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[-] twiked@sh.itjust.works 104 points 5 days ago
[-] Willem@kutsuya.dev 30 points 5 days ago
[-] twiked@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

There are at least 3 Linux isos in those 700 torrents.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think you've won, great work!

[-] twiked@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

I'm lucky to be in a position to do that, a few years ago I would've dreamt of reaching what most shared here

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 25 points 5 days ago

FBI, open up!

Jk. Thank you for your service

[-] twiked@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Got served with strongly worded letters, forced me to use Wireguard on a private server, then ProtonVPN.

[-] Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 days ago

I think I just busted a nut

[-] AhismaMiasma@lemm.ee 21 points 5 days ago

Kings, Queens, and in-betweens, we have found our new emperor. Blesséd be the giga-chad @twiked@sh.itjust.works

[-] twiked@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

I'm blessed by cheap and fast french internet. Still need a VPN though.

[-] Laser@feddit.org 18 points 5 days ago
[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 111 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

My most uploaded file is a copy of Shrek 2 with Latin American Spanish dub, it took me over a month to download. I swear to God the only one seeding it was someone who would just open their client, download whatever they were looking for, then shut it off. It's the only copy of that dub I could find in decent quality. Now I'm at ~50 ratio for that file.

If you can only find 0 seed torrents just chuck it in your client anyway, I've had several actually complete.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 38 points 5 days ago

This is great advice. It's easy to get disheartened with a spinning torrent, but heroes like you can turn that around.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I've once had to bring up my ratio on a (now defunct) private torrent site in orde to download new torrents. I was looking for high leech low seed torrents, and I am ashamed to say I've seeded over 500 GB of granny porn (like 20gb original size). Brought up my ratio, tho.

[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 69 points 5 days ago
[-] Txmyx@feddit.org 15 points 5 days ago

For how long are you doing this and what's your upload speed?

[-] maxprime@lemmy.ml 19 points 5 days ago

I started using qbit about a year ago after using deluge. I have gb down and 100mb up.

Unironically, a lot of that ratio is from Linux isos and other open source software distribution. Take the load off their servers!

[-] Senal@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago
[-] black0ut@pawb.social 20 points 4 days ago
[-] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago

Damn. You have my respect.

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[-] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 5 days ago

My upload ratio looks like ass because I edit videos for a thing with friends, and we use torrent to send the raw footage between computers. So I have like a 0.2 ratio because I'm downloading 5 gigs and then we kill the torrent.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 days ago
[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 4 days ago

It's strange that people know how to create and share torrents but not open a port or install an FTP server.

[-] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 4 days ago

My friends aren't tech nerds, they dont want to do that stuff unfortunately. Qbittorent is simple enough for them to adopt without complaint.

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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 4 days ago

Sharing is caring <3

[-] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 5 days ago
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[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 26 points 5 days ago

I have so many files that have been stalled at >95% for months.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 12 points 5 days ago

Have you checked what is missing, sometimes people only pick the wanted files from a torrent, so maybe those 5% are just bloat nobody cared to seed as well.

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago

Good point. There are some where it's just a few miscellaneous files missing.

[-] Ithorian@hexbear.net 29 points 5 days ago

Carrying our comrades with data caps.

rat-salute

[-] ThunderLegend@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 days ago
[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 5 days ago

just checked mine i didn't think i was that high but i generally just leave it running all day

[-] PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago

Thanks for making up for my shortcomings <3

[-] Tregetour@lemdro.id 4 points 4 days ago

In terms ot total data moved, I have 2.4TiB up on a Star Trek full season pack, for a ~35 ratio. That torrent's been around for years and I suspect won't die for many years yet. Oldest seeded torrent would be about 8 years.

This is behind NAT, 12mbits upstream.

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[-] Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

for every upload there must be a download.

for every download there must be an upload.

It must be symmetrical, meaning that you boasting, you being better than other people is only possible because others aren't good enough.

[-] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago

Nice. I just got above 2 for my ratio. I don't have symmetric internet, but I have my torrents set up to never stop, and I don't delete.

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[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Shame upon myself. 50tb this year DL, 0 UL. But hey, it's usenet, so that's perfectly fibe 😁

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

what about usenet makes that different? I've never used it

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

Besides it being around since forever and predecessing all forums and reddit etc.

It's main selling points for pir8s are:

  • max speed (depending on your uplink and your provider ofc. E.g. I get a solid 120mb/s)
  • up to maaany years retention (how old the stuff you want could be. Depends on provider ofc. Currently 11yrs from the top of my head)
  • no need to upload or be member of trackers to get the GOOD stuff. It's all the same to everyone.
  • it's still not really mainstream (luckily) and hence less dmcas

Downsides compared to torrents?

  • in theory torrents can be as old as torrent itself. In reality torrents die quickly.
  • no social component like if you're really engaged in some private tracker
  • to have it efficiently you'd either one or more indexers (like search-engines). There are free ones but they suck. And/or forums. As much stuff is encrypted/obfuscated for obvious reasons.

Overall I'm a cheapskate and pay like 2€/month for unlimited usenet with maximum retention and 50 connection on the best backbone plus 2x 10-12€ a year for indexers. But one totally would be sufficient.

In the end, we enter a movie/series-name, pick the right one from the results, wait a bit for the download and sorting to happen, then watch it in emby comfortably. The comfortable kind of piracy i dreamt of for nearly 3 decades 😊

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[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago
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