uhhh people still be using torrents for movies and shows
I honestly don’t know how else to do it. I’m sure I could figure it out, but I don’t know why I’d fix what isn’t broken.
The meme suggests extensions. Lol. That’s an odd flex. Sounds manual and tedious as fuck compared to arr/sick rage/etc
“Move along grandma, your automobile is no good, we use camels”
camels sound based tho
Thats my attitude. Torrents have risks but so do random Russian streaming sites. By now I have it going with Jellyfin and *arr and I barely have to think about it
Torrents aren’t risky for movies as long as you don’t have “Hide file extensions” turned on. Unless someone’s wasting their zero-day video player exploit on you, which is unlikely, you wont find malware in an mp4 or mkv unless it’s actually an exe in disguise
nah, no way, absolutely not
I’d be fucking nervous to torrent a game tbh, or at least a game that runs on PC. Like I’m not as concerned about my hacked 3DS getting a virus but, to each their own I guess…
Also I basically only torrent anime/shows and music so far…
Gaming on Linux via Wine is great in that sense - not only is most Windows software not really designed to connect to the Linux side of things when running on top of an adapter layer like Wine/Proton (which are NOT emulators so don’t sandbox anything) but you have way better security tools and a kernel designed with it in mind in Linux, so for example you can actually start your games inside a proper sandbox like Firejail to block it from accessing stuff outside the wine instance directory.
On the other hand, forget about all the nice automated configuration scripts that just make the Windows game seamlessly install and work in Linux when installing a pirated repack: you have to actually understand how Wine and Wine-tricks works as you’re likely to have to dig through logs of a game that’s not running to figure out which DLLs are missing from the wine instance and install them yourself.
“Free converters” FFmpeg came out in 2000 come on
Yeah the viruses live in these wacko extensions y’all are using now
What do you mean dbz_episode_001.exe is a virus?? I got it directly from limewire dumbass.
I actually never got a virus from torrenting back in the day. I never could understand why everyone got viruses and why people could never get software packages to work by reading the instructions. People would say “this doesn’t work.” I’d install and it would work the first time I tried. Seemed like all software torrents had the same stupid comments with perfectly good wares.
The only viruses I ever got were on irc warez (pretty harmless too). I got smart enough by the time torrents came around. lol
*LimeWire
Hijacking the thread. Does anyone know how to block exe and scr downloads in Sonarr?
Go into your torrent client like qbittorrent settings and you can enter unwanted extensions, *.scr, *.exe, etc. Same if you use a usenet downloader like sabnzbd or nzbget. Then if sonarr or radarr attempt to download an unwanted extension your torrent downloader will not download it.
Back in my day we had usenet communities without viruses and with high speeds and privacy, which still works great. These days we have it fully automated so every new episode or newly released movie is downloaded in the preferred format and language, with subtitles, which is all extracted, renamed and moved to the right folders while kodi keeps track of everything newly added and what is already watched.
