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For me it's YIFY versions of older movies

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have 2-3k ratios on Das Kapital by Marx and the manga version of Das Kapital. In fact all my highest ratios are some politcal classic ebooks with one comedy series mixed into it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

My all time ratio is not that high (101.8), but I have seeded an average of 1.124 TiB per day for the last three years on with my home server. All my devices included, I average 1.7 TiB per day

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I'm on VPN so my highest is like 6.

I'm got a 100Mbps upload but nobody wants it through a VPN. 😢

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I feel so tiny next to some of the big numbers in here. My top ratio is 11.64x with 1.3TB up. But the current setup has only been up for two months.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Time is essential, a high seed ratio is indication of time spent seeding more than anything else

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

1 is my goal, though I think I might have reached 2 once. Because shitty ADSL 😭

My very grateful thanks to people who can afford to do more.

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

Yeah, my ratios skyrocketed when I finally got access to fiber. Went from struggling to hit 1.0, to easily hitting 150.0. My highest ratio is nearly 1000.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Same lol, this is MIDV-120, Found this at 1 seed with 100 KiB/s upload speed, I think it's safe to say I single handedly revived this torrent.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

4741

One small old book that used to be hard to find in good quality. I've it seeding for years, and being so small and in risk of being lost I've never taken it down.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, which book?

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

I have no mouth and I must scream.

It was originally published as part of a book compilation, and it was kind of hard to find a file with just that story and without typos all over the place.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

~50x

My policy is double my download, minimum. But I almost always hit much higher than that, my average is probably between 5-10x

All my torrents are public sites, and I only torrent pretty common stuff, so I don't feel too bad about killing a torrent after a week or two. I figure 5-10x average on easy-to-find, mid quality media is plenty in the karmic sense lol.

As far as I am concerned, always give better than you get, even if that's 1.01 but try to aim higher.

Of course, if you're seeding a rare or otherwise hard to find piece of media, then you should keep it alive for longer. I am in the process of upgrading my torrent machine, and once that happens, I will be able to hold far more active torrents, and my average ratios will be significantly improved.

Happy sailing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

My thinking is that i'll start deleting stuff when i run out of space, which it turns out will never happen because 4Tb is apparently enough to store more movies than i'll ever want to watch.

So 2k+ movies are just sitting there passively seeding in the background and i just kinda let them. I really don't know which ones are rare, but surely i must have saved a couple torrents from dying over the years. I know there's a lot of churn in seeders so i feel good being long-term

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Geez. I seed until I upload twice what I downloaded. Am I a stingy bastard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

If you gotta make space then you gotta make space. If it's relatively popular things then there's always gonna be someone

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just checked, it's a Ubuntu ISO

1904.21

Picture of qBitTorrent app showing the torrents sorted by ratio, with Ubuntu live server iso in first place with 1904 ratio

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

I remember using Cent OS (dual booting it alongside Debian) multiple years back. I think it had more or less feature parity with RHEL then and meant for personal use case unlike RHEL.

Too bad it was discontinued. I think the closest fork of it is Rocky Linux.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I see a lot of older Linux distros in this thread, why do that many people download them?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

A lot of legacy stuff that's really expensive and time consuming to upgrade. If it ain't broken (and protected from the internet), don't fix it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Worst pirate ever, but also the best kind of person!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I tend to stop torrents when they hit 1000, I feel like that's a "good enough" contribution on public stuff, except when I notice less than 100 seeders, then I tend to keep it going.

Top 58 I guess. Especially proud of the 800+ ratio on a 78 GB one (78*800≈61TB).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

MacOS monte - 485
MacOS Ventura - 327
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing - 263
Monkey Island 1 - 243
ACE - 165
AmigaPower - 154
Weekly Famitsu 1993 Complete - 141

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Trainwreck - Poop Cruise" is my current #1 ratio.

I usually delete after watching so this is just among recent downloads.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is lovely to see so many people training their AIs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

are you seeding AI datasets?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

Pirating to train AIs is legal^†^.

^†^ in some jurisdictions only; you may need to be a rich corporation for that to apply.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What torrent client is in the screenshot?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Tixati.

I use it mostly because it has a lot more options and flexibility, and also just because i'm already using it and it's a pain in the ass to switch

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've had about 1000 ratio on linux mint xfce, version 22.0 iirc

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I'm coming up on 10000 for linux mint that I started nearly 300 days ago. 2.7GiB download, 24.8TiB upload.

My next highest is GIMP 3.0 at a little over 400.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Yeah I was gonna say I think I have like a 2000 ratio for Ubuntu 24.04 desktop, server, and some 3rd one that I’ve been seeding since it came out.

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

I have one or two YIFY movies that I haven't been able to find on multiple private trackers (that usually cover all my needs) and the seed ratio is over 1,000 (since early 2021).

Public torrents of course get a lot of action (even relatively niche content).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

I think I once had 20 seed ratio on the tv series Psych. Haven't seeded since my vpn got all wonky on me, I'll start again for sure.