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You must have big hands if you can grope a mastodon!

(In all seriousness youtube “command line basics” or “bash basics” and follow along with a video or two like it’s a class, helped me when I ditched windows.)


The idea of you needing a “special” program just for downloading a file seems to throw some of them off.

Just call it an “app,” that’ll shut 'em up.




I would. Anyone can look at your profile and see “your” IP, I just prefer if that isn’t actually mine. That said, get a VPN with port forwarding if possible.


Hell I’d probably just make “comics-list.txt” and just manually list them. Not individually probably, but like

Action Comics - #1 CGC 9.9
Batman (2nd) - 404-407
Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees - A (complete), B (complete), ashcan.
Creepshow (1st) - 1D, 2-5A
Creepshow (2nd) - 1-2A, 3C, 4-5A
Creepshow (3rd) - 1A 
Earthworm Jim - #1

Or something to that effect.



I really just hate the UI and everything about it, plus google. I guess I’m just used to firefox really since I’ve used it iirc since before chrome existed (I remember being invited to gmail it was so new, I’m old lol.) I use mullvad and librewolf, but I could install stock firefox still for i2p.


Frankly I’d prefer it to be firefox based, since chrome is cancer and all. (Also I was under the impression it had to be firefox based, didn’t realize you could use chrome if you’re willing to install it. I don’t even want it ungoogled if possible tbh.)

Basically it just doesn’t seem to fit my workflow, I guess, unless I suppose I want to install chrome. Actually now that I say that, I use librewolf these days, I suppose I could just download regular Firefox and set it up for i2p permanently…hmmmm…maybe I will.


Yeah I can do it it’s just a pain in the ass to do it every install when I’m still mostly using the clearnet and have to change the browser settings back and forth every time I want to do the other thing. It’d be much easier for me if I could just launch “i2p browser” and be off to the races. Who knows, one day it may become imperative to use it if piracy is somehow stricken from the clearnet and then the work required becomes worth it for me, but as it stands now the effort required isn’t worth it for me yet.

I’d personally also like to see Jackett implement i2p tracker support so I could just use qbit’s search with the jackett plugin to search all the trackers I can at once, but idk if that’s even possible.


I’ve tried it a few times, back when Tails had it installed first, and then again a while later. I liked it but I do remember it being a pain to set up and having to have separate browser profiles and a bunch of mess, and qbit didn’t work with it yet so I had to have biglybt too.

Tbh I think it’d skyrocket if they’d release “their own browser” (which of course would just be firefox with i2p set up, like Tor). I seem to remember hearing something about them wanting to do that, too, so maybe?

I also seem to remember something about it being sort of slow but the longer you’re connected the better it gets or something? Which, cool, but I’m on a laptop, my uptime is nonexistent lol.

Some of this may have changed since I tried it last, definitely let me know. I’d love to get into it if I can tbh, I have usenet, slsk, a private tracker or two and all that, but more sources is always better, and last time I tried i2p I did find some shit I’d been looking for, but I just can’t be bothered to do all that mess to get it running just to barely use it, then do it all again every time I reinstall Fedora, I’d prefer a browser bundle.


VPNs for filesharing

I don’t think they actually can do that. There’s functionally no difference between VPNs for “not” pirating and VPNs “for” pirating, they’re all just VPNs.

It’s like saying they’ll ban 4 door sedans for drug buying, they can’t because they’re functionally the same as “4 door sedans for driving to work.” You literally cannot tell, if you see a guy driving an accord down the street, if that guy is on the way to work or on the way to buy coke. Similarly you cannot tell, if you see VPN traffic, what that guy is doing.

I may be wrong, but I don’t think they actually can do that. They’d have to ban all VPNs even for legitimate use, and the corporations that bribe our politicians use them. They could maybe pressure like Nord and Express to report pirates but mullvad will still be there.


Paid research papers - Maybe, and that’d be kinda nice if it happened.

Games - Nah that’ll continue on as it has, some get cracked and some don’t, it is what it is.

Movies - No way. Torrents and Usenet have been here for how long now? They’ll be around for longer than any other methods. Frankly this applies to everything, but especially movies.

