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LocustOfControl
LocustOfControl @ LocustOfControl @reddthat.com
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Switched from uTorrent to QBitTorrent

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  • I do miss that really detailed block download page, but that's only cos I'd watch it instead of doing something useful with my life.

    • Why are so many people downloading the movie Paul all of a sudden?

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  • Perhaps some Youtube's done a video on it... I feel like I've seen a headline or link saying something like "Why Paul is underrated" recently.

    I didn't know there was an extended version, do the extra 6 minutes add anything? Maybe not

    • Lemmy Recap - See your stats for the past year

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  • I'll take "Artisan"!

    • Announcing the beginning of OpenCracks! Safe and open cracks for everyone

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    • Some good news from the UK: London cycling numbers go wild | London Cycling Campaign

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  • It could be that it's more normalised, or that post-Covid people don't want to share public transport as much.

    Whatever the reason, it's good news as the more cyclists there are, the more that planners will have to take them into account - making it easier for more to become cyclists. Let's just hope the momentum continues to fuel this virtuous cycle.

    • What number is in parentheses?

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  • Good question. I assume it's DHT delivering peers that aren't in the tracker(s), or maybe a problem with the tracker(s).

    The format's "# connected (# total)" in every client I've seen.

    • Uhhh oh

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  • I'm out of the loop here, what's this about?

    • Question regarding ripping dvds (yes DVDs)

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  • Handbrake isn't recommended any more? That's what I'd used for my ripping. By original quality, you mean extracting the the mpeg-2 or just that Handbrake did bad transcoding?

    • And that's why you shouldn't pirate kids.

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  • Unless you want engagement! 90% of these comments are about the missing comma.

    • Is there a way for me to seed movies that I have downloaded in the past but deleted the torrent for those movies?

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  • If you have all the original, unedited files you downloaded (this might mean multi-part rar archives) can either point your BT client at the location or move/copy them to where your client expects them.
    I tend to add the torrent making sure it doesn't start, do a manual recheck to check it's working as expected, then start the torrent.

    If you have main file(s) only e.g. .mkv but not the .nfo and there are other seeders you can do the same as above and it'll re-download - so in my example the block that contains the .nfo along with some of the .mkv will be downloaded. I tend to copy the files over, just in case but I don't think that's actually ever been necessary for me.

    Another option is to have the file you care about and have the SRR file to restore the files to the downloaded state - adding .nfo files but it can also put the files back into those annoying rar archives. This way you can be the only seeder without having too many extra files hanging around. These are quite rare though.

    • Uber paid 58 Australians $1350 to have One Less Car

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  • It's a study. People are normally paid to participate in studies because otherwise no-one would bother doing them.

    It's not meant to change the city overnight, it's a study to test how people's behaviours change if they reduce the number of cars they own, which is what we want (ideally to zero, of course).

    In summary, IT'S A STUDY.

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  • Yup, this is me with scp. Well, it would be if I didn't just use asterisks to avoid that PITA.

    • Uber paid 58 Australians $1350 to have One Less Car

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  • I don't think you read the article. The data shows that walking and cycling went up massively, as well as increasing public transport use. This is good, and the article as a whole politely makes points compatible with this comm.

    • Do i need an pirate hat to enter a torrent?

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  • Those rules be more of a guideline though.

    • Hide news websites that won't let you read the article without paying

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  • If you're using Kagi, you can rewrite paywalled sites to automatically search on an archive site. Maybe searx or similar has the same functionality?

    • The other day, a giant bottle of Omega-3 tablets fell on my head.

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  • This mods need to pin this shining example of awful dad humour.

    • Some instances have gone down recently, does anyone know why?

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  • I see that the admin came back and now there's a few admins there and all is well 👍

    More an update for others, since I expect you already know!

    • Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.3 and Development Update 2023-10-20

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  • Looks good, but this bit made me raise an eyebrow or two:

    Powerful Mod Tools

    This is patently false - the like of Beehaw are thinking of moving off of Lemmy because the moderation toolset's almost non-existent and the devs don't seem to think it's important.

    • Well I feel better now.

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  • I can't believe that there's never been anyone that didn't make that mistake. Probably not enough to justify keeping a counter dedicated to it though...

    • A better Revanced

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  • There are plenty of projects that take donations/payments that don't make profit but stay afloat, normally through the team behind it paying the bills. I guess it depends what the running costs actually are, and if it's for people or e.g. servers.