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[–] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I seed to 10:1 ratio or 1 calendar month... whatever arrives first

For special files (anything harder to find), I let it go the month regardless of ratio

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  • [–] 53 points 1 month ago (18 children)

    This meme is exactly why private trackers exist. The normal distribution of humanity ensures some significant portion simply cannot play nice.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (14 children)

    Genuine question, I've only ever been busted or had my service suspended from seeding stuff, how would I avoid that? I feel bad but I generally cancel out of pithy self preservation unless its some real niche shit no one is paying attention to.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    Just like that? I'm way behind on the tech and it's always been spooky to me. Any good reference for getting started/picking services?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I personally use AirVPN as they allow port forwarding, but I also use my NAS as a seed box.

    Docker -> Gluetun + qBittorrent

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    You went a lityle over my head there but I would appreciate an explaination of what you're talking about.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I have a home server running docker. I have a docker container for Gluetun and qBittorrent. Gluetun connects to my VPN provider and provides a tunnel interface for the BitTorrent client to use

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Awesome thanks for actually doing that. I'm still a ways away from fully grasping some of this stuff but that does help temendously.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)
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    In my country they need to be able to prove who sat at the computer and did the sailing. If I ever get that famous extortion letter sent home to me I will use it as toilet paper.

    Also, Meta got away with pirating terabyte of books so as far as I am concerned it's completely legal in the eyes of US authorities to sail the high seas.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    There’s regular updates to the best one so you may have to do a web search to find some privacy community/subreddit that has a comparison chart of some sort.

    Last I looked Proton was popular, but I never trusted them because they seem like they want to be google. I went with Mulvad, which is a great VPN but one of the CEOs just came out as donating to nazis so I don’t even know any more.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, that's how I do it. Download the the VPN app (Mullvad for me), buy some time on your account, switch it on, and carry on just like before.

    Easy to set up and I've never had a problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    I tried the VPN route many moons ago, but for a combination of reasons that are probably mostly just rambling, I switched to a seedbox. It also helps if you set up the *aars since that can get you fully downloaded, and able to seed to a modest ratio so quickly that the copyright holders haven't always discovered it yet before your client automatically stops seeding.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago

    Leechers smh

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    Booo! You gotta seed

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    WTF don't do that

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    I used to do that, then saw the light. Almost nothing gets unseeded now.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    People stop seeding? I kid, but seriously my torrents have never stopped seeding unless the original item was deleted, even past new machine builds. Some have being going for years at this point.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Honestly I'm working my way towards my homelab setup to just symlink torrents because I've had to redownload episodes that got corrupted before.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    how will symlinks help with corruption?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    Well normally I just do a copy and clear out the torrent when it's got a good enough ratio. But since I found myself retorrenting episodes that got corrupted, I figure I can keep the torrent around and just use the download as the source of truth, so I don't have to dig around for it again

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    I just use a raspberry pi, leave them all going and set the upload to some manageable speed that won't fuck up my cap. Then just tailscale in whenever I need to add something and I'm not home

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I dont torrent any more, but i never paid attention to the ratio or anything. I just left stuff seeding for about 2 weeks before stopping it.

    Did I do good or bad?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    We need gif replies just so we can post all the "that's bait" memes.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    More for me!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Didnt know I could get these stats from Transmission.

    Hardlink all my files from download folder to wherever they need to end up on my NAS.

    Uploaded: 40.36 TB Downloaded: 3.75 TB Ratio: 10.7 Running time: 661 days, 15 hours and 8 minutes

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago
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    Is that Balki?

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