some private trackers won’t let you use uTorrent either, good.
If they would support a client like Rain I would actually switch to the *arr stack.
Don’t need to support every client, if the client supports folder monitor you can use blackhole
I’ll be the one: use rtorrent
Why rtorrent vs QBittorrent?
Why torrent when you can use newsgroups? No need to seed, just download and done. Haven’t torrented for 10 years.
Don’t you need to pay to be able to get access?
Depends on how much you download. You can pay a once-off payment for a block of data and it lasts indefinitely. I’ve got a 5TB block I’ve had for over 10 years.
Yes, but not a massive amount. I pay annually and it works out to about $7-8 a month for 50mbps of bandwidth and unlimited downloads. Then use *arr apps and sabnzbd to manage everything.
I mean it’s completely valid if you find that to be a better deal than torrenting, but I can use my full 500 mbps bandwidth for free.
It depends on how you look at it.
You pay for your internet. Isn’t that you paying to pirate?
If it is then it’s only a factor of cost. He pays slightly more for Usenet access and internet access and then he pirates.
If it’s not then it’s not a factor of cost and it’s only a factor of pedantism.
I need to have access to the Internet anyway. In fact, having it makes me a decent amount of money. You could say it costs me negative several thousand euros a month. Piracy or scrolling Lemmy is a bonus.
Getting Usenet means additional cost, but the only benefit is piracy. Therefore, it’s paying to pirate.
So you pay for piracy
Pay a subscription to watch subscription content for free!
I mean, I don’t use the service but, $7-8 a month that gives you access to everything versus 14 to $16 a month per streaming service on everything else. It sounds like they’re still getting a steal at a more convenient rate.
Being said, yeah there is plenty of free options that could be being done as well so there is that argument
Yes? If I could get everything in one place then I would happily pay for that. I don’t pirate to save money. Saving money is just a nice sideeffect. I pirate because it’s literally more convenient than juggling 15 different services.
Damn, I don’t know the context but this is cool af
if I still downloaded directly to my local drive, I’d use utorrent BUT only the 2.2.1 version. it’s been at least 4 years since I’ve done that due to a lack of having a functional laptop so I’ve been out of downloading stuff that way for years, but even then I knew that modern utorrent was bad. I actually stopped using any new version once bittorrent bought it.
Transmission has never let me down.
My only gripe was that it doesn’t handle (unencoded) spaces in a URL name, which is probably correct behavior but they’re in the titles of torrents on some sites, so I’d have to manually edit them each time. I ended up just using qBT.
It doesn’t have a proper dark theme in Windows so it let me down when it flashbanged me.
It gets messed up when downloading files onto a slow smb share but that’s mostly my bad
Its Single-threaded
True. Sometimes it’s weird about packed files, and cleaning up after itself. Still worth it.
Has anyone even used uTorrent in the last decade?
i still see it in my peers list
you would not believe how common it is. It’s like making a class of highschoolers take a colorblindness test. There’s always ONE who had no idea
sidenote, it’s really sad how the education system won’t even spend 10 minutes a year to diagnose something that effects millions of children. There’s FREE websites that they can just open on their board or projector
I used 2.2.1 well into the last decade. Every version after that was either pointless or full of some sort of malware.
I remember on Reddit I’d see like a post a month from some uneducated pirate person asking how to fix a utorrent issue. It was fun watching them try to justify using it with all the other legit, updated clients. It didn’t ever go well for the OP.
I mean if they want to use it despite being told the state of things then who cares? There’s nothing to win here, it’s their pc
I couldn’t care less if someone on the internet harms their pc because they want to be right 100% of time
lol, true dat. It was fun fucking with them too
I’ve always used Transmission, since there’s a Docker container I use that bakes in your VPN-of-choice & a killswitch.
https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/
That said, it looks like it hasn’t been updated in over a year… I wonder if there’s anything else out there that does the same thing as this. (EDIT: Yes. Google brings up plenty of choices.)
I switched from that container to one that uses qbittorrent and a VPN.
qBittorrent web UI works better on a phone for my use case, and I kept having to manually restart the transmission container whenever the VPN connection dropped.
I run qBittorrent on a server (with a VPN as the only outside connection) and use an open source app to control it from my mobile devices. It can catch magnet: links and torrent files and send them to qBittorrent via its API.
You can set qBittorrent to only use a certain interface, and set that to the wireguard interface of your VPN.
I was never a huge fan of those binhex containers assuming that’s what you’re using. Updates become a chore for maintainers when containers try to do too much and they also become responsible for making sure everything works together. Also, just me, but I don’t like the idea of funneling other traffic that needs a vpn through a container that is tightly coupled to my torrent client.
Recommend trying a standalone transmission container and using a gluetun container’s network. https://docker-compose.de/en/gluetun/
I been using Transmission since it came out 20 years ago. I never understood why you would use anything else.
It’s FOSS and has the simplest interface with all the options.
Throughout the years I’ve seen so many of these apps get mass-adopted, then a few years later some issue comes up that makes people mass-exodus to another app and it starts all over again.
Meanwhile, Transmission has been consistent (and you can self-host/run seedboxes with it).
Only a decade late… Luckily qBittorrent is brilliant.
To be fair, if you set up a Servar stack, you should already know enough not to use utorrent.
There’s a migration program to transfer torrents from utorrent to qbittorrent.
https://forum.qbittorrent.org/viewtopic.php?t=3224
I remember using it way back when, and they’ve kept it updated.
Isn’t it as simple as exporting all torrents as
.torrentfiles, importing them in qB, then pointing qB to the same downloads folder?Some people have torrents across various directories or even renamed files in them (yes, it’s possible and useful for crossseeding between trackers with different naming schemes). Of course, this makes migration way more difficult.
ruTorrent)))
I thought people either used the old 2.2.1 version or jumped ship. Had no idea it was still going.
Same, I was under the impression that this was fairly common knowledge, but it’s good to have it openly announced by some authority on the matter.
If uTorrent has no haters, I am dead
uTorrent’s brand recognition is crazy, it’s been crap for years and it still the name people who don’t torrrent often recognize.
Nice change, good to steer the novices away from that junk.It’s so ubiquitous that for about a second I thought wait what I thought that was the good one until I remembered that I’ve been using qBittorrent for a decade.
For a time, it just was the client.
