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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 142 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Trying to keep a public torrent alive is hard work, but someone has to do it.
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 83 points 1 month 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 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Stretch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 weeks ago
[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 20 points 1 month 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 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 12 points 1 month 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 month ago (2 children)

Like no longer thinking Bio Dome is comedy genius

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

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

How dare you ! Poly shore is a national treasure !

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (2 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 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] Capybara_mdp@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

I don’t know who you are, but I love you- spread the good word that “there is no war, only Robot Jox”..

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 27 points 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 11 points 1 month 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 month 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 month ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 month ago

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