bodies_hit_the_floor_teenage_wasteland.mp3 is my favourite song
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2024
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Ahh the halcyon days of downloading one song from a private FTP server with upload ratios, found by Lycos FTP search. Over a modem, natch, so it took about 50 minutes...and that's when your mom didn't kick you off the internet so she could make a call.
I only learned to torrent because my dad used to when I was a kid. But these days I use XDCC instead because it's just so much more convenient. Though to be fair most of my friends who are also GenZ probably don't know how to do that either.
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Gen-z here - I know how to torrent lol. It's insane how tech illiterate a lot of my friends are, even in my IT classes don't know what HTTPS is or what an ethernet cable is so... yeah
Feels weird being known as "the guy who's an expert at computers" despite being a noob
bro you're on lemmy, you're already outside of the curve for most gen-z
I'm probably the only person in my entire school who knows what lemmy is lol
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How true is this or are we doing the same thing "generation killed industry/way of doing things" that the boomer media is so fond of?
Not very true. Plenty of gen z still torrent. This seems more like a shitpost.
What's the original to template? It looks hilarious!
Found it! It's eat hot chip & lie. The text in the original reads:
any female born after 1993 can’t cook… all they know is mcdonald’s , charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual , eat hot chip & lie
"be bisexual" ???
I mean it's true here.
I think they're using this style: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-does-eat-hot-chip-and-lie-mean-the-viral-copypasta-and-meme-explained
When you're a pirate, you can't be picky on which booty to plunder
You know what they say, something is better than nothing
😂
that took an interesting turn towards the end...
I can torrent, I just suck at it.
Besides 1337 who is good?
1337 is fine for most stuff, I think. Private trackers start to make sense when you want to automate downloading shows and movies but if you just wanna pirate some game, you'll probably find it on 1337 with a ton of seeders anyways.
Besides 1337 who is good?
Literally any private tracker is a million times better
Are those the trackers which demand you have accounts with other private trackers before you join or the ones which demand everyone have a >1 ratio to download anything which is impossible by definition, so everyone either gets huge seedboxes, cheats the ratio or has to download niche but big files from other sites and switch out the tracker to artificially up the ratio?
I'm sure there are actually good private trackers, but I've found there are open/effectively open (sign up only with no verification/requirements) trackers with better communities than any restricted one I've found
I mean some of them are less good than others, and the economies on them vary. Most decent ones these days though use a points system where you earn points based on how long you've seeded torrents. You use points to purchase upload credit which artificially raises your ratio. Not all of them require you to have accounts on other trackers, some of them have an interview process that after you've passed you can create an account, I'm not sure if this is what you mean by "open/effectively open". These are still private trackers, and from them you can get access to invite only trackers. There's several avenues you can take to get onto different private trackers, it's not hard it just takes time (and seeding!)
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I don't have any invites or info, I also like to avoid accounts
Depends on what you're looking for, really. I'm unsure about the rules regarding sharing specific sites, but if you DM me, I can throw a few recommendations your way.