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[โ€“] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Getright was my choice for years, until it decided to scrap an entire 600MB iso I had downloaded over 56k, and start over. Getright pissing me off was thebmain reason why I got pretty good at perl 25 years ago - I decided to write my own download manager.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a villain origin story

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I'm not denying anything

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Where my download accelerator plus gang at

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

What a blast from the past! Totally forgot that these were a thing lol.