I have five.

  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    I have like two because I chose nordvpn and they don’t have the ports open for DHT to work properly. My sub ends in November and I’ll switch to Proton is the world is still turning.

  • Teknikal@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    2 days ago

    None if something doesn’t give me a decent speed in a minute or so I delete it and look for alternatives.

    Wild I had to fight spellcheck about 4 times just to post this one sentence, SwiftKey seems to be getting constantly worse.

  • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    none of mine were stuck, I seeded 5000+ movies/series/games/music. mostly use Usenet now, but my library is shared on soulseek and I do ratio at least 1-2 before I remove it. I upload 1TB a day on average.

  • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    None since I don’t have access to my self-hosted server at the moment due to personal circumstances, so I shut it down. I miss my server.

      • psychOdelic@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 days ago

        yes, I now have to use shitty streaming sites that are slow, unreliable and have absolutely no “rare” content. Also I won’t be able to build a collection, which leaves me feeling incomplete and miserable. I don’t know why this bothers me so much, but it does.

    • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Out of curiosity, were you using a private tracker? VPN? Just interested in the circumstances. Obviously something anyone who downloads has in the back of their minds. I remember getting a letter 20+ years ago, addressed to my dad from Verizon, to cut it out. I got smarter after that, or so I think.

      • psychOdelic@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 days ago

        no, I was 15… well I still am, it wasn’t that long ago, and I had been torrenting for 3 years, I believe, nothing ever happened. I also didnt know anything about private trackers, I tried getting into it once, but practically anything that costs money I would have to ask my parents for, and I’m too shy for that. Anyways, I was always saying “yeah I’m gonna get a VPN…” never did. Now my parents had to pay the price for that. I might get a VPN when I get my own bank account and stuff… in 3 years, so I’m responsible for it.

        • Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          Well sorry to hear that dude, I was also probably fifteen when I got my letter from Verizon, maybe 16 or 17. Don’t let the passion for sticking out to the man fade, but not doing it on Mom and Dad’s Internet is commendable.

  • whats_all_this_then@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    No longer stuck but Iron Monkey took about 2 months on/off until I got the whole thing. I try to seed where I can but internet isn’t the best and sometimes there just isn’t a lot of demand. That one’s at 0.07 right now because not a lot of people downloading

  • Zanathos@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    About 3 years ago I got tired of stuck torrent queues and spent a few hours learning what Usenet is and it’s various components. A little learning curve compared to torrents, but very comparable in the end. The only major difference is having to pay for a Usenet provider VPN and potentially subscribing to Usenet boards for membership.

    I bought a yearly sub to a provider and lifetime sub to a very well know board. I justify the cost as money that would be wasted on a subscription service, except half the yearly cost. Usenet is now the primary download in my arr stack with torrent as a backup.

    In my experience Usenet performs much faster than torrent, and there’s no seeding requirement at all. Just grab and go. And it seems to have about 90% of what I’m looking for, from anime to old shows\movies (1950s to 20XX).

    • hogmomma@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I was introduced to Block News a number of years ago, myself. I have since switched to an unlimited account. Usenet has absolutely transformed how I pirate. Once it’s set up, it’s so much easier, quicker, and safer.

    • BigPotato@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      I’ve tried a few times to really wrap my head around Usenet and I’ve got a couple of bookmarked tabs but… Man, I even had trouble setting up the arrs. My brain might be a bit too smooth these days.

  • ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Last October I pirated around 100 horror movies and only 2 of them took longer than a day.

    Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) - took a couple of days, it was stuck at 10% for a while and one day i wake up and the whole thing finished in like 6 hours. I’m guessing someone turned on a pc that had been off for a long time lol.

    Cabin Fever (2002) - this one took over a week and I was deadset on not paying for it so I just let it sit, pretty much the same thing with the previous torrent, it was stuck at a low percentage for a long time and then one day I hop on my computer and it had fully finished.

    Other than that, a lot of Japanese films or foreign films in general will take a long time if they’re not that popular. If I don’t care too much I’ll just delete it and forget about it.

  • TehBamski@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I haven’t torrented in many years. But I wanted to give a shoutout to all of the seeders that come back online, so I we could finish. There were many movies I had qued. Most were fine and finished up in three days or less, some started then stopped before they even reached the 15% mark, and several would make it to 98% then stop. Thankfully, there were some people out there who finally came back online and seeded enough for me to finish the dls. I made sure to seed enough peers to where there would be 10 seeders before I would consider removing it.

    And a huge fucking thank you to whoever the hell came back online to let me get some obscure TV show called The Legend Of Mick Dodge. I started to dl when there were only 2 seeders. Then it soon became 0 seeders. I held out because I wasn’t able to find a trusted torrent for the show. So I ended up sitting on that for a bit over a month. Then one morning, I checked my list and found to my surprise that both season 1 and season 2 were complete. I was shocked when I found out that there were now 7 seeders including me. And because of the annoying wait I had to endure, I made sure to seed the MFer for 2+ months before transferring it.

    ((Turns out, the TV show is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/the-legend-of-mick-dodge/))

  • object [Object]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I have probably 2 or 3 stuck for movies, and thousands stuck for music. Radarr and lidarr adds them automatically, and after many months, they do actually finish downloading

  • Zier@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    I had 2 for over 1.5 years. I gave up. They are rare and the seeds died.