Imagine: pirating ebooks but donating money to the author at the same time. Win win.

Can you actually download a torrent without seeding it?

I think it’s related to the number of open connections. If you have 100+ torrents you’re going to have a lot of open connections to leeches, so your new downloads will have to wait for slots to open.

You could fix it by setting all of your seeding torrents as low priority, so your new normal-priority downloads will start.

Is there an easy way to permaseed in qBittorent?

Exactly. There’s little point in keep seeding popular torrents on public trackers (it’s a different story for private trackers though).

But if you have a rare torrent that has been difficult to complete, please please keep seeding it for as much as possible!

I think Lemmy should display a simple warning on sign-up that everything you post on the fediverse can’t be reasonably ever deleted, because it’s going to be shared to possibly infinite different parties.

Yeah, that’s what I also wonder. Lemmy is still too small to attract any attention from regulators, but I wonder how the GDPR would work with federation.

There are some differences with normal social media though: every instance is managed by different people, so in theory you would have to ask every federated instance for your data to be deleted.

Or, maybe, posting on the fediverse may be compared to spreading pamphlets with your messages to many different people; you can’t expect a reasonable way to “recall” everything you shared with the public.

I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer. But it’s going to be interesting. Meta, in the meantime, decided not to risk it at all and their fediverse integration just doesn’t work in the EU.

Probably a new smart way to force sell you printer ink.

P.S. buy a Brother printer instead

Yeah, that’s sad, but in this case the product itself squashed the startup, not HP.

Yes, me too. My phone is always silent and with Do Not Disturb on. Only few family contacts can get through, and only with a phone call.

I don’t even know what’s the sound of the notifications of my phone. It’s blissful.

Explain more, what is this pink stick? I’m out of the loop.

I stopped pirating altogether thanks to Spotify, Netflix and Steam.

But now I’ve cancelled Netflix and I have a 24 TB NAS filled with movies

If you’re not a native English speaker, you could try joining an instance that speaks your language, for example.

That’s easily fixable by using a third-party app such as Voyager (or on the web on wefwef.app)

I miss those times when you actually had to learn a lot of things before being able to write stuff on the internet.

I agree with you, but at the same time if there aren’t enough users, small and niche sublemmys will never grow and have enough content to be interesting.

They’ve been recently bought by Automattic (WordPress), so this doesn’t surprise me. I wouldn’t have expected it if they were still owned by their previous owner though.

I love enabling the display of the instance of other users. It lets you realize how many small and niches instances are out there!

Good :) welcome back!

Wow, great. Maybe we’ll have a stable 3.0 version by 2027.