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    This is why you have a server running jellyfin qbittorent, Jackett, sonarr, radarr, all behind a good VPN.

    Anon is obviously a noob and deserves the walkout.

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    torrent ahead of time?

    anon is a dumbfuck.

    • @[email protected]
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      You can also press one button to configure a torrent to download first and last, allowing you to play a video while it streams in.

      Anon can’t even torrent right, she just got scared that he’d be too stupid to put on the condom right.

  • @[email protected]
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    Anon doesn’t know about streaming sites.

    One site, no torrents, legally good(so far), and all you need is basic ad-blocks to enjoy a Netflix like experience with a better interface.

    She deserved a pirate Chad, and she knew it, he has spaghetti falling out his pockets like a soyjack.

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      Torrents tend to be more reliable quality; around here, they’re both equal in legality/illegality, and you don’t have to think about your Internet connection.

      The actual trick is having done it earlier, not trying on the couch right beforehand.

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        Torrent is more reliable than paid a services like Prime Video. My wife got pissed watching one of her shows on Prime. It kept on buffering and quality was trash. I torrented the entire season, put up a JellyFin server. She was so happy.

        Tldr: Prime video is trash.

      • blargerer
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        In many places there is a big legal distinction between consuming and distributing copyrighted content, when torrenting you are doing both.

      • SeekPie
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        My favourite has always been Stremio + Real-Debrid

  • SSTF
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    She just got filtered. Another successful test by anon.

  • Dyskolos
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    Torrent. Phht. Who got the time for that. Sonarr/Radarr/emby(or whichever u prefer) Enter title, wait a minute (unless u r on slow net or prefer 4k remux) and watch. Enter Series-name,go to bed. Enjoy 12 full seasons tomorrow.

    Totally hasslefree, no stupid trackers or missing seeder or waiting-time. Movie was posted 10yrs ago? No problem. Still there, still fullspeed. Device not certified for netfucks or rooted? Who cares?

    And when your lady asks “why can we watch this, this is not on Netflix” you can reply “what is netflix? I’m a pro”

    • @[email protected]
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      I wish? That’s not my experience, anything that’s not superpopular is hard to find. Are you using private trackers?

      • @[email protected]
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        It definitely depends on your trackers and how smart sonarr/radarr are with picking a useable torrent. I think 80-90% of the time I don’t have to think about it, but there are some shows I’ve had to really dig for. Private trackers make it way easier

      • Dyskolos
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        Rarely use torrents at all. Usenet. Screw upload ratio and that shit. I’m too old for that and i download a tb a month or so 😁

    • @[email protected]
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      Sonarr and radarr aren’t going to do what you claim without a Usenet client to do the actual downloading. So on top of your *arrs you also have to pick a quality indexer, find and pay for a Usenet provider, and set up your download client. And preferably use a nicer frontend for finding the content a la Overseerr or Ombi. And probably Bazarr to get subtitles for all the anime/foreign language content. Also good luck getting good, consistent releases automatically without some serious dedication to setting up your quality profiles.

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        You can set up sonarr/radarr to use torrent clients but it’s more effective with and built for Usenet for sure. But it still works fine with torrents. It’s also not terribly difficult to setup quality profiles if you know basic regex

        My setup does the following: For movies: downloads 4k remux from private trackers first, then Usenet filtered by ideal release groups, then 1080p remux from private trackers, and then Usenet by ideal release groups. If those all fail then I am notified so I can take a look at the releases that are left over

        For tv: pretty similar

        For anime: releases pulled from sneedex when possible. When not AB/nyaa remux preferred, then fall back on BR rip hevc from either those trackers or Usenet via AT.

        Regex to also filter for things like I prefer Dolby vision and atmos audio with my setup whenever possible. I filter for English releases unless it’s a foreign film or anime (refuse dubs, yuck). With anime I filter for common fansub groups like subsplease, commie, etc to ensure a release has subs.

        And jellyseer so that my family and friends don’t have to deal with any of the above and can just type in “movie name”

        It’s not perfect of course mainly because sometimes people upload stuff with bad tagging and file names, but it works well the overwhelming majority of the time and I am able to grab media extremely quickly on gigabit internet. A 4k remux movie downloads in 6-10 mins usually because I have the connection throttled a bit so that my other computers in the house don’t all choke just because a movie started downloading

        Then there’s the other benefits: a komga server with all my books, sheet music, and manga that can be served to my ereader/phones/laptop via mihon or any of the Tachiyomi forks. No need to bother with mangadex or bato, my manga all loads extremely fast, ad free, no watermarks/credit pages and is the highest possible quality.

        I have a navidrome setup for all my music and finamp (I use jellyfin, fuck plex and their snitching). I have a dns server so I can adblock everything in the house, I don’t have to worry about installing extensions and can run adblock on devices that typically can’t run extensions like smart TVs.

        I also now have a significant amount of network storage, over 100tb. My computers all back up to that and the server is archived to tape once a month. I don’t need to bother with google, apple, dropbox, amazon, etc. having copies of my files.

