Undearius
@Undearius@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey 1 day ago:
That sucks it didn’t work well for you. Hopefully the useability is more improved the next time you may be willing to try again.
- Comment on Seriously. 1 month ago:
America didn’t really invent their own volume of measurements, they just didn’t keep up.
They used what the British used, then separated from Britain, and didn’t update the units when Britain did.
- Comment on Bungie veterans Luke Smith and Mark Noseworthy have reportedly left [VGC] 2 months ago:
It’s been a long time since I kept up with Bungie and had to look back because the name Luke Smith rang a bell.
It led me back to this and he indeed is who I thought he was, the lead of this old song
- Comment on Cursed wretched marketing 3 months ago:
[Here’s another example](imgtag.co.kr/images/211104/211104_231914/3FAa7o
- Comment on Cursed wretched marketing 3 months ago:
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- Comment on It would distract from the grind 4 months ago:
A legend
- Comment on Now all we need is a drink pairing guide 6 months ago:
Maybe not a good idea.
- Comment on know the difference!! 7 months ago:
It’s a brand of medicine to cure diarrhea.
- Comment on temperature 7 months ago:
0-100 is pretty survivable
I can tell you’ve never been outside when it was 0°F
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m not sure how many people would appreciate watching the injury that killed someone.
Probably not the right community for this.
- Comment on Metadata and torrents. ELI5? 1 year ago:
For actually getting torrents loaded into the client software, there’s basically no difference. They both contain the information needed to start downloading the content.
A torrent file just has the information needed to start the download, kind of like a text file.
A magnet link is similar to any other link, like
http://example.com/SomeFile.torrent. They’re a bit more complicated because the websiteexample.commight remove or change the location ofSomeFile.torrentand then any of the existing links won’t work. Magnet links aren’t affected by that sort of thing. I say this with the caveat that I honestly don’t really know or understand them fully because, like I first said, it doesn’t really matter. - Comment on Metadata and torrents. ELI5? 1 year ago:
I can’t speak for the Windows side as I’m one of those Linux users. But the ones I mentioned are ones I know off the top of my head because I see them mentioned often.
- Transmission
- qBittorrent
- Deluge
- Tixati
- Comment on Metadata and torrents. ELI5? 1 year ago:
Yes, thank you. I was going to explain that as well but asl owanted to keep it as basic and simple as possible. Honestly, I can’t recall the last time I actually alsaved and opened a torrent file, I’ve always used magnet links.
If your computer doesn’t automatically open a magnet link when you click on it (usually you’ll just see a 🧲 that you can click on), you should be able to right click that icon to copy the link. Often the client will have an option to enter the magnet link when you select File>Open.
- Comment on Metadata and torrents. ELI5? 1 year ago:
I good example that’s completely legal is Linux distributions. They are licensed in a way that lets you share the file with other people so there is no risk of illegal activity.
You need torrent software installed that can speak the language of the torrenting protocol. Examples would be QBitTorrent, Transmission, and uTorrent, but there are others as well.
For the general process, you would download and install torrenting software, then you would go to a page that has torrent files (like this Ubuntu page), save the
.torrentfile and then from the software open that file, this will begin the download. Once it’s done, you have a full copy of the files on your computer.The only thing unique about torrents is that you are downloading parts of the file from a bunch of other people that have a copy, instead of downloading the whole file from just one single server.
