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1 day agoTheir CEO’s comments last year still feel disgusting and I trust them as a company far less than I trust Mullvad as a result, but the service they offer is stellar regardless.
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Nicotine+ for a better interface of Soulseek
Thanks I was looking for something like this for a long time
Only games bcz of Denuvo
Yes location and Upload Speed does come into play when a modern torrent client tries to pick which seeders to connect to. Users with very high upload speeds will obviously get more connections. This is why it’s super hard for users to get Upload on private trackers like RED where a lot of users use 10-20 Gbps seedboxes. Your average 500 mbps connections has no chance against it, you’d get around 1-5% upload of the size of that torrent if you’re lucky. There’s also a thing where Seedboxes would pick seedboxes that are in the same data centers, racks as them and would cross-seed/leech between themselves first.
Microsoft Reward Points are server sided so no this won’t work.
Also, MS Rewards is not worth it anymore, I’ve used it in the past (2021/22) when it was good, they’ve nerfed it into the ground now. Don’t bother with it, they’ll nerf it again and again until it dies out in a few years.
I’ve been using Google’s Public DNS for quite a while, should I switch to Cloudflare or NextDNS after reading OP’s post ?
You could’ve had a ratio of 20 if you were torrenting with your port forwarded.
This won’t work for those stuck with ancient torrent clients.
It also doesn’t work with Private Trackers.
I don’t care what happens to the Manga piracy scene, but please don’t touch the Doujin scene 😭, Gooners would retaliate hard
https://opentrackers.org/ is also a good site to keep an eye on (though it seems to be less active at the moment).
Less active is an overstatement. It’s been dead since last year.
Coomer.su Simpcity.su and Empornium Private Tracker
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This is a big misconception, modern torrent clients like qbittorrent offer renaming fuctionality without breaking the torrent. I do this all the time without any problem.
Click on a torrent in Qbit > Click Stop > go to the contents tab of that torrent > change the name of the files to the names you’ve changed inside your file explorer > Right click the torrent > Force recheck > It should be rechecked to 100% > now start seeding it.
I’ve done this with hundreds of torrents, I can create a video tutorial if anyone wants.
Why not both, if you could, one has better reach (Public) and one has better users who seed back (Private)
If you are a real music enthusiast then I’d recommend you to join Private Trackers for Music, REDacted (RED) and OrPheuS (OPS) are the two big ones. RED is pretty much the successor of What cd. You’d be able to find pretty much all the music you could ask for on RED/OPS and in the highest quality (FLAC). To join them, you’d have to attend their interview (text based) on their IRC. They’d ask you basic questions about music and bittorrent. You can find more information here - https://interviewfor.red/en/index.html
I’m just warning you, Do NOT, under any circumstance, visit their site while the interview is going on (i.e. while they’re asking you questions), they monitor all the traffic coming on that site and if you’re caught, you’d be banned from all the major private trackers forever. Don’t stress it, all the information they’re gonna ask is on the interview site, read it a couple of times and then queue for the interview, getting the interview is the hard part as the interviewers are voluntary members of RED so there are not many of them. Most of the interview happen on the weekends but you would need to queue in a few days ago to get a good position in the queue.