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Sometimes I’m just too lazy for torrenting because downloading whole 8 seasons when I want to watch series is kinda off. Whenever I give chance to streaming it’s always low quality and sucks. I checked streaming links on reddit’s r/piracy, you know the wiki, year is 2025 and it’s still slow and sucks. Maybe I don’t know good sites. Can you link me up, and what do you think about streaming vs torrent way in general? Thanks guys.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Feel free to use mine https://jfin.gravitywell.xyz/

Create an account using this invite code: ARRLEM so I know you came from Lemmy

For best results uss a browser or client thar supports HEVC and AV1.

There is jellyseerr for requests, its hooked to both usenet and various private trackers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You can download a torrent for a full season or full series, and only download like the first three episodes, or the first season. And then if you like it, download more of the torrent.

Nobody is making you download all 8 seasons.

Or if you want to anyway, but don't want to wait for the whole thing to finish download, most torrent clients let you set priority for individual files, and you can set the first couple episodes to "maximum" and start watching right away while the rest download.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Put first episode on max priority + download sequentially. Go make a cup of tea. First episode is ready to stream. Do same to second episode before you start watching the first and Robert is your father's brother (Bob's your uncle).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

After 20 years of pirating the slow way (manual searching and torrenting), I invested the time to setup a proper *arrr flow into Plex, Ombi for auto adding plex watchlist to the dl queue, and Usenet indexes and access + nzbget.

Now I can search for a movie in the plex app, if I don’t have it I add it to my watchlist, and it sends me a notification 5 mins later that it’s available.

I did all that about 6 years ago and it’s been so nice. Well worth the time to setup. I forgot how painful the manual way is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

You forgot the number one rule about the usenet: you don't talk about the usenet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

is there a good guide you followed?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sign up for some debrid service -> profit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah Debrid + Stremio and you're set.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

what’s the advantage of debird vs just watching the torrentio links on streamio?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

In addition to what @[email protected] said;

You don't need to worry about a VPN, and I find the connection much more stable and less prone to flakiness due to seeders being on shitty ISPs.

It isn't as robust as Usenet, or a Plex/Jellyfin server, but it's a lot more convenient in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has been working for me for a whilst however if one of the links in the chain goes down at some point then you have nothing to watch. I might even have to talk to my family!

I’m gonna start considering local server. I remember the good old days of getting up in the middle of the night to check limewire.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I used to run a Plex server locally, with content provided by Usenet. It was by far the most stable/robust experience I've had, but I like being able to watch whatever I want on a whim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I hate streaming anything unless it's coming from my server.

Bandwidth and storage is expensive, so free streams will usually be heavily compressed and look terrible.