Looking for shows I can fall asleep too with my husband.

The little stuff we did watch in the past couple years was through the easy streaming sites. But those are always prone to missing episodes and random glitches so I thought getting back into torrenting would be fun.

Sidenote: if I remember correctly, its quite normal for some torrents to take a couple hours before a seeder turns up, right?

  • sgtlion [any]
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    7 hours ago

    Waiting for seeders is definitely a thing, I once waited 8 months for a seeder to show up (and they did!)

    • Zorothamya [she/her, he/him]
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      3 hours ago

      I use 1337x.to (http://l337xdarkkaqfwzntnfk5bmoaroivtl6xsbatabvlb52umg6v3ch44yd.onion/). I don't know if there's anything better though, but all public pirating sites seem to have the same stuff.

    • krolden@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      Torrentleech is your best bet for a easy to get into private tracker that is good quality. Lots of x265. You can also try iptorrents which is also quite easy to get into but the quality control is closer to TPB except they would probably delete malicious stuff.

      But if you're gonna do public trackers you should most definitely get a seedbox.

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Uh-huh. Wait till you realise that the 1080p streams you saved a decade ago have a higher file size, lower bitrate, and noticeable encoding artefacts. Compare that to the 1080p streams you can get from various cartoon sites today, and you shall see that you've bamboozled yourself!

    (I mean, you can just update your archive with newer higher quality stuff, but I need this moral grandstanding)

    • krolden@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      How is it moral to pay for a service that doesn't give you the option to buy a physical copy?

    • Librarian@lemm.ee
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      8 hours ago

      Would it still work with subtitles? My husband is deaf so if the comedy works a lot of with tone and stuff it wont work for us.

      Thanks for the suggestion though!

      • murmelade@lemmy.ml
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        6 hours ago

        Hmm it's not very "haha funny," it's more the vibe of it and the charm lies in his mundane but interesting demeanor. Watch a clip on YouTube and you'll see what I mean. I have no idea how deafness would affect the experience, I'm sorry.

    • Librarian@lemm.ee
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      9 hours ago

      Most of them had between 5-50 active seeders, the majority around 20.

      I’ll wait and see. I’m in no rush anyways.

        • Zorothamya [she/her, he/him]
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          3 hours ago

          Do you need open them? I'm using Deluge and it is able to leech and seed, only having to wait at most 1 minute for data to come through. I remember having problems with Transmission (the torrent client) though.

          And I also imagine it's likely not an option to open ports, as most people are behind a CNAT (unless maybe the adoption of IPv6 by many ISPs (not mine) changed that?)

          • krolden@lemmy.ml
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            2 hours ago

            It can work but your will not connect to very many of the available seeds which is probably why op is sitting on 0% torrents with ~20 seeds.

            Your client may also be configured to use upnp