Awesome! Thank you so much.

Slackware. 1993.

I’m old lol.

Been through:

Slackware

Mandrake

Debian

Ubuntu

Redhat , old and new

Fedora

Arch

Knoppix

Pop!

CentOS

Enlightenment

Etc etc…

Right now I’m living on KDE Neon.

Spicy flavor represent!

I don’t use it anymore myself, but a small cost nntp service and the Arr stacks automate away the piece hunting for the most part.

I’d recommend looking over things at this link for an idea on the tools. They are great and take most of the pain out of all this. It’s all open source as well.

https://wiki.servarr.com/

You would still want to find an indexer (like a tracker but for Usenet information on what files to grab) and a Usenet service, but I’ve been away from that side long enough I’d suggest getting suggestions on those from someone else.

It sounds like perhaps torrents aren’t the right solution for you. Perhaps invest in a newsgroup service instead?

You can argue what makes more sense to you as much as you like, but things work just fine for many of us.

And as to the past month or so:

That’s without the credit system, but using those same torrents that you expect to just sit on. I don’t use autobrr or anything like that, just basics like sonarr etc.

Most private trackers now implement a credit system that rewards for making seed available as well. Even without users downloading from you, you accrue credit just for keeping it alive and available.

If you are impatient, this won’t really help, but it works well enough if you actually plan to join the community instead of hit and run.

Swim swim hungry!

… Stupid fish.

Spent a week and a half after a colorectal surgery, basically laying in the tub trying to sleep as much as I could while occasionally changing out the water to warm it or flush clear blood that had accumulated.

The US healthcare system is a fucking joke.

That’s assuming he doesn’t have a blonde from Fox reading it to him

He’d be angry at you if he could read that

She tells him she’s in church, but she doesn’t go. Now she’s on her knees and…

MMMM HMMM

I’m gonna have to start popping popcorn now too be ready when he drops that. Gonna need a metric ton of butter flavor too.

Ok that dude is hardcore.

That shit HAD to hurt like hell… for both of them.

Fuck you Bobby.

I’ve used them about a year and glad to see this kind of improvement. They are not perfect but still much better than the free options so far.

Only concern I’ve had has been around the AI stuff they are providing… So far it’s optional and a separate piece from the normal search. Time will tell there I suppose.

Suit yourself. They aren’t perfect but I find value in them so far.