm optimistic it will continue to improve with time.

I am personally glad I opted to support this project and while I don't think I'll be able to contribute to code I do hope to at least provide beneficial feedback and end user diagnostics.

Are you asking about why private trackers are private or are you asking about why a handful of people were mean to you who also happened to use a private tracker?

Edit: typo

Just look at the bit rate of what you are streaming and multiply it by 3 then add a little extra for overhead.

Assuming the implementation is done in such a way that I am not indirectly owned by the manufacturer of the BCI and am capable of maintaining its software and firmware myself...yes yes absolutely yes stick that shit in my head.

But if it is not open source and I'm expected to be tied to some corporate entity just to utililze it, no, absolutely not.

Reminds me of a tip for a soldering gun.

Care to cite your sources in that claim? I'm know they are far from anything that could be considered "good" but "worse than cigs" is news to me.

As others have said, cool concept, awful name.

Bad name aside Windows only client support is a big letdown and makes the application useless to me.

Because it's "easier" to support Windows from a business perspective and it's easier on users to use Windows as most already do use it and thus need no additional training/decreases support tickets.

I'm a small business environment it's much easier to manage with Linux but you still need an OK Linux admin on staff.

Once you start scaling up on paper Linux certainly works but there are a lot of factors that most people (such as yourself) don't consider.

This is coming from a pure Linux admin working on a mixed Enterprise environment where 99% of the infra is windows

You'll likely run into some problems eventually but yes, for the most part things work very well now. My only significant problems are typically cause by anti-cheat software.

Kernel upgrade WHILE you're out for beers!

Why tip someone for doing the their job?

The primary reason a private track is private is to make it feasible to maintain a curated community. Many users are not good torrent citizens. Many users are not good netizens in the first place. More than a few will look to actively do harm. Keeping a mostly closed community allows the vetting of users and those who end up breaking the rules are dealt with swiftly.

The extra barrier of entry also helps prevent bad actors from operating on the site. This is of course not a full proof thing but it is obviously much better than a public site.

Additionally running a private tracker and site takes server resources that are not free. Limiting the total number of users is a way of maintaining uptime by staying within your operational limits.

I'm sure there are other benefits for private trackers but these are at least a few.

I am not going to explain why someone on the internet was mean to you. Given the tone of this post I wouldn't be surprised if it was deserved.

As far as the "what you want" stuff goes, Nextcloud can do all of it and I use it for exactly that.

Are either of those brands designed with the same level of user serviceability in mind?

The main drive for framework is how easy they are to repair or mod along with their varying degrees of modularity (such as their swappable ports).

Can you build it yourself for cheaper?

Also, IMO 16GB is bare minimum in 2026 if you are using Windows. I'd really go to 32GB.

The title is not original to the article. Claiming she is "exploiting cheap labor" is rather misleading. To quote a section of the article:

The other option, the one Trump wants, is a pipe dream: manufacturing her products in the US. Benike would prefer to manufacture here, too. But a mountain of logistics, near impossibilities, stand in her way.

Food-grade silicone, which she uses for her products, is not available domestically. When she looked into the cost of importing the material when she first started, it was more expensive than importing a finished product, and the prices have gone up since then. Manufacturing facilities in the US with the compression mold machines she needed require much larger runs than she can commit to. The minimum requirements for factories here was 20,000 – in China, she could do a couple thousand at a time.

There sure is a lot of ultra-triggered atheists in here!

No one is answering my question:

Why can’t you see a post or comment about religion and say to yourself, “Oh, this is not for or about me” and then just move on to another post?

I do. You don't see those posts because they don't exist.

A question in exchange. Why do religious people have to constantly insert their beliefs into the lives of everyone else? Why is the primary stance of a major political party one steeped in what they claim to be religion yet is overwhelmingly full of hate?