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Lmao like I'm going to pay to steal shit. That's the gayest thing I ever heard of.
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Operation shrinkify continues on my totally obtained legally media collection, but just the parts I care less about. Re-encoding not-HEVC to HEVC.
585G hevc
1035G orig
60% of original size should free up 10TB or so, and the power use will be cheaper than more drives.
At about 2 days per TB, that's only another 2 months to go.
585G hevc
1035G orig
60% of original size should free up 10TB or so, and the power use will be cheaper than more drives.
At about 2 days per TB, that's only another 2 months to go.
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The exact reason I've procrastinated on doing this, myself.
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Are you using hardware decode/encode for the conversion? Much faster (than CPU), lower power draw, and on more modern GPUs/CPUs, the hardware encoders can be tuned to provide pretty nice output quality in most cases.
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Everything I've seen says "Don't bother using hardware." And my testing says the quality looked fine, but it wasn't actually shrinking nearly as much. I'm sure there's probably 58 more settings I could have tried, but software seems to be 'just working'.
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>torrent movie
>enjoy movie
>delete torrent
life good
>enjoy movie
>delete torrent
life good
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I do not understand this word.
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May as well stream at that point, no?
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Honestly, paying ~$20 a year for Usenet access is totally worth it. IP not publicly exposedn no seeding and everything is encrypted so you don't need a VPN. Complicated enough to set up that it keeps people away and it's not even talked about in the mainstream. Beautiful.
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Name a streaming site that doesn't buffer like hell.
I'm intrigued. Where would I start - are different newsgroups going to provide a better experience for one type of media vs another?
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Is there anything else on Usenet these days besides piracy? If there were still people posting then I'd be interested.
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That's not really paying to pirate, that's paying for access to a service, sort of like paying for a VPN isn't directly paying to pirate.
It's almost entirely dead. You might find a few highly xenophobic moderated newsgroups, but most unmoderated groups that get any traffic are undiluted schizoposting without anything remotely worthwhile. It actually makes current year 4chan look functional.
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So basically files are stored as posts of garbled text across Usenet. Where are these posts? That's where NZBs come in. An NZB is basically a set of instructions that tell you which Usenet posts to download, unencrypt and assemble into the file you want. You feed these NZBs into what's called binary newsreader such as SabNZB on your computer. These programs are generally open source, but only available for desktop operating systems such as Windows, Linus or Mac OS.
Where do you get NZBs? You get NZBs from an NZB search engine. Some are invite only and most have a nominal fee of $50 or so for a lifetime subscription. Most NZB search engines have an RSS feature, so you can leave your newsreader running on a desktop at home, add files to your queue from anywhere and your newsreader will download them for you.
In addition to all this, programs like SabNZB cannot download the files without a connection to a Usenet server, so you have to subscribe to a Usenet provider. There are lots of them and that offer unlimited bandwidth for $20-$30 annually. When that is set up, you have to save the ip address along with your username and password in your newsreader.
It's super fucking fast, way faster than torrents, and also much more secure with virtually no chance of legal repercussions as a downloader. However, the hour or so you have to dick around to set everything up, the annual fee for access and the lack of mobile apps keeps most people away. I think that's why Usenet seems to avoid the eye of Sauron, despite being one of the oldest ways to pirate shit.
Fair point.
You can make an account and explore all the non-binary shit that still gets posted on Usenet for free here. I set up an emergency Kiwi Farms backup group at one point when there was a thread where people where discussing where to congregate if this place got yanked down. I think is was free.homesteading.kiwis. No idea if anyone is posting there now, but there was some lone schizo posting there pretty frequently for a while bitching about Null. I haven't looked at it for years.
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That's most newsgroups now, including ones that used to be heavily trafficked.
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I wouldn’t know. I download and keep all my shit.
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it's sloptuber faggotry, just ignore the niggercattle.
1kib of gay porn is already too much.
there's your second issue.
streaming is actually not bad. sometimes i just need to see one episode out of a series but if i am to torrent it i will need to torrent the entire fucking season whereas i can just go to a streaming site and pick the episode i want to watch.
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Out of compulsion? Is that why you have almost 8TB of anime?
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I'd like to, but streaming sites give no options on subtitle font, multi-language tracks, surround sound, and too often streams break at random.
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if its nvenc there arent many parameters to change if it all. cpu will give you more space savings and better compression but takes much longer. but if youre not about that minmax life, hardware is the way to go.
why not have the full set? if not for archival purposes?