Music - Ironically the only form of piracy I almost did watch die. Nobody was doing it really for a few years there because spotify was “just so convenient” but then they thankfully shit the bed and now it’s back in a BIG way.

Books - It’ll be another game of whack-a-mole. Those three go down more will pop up (though I hope those three just stay up!) There’s also IRC to pirate books from, too, and those have been running for like 30yr.

Applications - This is dangerous as hell, you guys have fun I guess. Imma be over here using FOSS.

Android apps - Not the safest either really, but there are packs of them on private torrent trackers that’ll continue for a long while still.

News - Yeah paywalls are a bitch, sometimes you can kill em with UbO, sometimes they’ve been archived for free on archive, this is honestly the hard one here.

Porn - Fat chance. Idk what you’re talking about with the "porn piracy scene being small,” there are so many torrent sites both private and free and of course don’t forget Usenet, and even sites dedicated to leaking camgirl footage. Maybe it just seems small because even pirates can be embarrassed about porn lol, but trust me there’s plenty!

Sure, indexers can be taken down, like RARBG. So you can share torrent files on slsk (I’ve downloaded some rarbg torrents from there after rarbg’s collapse), or another site can pop up and host them either on the clearnet or on i2p. Torrenting may go somewhere technically speaking, but that “somewhere” isn’t “away forever” it’s simply “another domain, at worst i2p.”




Wait really? What’s the site, just go to microsoft.com or something with linux and it redirects you? That’s hilariously petty but also useful lmao.


I’ve seen many a ROM be SuperMarioBros3.exe just straight up, but never .nes.exe so idk if that counts.


He’s right, usenet isn’t p2p, but finding old movies there can be a challenge. Still, I manage just fine for old movies with ipt and tl for the most part, or the rare thing I can only find on soulseek of all places. Archive actually has a bunch too.


Even then I still don’t think you could stop it. Maybe put a dent in it by taking down sites that host them, but all that’ll do really is push indexers onto .onion or i2p, or make it so you share the torrent files by word of mouth or matrix/telegram groups, or back to IRC.


Torrents and usenet my dude. Unless you’re looking for something real specific like Brazilian balloon popper fart porn, you’ll find something.


*Software: Idk, never really messed with pirating software, that’s how you become part of someone’s botnet.

*Movies and TV shows: Torrents and Usenet.

*Adult Content: Torrents and Usenet.

*Music: Slsk and yt-dlp.


Look into installing jackett too and then use the jackett plugin with the qbit search, better than stock qbit search plugins.




Hijacking to ask a semi related question, does protonvpn support port forwarding on linux yet? Last I checked I heard no, but airvpn has been less than optimal.


cell and internet are out but power isn’t

Though true, phones can also go down, I believe the point would be redundancy in case X works but Y does not. Though as someone else mentioned HAM is a better solution anyway, I need to finally get my technician’s license.



Landlines also still work if cell and internet are out but power isn’t in an emergency, which I’d bet is why she wants the landline lol.



'Course, that wouldn’t stop the FSB from implying or outright threatening it, nor possibly iCarlson believing the death threats to be real especially given their track record of defenestration. That would effectively accomplish the same goal.




True, and a knife is an effective tool for cutting, the problem comes in when one decides instead of shooting some paper or cutting a steak, they shoot or cut a person (excluding legal self defense ofc, that’s fine).


Oh yeah that’s way out of my wheelhouse too lol. Hopefully someone online has or posts a video on fixing it (or at least a similar table with the same issue)!



If you’re on linux use yt-dlp, it’s the tits, works on bandcamp too. If you’re on windows - they may have a win version, idk, check though because it rules.

Can’t answer the other question though, sorry.



Wait then why does nicotine+ have a button when I right click on a peer, “users>Show IP Address,” which returns “IP address of user [REDACTED] is [REDACTED], port 40447 (CA/Canada)” (In case you’re wondering, I’m the one that redacted it. I’m looking at my most recent peer’s info).


“Need” no, but I would. I don’t like exposing my real IP to peers, idk them, and my ISP doesn’t need to know a GODDAMN thing.


I will just stop using youtube (unless necessary and I deal with the ads the 2x monthly I use it for “how to replace radiator 2002 camry” or similar) before I pay them.