Comment on Anon sets the mood

wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hahah I was gonna come mention Usenet but glad you already did.

  A month ago I was frustrated waiting on some torrent and decided to finally give Usenet a try. All I gotta say is - why didn’t I do this switch years ago???

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because they usually cost money

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    • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yearly rates for a provider and 2 indexers still doesn’t come close to the cost of all the streaming subscriptions you’d need to have the same library access. Coupled with the ability to use RSS feeds and other homelab services to essentially automate your collection, it’s just absolutely worth every penny.

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      • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Comparing to torrents

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    • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh yeah true, I kinda forgot about that since I’ve been so excited with the results :)

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Shit goes missing after like a year

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    • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IIRC that might have been the reason I previously disregarded the idea of trying Usenet. However if it’s not on Usenet, one can always fall back to torrents :p Haven’t had to do that yet. *knocks on wood*

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      • threeduck@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Who is it?”

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    • threeganzi@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What goes missing? You don’t know how Usenet works.

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      • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The files are not stored indefinitely, retention is based on the provider

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  • Sat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you get a provider though?

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    • kasuaaliucceli@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah there was a lot of googling duckduckgoing at first. In my case I decided to start out with NewsHosting as provider and nzbgeek as indexer. So far so good

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