Elarionus

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Do you use the device you torrent on for personal things as well? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I'm just curious as I've permanently dedicated my laptop to torrenting. I've been too nervous to install anything but the VPN and Firefox on it. Now, I'm curious to mess around with Linux some more, which is what I use on it, but I can't fully test out what all I can do with it without signing into accounts.

Do you use your torrent machine to do other things besides torrenting, signing into personal accounts and stuff?

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Emulation on Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

The last time I tried emulation on a desktop PC, whether it was Windows or Linux, I had to install each emulator separately. It was a bit of a mess.

On my Steam Deck, Emudeck made it stupid easy. Retroarch wasn't terrible, but was a bit more irritating and buggy for me to get working. Either way, it had a bunch of emulators all in one spot so I didn't have to go hunting for a ton of them. Are there solutions like this for Linux as well now? What about for Windows or something like a RetroPIE?

Can't bind Proton VPN to qBittorrent on Linux in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Because I already pay for Proton for drive, mail, and other services. I've used Mullvad in the past, and I definitely prefer it as a simple torrenting VPN, but Proton offers a lot more.

Proton VPN on Linux looks very different from Windows. How do you select one of their P2P options for faster torrenting? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just tested it out to see if it would stop if I closed the VPN...it did not stop at all, just kept on downloading. There must be something I'm doing wrong. I'm on Ubuntu, which should function pretty similarly to PoP!_OS. I specifically picked a P2P server in Proton VPN, a United Kingdom one with the little arrow circle symbol.

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Can't bind Proton VPN to qBittorrent on Linux (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I like to run qBittorrent on a Linux laptop to try and minimize the risk of Microsoft tracking what I'm doing and to protect my main system from viruses. I'm having an issue with it though. When I go into Advanced and select Network Interface, Proton VPN is not an option there. I only get lo, eno1, wlp4s0, ipv6leakintrf0, and tun0.

How can I get it to bind to the VPN so that I don't have to worry about it freaking out and sending unencrypted data through qBit?

EDIT: I also tried torrenting Ubuntu and killing the VPN just to test it out. It didn't stop downloading and uploading when I did that.

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Proton VPN on Linux looks very different from Windows. How do you select one of their P2P options for faster torrenting? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

Pretty much what the title says. I noticed that ProtonVPN Linux has an EXTREMELY limited interface compared to their program on Windows. I also do not appear to have the option to bind qBittorrent to ProtonVPN the same way that I did with MullvadVPN. Has anybody experienced ProtonVPN on Linux and successfully used it for torrenting? It's nowhere near as simple as on Windows, from the looks of it.

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Do you utilize a dedicated AV like Bitdefender when sailing? Or do you still trust Windows Defender to take care of the higher risk while doing this? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

What the title says, and that's pretty much it. Do you or don't you?

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Best place to get forced subtitles? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

We watch a lot of movies with alien languages, Marvel, Star Wars, Dune, that type of sci-fi stuff. We are struggling to find the type of subtitles that are just for when aliens talk. I looked around, and it appears they're called Forced Subtitles, but when we search for subtitles, all we get is the entire movie in English.

Where can we find these more specific ones?

Why is thepiratebay not in the megathread, despite being so much better? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

You're right, I don't mean to sound entitled in any way, I'm just...frustrated and a bit lost. And it's hard, because I don't necessarily know where to look for help because the community (naturally) is fairly underground. Even signing up for this and posting this makes me nervous that I'll "get caught" somehow, despite having a VPN.

You're right though, I just assumed that since Torrents seem to be the best method, they'd be at the top. But they're down there, I'm just clueless. I'm already having success with the 1337 site other people recommended though, which is good to know about.

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Why is thepiratebay not in the megathread, despite being so much better? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

Whenever thepiratebay goes down, it is a disaster for me to find anything online. The megathread is next to useless, taking me to all these crazy sites that don't have a torrent option. Instead, they have individual episode downloads of 600 episode TV series. And to access each individual episode, I have to click on a mirror that takes me elsewhere. Then, from that site, I have to click on something that takes me to another site. Then, I have to wait 10 seconds, then I have to confirm the download, then it asks me if I want to pay for premium, then it takes 30 minutes to download one episode.

I'm not actually sure what the community's goal is here. To me, it seems like the entire idea of piracy will go down if thepiratebay ever goes permanently down because this giant "community resource" we have is an utter cluster, with so much garbage shoved in it.

Outside of thepiratebay, how do you guys effectively perform any of the tasks one would want to do on a place like this?