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[–] [email protected] 139 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a better way (sorry for reddit link)

All the Mythbusters episodes will all the fluff removed.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

This is awesome, and also, I'm impressed someone posted a magnet link on Reddit of all places and hasn't been taken down

[–] ElderWendigo 1 points 1 year ago

Better? Yeah, the fluff is gone, but I've seen better quality streaming from a potato.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I just have a "channel" on my plex (I use DizqueTV to setup the fake TV channel) that has a random continuous playlist of Mythbusters, Top gear + all the spinoffs and classic specials, Junkyard wars, classic robot wars, etc etc..

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

DizqueTV you say.... Onto the high seas to look for more info and understand what this is and why I need it...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

its just an app you run next to plex that lets you make fake TV channels with your own content. good for those "I don't know what to watch" times where you just want to click a button and shut your brain off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another one is ErsatzTV. They allow you to create your own 'TV channels' based on stuff in your library.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have been looking for high-quality video of Junkyard Wars for years. I found one torrent once of like 320x240 rips of a singe season. It's miserable.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

yea, sadly a lot of shows from those times were never released on decent formats, so all we have are poor broadcast rips, some of them from VHS, and occasionally a DVD encode made in 2003.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

There's a 65 GB pack on archive.org

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There is a complete pack of Junkyard wars / scrapheap challenge, but most of it is pretty poor quality, even the later seasons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Holy shit this a game changer! My man thank you!!

[–] ItsaB3AR 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So glad torrents don’t have region lock 👍

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If anything, torrents have a region boost. Provided no one has servers or seedboxes set up, you're going to benefit hugely from seeders near your location.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Hot seeders in your local area, they want your bandwidth. Leech now!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sure they don't. Just be aware that if you're using public trackers you can appear here, as some of the peers track the IPs that appear in the swarms:
https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why Jesus invented VPNs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Corkyskog 12 points 1 year ago

Swell guys they are. Although Jesus could have done without leaving behind his cult... they have been awfully destructive throughout history...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe we determined that Jesus invented Buddha and Buddha invented VPNs. So, by extension we could say without Jesus, there would be no VPNs. Also, no corn chips.

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

so it is settled!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh no! Anyway...

Edit: checked the IP of my seedbox and about 75% of the entries listed aren't valid. Weird.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

But also don't panic out thinking someone on your network might have been torrenting weird stuff as you may just be behind CG-NAT or have dynamically assigned IP address.
If you do have static public IP, consider the possibility of someone using your wireless connection without permission (even if you changed the password, don't forget to disable WPS PIN, or at the very least change it from default PIN, it's easy to forget about).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

This is awesome. I'm looking at all the stuff my VPN mates are downloading and they have good taste.

[–] Bakkoda 4 points 1 year ago

If you have ever connected to a DHT network your address will be associated with more things than you can count. I've been running a DHT indexer/crawler and that page shows me shit I've never seen before in my life

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What even are the reasons to lock content behind living in a specific part of the world? That shit is stupid.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

International rates vs domestic, if I had to guess.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also licensing deals can be country-specific

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

there should be a wordwide fair trade pact

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Dude, trade between countries is extremely difficult and complicated. There isn't a world wide set trade for anything.

You'd think there could be, but it's just not realistic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

The gap is too wide to agree, even between europe and the US there is a radically opposite stance between pro- and anti-consumer rights.

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

It would be like the Trans Pacific Partnership, strengthening IP and DRM.

[–] can 8 points 1 year ago

This is the reason.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Licensing deals usually.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Next time get high after doing the troubleshooting ;)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Strange, it works just fine with Stremio with Torrentio and Real Debrid 🤔

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I sometimes use stremio + torrentio and it works great. What does real debrid add to the setup?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Less buffering mainly. I can stream anything 4K and never have buffering issues.

Not needing a VPN is a bonus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Exactly, I'd like to add that the catalogue is outstanding and it pretty much humiliates all the other legal streaming sites, even its interface is better than other apps (like Prime Video).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ran into this last night abroad too. Took me 10 mins to watch what I wanted anyway. Stupid.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use surfshark vpn with hulu. It works great.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

ProtonVPN and network bind interface with qbittorrent. It works great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I live in Australia. I used to pay for hulu ages ago, using a US credit card, but then they stopped me from using it .So the way i see it, if they don't want my money, then i won't give it to them. That's when i started pirating.