Will do.

Very annoying.

And they take up almost no space, so that makes it even more annoying. I make sure to keep seeding as much as possible.

I think I have that among my torrents. 33 seeders.

Maybe you’re still seeding a torrent that’s no longer as popular.

Disc rot is also a thing.

I find it’s best to accept entropy, that you’re going to die, that everything ends, that you will lose data, that there will be a last time you watch a movie or show, and keep running those ssd/hdds even when they’re in the yellow/red warning zone.

Years back I was sorting through ten years of emails. I got so sick of it, I simply deleted everything. You know what? No drawbacks even ten years later. Such a huge relief.

Reminds me of the artist Michael Landy who chucked everything he owned - pictures, clothes, artwork, his passport - into a shredder. Performance art, reaction against consumerism. He was understandably miserable doing it, but what a relief that must have been. To be free of all the crap. It is true that the things you own often end up owning you.

My grandparents hoarded all their lives, and after they died much of what they owned ended up in a skip, because there wasn’t enough time or interest to sell it. The supposedly priceless porcelain? Chucked. All the records? Sold. Furniture? Goodwill. The huge supply of sunlight soap? Really useful actually.

Curate, is my advice.

I occasionally go through and cull the worst shows and movies. No point keeping mainstream crap that’s readily available on all the streaming sites.

How often do you see your mother?

Poorly designed button. Wrong colour and too much information. Green and “Download Here” would have been better.

Sure, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want GTA6 to be fun if I can pirate it.

I wonder if GTA 6 will be any good.

Previous entries still had an edge, but I worry that GTA online has ruined them. I assume most of the people who created the previous games are all gone too.

Keep seeding the rare shit please.

I know people go on about ratios and yadayada, but the popular stuff will always have seeders, seeding popular stuff is just helping people download quicker.

Seeding the rare shit means that torrent continues to exist.

So much stuff has been lost forever and a large part of that is torrents no longer having seeders.

What do you think all those dual cassette decks were for?

So you could make friends a copy or copy friends’ music.

Perfectly acceptable at the time. Only an issue if you were selling them, but even then not a huge issue.

IRC the Netherlands and Belgium it’s also not a crime, you won’t be pursued by the authorities.

However, that doesn’t stop rights-holders from suing you for damages.

In any case, if you’re using a VPN and privacy conscious you should be fine.

This being said, I really should switch to linux.

TBF to China, they’re selling to both sides.

The whole thing is a Helleresque farce.

For example:

…Alexander Yakovenko, founder of one of the largest drone manufacturers in Ukraine, …noticed [during his visits to factories in China] that their managers were increasingly planning his arrival and departure down to the minute and second. Sometimes they asked him to wait nearby for a while, led him through side doors, along service corridors or into empty conference rooms… It took [him]some time to understand why his whizzes demanded such opaque rituals of schedule manipulation and extreme punctuality. Everything was done to ensure he didn’t cross paths with the Russians who were also visiting the plant. “Our suppliers make an effort to manage Ukrainian and Russian clients. They try to ensure that we don’t end up at the same plant at the same time. They invite us at one time and the Russians at another. So, as soon as the Russians leave, the Ukrainians arrive.”

A comedy for those who can think, a tragedy for those who can feel.

Obviously, there’s a war on, so take everything you read with a pinch of salt.

rutracker dot org

So you’re saying I should steal content by downloading it illegally from rutracker.org?Thanks for the tip. I’ll be sure to download loads of content illegally, then seed it in perpetuity, so that others can also steal it and infringe copyright on a mass scale.

Just kidding, I will be sure to only download public domain content and open source software.

In all seriousness, is rutracker something I should visit with my browser in a sandbox, or is ublock and privacy badger enough?

Are you me? LOL.

Yeah, you become a complete snob. On the other hand, once you’ve watched enough, perhaps read a few books or watched a few documentaries, you recognise references and techniques much more, and that becomes enjoyable in its own way.

It’s a bit like kids watching classic The Simpsons and enjoying it without getting the references, compared to old people watching classic Simpsons because they get or vaguely recognise most of if not all of the references.

And I find you start to enjoy movies which are different, even if they are a bit shit, because they manage to do certain things in different ways and still surprise you.

Also having too much choices isn’t a bad thing

Meh. It’s not all good.

Back in ye olden days, when you had to buy physical media, you’d usually play the album you bought on repeat because it was the only new music you had. Some albums, repeated listening does truly improve your enjoyment and appreciation of them. Same thing for movies, there was nothing else, so you were forced to keep watching, and often learnt to appreciate something you’d have stopped watching now.

Same thing for dating, tbh. People find someone, but then they go on the apps and find someone who might be a bit better, date them for a bit, find someone who might be a bit better, etc. etc. End result; they never get to know one person on a deeper level and miss out on that arguably more rewarding experience.

Or you’d end up wasting your time watching/listening to/ dating something/someone horrible because there wasn’t anything else yet.

Watch top 10 lists, 5* reviewed, or cult classics only. Don’t watch what’s new or being heavily promoted, watch the best of the best. Why drink bud light when you can drink champagne for free?

As someone who also downloads books and audiobooks, I can totally relate though.

Sorry if this is a bit of a tangent, but it’s a shame torrenting music aren’t as big a thing as they used to be.

It was nice being able to download high quality album rips pretty quickly after release.

I dunno, maybe my tastes have become too niche or I’m looking in all the wrong places.

Why haven’t vinted, ebay or for that matter facebook been taken down by law enforcement?