sidenote, are memes allowed? it doesn’t say anything about them not being allowed, but I don’t see anybody posting any 🤷‍♀️

  • pineapple@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Yeah not me, I keep on saying I use torrents and privatw trackers for the better quality. But really i just find it more fun.

    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      5 days ago

      i know I posted the meme and all, but what’s the benefit of private trackers? is it like a search bar where you’ll find niecher stuff or is it just that it downloads quicker?
      i don’t think I’ve ever had a time where 1337 and standard qbittorrent won’t work

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    I am so old I remember most of the pirate stuff and did all of it. I am pissed at myself for disconnecting drives and messing up boot order, won’t boot so far. I had an old pc (still do) they were IDE drives in it. The boot drive was over one 1tb and needed special driver to break the 1tb barrier. I think it was from Acronis’ partition editor. I have at least 300gb in flac music, tons of movies (mostly yify). One day I hope to revive it if I can find an anything partition reader so I can nab it of the drives. I will make it available for everyone to grab an old slice of pirating.

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    2001 baby here with a home ubuntu server running Plex + Jellyfin, *arr suite, qbittorrent and slskd in docker, and a few TB on my favourite private trackers. I’m an outlier for sure, I don’t know anyone else my age that even knows what 1337x is

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    5 days ago

    actually as a millenial i left the torrenting world when i graduated and got a job back in 2015. Now when i want to return, I realized I am old and don’t know the best places to get good torrents. I searched on one of the websites of tpb last year and nothing came up.

    I am rusty and don’t have much time but i am starting to feel the bullshit by streaming companies now and i need to get back on the horse.

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    5 days ago

    be me

    born in 2005

    used to use steam unlocked

    torrent

    is bisexual

    the meme is partly correct i guess :3

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    5 days ago

    It does feel like zoomies and kids in general have lost a lot of technical knowledge when it comes to computers.

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      4 days ago

      There was a short while when everyone had computers at home, and we became skilled with them because we grew up with them. But those computers were pretty quickly replaced with tablets and phones, leaving the majority of younger generations with much less computer experience.

      Because of the locked-down nature and simplified UI design of mobile platforms, they weren’t able to learn skills like navigating file systems or the many tools in document and art programs they would have found on PC.

      Rather than being an edutainment tool, mobile devices have offered cheap dopamine hits and predatory monetization. The fact that we know this and do nothing to correct it is incredibly sad.

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      4 days ago

      most yes, some no. Some are fucking geniuses

      also, my blame is 1000% on the schools. They lock down computers so much the button to make a FOLDER was disabled… in highschool

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        Funny, I remember being in middle school and getting detention for playing a RS private server called hackscape, clearly I was intending to hack the school.

        Meanwhile I found the network drive and constantly deleted a bullys progress in our keyboarding course lmao, they never figured that one out.

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    5 days ago

    I hear if you torrent you get a nastygram from your ISP. Meanwhile, I hear if you find a site that offers to stream it for free, nothing bad happens. Also I hear that Yandex gives better results for such sites than Google or DDG/Bing.