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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 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[-] TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

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

[-] turtlepower@lemm.ee 0 points 6 hours ago

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.

[-] manicdave@feddit.uk 3 points 5 hours ago

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 15 minutes ago

Sounds interesting thanks!

[-] turtlepower@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] ftbd@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago

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

[-] turtlepower@lemm.ee -3 points 5 hours ago

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 7 points 5 hours ago

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 4 hours 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 4 hours ago

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@feddit.org 3 points 4 hours ago

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 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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

[-] ftbd@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

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

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 52 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] generalEdo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 20 hours ago

[-] Imprint9816@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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.

[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 30 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours 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 13 hours ago

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

[-] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 18 hours 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.

[-] Librarian@lemm.ee 19 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] sgtlion@hexbear.net 13 points 22 hours ago

Waiting for seeders is definitely a thing, I once waited 8 months for a seeder to show up (and they did!)

[-] murmelade@lemmy.ml 11 points 23 hours ago

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

[-] Librarian@lemm.ee 10 points 23 hours ago

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 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours 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 21 hours 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 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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 13 points 1 day ago

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

[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 12 hours ago

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

[-] ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Librarian@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

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 23 hours 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.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 points 23 hours 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.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

Did you open your ports

[-] Zorothamya@hexbear.net 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Do you need open them? I'm using Deluge and it is able to leech and seed, only having to wait at most 1 minute for data to come through. I remember having problems with Transmission (the torrent client) though.

And I also imagine it's likely not an option to open ports, as most people are behind a CNAT (unless maybe the adoption of IPv6 by many ISPs (not mine) changed that?)

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

It can work but your will not connect to very many of the available seeds which is probably why op is sitting on 0% torrents with ~20 seeds.

Your client may also be configured to use upnp

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago

Welcome back.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

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 18 hours ago

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 6 hours ago

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

[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 1 points 19 hours ago

where do you guys torrent (other than TPB)

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago

Torrentleech is your best bet for a easy to get into private tracker that is good quality. Lots of x265. You can also try iptorrents which is also quite easy to get into but the quality control is closer to TPB except they would probably delete malicious stuff.

But if you're gonna do public trackers you should most definitely get a seedbox.

[-] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

TorrentLeech is easy enough without a seedbox, especially if you've enough storage to seed lots of content and collect bonus points. On other sites I do agree though.

But if you're gonna do public trackers you should most definitely get a seedbox.

I misread and wrote the sentence above thinking you wrote "private trackers". Did you mistype? I'd say a VPN + binding to the network interface is enough for public trackers.

[-] Zorothamya@hexbear.net 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I use 1337x.to (http://l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion/). I don't know if there's anything better though, but all public pirating sites seem to have the same stuff.