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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 118 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Trying to keep a public torrent alive is hard work, but someone has to do it.
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Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I'd try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn't fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that's one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 76 points 1 day ago (4 children)

"Good" is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn't changed much, but instead you've become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I get that. I used to think The Big Bang Theory was funny
*shudder*

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Depends on the comparison. Better than sitting in silence, worse than touching grass.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think I would rather watch paint dry than The Big Bang Theory tbh

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

Now now, how can you possibly experience the satisfaction of having cleansed yourself of cringe after-the-fact from watching paint dry?

[–] Stretch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm aware of that. And if I liked copoganda I'd be swimming in shows. That's just getting older I guess.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's so much good shit on TV, and at least half of it doesn't involve cops.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 9 points 1 day ago

at least half of it doesn’t involve cops.

I like how safe you're playing that estimate 😂

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like no longer thinking Bio Dome is comedy genius

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good definitely is subjective. I have Robot Jox in my library and it won’t be deleted until I’ve left this mortal coil.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I heard Crash and Burn won't be deleted either.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Somehow I forgot about that one. I don’t think I ever saw it.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Theoretical sequel, fun to watch if you like 90s post-apocalyptic thriller scifi, although there's barely any mecha in it.

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Never mind then. The bots were the draw in the original. That and, of course, the acting!

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

The acting's.not bad for a B movie.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 27 points 1 day ago

That was fun back in the day when movie studios blamed piracy for their movie performing badly, so someone checked and their movie was barely present or downloaded on the high seas.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Unfortunately BitTorrent clients are kinda messy and don't make it easy to maintain a long term seeding library. I've moved to qbittorrent which is a bit better than Deluge on that regard, but it's still not great.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, they are messy. I tried BiglyBT a few years back, and while I love a lot of features, I think that was overkill for sure. qBittorrent is the golden standard at the moment for sure.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Also I don't understand the upload torrents limit, ok, limit concurrent uploads, but everything I'm seeding should be available all the time

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 12 points 1 day ago

That's one (of many) reason I'm glad I switched to linux, Back in windows xp days Microsoft tried limiting the amount of "half-open connections" for its users "security". But even today, some routers just aren't powerful enough to handle too many connections, and often times the cheap routers that ISP's provide are limited on purpose either by custom firmware or just by hardware limitations.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How many torrents do you have??? I seed over 7000 torrents concurrently using qbittorrent

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've about 2k, but I've had to adjust the weird defaults

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Is your issue that it's hard to move files around without breaking seeding, or something else?

[–] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 11 hours ago

Well, that's an issue for sure, but in my case it's just that when you have thousands of torrents seeding it's hard to keep them organised and navigate them, labels help but not much, essentially my bittorrent client is a bucket of shared files, reviewing what I have, deleting and moving is a hassle.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

I used to use Deluge as well but have been really happy with Transmission for years now