A few months ago I grabbed this torrent from rarbg, and it took weeks to download. Often going days with no seeders.

I finally got it, and decided I’d seed beyond my usual 2x to help others get this. Then rarbg went under, and now I think I’ll just keep this one going.

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    Now if only torrenting wouldn’t mean an automatic 500€ invoice from a very specific law firm in my country :(

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      Just rent a seedbox.
      Torrenting actively from public trackers for 14€ per month and can host the best streaming service right at home.

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          I’m trying but the save button just loops endlessly…

          What difference does it make? Aren’t you able to see the comment?

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            It’s not so huge a concern right now, but it lets people that write userscripts write, say, a userscript to automatically translate a post into your preferred language from the post’s language.

            Such a thing would be easier if the userscript could trust that a post is set to the language it’s written in.

            This load circle thing is it implicitly failing due to you not having selected Deutsch as one of your languages in your profile (most likely).

            There are other things it could be as well.

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              Interesting! I tried it a bit more:

              • I had “Undetermined”, “Deutsch” and “English” selected in my profile.
              • I was able to set the comment to “Undetermined”, but then still not able to set it to “Deutsch” (back to “English”, worked though)
              • Changing the word “homie” didn’t make a difference
              • Other comments set to “Undetermined” were able to switch to “Deutsch”
              • Other comments set to “English” (that were actually written in english) were able to switch to “Deutsch”

              Seems like it’s a problem with this comment in particular, but I can’t figure out why!

              Edit: I found another comment set to “Deutsch”, written in german, that can’t be changed no matter what.

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                I only really write in one language so I don’t have this problem, I just default to English.

                But it’s interesting that some posts are hard to change.

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      If you want a year subscription to Speedify, let me know. I got a year in a Humble Bundle that I never used because I have a lifetime subscription to Windscribe. Speaking of which, Windscribe allows 10GB of free transfers each month. Not much but it will get you a few movies or audio books.

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    My crowning achievement is still seeding a 2.429TB torrent up to a 1.0 ratio, took me about 7 and a half months.

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    Not from the same source, but I’m in the middle of getting a 5GB file that took me five days so far and will take another five to complete. After that, I think I will keep sharing for as long as possible this one, since I see a lot of peers every day, even though there’s only one seeder, from which I’m currently downloading at 10Kbps (and not because of my bandwidth, I think it’s theirs that’s a bit on the slow side).

    I have slow upload, but once there are two seeds things should get better for all other peers, compared to now haha

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      I always am going crazy seeing a 1mib/s upload divided by 10 peers while I am sitting here with a gig symmetric line ready to satisfy all within a minute (if their pipes allow it).
      JUST GIVE ME THE DAMN BANDWIDTH and I shall satisfy everyone and their dog for a 100 ratio…

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    I seed anime OSTs, plenty enough and rare collections.

    If you folks happen to download that category, chances are I am one of your sources 🤣

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    Is quality worth the 50gb?

    I don’t have any fancy speakers or monitor…

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      My very fancy sweet spot is somewhere between 10-20gb 1080p
      My alright sweet spot is around 7-10gb 1080p.

      Higher is too much in disk space for me.

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        7–20gb for a 1080p movie? Only my 4k movies are allowed to burn that much space. Most of my 1080p movies are under 5gb (usually under 3). I think the only 1080p movie I have at that size is Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification (2020) at ~11gb, and that’s only because I haven’t found a dual audio version in HEVC/AV1.

        Edit: For context, I watch on a 1440p monitor with headphones that simulate 7.1 surround sound (Logitech G Pro X Wireless). A LOT of my 1080p movies are RARBG’s 2gb 5.1 releases. Incredible quality for how tiny the files are. Actual magic.

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          Like I said those are the movies I really enjoy (like Interstellar etc.)
          Most get the usual treatment of sub 10gb.

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            I didn’t read fancy as meaning “good movies I like” my bad. I thought it was just a modifier to sweet spot meant to spice up the sentence oops

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              Actually both. Might be actually my bad ;)

              If it’s a movie I enjoy or is often talked about as being visually stunning, it gets the good treatment.
              If it’s just another run of the mill, it get’s the usual treatment.

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      They look amazing on a big TV with a nice sound system. If it’s just for watching on your computer I would recommend the 2GB RARBG releases.

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      Try it out and see for yourself if it’s worth it to you.

      Even with fancy gear some people don’t appreciate higher quality, i’m somewhat jealous, because that would save me so much money.

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        Try getting older!

        A decade ago, I was extremely into hi-fi — most of my disposable income went to it. (Martin Logan electrostatic speakers and McIntosh amps, stereo JL Fathom 13.5” subs, sound treatment and reference mic for balancing and analysis …)

        Now? I’m perfectly and completely pleased with my AirPods Max. My hearing just ain’t what it used to be, and I genuinely don’t hear the slightest difference. (… obviously modulo feeling the bass, hah.)

        (Yes. I listen to music over Bluetooth. Not even APT-X. WHO HAVE I BECOME? 😭)

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          The process already started, i’ve bought myself some Anker bluetooth buds for 24€ recently just for podcasts and sounds for sleeping. I have to say, you can make out a difference for sure, but why the fuck have i spent 3k on headphone and DAC, i’m starting to question myself if that noticeable but not immense improvement was worth that kind of money.

          I still don’t regret it and enjoy it while it lasts, but i don’t know if i will do that again.

          Maybe we just made inner peace with the knowledge that we experienced higher-end and can settle for less.

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      It looks great on my TV! The HD version also looks very good but flipping between them this version is noticably higher quality.

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    I pretty much always leave stuff seeding once I get it these days. Ever since I bumped the disk space on my NAS it made it a lot easier to leave stuff instead of jockeying for space on disk.

    My higher ratio items are all old shits like You Got Served lmao

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    And this is why I backup all the torrents I download. If I lose the drive, they might not be seeded anymore and I won’t be able to re-download everything. There’s stuff in my collection that was hard to find 5 years ago.

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        I put it on S3 Glacier. It’s really really cheap to store. $1/TB. But I also have multiple copies locally

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          Nice! But how do you organize them? Like putting them in subfolders, etc.

          My fear is that I would end up with an infite list of files that I cannot organise easily