• guldukat@lemmy.world
    13·
    1 hour ago

    I have qbittorrent set to quit when the DL is done. I tried to seed but spectrum is on that shit, they shut off Internet access. I can’t afford a VPN right now, my wife and I both work and we are struggling. Thank you, seeders.

    I’m a leecher, and I truly am sorry. I dl TV shows that are off the air and aren’t available on dvd

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      20·
      2 hours ago

      This was one of my biggest motivations for moving to usenet. I don’t like exposing myself by seeding. I have a giant folder full of copyright notices forwarded by my ISP because of it, and I don’t want to pay for a vpn as it’s far more expensive than usenet and just moves the problem/target to the vpn provider.

      But an ssl connection to a usenet server goes unnoticed… Plus WAY faster download speeds, far more consistency in available files, and less spam/garbage content (at least in my experience, anecdotal).

      Torrents took anywhere from an hour to multiple days before either completing or giving up and trying a different torrent. And then there’s the seeding process ontop.

      NZBs (usenet) take at the very most, 5min to finish or fail, at which point a new one can be tried automatically by sonarr/radarr if it had failed. Requests for media are now pretty much always ready to watch within 25min of requesting, and most of that is waiting for the library scan to trigger (I’m using SAMBA so filesystem updates can’t trigger scans automatically, they’re on a timer instead)

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 hours ago

        How do I get started with Usenet? I’m on a private tracker right now which has excellent speeds (maxes out my 500 Mbit connection usually, so I can’t tell what speeds I might achieve if fully utilized), but it would of course be nice not having to seed.

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
          14·
          2 hours ago

          I don’t have time atm, I’m literally leaving for work rn; but I’ll write up some details later tonight if nobody else has.

            • hesh@quokk.auEnglish
              10·
              2 hours ago

              You need a download client (eg. SABnzbd) and an account with an indexer (which will cost money). To automate the process of downloading you can put things like Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr on top, but those are optional.

      • affenlehrer@feddit.org
        5·
        2 hours ago

        I don’t understand why usenet is a thing. It really liked it in the early days and it was basically like lemmy. Groups for different topics and also federated. Now it’s used to distribute warez but since it wasn’t made for it so stuff has to be base64 encoded and split into pieces…

        • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          20 minutes ago

          I think most people don’t realize that Usenet is older than the World Wide Web. It’s still a thing because it wasn’t corporatized like the Web was.

          AT&T used to include Usenet access as part of your Internet connection since both Usenet and the Web are on the Internet but they quit doing that some years ago (back in the halcyon days of DSL).

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
      41·
      3 hours ago

      Can I share over usenet without having to port forward? My ISP doesn’t allow port forwarding. I’ve been able to download from usenet, but don’t really want to if I can’t also share.

      NVM was confusing it with soulseek

    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world
      291·
      3 hours ago

      Yep, in my country it’s illegal to provide copyrighted material, but it’s legal to download for personal use. Sorry.

      • Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        16·
        3 hours ago

        That’s what VPNs are there for! Ze German setup: gluetun and qbittorrent via docker, qbittorrent only going over gluetuns network.

        This way we can return what we take tenfold and still come out on top!

        • Cort@lemmy.world
          7·
          3 hours ago

          You can also bind qbittorrent to the specific wan interface created by the vpn so it won’t seed or download if the vpn is off

  • Syndication@lemmy.today
    12·
    3 hours ago

    I haven’t really torrented in awhile. I was lucky enough to get in a private megalinks forum site before they closed registrations!

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    3·
    3 hours ago

    The last time I was seeding, on my desktop, my system was set up not to go into sleep mode and also didn’t have problems where my monitor wouldn’t just stop displaying the screen.

    Now, under Linux Mint, under Wayland for my preferred client, I have to constantly be there to ensure the display doesn’t decide to stop displaying since Wayland is still experimental in Cinnamon under LM Zena.

    Otherwise I would go back to doing it.