        This all took about 2 days to setup and runs on hardware that’s worth about $150 (minus the drives but you don’t need to start with that much storage). You just need some e waste pc from 2015 or so and the know how, which isn’t that hard to gain. This is all well documented online. The trash guides will get your sonarr/radarr setup 85% of the way there. if you’re like me you’ll diverge from their decisions pretty quickly, but that’s just a matter of modifying the regex a bit and their discord is very active and helpful with questions if you don’t understand something. Plus there are thousands of reddit posts, youtube videos, etc.

        All the software is free (unless you use something like unraid or the premium plex) and a Usenet subscription is dirt cheap if you wait for a major sale like Black Friday, I pay $40/yr for unlimited

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        Sure you need those too (except maybe the frontend). Not like it’s hard work. And once setup it runs basically forever without tinkering.

        So far rarely had bad luck with inconsistent releases. And considering with how warez were when i started doing warez (before the interwebz), it’s super consistent.

        What is yout point even? You seem to use the same?

    • @[email protected]
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      Doesn’t this solution require downloading the file, reencoding and then it’s available to watch? How do you only need one minute to start watching?

      • Dyskolos
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        Sure it needs to download. But i got 10 fibers á 1gbit bundled and a 10gb home network and a good and fast server. So after hitting “search” it’ll take around a minute til it’s leeched, unpacked, sorted and imported into emby. The last part actually take the longest.

        But speed isn’t really the point, it’s hit-search-wait-watch. The wait part depends on you.

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        19 months ago

        reencoding is not required in advance, it happens on the fly if needed.

        download still needs to be completed first usually, but you can save a lot of time if you compromise in quality.

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          If i watch stuff from the outside on my phone,i really don’t care for quality. Same when I’m at home watching some quick series. For “serious” stuff it takes a while longer. Need to wait some good more minutes for a bd-remux.

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        Doesn’t sound to me like they actually understand what they’re talking about. Sonarr and Radarr both use trackers to download files from either torrents or usenet. Emby is a media server that displays the downloaded files (like netflix). You don’t typically have to reencode what you download.

        • Dyskolos
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          I do know. I just didn’t want to list everything, as those who’d do that, know that. And there is no “tracker” for usenet. Usenet is probably older than you 😁

          Reencoding (if necessary) is done on the fly by the emvy-server.

          • @[email protected]
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            There is a provider with Usenet which serves the same purpose (and costs money so there’s a trade off). Radarr and Sonarr are not finding the content for you. It’s coming from whatever service you are using.

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              Well my internet costs money too. Netflix would be 20 bucks and i have 30% of what muricans have. My usenet is 5 bucks a month, the indexers (2 atm) are like 25 a year. So i would still have money left for a nice tea 😁

              And netflix wouldn’t be enough. If i had all providers i want, it’ll be >100 moneyz a month. That’s ridiculous. And probably still missing something

              But yes. Take torrents and save even those mere bucks. I just want it comfy and fast. The principle would be the same.

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                Ok? Why are you bringing Netflix into it? No one suggested that. You can do whatever you want the point of my responses are that Sonarr/Radarr are not as simple as you implied.

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                  Of course they aren’t. As netflix wouldn’t be enough too, you need internet, a device, an OS and an app. Wouldn’t mention those when talking about netflix too. So yes. Of course you’d need a downloader and probably an indexer too. And a firewall, vpn and whatever else you can think of, and a media-server, and an app, and a device and OS. Oh and a browser to input your search into. Probably a keyboard too :-)

                  But *narrs are those that take your input, query indexers, do the background-work, put results into your downloader(s) of choice and into your media-server of choice. They’re the crucial part here. Like the netflix-app for watching netflix-content. Everything else is your personal flavour.

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          Right but you still wait for however long the file needs to download. Normally quite a bit more than 1 minute. That’s what got me confused about this almost streaming like experience that I’m missing out on.

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            Yeah that part of their comment was also misleading. Basically they’re saying Radarr/Sonarr are better than torrents but really they’re just a fancy front end. If something downloads fast on them it will go just as fast in whatever torrent client you use.

            • Dyskolos
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              Nonsense. Torrents depends on seeders. Usenet is always (depending on the provider) max-speed.

              *narrs are basically just interfaces for torrents and/or nzbs. And unless I’m into some very specific niche-stuff that requires a private tracker, why should one use torrents? Their only upside is that they’re totally free.

              • @[email protected]
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                I didn’t say anything about Usenet in the comment you are replying to. The point is Radarr/Sonarr are not Usenet. They are just front ends regardless of which service you are getting content from. Whatever download speed you get on that service is what you get, they have nothing to do with it.

                I’ve had plenty of torrents download at high speed, is it less reliable than Usenet? Yes, but It’s also free. I’ll wait a day or two if I have to if it saves me money.

                • Dyskolos
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                  And i didn’t say they’re better than torrents, as they can do both. It’s just the easier overall wrapping than using the regular torrenting-way we did since torrents first came up. It makes me even able to actually use torrents (if i wanted to).

