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Was recovering an old virtual machine onto a new box and was shocked to see 9,999, I presume thats an upper limit in the UI. Dune (2021) for those curious

Now wheres my crossbones flag?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Must be from a public tracker

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Yo ho ho and two bottles of rum for you 🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Well done.

I generally drop torrents out of seeding if there are >100 seeders so I have nothing as high as your top 10

[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (1 children)

this must be something I'm too usenet to understand

kidding of course, well done and thank you for your service

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Actually if you would be so kind, what is the rundown of Usenet? I've searched a bit but been busy to really sit down on it, should I consider it being just a side thing (for now)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Its pay to pirate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Fight club rules. Yeah, I'm old school

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Usenet is here to stay, it is similar as if you pay for vip in order to be able to leech without seeding. This makes automated pirating legal in some countries (like mine) since only doing direct downloads from your usenet provider. The usenet provider have servers which exchange bits of data with IDs similar like we do with torrenting. As a user, you now go to a indexer, who gives you a map, with which bits of data you can construct your file. So you then download each bit directly and put everything together and are rewarded with a normal file. Until now I have found every release which is also in predb using the private indexers I have.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I signed up for usenet recently but couldn't really find anything worthwhile. How do you find good stuff?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

please excuse my stupidity but what does this mean? i know it's something with torrenting but i don't know what exactly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They have really high seeding ratios.

0.5 would mean they uploaded half the filesize. 1 means whole filesize. 2 means twice. You get the idea.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you store all that in the Homework folder?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ahem thats a Proxmox powered homework folder to you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It's the bare minimum if you care about your homework and Linux ISOs

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I can't get over 0.00 most of the time because no one's leeching 😭

Idk how I'm even supposed to get a good ratio

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Autobrr set to download freeleech

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I would imagine, and namely the reason I raise the sails again, content thats being migrated across different subscriptions will become a real hot token item

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I build ratio on private trackers by getting as much freeleech stuff as I can, even though I might not be into it. Timing is key also, I’ll snatch anything I think will blow up. If you get in early you can get lots of upload. This worked great to get my initial ratio built up on what.cd and redacted.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Same, but it's because I am not connectable (CG-NAT).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

But when they do leach you'll be thanked.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Download a popular movie and keep your computer on for a while 🤷‍♂️

Although, seeding stuff that isn't popular is also important. I don't know what you're seeding but if no one is leeching maybe there aren't a whole lot of other people seeding either. When someone does leech, they might be very happy that you're there keeping that one torrent alive.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

You don't even have to download the whole thing. Anything downloaded will be shared with other downloaders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I was suddenly nostalgic for MythBusters again, and in my acquisition I found a couple seasons that have pretty low seeders. Will gladly be a forever seeder even if one person a year leaches

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Good trackers reward seeding old torrents

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

There's a fanedit out there of the complete series Mythbusters with all of the flashbacks and filler removed. No more 5-minute long "before the break" segments.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

Nice!

My highest isn't nearly that large - Dark souls remastered at 1143 ratio.

Kudos ☠️☠️☠️

[–] [email protected] 127 points 8 months ago

Sir, are you the Pirate Bay? I feel like you're single-handedly keeping a tracker alive.

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