An advice from Grandma

moe90@feddit.nl to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 483 points –
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And seed till ×1.00 or more to help your fellow pirates!

When you don't seed you're watching anime with Hitler

I just finished reconfigging my whole old server into it's new modern form and set it up so that at either ratio > 2 or 1 month of no seeding has passed

So far my overall ratio is fucking .78 because apparently nobody wants to download the shit I've got seeding other than me :'(

(Tbf it's mostly old obscure shit rn cuz I'm catching up on more obscure releases of movies n shit this month, but that was maybe a dumb idea right after completely overhauling my setup and tracking my ratios now lol)

Old obscure shit you say? Sounds like I might be interested. Can you let me know what you're seeding and where I can find a torrent or magnet?

Just some shows my wife watched as a kid, a couple of movies from the 60s

Unfortunately I got home yesterday and qbittorrent was off and all my torrents were gone

Checked the log and something went wrong but I'm still not 100% sure what, I think I might have fucked up the time settings though

Oh, no biggie. Shit happens.

At least now you know to check your settings.

i have set it to pause when the ratio reach 250...

2.50? Or 250? Why even pause at all at that point?

In my case it's ×2.00 and min. a month, whichever takes longer. Seeding popular releases early on tends to cross that ×2.00 treshold!

Mine is x6 for public and x∞ for private automatically.
But I'll change the label if a torrent is important to me and continue seeding.

What a clean interface, what application is that if you don't mind me asking?

Imagine streaming anime

Torrent streaming 😎

This kills the torrent

AFAIK Miru keeps the streamed torrent downloaded and seeds it in the background.

Edit: My bad, it seems to be a feature coming to version 6 of Miru, but currently it's not available.

how so?

It depends on how you’re streaming it, but if you use some service that streams a torrent directly and then throws it away afterwards you took the torrent data without contributing anything back to the swarm

Yeah, but as you said, it is highly dependent on the implementation. Theoretically it is possible that the user is also seeding the previously downloaded/streamed chunk (via WebRTC for example if using a browser). That reminds me of a madlad that stores data on a ping packet (see suckerpinch channel on youtube, specifically his video titled "Harder Drive")

If you all stream and I'm feed up with you leeching without contributing, who will seed?

Can one not seed while stream? Like keeping cache after you have seen that part and seed that part?

(I have little knowledge on new torrent stuff since I found a net that can be used)

Dunno. If the client does it.
I know there are ways thr request a specific section of a torrent to essentially stream it and once you are done keep it in seed.

Cool. How can I do that?

Most torrent clients should have an option to download sequentially. The wording of the option may be different for each one.

On Android, something like Flud with VLC is an ok local & manual option.

Miru for anime is pretty good.

Stremio with Torrentino also works.

Haven't tried Miru, thanks for suggesting. I'll check it out.

i still don't understand how logging in to Miru with Appimage works, i authorized it and Anilist lists Miru in the Apps section but it's still not logging me to Miru

I think it's a bug. I can't login either. I'm on manjaro.

okay i figured it out, you have to create a .desktop file for miru in .local/share/applications and it must contain this line:

MimeType=x-scheme-handler/miru;

you can use Gear Lever which adds Appimages to the applications menu and creates the .dekstop file automatically for you so you don't have to do everything manually even the line above, it also has an update mechanism too

it's preferable to Temporarily use Brave or a chromium browser as the default for it work properly if Firefox is your default

I will try the trick changing the default browser, thanks!

Try logging into anilist in a browser that has been installed as a native package. Then temporarily set it as the default browser and open Miru then try 'login with anilist' .

This worked for me.

Maybe you meant legal streaming anime?

  • I use Stremio + Torrentio with RD + Kitsu add-ons

  • Kodi + Fen Light/Umbrella/POV/Seren/Otaku

  • Anime TV Android app

  • CloudStream

And my HDDs are happy to not be full all the time anymore lol.

nyaa.si is your friend

I like tokyotosho.inf but I think they all track the same

It's been down for weeks now tho

Nu-uh

Really? Why does the connection time out for me then?

Blocked by your provider, or whoever manages your network? If you're on a VPN, try a different IP or service- it's possible they've been blocked by DDoS protection or something.

It happens on both mobile data and wifi. VPN doesn't help either. As far as I know, my provider doesn't block any sites and even if they did, shouldn't VPN fix that?

Depends where your VPN end point country is set to

Join a private tracker today!

If only i had an invite

I prefer xdcc

fellow IRC enjoyer...

Imagine waiting for torrents to finish instead of starting to watch the second your connection is initiated

Imagine camping a channel and waiting for the downloaf instead of auto fetching the torrent with sonarr and RSS/API, import to library and watch once your home complete with metadata

imagine waiting for a torrent when usenet immediately saturates your link 24/7

Imagine paying to pirate

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler I do :::

Go in channel, ask bot for file, start watching. The only waiting that happens is while watching the content anyway. No need for any elaborate setup or leaving a box on 24/7. But you do you.

Where can I find every single episode of Case Closed? Because I can't find a complete torrent and Crunchyroll is missing everything from about episode 103 to episode 700. They introduced another character at some point in between there and I have no idea who she is.

depends on the voice language

I'm fine with subs. I know there are only like a handful of dubbed ones and they're also sliced up to be more kid friendly so in this one instance I even prefer them subbed so I get the original episodes. Are the ones Crunchyroll doesn't have not even subbed?

Especially now that aniwave is dead ;_; good night sweet prince

Looks like 9animetv.to is still up and functional. I don't watch enough anime to download and store, so I prefer streaming when I feel like it.

Fuck you grandma! I mean, literally

She unambiguously looks and acts like a child.

Yeah during the mage exam she demonstrated her childishness by... Taking control of the group, and teaching and protecting the two actual children that were on her team.

Or when she ran into the child Himmel in the forest, the writer showed what a child she was by... Maturely helping him find his way home and keeping him in good spirit with a magic trick.

But she does like to sleep in! That's undeniable! And no adult in history has ever liked sleeping in.

recently been finding it a lot easier to find my stuff on Soulseek rather than torrent sites.

I can never find good torrenting sites, i always have to download :(

Nyaa.si is one I have good experiences with.

Also subsplease has their own site with torrents in multiple resolutions. Those are great if you're using devices that can't do 1080 anymore.

Tbh I feel like downloading anime in any form is an unnecesary security risk. Theres websites that host it for free and adblockers that make them squeaky clean to visit.

That is the most incorrect tech take I’ve heard in a very long time.

Downloading MKVs and AVIs is infinitely more safe than janky ass streaming sites EVEN WITH ADBLOCKING

If you're using VLC to play downloaded MKV and AVIs then injected threats are far from uncommon.

If a person already has a source for content they trust then go with torrents but if they don't then it isn't safer at all.

Those website are more of a risk than torrents

Pretty easy to identify, quarantine, and repair threats from a browser compared to downloads.

When you're connected to a webpage for 40+ minutes you're being exposed to all kinds of info stealers, trackers, cryptominers, etc.

If you just check what you're downloading is an mkv, you are pretty much risk free.

Oh no! I accidentally left location services on and now they've bricked my computer with ransomware! /sarcasm