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

  • Saapas@piefed.zipEnglish
    361·
    10 days ago

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

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
      8·
      8 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.

    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      7·
      9 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

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        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.

    • Noja@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      21·
      10 days ago

      It’s the other way around, torrents are monitored, downloads on webpages are not (unless they use P2P streaming)

      • omgboom@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        Maybe for public trackers, I’ve never had an issue on private trackers. But pirate streaming sites are taken down fairly frequently

      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        The big difference is that with torrents you also upload data to other peers, which is what fucks you copyright-wise.

        Also remember kids, if you’re not in the US throw those DMCA claims in the trash

        • Noja@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          If you’re in the EU, downloading without uploading is also illegal, just hard to track for the copyright firms.

      • trendingnongamer@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        the magic word here is “HTTPS”. Prior to encrypted downloads being the norm, it was trivial for your ISP (and presumably, the feds) to see what sites you were visiting and what you downloaded from them. With HTTPS, at best it’s possible to know what site you’re communicating with and how much data you’ve sent to and received from them, but not what the data actually is. (Unless of course the site’s logs get seized, which could contain records of which files were requested by which IP addresses)

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    13·
    10 days ago

    I personally just check the db0 megathread and torrent from there, sometimes I watch online because I cant be bothered to download tho

    • J-Bone@piefed.caEnglish
      4·
      10 days ago

      You can stream popular torrents. It can be challenging with more niche content (unless you’re on private trackers), but you’re not going to find niche content streams in the first place.

          • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            8·
            10 days ago

            Yeah I could guess that, but no just sitting around it either doesn’t upload anything or uploads and absurdly small amount (less than 50mb)

            • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
              6·
              10 days ago

              Yeah I see the same thing and I self host a seedbox that has hundreds of seeding torrents. Some torrents do get some seeding action but most never upload anything. Never figured out why but some private trackers give you points towards your up/down ratio the longer you seed so I just roll with that ¯\(ツ)/¯

              • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                10·
                10 days ago

                I gave up on private trackers a while ago. Nothing I’ve ever been looking for was obscure enough to warrant putting up with their bullshit rules.

                • NotSteve_@piefed.caEnglish
                  6·
                  10 days ago

                  Ah, yeah that’s fair. I’m on a few but primarily use TorrentLeech which is more relaxed about things. To be honest though, torrents are my fallback anyway and most of my downloads are done via Usenet

                • Carrot@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  5·
                  10 days ago

                  Only private tracker I use is MyAnonymouse, they’ve got all the books/audiobooks anyone could ever need, which I have had a really hard time finding on public trackers. Their rules are super lenient as well.

            • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              10 days ago

              If it was a popular torrent with a lot of seeders, it was probably still working but you never got selected. Could also happen when it was the opposite. If there was like three seeders and no peers, when you finish you’re just sitting there with the other folks with no one to seed to.

            • dontsayaword@piefed.socialEnglish
              16·
              10 days ago

              Probably an issue with connecting to peers or trackers. One common issue is not having the port forwarded properly at your router.

        • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          32·
          10 days ago

          If you don’t have a port forwarded for your torrent client, then only the people that do will be able to download from you. Unfortunately, most VPN providers don’t support port forwarding.

    • HeneryHawk@reddthat.comEnglish
      7·
      10 days ago

      Two things. 1. Already mentioned, you need to be connectable. Torrent client port needs opened on router admin panel. 2. You can only seed if there is another user(s) actively downloading that data. And if you’re 1 of many seeders, you’re only uploading a little bit

      Theres a lot more to it but thats a good high level overview

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    9 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.

  • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    9 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.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      9 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

      • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        Whats 1337? Never heard of it.

        I mainly torrent movies and a bit of tv. For me private trackers have by far the biggest library of high quality 4k encodes, which is what i’m after personally. And at decent speeds, public trackers often don’t have enough seeders for higher quality encodes. There is also the community ascpect which is pretty nice, and lower risk of malware or copyright trolls although I still use a vpn anyway.

        Also private trackers for movies are super easy to join. I woulf recommend FNP since I dont think you need any prior experience with private trackers, you just need to send them an email. Also they have global freeleech until chistmas!

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        I have torrented off and on for about 18 years and only recently got invited to a private tracker, it seems like the biggest thing is that your ISP (and sites like I know what you downloaded) won’t see them because the groups that watch torrents don’t have access.

  • blinfabian@feddit.nlEnglish
    211·
    10 days ago

    be me

    born in 2005

    used to use steam unlocked

    torrent

    is bisexual

    the meme is partly correct i guess :3