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Title, I haven't Yo ho ho'd in forever in internet time.. What/where do I need to start again? I'm tired of ads and 3+ streaming services to watch stuff that's interesting. Running windows. Thanks dudes and dudettes.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Recognize that there may be some costs involved: hard drives, a raspberry pi, VPN/VPS/seedbox, even just electricity.

Get a good VPN and use it for any torrenting you do from home. Nord is not a good VPN. (unless your government doesn’t care or you use a seed box, then do whatever)

Use public torrent trackers if you have to but: If you have some private torrent tracker accounts from yore, try to get them re-activated. Surprisingly they may have your old info. This will probably require IRC. If not, look into interviewing with RED, OPS, or MAM to learn the ropes, then use them to get invited into movie/TV/general PTs.

If you don’t like the sound of torrenting look into newsgroups. This will cost money in two ways: a newsgroup account and a news indexer.

Check out the arr suite, especially radarr and sonarr, to automatically get what you are interested in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Remind me please. What is the problem with Nord?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Primarily they don’t have port forwarding which is necessary for torrenting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I’ve been using it for a while and had no idea it didn’t support port forwarding! I know it’s important for torrenting, but my private tracker ratios are all 2:1 or more (my record is 6:1)

I should read up on why it’s important.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The Problem with not having Port forwarding is that you can only connect to people which have port forwarding. That means If the seeds are also using no port forwarding you cannot download/upload.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Because the people in your private trackers have port forwarding enabled so a connection is still made but someone else who hasn't setup port forwarding won't be able to connect to you.

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