• @emhl@feddit.de
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    531 year ago

    if you snatch a popular torrent that is fine but with dying torrents that is quite harmful

    • @Jenoki@lemmy.mlOP
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      111 year ago

      I’m considering getting a seedbox because with my current storage setup, and my unwillingness to keep the vpn up all the time 2.0 is the best I can do.

      • Osa-Eris-Xero512
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        141 year ago

        This was annoying me too, and I solved it by spinning out a VM that exists just to run qbittorrent and the vpn connection.

        • @Fisch@lemmy.ml
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          41 year ago

          I use Gluetun for that. It’s a docker container that sets up the VPN and qBittorrent in two containers and routes all traffic from qBittorrent through the VPN.

      • Rustmilian
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        1 year ago

        If there’s no one left to seed, the torrent dies. Seeding back at least 200% ensures the torrent stays healthy.

        • @ZeroEcks@lemmy.ml
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          01 year ago

          Sometimes you need to seed back more than 200% because the other two people might not be able to seed it back. I would generally not set a limit

          • Rustmilian
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            1 year ago

            True, but as a minimum you should be doing 200%.
            Also in a ideal scenario that 200% would be spread out to a lot more people then just 2.