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Haven't torrented in over a decade. I've finally managed to find some free time to watch some stuff. (lemm.ee)
submitted 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by Librarian@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Looking for shows I can fall asleep too with my husband.

The little stuff we did watch in the past couple years was through the easy streaming sites. But those are always prone to missing episodes and random glitches so I thought getting back into torrenting would be fun.

Sidenote: if I remember correctly, its quite normal for some torrents to take a couple hours before a seeder turns up, right?

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 18 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Are you aware of your operating system's ability to screenshot?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Uh-huh. Wait till you realise that the 1080p streams you saved a decade ago have a higher file size, lower bitrate, and noticeable encoding artefacts. Compare that to the 1080p streams you can get from various cartoon sites today, and you shall see that you've bamboozled yourself!

(I mean, you can just update your archive with newer higher quality stuff, but I need this moral grandstanding)

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

How is it moral to pay for a service that doesn't give you the option to buy a physical copy?

[–] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago (4 children)

where do you guys torrent (other than TPB)

[–] Zorothamya@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I use 1337x.to (http://l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion/). I don't know if there's anything better though, but all public pirating sites seem to have the same stuff.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 hour ago

Torrentleech is your best bet for a easy to get into private tracker that is good quality. Lots of x265. You can also try iptorrents which is also quite easy to get into but the quality control is closer to TPB except they would probably delete malicious stuff.

But if you're gonna do public trackers you should most definitely get a seedbox.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Check /r/opensignups on reddit and make sure you read the rules of the trackers you try to join.

[–] sgtlion@hexbear.net 7 points 4 hours ago

Waiting for seeders is definitely a thing, I once waited 8 months for a seeder to show up (and they did!)

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

Welcome back.

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 21 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

couple hours? oftentimes a torrent with zero seeders is as good as dead, and a seeder might show up in days or weeks, most times never. best to find another torrent. also, and this is just a personal preference it's worth the download time to kick it up a notch to 1080.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

It doesn't hurt to keep the torrent running if you can't find another source. There is still a very small chance that someone will seed it eventually. I've had stuff download after waiting for months.

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 14 points 5 hours ago

The monitor we own is ancient and 720p so were good ahah

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Joe Pera Talks With You is pretty gosh darn wonderful to fall asleep to.

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 8 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Would it still work with subtitles? My husband is deaf so if the comedy works a lot of with tone and stuff it wont work for us.

Thanks for the suggestion though!

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I think it might work. A lot of what Joe Pera does is sort of deadpan humor anyway, so part of the joke is lack of tone or emotion. His voice is very calming because he's sort of monotone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSUilYKcRMA

Here is a link to the full episode of "Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep" which is a beautiful episode. Give it a shot and see what you think. The autogenerated closed captioning available on this episode seems mostly accurate to me. DVD copies have great subtitles, not sure about digital variants.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Hmm it's not very "haha funny," it's more the vibe of it and the charm lies in his mundane but interesting demeanor. Watch a clip on YouTube and you'll see what I mean. I have no idea how deafness would affect the experience, I'm sorry.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I'll never stop being sad it got cancelled. I wear my Tree TV sweatshirt with pride.

Dr. Katz Professional Therapist is also in that wheelhouse of quiet, calm, and sweet. It also features H. Jon Benjamin of Bob's Burgers fame.

[–] dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I wish someone could rip and upload The Simpsons Complete Series Ultimate Collection Seasons 1-17 & Season 20

[–] ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Why? What makes it different from grabbing each season individually?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Normal is a relative term. How many did the tracker say there were?

[–] Librarian@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Most of them had between 5-50 active seeders, the majority around 20.

I’ll wait and see. I’m in no rush anyways.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Did you open your ports

[–] Zorothamya@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago) (1 children)

Do you need open them? I'm using Deluge and it is able to leech and seed, only having to wait at most 1 minute for data to come through. I remember having problems with Transmission (the torrent client) though.

And I also imagine it's likely not an option to open ports, as most people are behind a CNAT (unless maybe the adoption of IPv6 by many ISPs (not mine) changed that?)

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 minutes ago

It can work but your will not connect to very many of the available seeds which is probably why op is sitting on 0% torrents with ~20 seeds.

Your client may also be configured to use upnp

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 5 hours ago

It could be that your torrent program is firewalled, and unable to fully connect to all sharing peers.

If you're using qBittorrent, to display the Status Bar, go to the menu item View > (check the box for) Status Bar

The Status Bar should appear a the bottom.

Just right of center, there should be an icon where if you hover your mouse over it, tells you your Connection Status, i.e. whether you're connected or firewalled.

[–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 5 points 6 hours ago

Some trackers don't update seeder info on the web page. Another possible reason is you are behing cgnat and most (all) of the peers are behind it as well, so you just can't connect with each other.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 7 hours ago

Then that's probably okay. Is your DHT enabled?