I stayed on Reddit for the longest time. I’ve been a user since the mass Digg migration. I’ve continued to use the site less and less. However, it seems the site quality continues to decline and userbase goes us.

There are still a few good subs with active members but even those still have some issues. I think discussion on the internet on general has gotten significantly worse overall.

Digg died 15 years ago and it’s not coming back to its glory days. We all left Digg for Reddit. I’m hoping for the day that’s everyone leaves Reddit for elsewhere, as that place is a cesspool of shit.

They just used a LLM to do it. Cut and copied the comment into ChatGPT and tell it to turn it into a pirate by a pirate. It probably took 2 minutes.

Foobar2k is amazing and still has a very active community making extensions and plugins.

This is the best of the really big general trackers. It’s not perfect, but pretty close for a tracker of its size. Much better than IPT and FL in my opinion. I use this more than any other tracker just out of convenience and the fact the swarms are always so big.

Oatmeal please. If you want to be anonymous on the internet, use TOR not a VPN.

I think it’s the older way around. There are really only 3 or 4 countries where using a VPN to pirate is needed. I’m just willing to bet you live in one of those countries.

This meme is older than Dodi.

You would reuse the same password or use the same password with slight variations. I would also often see passwords written down on sticky notes. People sometimes has different passwords but stores them unencrypted in password.xls or something similarly named.

Thank God for password managers these days. I haven’t refused the same password for many years now. I generate three random words with a number and special character for all my passwords.

Jackett can be run on any computer. It doesn’t need a server or any serious hardware. It can probably be run on a $20 Pi. It’s just allows you to interact with trackers via API calls.

I use Prowlarr via Docker now a days. It’s provides a much better experience to interact with othe instances of ARRs.

Appreciate the well thought out reply. I came to Lemmy for good discussion like this. It makes me happy to know that people with suffering points can still have a conversation on the internet without turning into a flame war or downvoted brigade. Appreciate you.

I would just keep my PC on 24/7. Did that for a good decade before I built a server. Now the ARR stacks make torrenting on private sites effortless.

This is one of the main reasons Republicans don’t like education. They want to dismantle it and go to a charter system. That way they can profit off education and keep people stupid.

Running qBittorrent over web UI was a game changer. I was running it off a personal PC for the longest time (usually my newest gaming machine) but finally built a dedicated server.

Whose ready for some AOL ultimate Frisbee?

To answer the question, I don’t think they should be used for anything. Keep a small stack for a rainy day and get rid of the rest. There is a reason they are all it thrift stores and being given away for free. Their are much better alternatives out their for storage. Unless you are a hoarder. Then, just add them to your pile of crap you will never use/need again.

I have burned thousands of CD/DVDs in my life but maybe only 10 in the past 15 years or so.

Is every person being sent back a rapist of a 12 year old or are people getting caught up on the system? Either way, I’m all for sending the rapist to prison at our expensive. I don’t want to send them back to Afghanistan where they certainly will have no repurcuasions for raping a 12 year old girl. I think rape isn’t okay anywhere in the world. I dont support sending immigrants back, because I don’t support rape.

I’ve been using private trackers for 20 years. I just know what I like.

Pay to leech refers to paying to download without contributing anything. It’s a pretty common phrase in the piracy and specifically BitTorrent scene. It’s not ONLY pay to leech, but pay to leech is an option.

You will notice that the higher tiered trackers do not give this option out for donations.

Listen you have to pay the bills. I get it. I don’t think your site is terrible by any means, but their are some things I don’t agree with. It’s your site. You do whatever you want with it. It’s obviously successful.

I’m just offering my opinion. I’ve been around the block and have been an admin of a tracker before. I’ve been using private trackers since before Oink was around. I’ve seen my fair share of terrible sites and amazing sites. You run a good entry level tracker but don’t assume everyone is attacking your. It’s just 0s and 1s. Much love.

The need this came out of COVID and a lack of people wanting to go out. It’s was a decent way to keep business open who would otherwise have to lay off all their staff. Once COVID ended, I assumed it would go away. However, money talks.

My wife was just saying how she thiks GPS is soon going to have a VIP tier to give you the best routes and the longer routes go to the people who don’t pay (but still have their data harvested).

This looks like something I would make with Bryce 3D back in the early 2000s but with better lighting. Really enjoy this.