                  And yes, of course usenet is faster than torrent. Sure you might have a fresh torrent with tons of high-speed-seeders that downloads at fullspeed. But if that one is a year old you’re often outta luck. If it’s 10 years old you’re most likely outta luck. Never the case with usenet. Always, everything from the last 12yrs at absolute maximum speed your line (and the provider) allows.

                  “Free” is relative. If you’re using public trackers, then yes. Private trackers either require to share a lot (ugh, no thanks and also highly illegal here, hence i would need a vpn) or donate. I pay 5 bucks a month for usenet and 25 or so a year for indexers (plural). That’s one delivered (and shitty) pizza here.

  • @[email protected]
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    1. Meet woman, don’t be weird.

    2. Gradually build a loving, trusting relationship.

    3. She has to get surgery and she’ll be bed-bound while she recovers.

    4. “Will you take care of me, Anon?”

    5. Lord of the Rings marathon. The director’s cuts. She can’t run.

  • @[email protected]
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    Look, there are enough women in the world for you to stop thirsting after someone who’s just not right for you

    If you’re geeky you need a girlfriend that at least vibes with that even if she’s not into it herself for fucks sake

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    thesis: Netflix and chill

    antithesis: Torrent and chill

    synthesis: Stremio/Torrentio and chill

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      When you’re torrenting and you’re planning to watch with someone else, you decide what you’re watching at least eight hours in advance, preferably a day. Radarr can’t find stuff instantaneously, assuming the automated search finds it at all, and torrents can take hours to finish, plus leaving time to resolve technical mishaps with your *arr stack, like the VPN being dead. If you and the person you wanna watch with aren’t going to be in the same room, you’ll have to set aside even longer in order to transcode it into a format a browser can play at a bitrate that’s low enough to stream, and load it into your HTTP server so that Cytube can play it. Ideally you’d block out some time to test and troubleshoot Cytube too.

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        Instead of Radarr, Stremio (with the Torrentio addon) lets you browse torrent trackers as though you were browsing Netflix and stream from them directly. It’s so goddamn convenient because you don’t have to remember what’s on which streaming service it hurts.

      • @[email protected]
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        I have none of these issues, but I use Usenet soo…

        Honestly though if push comes to shove Stremio and RealDebrid can work wonders provided your internet is actually fast enough.

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          Another vote for usenet. Somewhat less accessible than torrents but worth the effort and money.

      • @[email protected]
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        Or just have a VPN on and go to fmovies or whatever to stream it for free since you’re already on a laptop with connection anyways.

      • @[email protected]
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        Most popular movies have enough seeders to finish in 20 minutes where I live.

        But if I were in OP’s shoes, I would just turn to streaming and forego the slightly better quality.

        The movie isn’t the most important thing at that point.

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          OP doesn’t pay for streaming on the hypothetical (because we all know this isn’t a real story lol).

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    What’s with the “ooga booga woman scared by tech” meme? Like, people have been torrenting for ages, it’s not like it’s underground.

    And just have it downloaded? “Hey, wanna come over and watch ____? Yes? Cool, see you then.” Then start the download. If it’s popular, you’ll have the file in, like, 10 minutes. And if she’s that “confused” by an hdmi cable (which is an extremely common cable these days, but whatever), put it on a flash drive and plug that in. And if someone is interested, I can’t imagine setting something up would make them leave? “Oh gosh, he had a laptop and a… A cable, you say? Well golly gee, I should run away from this fringe tech afficionado because who does that???”

    I don’t know why some guys act like tech just washed over women. We were there sailing the same high seas as the rest of ya’ll.

    “What do you mean the movie will come from the laptop?” Boy, bye

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      Don’t think it is about women being scared by tech, but “normies” only really knowing how to use Netflix to watch a movie.

      • @[email protected]
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        Although that may be true the ‘normies’ I’ve spoken with about this aren’t necessarily stupid. They may just not have it on the radar because it’s not their interest, some show interest in how it works and at worst I’ve found they say oh that’s interesting it’s pirating right? And that’s it.

        My coworker is super non tech savvy and has no interest and even she just says ‘it flies over my head but I trust you to get it done’.

        4channers now a days aren’t even good at making up lies/making shit posts. All they can do is low level rage bait. Pathetic.

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      In the post the woman is not the butt of the joke for being tech illiterate (and I’d argue they aren’t presented as that), the joke is on Anon for insisting on using free/techy stuff rather than costly but convenient things and ruining the vibe of the evening. This could just as easily say “Anon, why are you still fiddling with the picture settings? It looks fine. Motion blur? I don’t know what that is. It looks fine. Just watch the movie.”

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      I’m choosing to interpret it as her getting skeeved out over anon not having their shit together.

      >not downloading the movie in advance
      >not knowing about the “download in sequential order” option on the client that lets you start watching quickly

      • 2ugly2live
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        That makes more sense 🤔 Guess jokes on me for assuming it was the other way lmao

        • @[email protected]
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          no, that was the point of the original post. I just decided to imagine a better version in my head D: