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Haven't torrented in over a decade. I've finally managed to find some free time to watch some stuff. (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Librarian@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Looking for shows I can fall asleep too with my husband.

The little stuff we did watch in the past couple years was through the easy streaming sites. But those are always prone to missing episodes and random glitches so I thought getting back into torrenting would be fun.

Sidenote: if I remember correctly, its quite normal for some torrents to take a couple hours before a seeder turns up, right?

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 57 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are you aware of your operating system's ability to screenshot?

[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Tactic to work around screenshot restrictions or (more likely here I imagine) to prevent automated moderation action?

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 29 points 3 days ago (4 children)

couple hours? oftentimes a torrent with zero seeders is as good as dead, and a seeder might show up in days or weeks, most times never. best to find another torrent. also, and this is just a personal preference it's worth the download time to kick it up a notch to 1080.

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 20 points 3 days ago

The monitor we own is ancient and 720p so were good ahah

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 days ago

It doesn't hurt to keep the torrent running if you can't find another source. There is still a very small chance that someone will seed it eventually. I've had stuff download after waiting for months.

[–] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

it's worth the download time to kick it up a notch to 1080

In general? Yes, 100%. For cartoons on a small screen? Debatable.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

That is one of the reasons why I relay on usenent rather then on torrenting

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Go to usenet, it is way better, or IRC if these torrent are slow.

https://www.xdcc.eu/search.php?searchkey=Planet+earth+ii

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could you explain what this is? A torrent aggregator?

I was using torrent galaxy.

[–] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a protocol for messaging and XDCC is a file sharing method that it uses.

IRC: https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/k08hje/when_people_say_irc_is_dead

Usenet is basically the first forum to exist on the internet and people discovered that they could share files by encoding them into messages, for example lets say I take a file encode and divide it over a 1000 tweets. I would also make a file called NZB to find the messages and share it, so people could download it. Usenet still exists for file sharing, but it is paid. You would need an indexer that finds the files and a usenet service. Honestly you could get both indexer and the usenet service for as cheap as $2.5 per month way cheaper than Netflix.

For more info about usenet check out: https://reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/faq

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Joe Pera Talks With You is pretty gosh darn wonderful to fall asleep to.

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Would it still work with subtitles? My husband is deaf so if the comedy works a lot of with tone and stuff it wont work for us.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I think it might work. A lot of what Joe Pera does is sort of deadpan humor anyway, so part of the joke is lack of tone or emotion. His voice is very calming because he's sort of monotone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSUilYKcRMA

Here is a link to the full episode of "Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep" which is a beautiful episode. Give it a shot and see what you think. The autogenerated closed captioning available on this episode seems mostly accurate to me. DVD copies have great subtitles, not sure about digital variants.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Hmm it's not very "haha funny," it's more the vibe of it and the charm lies in his mundane but interesting demeanor. Watch a clip on YouTube and you'll see what I mean. I have no idea how deafness would affect the experience, I'm sorry.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'll never stop being sad it got cancelled. I wear my Tree TV sweatshirt with pride.

Dr. Katz Professional Therapist is also in that wheelhouse of quiet, calm, and sweet. It also features H. Jon Benjamin of Bob's Burgers fame.

[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I wish someone could rip and upload The Simpsons Complete Series Ultimate Collection Seasons 1-17 & Season 20

[–] ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Why? What makes it different from grabbing each season individually?

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 3 days ago

Honestly I’m at the point where I just rent the discs and rip them losslessly (BDMV for movies, MKV for TV shows).

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I usually have 4 torrentleech invites that go to waste every month, hmu if you want one. All I ask is you dont hit n run.

EDIT: all gone for December.

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the offer it’s really kind but I have everything I need with public torrents.

[–] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If you ever change your mind feel free to DM

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Normal is a relative term. How many did the tracker say there were?

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Most of them had between 5-50 active seeders, the majority around 20.

I’ll wait and see. I’m in no rush anyways.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 9 points 3 days ago

It could be that your torrent program is firewalled, and unable to fully connect to all sharing peers.

If you're using qBittorrent, to display the Status Bar, go to the menu item View > (check the box for) Status Bar

The Status Bar should appear a the bottom.

Just right of center, there should be an icon where if you hover your mouse over it, tells you your Connection Status, i.e. whether you're connected or firewalled.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 points 3 days ago

Some trackers don't update seeder info on the web page. Another possible reason is you are behing cgnat and most (all) of the peers are behind it as well, so you just can't connect with each other.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 3 days ago

Then that's probably okay. Is your DHT enabled?

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

Did you open your ports

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Welcome back.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Man, I gave up on torrenting. I can't figure out how to keep my ISP from seeing it and every time I try, I get a threatening email. They don't give a shit about Soulseek, apparently, so at least I have my music.

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Binding VPN to torrent client didn’t work?

[–] manicdave@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tribler has it's own in-built onion routing. That might be difficult for your ISP to identify. Idk

[–] Leax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Sounds interesting thanks!

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the link. I'll give it a look.

[–] ftbd 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Use a VPN? If you're using containers, you can bind qbittorrent to gluetun to prevent leaks

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I used a VPN (Proton) and it didn't do shit. I am not using containers because I'm not even sure what that is, what it does, or how it works, and I've never heard of gluetun. I need instructions. Not a fucking manual to try to sort through and figure out. Not vague names of things I may or may not be able to find through a search engine Instructions. A tutorial. Something. Shit's gotten way too convoluted since I last torrented over almost 20 years ago.

[–] HATEFISH@midwest.social 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you're using proton and your isp found out, something is configured wrong or working incorrectly. (or user error 😢)

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Honestly, I've come to seriously dislike Proton. Yeah, it's cool they don't log any data, but they're starting the ai shit and their fucking UPGRADE NOW shit everywhere just because I use the free email (I have literally zero use for any of the paid features). It's commercializing and enshittifying rapidly.

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I contacted Proton's support and everything was configured correctly. My ISP is Verizon (I don't have a choice) and they're the kind of fucks that would do deep packet sniffing, so I wouldn't be surprised if that's why.

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

They shouldn't be able to see anything except encrypted wireguard traffic. Are you sure all torrent-related traffic is going through the VPN (e.g. requests to indexers) and that traffic stops flowing when the VPN connection drops?

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, it was the stand-alone app, not the browser extension. When it's on, everything goes through it.

[–] ftbd 1 points 2 days ago

Have you verified that? I would start by checking (with wireshark) for any non-wireguard traffic coming from your machine

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Uh-huh. Wait till you realise that the 1080p streams you saved a decade ago have a higher file size, lower bitrate, and noticeable encoding artefacts. Compare that to the 1080p streams you can get from various cartoon sites today, and you shall see that you've bamboozled yourself!

(I mean, you can just update your archive with newer higher quality stuff, but I need this moral grandstanding)

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How is it moral to pay for a service that doesn't give you the option to buy a physical copy?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I'm not saying it is. I'm saying you lose on quality with archived rips.