I'd recommend I2P.
But sure, you can use Tribler if you prefer just don't set yourself to be an exit node if you're worried about other users' torrent traffic going out your own internet connection. Been years since I tinkered with it back then Tribler felt even slower than I2P torrenting and the Tribler torrent client would crash every few days/weeks, I sort of gave up on it after a while but maybe it's better nowadays.
I2P works fine, qBittorrent supports it now too. There are earlier posts in this community discussing it.
Like you said it's mostly a popularity problem, less users = less seeds/peers.
Was MakeMKV ever claimed to be open source?
Not sure if it's exactly what you want but I've used MKVtoolnix in the past for .mkv operations, worked fine for me. And ffmpeg also works great for general audio/video stuff though I've never tried bluray -> .mkv with it.
Agreed, I always leave everything seeding and also disable queuing. Leaving "Global maximum number of connections" at default setting (can be set lower) along with configuring Global Rate Limits Upload/Download to something appropriate works perfectly.
Torrent clients are smart enough to juggle the active torrents and share the allowed bandwidth between them without you having to micro-manage the whole thing.
To be fair that would help out a ton for the less technical users that aren't too familiar with needing to browse and click through a ton of different menus just to get to something they can watch for free. This kind of stuff gets challenging for the older non-computing crowd.
And honestly if these remotes are going to have a default "Netflix", etc. button they may as well have a button for the default Google free channels.
FYI Dorsey left Bluesky
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board
Currently Jay Graber is the CEO and has the largest ownership in Bluesky
What's going on in Quebec?
The federal government is following the same strategy as some provinces. British Columbia has recently banned Tesla products from its EV charger rebate. Nova Scotia just announced that it has excluded Tesla from its $2,000 rebate at the purchase of a new EV.
Quebec just relaunched its own EV incentive program today. It will come into effect next week, and so far, Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles are still included in the list of eligible vehicles.
My network has reset several times and I’ve narrowed it down to an apparent DDOS attack
It's not. You will need to lower your torrent client's incoming connections limit and/or set lower limits to your incoming/outgoing bandwidth in your torrent client. It is clear your network router is unable to handle too much torrent traffic hitting it at the same time, hence the issues you are experiencing.
For qB
Tools / Options / Connection / Global Maximum Number Of Connections
Tools / Options / Speed / Global Rate Limits
There's no specific number to enter there, you just have to experiment a bit and set lower numbers until the problem goes away and your network is stable.
shutting down the client doesn’t help
It will, eventually. It does take a bit for other torrent clients to realize you're no longer online and stop sending you traffic / sharing your IP with other peers.
The dev shut down the github page in 2023 and later came back and re-activated it in 2024. Development is not overly active but there have been commits since then.
People still use the eMule client but nowadays the community version is the version that gets some updates
https://www.emule-project.com/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1&rm=download
https://github.com/irwir/eMule/releases/
But technically any eMule / KAD compatible client can connect to the servers and download/upload to users there e.g. Mldonkey is another client being used.
It's been a few years since I was last active on there but back then there was still a healthy amount of users and activity, I suspect it's still going strong.
Yup. The Tixati torrent client is also developed by the same dev team (mainly Kevin Hearn I believe).
I think that the timeline was WinMX, then Tixati, then Fopnu, then DarkMX. (Tixati / Fopnu / DarkMX are still actively developed and updated)
The good thing is that the public torrent itself can still be found at BTDigg and BT4G. Currently seems to be unseeded but with any luck someone will re-seed it for you. Might be worth keeping it loaded in your torrent client just in case.
Or if you ever manage to get the data from somewhere else you can re-seed it yourself for others to download.