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by theshrike79 1120 days ago
The level of complexity is running a rsync cron job every X minutes to check if you have new files to transfer back home.

It's not exactly rocket surgery.

1 comments

So it's more complex and slower.
I can wait for the extra 60 seconds it takes for my cronjob to check new files :D
it can take a long time to sync files home if they are large enough/your connection is slow
It takes just as long to download them on a torrent client ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't live in the time zone as the TV shows I watch, so having a delay isn't really an issue. And even if I did, I wouldn't watch them immediately anyway, that's kinda the whole point.

fair, i moved away from a seedbox because it took so long to sync back home