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Have 4K TV show torrents entirely disappeared from public trackers? in c/[email protected]

/kbin Translations in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can locales of languages with alternate spellings be added? (i.e. English - United States, English - United Kingdom, etc.)

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Option to put thread comment box above existing comments? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As scrolling to the bottom of the page to leave a comment can be a hassle on posts with lots of existing comments, an option to put the thread comment box above existing comments would be helpful.

If people are going to migrate to Kbin or Lemmy from Reddit, given the substantial downsides in doing so for the average Reddit user when comparing community user counts, minimizing differences — or at least giving users the option to do so themselves — might be helpful. While I wouldn't rejoin Reddit even if there weren't any alternatives, it would certainly be great if the alternatives had even a tenth the number of active communities Reddit still has.

To that effect, it would also helpful if there were a toggle to automatically upvote one's own posts and comments.

/kbin Issues in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Too many posts weren't federating with kbin so I had to make a lemmy account to avoid missing comments from non-kbin communities, so hopefully the federation issues get fixed at some point.

So, what's the status on the update? (edit: ernest responded) in c/[email protected]

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

Liberapay doesn't appear to support PayPal, but Patreon does.

‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people using Reddit for its data have the easiest time scraping it for its data since they don't need API access to post, comment, or moderate; it's unfortunate that Reddit management continues to degrade the experience of the average user just to make it slightly harder for that scraping to occur.

🎂 The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary [TorrentFreak] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't the current TPB distinct from the original; made to look the same, but run by different people?

FYI: DrunkenSlug Is Taking Registrations Again in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a private usenet indexer that periodically opens registrations; essentially the usenet equivalent of a private torrent tracker like TorrentLeech.

best approach for less popular tv shows (edu / competitions)? usenet? something else? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Problem with PBS is that each of their releases has an availability time limit, making finding their older content at optimal resolutions difficult.

best approach for less popular tv shows (edu / competitions)? usenet? something else? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Have you found a private tracker that works well for documentaries? I've tried TorrentLeech, FileList, MVGroup, and usenet so far, but my to-find list still has several releases I have yet to find in 1080p (despite most such documentaries having released since 2010). MVGroup is the best tracker for documentaries I've found so far, but they tend to upload lots of documentaries a tier below their optimal resolutions (ie 2160p documentaries in 1080p and 1080p documentaries in 720p).

Do you store all your media? And how? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Given only 24Mbps of download speed split between everything in one household, keeping things likely to be rewatched backed up not only saves bandwidth, but also makes having a 4K TV somewhat worthwhile.

Is Ratio Cheating prevalent on private trackers? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Having only 4 Mbps up and 24 Mbps down, without Freeleech building a buffer would have been impossible, particularly when competing to seed torrents with people with faster internet speeds. In the case of TorrentLeech, the best option is to invest ~2GB of your buffer into downloading and seeding 100 10MB+ torrents, giving you 4 TL points per hour. In combining the gradual point gain with the rewards of the easily attainable TL achievements, after a month you should be able to accumulate 5000 points, enough to purchase 100GB of additional buffer from the TL marketplace.

Reddit had/has a plan to block mobile browsers in favor of their app in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

'But they pinky promised that they wouldn't!' -Reddit users after the 30th, probably

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Fixing new desktop Steam UI (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As I'm not a fan of the new Steam UI, I added the -vgui launch parameter to Steam on my laptop to revert the UI to how it was before. As trying to do this on the Steam Deck in desktop mode told me I didn't have sufficient permissions, I tried it again after using Konsole to take ownership of the Steam shortcut, however even then my attempts to add -vgui to the Arguments tab of the shortcut's properties are not being saved. Does anyone know how to make Steam launch with the old UI in desktop mode on the Steam Deck (without using Windows)?

Edit: Figured out how to do it. If you open the Steam shortcut (.desktop file) on the desktop in KWrite and go to Line 30, you'll find the shortcut's launch parameters. Adding -vgui to the end of that line and saving the edit fixed the issue despite the same modification made via the Properties window not doing so. If it still doesn't save, you might need need to take ownership of that shortcut file via Konsole using 'sudo chown deck:deck /home/deck/Desktop/steam.desktop', though try without the sudo command first.