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[–] Chulk@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I actually saw this last night while I was looking for another setting. Why would I ever want sonarr to download an executable, and why would they think I'd want it that way by default? It made me wonder if I was missing something.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

“Why do I need to download 7zip? That’s too hard. Everything should be a self-extracting exe!”

A few moments later…