tenchiken

Some would call it … Tim.

Goals

Slackware. 1993.

I’m old lol.

Been through:

Slackware

Mandrake

Debian

Ubuntu

Redhat , old and new

Fedora

Arch

Knoppix

Pop!

CentOS

Enlightenment

Etc etc…

Right now I’m living on KDE Neon.

Spicy flavor represent!

I don’t use it anymore myself, but a small cost nntp service and the Arr stacks automate away the piece hunting for the most part.

I’d recommend looking over things at this link for an idea on the tools. They are great and take most of the pain out of all this. It’s all open source as well.

http://wiki.servarr.com/

You would still want to find an indexer (like a tracker but for Usenet information on what files to grab) and a Usenet service, but I’ve been away from that side long enough I’d suggest getting suggestions on those from someone else.

It sounds like perhaps torrents aren’t the right solution for you. Perhaps invest in a newsgroup service instead?

You can argue what makes more sense to you as much as you like, but things work just fine for many of us.

And as to the past month or so:

That’s without the credit system, but using those same torrents that you expect to just sit on. I don’t use autobrr or anything like that, just basics like sonarr etc.

Most private trackers now implement a credit system that rewards for making seed available as well. Even without users downloading from you, you accrue credit just for keeping it alive and available.

If you are impatient, this won’t really help, but it works well enough if you actually plan to join the community instead of hit and run.

I’ve used them about a year and glad to see this kind of improvement. They are not perfect but still much better than the free options so far.

Only concern I’ve had has been around the AI stuff they are providing… So far it’s optional and a separate piece from the normal search. Time will tell there I suppose.

Suit yourself. They aren’t perfect but I find value in them so far.

Statistically speaking, we’ve already had one or more.

Non-closeted is another matter. Cult of personality and whatnot.

One of my absolutely favorite things is a copy of MASH someone released that had the laugh track left out.

The show is so much better for it. I wish this was more of a thing.

Jackass that was a huge piece of crap for several years and repeatedly stole things was a part of a larger social group I was a part of. Used to gaslight and attempt sexual assault on most of the girls in the group too, and his various lies tended toward causing fights.

Literally got the chance and spent a weekend banging his (divorced) Mom.

Side irony: getting the chance like that to spend quality time with an attractive gal boosted my self image enough I was able to later make some of his hidden transgressions against that community apparent. Much of the group ostracized him, and the ones that didn’t fell away as they often were complicit… Grooming girls or equally abusive etc.

ARRRRRR!

Tariff = more money into Fed govt. -> funnel money from Fed govt into his and his friends pocket.

This is a faster way to get money out of the populace and into his accounts.

Floppy sets represent!

We thought of life by analogy was a journey, was a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end. And the thing was to get to that end.

Success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead.

But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played

– Alan Watts

“Please insert Slackware disk Set A disk 3”

Chinchillas.

2010 (Space Odyssey 2).

Don’t cry, it’s only thunder.

Grave of the fireflies.

Blade runner.

This echoes my thoughts… Even simple question/answer to help others get old games working, useful links to emulation resources for older platforms etc.

With steam deck popularity, a new wave of inexperienced folks wanting to try things is guaranteed.