Looking for shows I can fall asleep too with my husband.

The little stuff we did watch in the past couple years was through the easy streaming sites. But those are always prone to missing episodes and random glitches so I thought getting back into torrenting would be fun.

Sidenote: if I remember correctly, its quite normal for some torrents to take a couple hours before a seeder turns up, right?

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    Man, I gave up on torrenting. I can’t figure out how to keep my ISP from seeing it and every time I try, I get a threatening email. They don’t give a shit about Soulseek, apparently, so at least I have my music.

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      Use a VPN? If you’re using containers, you can bind qbittorrent to gluetun to prevent leaks

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        I used a VPN (Proton) and it didn’t do shit. I am not using containers because I’m not even sure what that is, what it does, or how it works, and I’ve never heard of gluetun. I need instructions. Not a fucking manual to try to sort through and figure out. Not vague names of things I may or may not be able to find through a search engine Instructions. A tutorial. Something. Shit’s gotten way too convoluted since I last torrented over almost 20 years ago.

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          If you’re using proton and your isp found out, something is configured wrong or working incorrectly. (or user error 😢)

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            Honestly, I’ve come to seriously dislike Proton. Yeah, it’s cool they don’t log any data, but they’re starting the ai shit and their fucking UPGRADE NOW shit everywhere just because I use the free email (I have literally zero use for any of the paid features). It’s commercializing and enshittifying rapidly.

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            I contacted Proton’s support and everything was configured correctly. My ISP is Verizon (I don’t have a choice) and they’re the kind of fucks that would do deep packet sniffing, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s why.

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              They shouldn’t be able to see anything except encrypted wireguard traffic. Are you sure all torrent-related traffic is going through the VPN (e.g. requests to indexers) and that traffic stops flowing when the VPN connection drops?

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                Yeah, it was the stand-alone app, not the browser extension. When it’s on, everything goes through it.

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                  Have you verified that? I would start by checking (with wireshark) for any non-wireguard traffic coming from your machine

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    Are you aware of your operating system’s ability to screenshot?

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    I usually have 4 torrentleech invites that go to waste every month, hmu if you want one. All I ask is you dont hit n run.

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    couple hours? oftentimes a torrent with zero seeders is as good as dead, and a seeder might show up in days or weeks, most times never. best to find another torrent. also, and this is just a personal preference it’s worth the download time to kick it up a notch to 1080.

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      it’s worth the download time to kick it up a notch to 1080

      In general? Yes, 100%. For cartoons on a small screen? Debatable.

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      That is one of the reasons why I relay on usenent rather then on torrenting

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      It doesn’t hurt to keep the torrent running if you can’t find another source. There is still a very small chance that someone will seed it eventually. I’ve had stuff download after waiting for months.

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      Would it still work with subtitles? My husband is deaf so if the comedy works a lot of with tone and stuff it wont work for us.

      Thanks for the suggestion though!

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        I think it might work. A lot of what Joe Pera does is sort of deadpan humor anyway, so part of the joke is lack of tone or emotion. His voice is very calming because he’s sort of monotone.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSUilYKcRMA

        Here is a link to the full episode of “Joe Pera Talks You Back to Sleep” which is a beautiful episode. Give it a shot and see what you think. The autogenerated closed captioning available on this episode seems mostly accurate to me. DVD copies have great subtitles, not sure about digital variants.

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        Hmm it’s not very “haha funny,” it’s more the vibe of it and the charm lies in his mundane but interesting demeanor. Watch a clip on YouTube and you’ll see what I mean. I have no idea how deafness would affect the experience, I’m sorry.

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      I’ll never stop being sad it got cancelled. I wear my Tree TV sweatshirt with pride.

      Dr. Katz Professional Therapist is also in that wheelhouse of quiet, calm, and sweet. It also features H. Jon Benjamin of Bob’s Burgers fame.

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      Honestly I’m at the point where I just rent the discs and rip them losslessly (BDMV for movies, MKV for TV shows).

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      Most of them had between 5-50 active seeders, the majority around 20.

      I’ll wait and see. I’m in no rush anyways.

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        It could be that your torrent program is firewalled, and unable to fully connect to all sharing peers.

        If you’re using qBittorrent, to display the Status Bar, go to the menu item View > (check the box for) Status Bar

        The Status Bar should appear a the bottom.

        Just right of center, there should be an icon where if you hover your mouse over it, tells you your Connection Status, i.e. whether you’re connected or firewalled.

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        Some trackers don’t update seeder info on the web page. Another possible reason is you are behing cgnat and most (all) of the peers are behind it as well, so you just can’t connect with each other.

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    Uh-huh. Wait till you realise that the 1080p streams you saved a decade ago have a higher file size, lower bitrate, and noticeable encoding artefacts. Compare that to the 1080p streams you can get from various cartoon sites today, and you shall see that you’ve bamboozled yourself!

    (I mean, you can just update your archive with newer higher quality stuff, but I need this moral grandstanding)

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      How is it moral to pay for a service that doesn’t give you the option to buy a physical copy?

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        I’m not saying it is. I’m saying you lose on quality with archived rips.