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I tried different ways to backup all images and videos from Windows to Google Photos for free, but kept hitting brick walls. Morphe Google Photos crashes constantly, older versions run but fail to backup, WSL for Android was unstable, and Android emulators couldn't reliably access or sync my Windows folders. At last, I found the gotohp repo which spoofs the Google Pixel mobile API, but on its own it lacked automatic folder watching and couldn't monitor my actual Windows libraries. So I built the solution myself: an automated PowerShell background watcher and suite that dynamically scans and monitors the exact directories where your media lives (Downloads, Pictures, Desktop, Documents, Music).

Under the hood, it orchestrates the gotohp CLI (all credits to xob0t/gotohp) silently in the background, listening for newly saved, downloaded, or copied photos and videos in real time. Whenever a file is detected, it uploads it directly to Google Photos disguised as an original Pixel device so it consumes 0 bytes of your Google Drive / Google One storage, even for original-quality 4K footage. It uses a local SQLite database (gphotos.db) to track every upload so nothing is ever uploaded twice, includes a live terminal progress bar or silent 1-click Windows boot auto-start, and requires zero virtual machines or Docker. The code and portable setup are free and open source here:

https://github.com/shishir0x/GoogleUnlimited

if you run into any bugs or issues, feel free to submit an issue on the GitHub repo!

My 84 year old mom has been UPS'd a letter with a subpoena from Comcast informing her that she is being sued by Strike 3 Holdings for an illegal download. It says she must forward a motion to quash by mid November or Comcast will provide them with her name and address. She can barely turn on her TV and has memory problems but others may have had access to her wifi. I am her legal proxy. How should I proceed? Do I have to hire a lawyer?

The first issue is that if the developer wants their projects easily searchable/on the surface web they'd have to distribute/maintain by not providing game file/assets.

Even then, the main consensus I've seen is since its the wild west of people distributing these with or without game file/assets is that there's bound to be ones with viruses.

Which is what SteamRIP, Fitgirl and the likes have been doing for years with say CODEX, Elamigos, etc. cracked builds centralized to their website so you can download without the fear of getting a virus.

So with that premise, is there a website like that doing so for these recompilation projects that also includes game file/assets?

Atp just switch to Xbox or jailbreak your PS for sony's exclusives only, buying a PS for anything other than that is not worth it anymore

VPN providers and Cloudflare only have to make a reasonable effort to block pirate sports streams in France.

That's the conclusion of two Paris court rulings that refused beIN Sports' request for penalties of €10,000 per day, per domain.

Meanwhile, the Paris Court of Appeal put a separate VPN blocking appeal on hold until France's Supreme Court rules on DNS blocking.

I want to 3D print the helmet and a glove but I can NOT afford $95

I'm trying to use Zlibrary today but, for some reason, I'm getting this "Too many requests from your IP" error. I've been rate-limited before (5 downloads per IP) but this isn't the same.

The page doesn't even load, it just tells in plain text "Too many requests from your IP. Please wait 10 seconds. support@z-lib.fm".

The thing this, the IP shown is not even my own IP, it's in a completely different country. When I enable my VPN, I get the same errror, and the IP is also not the VPN's IP but something else.

Anyone else having this issue?

What is with pirated TV shows all the sudden having Audio description enabled... I just wanna sit down and watch 9-1-1 but EVERY single stream i've seen and every torrent i've downloaded has audio Description and no way to turn it off.... i'm not against accessibility.... but for the love of god why is it on EVERY stream and every download

UPDATE: used antra.hoshi and got a hold of it 👍

Probably wont get a reply as its so niche but just had to ask in case there's a way.

There's a song my Grandpa always wanted at his funeral and all of the recordings on YouTube have audience clapping all the way through it, there is a recording on spotify without the clapping but its greyed out (I suspect its because I cant listen to it in my regen) Ive tried using the spotify web page and connecting to a VPN to as many different regens as I could but still no luck.

My question is does anyone know how to get the audio file from spotify if I cant listen to it?

Been tinkering with this for a few months and it's finally usable, so here it is.

MelodyBridge. You paste a public Spotify or YouTube playlist link, it grabs the track list once, then works every track down a chain of sources until it gets a file that passes the quality bar you set. Right now that chain can be Lucida (Tidal/Deezer/Amazon/Qobuz), Monochrome, DAB Music, DoubleDouble, SoundCloud, archive.org and yt-dlp. You pick the order.

The stuff that made me build it instead of using what's out there:

• it probes each file after download and bin anything that lies. Html error pages saved as mp3, wrong duration, and the classic 320kbps files that are secretly 128. There's a spectrum check for that last one.
• hardlinks duplicates, so a track sitting in five playlists takes up disk once
• every file gets a MELODY_ID tag. Delete the database, rescan, and it matches everything back without re-downloading a single track.

After that it publishes wherever you want: Jellyfin, Plex, Navidrome or a plain M3U, on a schedule if you like.

Its just a simple Docker setup:

mkdir melodybridge && cd melodybridge
wget https://melodybridge.app/compose.yml
docker compose up -d

then http://localhost:3333, add a playlist, hit Download missing.

Free, open source (AGPL), source is at https://github.com/warreth/melodybridge. No account needed for public playlists.

One thing I'd rather say up front than have someone notice: I'm a C# dev and I used AI heavily to build this. It chewed through the boring parts and let me get way further than I would have on my own. Everything it produced I went over and tested, but yeah, this was an AI assisted build and I'm not going to pretend otherwise.

If a plugin is dead or a source stopped working, tell me and I'll patch it.

I've been trying to get a book (Hunting the Osage Bow, by Dean Torges) but I can't seem to find a digital copy, and I refuse to pay 100+ dollars for an old piece of moldy paper being imported from another country.

Already checked the megathread, I'm afraid. Is there any way to get a copy?