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Was recovering an old virtual machine onto a new box and was shocked to see 9,999, I presume thats an upper limit in the UI. Dune (2021) for those curious
Now wheres my crossbones flag?
Sir, are you the Pirate Bay? I feel like you're single-handedly keeping a tracker alive.
What a guy!
Makes you cry...
Und I did.
this must be something I'm too usenet to understand
kidding of course, well done and thank you for your service
Actually if you would be so kind, what is the rundown of Usenet? I've searched a bit but been busy to really sit down on it, should I consider it being just a side thing (for now)?
Usenet is here to stay, it is similar as if you pay for vip in order to be able to leech without seeding. This makes automated pirating legal in some countries (like mine) since only doing direct downloads from your usenet provider. The usenet provider have servers which exchange bits of data with IDs similar like we do with torrenting. As a user, you now go to a indexer, who gives you a map, with which bits of data you can construct your file. So you then download each bit directly and put everything together and are rewarded with a normal file. Until now I have found every release which is also in predb using the private indexers I have.
I signed up for usenet recently but couldn't really find anything worthwhile. How do you find good stuff?
Beside a Usenet provider, you also need to sign up with an "indexer".
To compare a Usenet download with a download on the regular internet:
NZBGeek is a good indexer.
Its pay to pirate.
Fight club rules. Yeah, I'm old school
There's honor amoung thieves and you have most of it.
Nice!
My highest isn't nearly that large - Dark souls remastered at 1143 ratio.
Kudos ☠️☠️☠️
I think you're doing my part too
I can't get over 0.00 most of the time because no one's leeching 😭
Idk how I'm even supposed to get a good ratio
Download a popular movie and keep your computer on for a while 🤷♂️
Although, seeding stuff that isn't popular is also important. I don't know what you're seeding but if no one is leeching maybe there aren't a whole lot of other people seeding either. When someone does leech, they might be very happy that you're there keeping that one torrent alive.
I was suddenly nostalgic for MythBusters again, and in my acquisition I found a couple seasons that have pretty low seeders. Will gladly be a forever seeder even if one person a year leaches
There's a fanedit out there of the complete series Mythbusters with all of the flashbacks and filler removed. No more 5-minute long "before the break" segments.
Good trackers reward seeding old torrents
I have a Raspberry Pi with the *arr stuff and Jellyfin that's seeding 24/7. I tried looking for popular stuff on the private trackers I'm on but they always have so many seeders in comparison to leechers that I don't know if it would actually help or worsen my ratio.
But when they do leach you'll be thanked.
Same, but it's because I am not connectable (CG-NAT).
I have one tracker I am twice as long active with versus another one and I almst catched up the uploaded data with less torrents active. Sometimes I wonder if I am just not the primary target for that tracker or I just don't like the popular stuff.
I build ratio on private trackers by getting as much freeleech stuff as I can, even though I might not be into it. Timing is key also, I’ll snatch anything I think will blow up. If you get in early you can get lots of upload. This worked great to get my initial ratio built up on what.cd and redacted.
I would imagine, and namely the reason I raise the sails again, content thats being migrated across different subscriptions will become a real hot token item
you store all that in the Homework folder?
Ahem thats a Proxmox powered homework folder to you
It's the bare minimum if you care about your homework and Linux ISOs
please excuse my stupidity but what does this mean? i know it's something with torrenting but i don't know what exactly
They have really high seeding ratios.
0.5 would mean they uploaded half the filesize. 1 means whole filesize. 2 means twice. You get the idea.
Yo ho ho and two bottles of rum for you 🏴☠️
What's your upload amount? Ratio isn't vs the total size of the torrent, so this can happen if you remove a readd a torrent to the client for a file that's already in the hard drive. Say you download 1kb of a 1gb file, but then upload 10mb you can get some insane ratios.
Most unfortunately overall statistics aren't exported, the VM had been sitting active on a PC for a while before I turned it off for a few months and wiped it recently
I can say those top ratios were movies I had first acquired, and never had set a seed limit so I'm certain I've been seeding the entire file
When I was able to seed relentlessly, I aimed for 3.0. Typically, popular things got into the tens or twenties, while rare stuff would get lucky to cross the 1.0 threshold.
Thieves and beggars, never shall we die and all that.
When I downloaded The Last Of Us it would shoot to 4-5 and get stuck there. Meanwhile, I downloaded Madagascar on a random Monday and a week or so later that thing is at 36.0.
It's totally random.
It's over nine thousand!
Well done.
I generally drop torrents out of seeding if there are >100 seeders so I have nothing as high as your top 10
Insane, my highest is around 100 ratio.
That's almost certainly a partial cross seed, but if it isn't, that's one hell of an accomplishment.