Help me out? I don’t need help. I was using BitTorrent before you knew what it was lol. It’s just not as good a system as Usenet. If you like it, great keep using it, but don’t pretend that it’s somehow superior when it is objectively not for the purposes of piracy .
You are the one trying to talk authoritatively about Usenet when you clearly don’t understand it. If you take my responses as “aggro” you might want to do some self reflection.
No one said anything about privacy, so I’m not sure where you are getting that from.
“Donation” please. Be real. Everyone knows that’s a pay to access scheme they are just calling donation. Don’t be obtuse. Do you get extra access for “donating?” Then you are paying, no matter what you want to call it.
free indexers seem like easy honeypots
Honey pots for what? Yeah few indexers on torrents definitely are. There would be no point in having one for Usenet. Downloading an NZB file is just telling you where to get the files in which newsgroups. Then you can access any news service of your choice to get it. You clearly don’t understand how Usenet works. You pick and choose who you want to connect with. Not so with P2P. You get what you get. Sure, there are blocklists, but they are outdated the minute they are updated.
You are paying to use a tracker, which is a central server … So how are you accomplishing that goal? The only way you are getting stuff off P2P is by using a central server to tell you where or how to get it. Torrents are just a bunch of servers owned by someone else… How is that different? Because you are getting smaller chunks from several different servers instead of larger chunks from fewer servers? Seems like you are splitting hairs at that point.
Giving back what you take, that’s what paying money to the server is in lieu of.
Usenet…
No VPN required or threats from RIAA for starters
Always saturates your bandwidth/never slow
Things are available for years, no seeders required
Even the good indexers are free
No need to waste your time, bandwidth and/or space seeding
No need to worry about ratios
The list goes on
Torrents:
Better use a VPN or get dropped by your ISP
No seeders? 1 seeder? Come back tomorrow and you might have your file. Oh sorry, that seeder went offline
Want to find stuff? Better pay for a good indexer…
Oh, while you are paying for the privilege of a good indexer, you better keep your ratio up or they will ban you. You get to pay to supply them with storage and bandwidth. Yay
Usenet has always been current Gen and superior to torrents for a number of reasons. Torrenting is ass for so many reasons.
As far as I know, proton doesn’t allow port forwarding, so makes using it for torrenting suboptimal. If you want to use torrents with a VPN, there’s better options
How, though? Just like chewing out a customer support rep, the goal is to make it so either the employees constantly bring it up to their managers or they quit and the company can’t find workers because it’s so miserable.
Are the SWEs responsible for the decision? No. But if they find it too miserable to continue, they will quit and the people responsible will eventually have to respond.
That’s really the only way to direct your anger at a CEO… Through the pocketbook. It’s unfortunate that it’s through the front line, but that’s part of the job.
Do you want pirates? This is how you get pirates.
You need to right click and point it to the proper directory where the files are located.
RMB -> Set Location
Start the torrent. It should say Checking Files, count up to 100%, and then start seeding.
No, they don’t. Only a very small percentage of the videos on Youtube end up making any money for the creators.
You don’t. You need to create it with a full client, not the web client
I can’t believe EverQuest is still around, lol. Blows my mind
Yes one in the same. Thought about moving the forum to lemmy but there’s so much history there
Yep, I agree. Yet another reason I just spun up my own instance and use that.
That’s actually why I want to watch it. I can’t believe anyone has anything nice to say about that prick
A MUD is basically text based gaming. Nothing to do with the topic here
Then you are doing it wrong. I have one keyboard, Gboard, and everything about it is superior to the Apple keyboard.
That’s but to say Gboard is good, is not… It’s crap. But Apple keyboard says “Hold my beer” and shows just how bad a keyboard can be when you really try.
The IOS keyboard is absolutely awful. The fact that you think it’s good tells me you’ve never used a different keyboard.
Yes that’s correct. Same with the apple keyboard, which is why the keyboard and browsers on IOS are such shit
100% Roku. Best Plex interface.
Android Plex interface sucks, and don’t even get started on the abortion that the IOS Plex interface is.