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EuroNutellaMan ,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

300TBs of zip bombs

guiguinofake ,

EndeavourOS

riplin , (edited )

At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping. Have you checked your settings that you aren’t limiting your upload speeds?

Edit: people seem to be offended by this comment, so let me clarify by what I meant with “are you really helping”.

Torrent clients default to a fixed number of peers they download from. If you end up with only 16kb/s connections, you are being limited by those seeders in how fast you can download.

Whereas if there were less seeders but they could provide 1mb/s connections, you are limited by your own internet connection and are downloading full blast.

I hope that clarifies my statement.

Kalcifer ,
@Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works avatar

At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping

That’s a rather toxic mentality to have. Any amount of help is always appreciated.

itslilith ,
@itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I’d rather have a 16kb/s seeder than a dead torrent

FrostyCaveman ,

For real. I’m slowly downloading a documentary from one person right now, it’s been a few weeks and it’ll be a few more, but I thank them for it

admin ,

You’d be surprised to know that a 500GB hard drive can be theoretically copied in 1 year with a 16kb/s transfer.

narc0tic_bird ,

Torrent clients are usually smart enough to decide what the best seeders are to get the best possible availability and throughput.

OP seeding at 16 KB/s to some peers might also just mean that the leecher’s bandwidth is mostly saturated by other peers so they don’t need that much bandwidth from OP.

Smoolak ,

You can take a look here: fosstorrents.com

xnx ,

Wikipedia torrents from kiwix

narc0tic_bird ,

Not FOSS, but a library/archive: annas-archive.org/torrents

Popular Linux ISOs are usually mirrored across a lot of mirrors (duh), so availability is already very good.

jaypatelani ,
@jaypatelani@lemmy.ml avatar

netbsd.org will love that

beeng ,

Does anybody download iso’s via torrents? Or how to help the actual sites that serve these? Since I trust the source more than torrents… Especially for an image…

Maetani ,

Verifiying the checksum of an iso takes 30 seconds… You don’t need to trust anyone

beeng ,

Been on Linux 6 years, never done it. Extra steps

weker01 ,

Well you do need to trust the checksum provided. That is the one you are checking against. Better would be a signature from a key you trust.

In the end a modern torrent is just a hash.

Sekki ,

I don’t think that is even necessary. If you download the .torrent file from a trusted source it will already contain a secure hash of the final file. Also every piece you receive also comes with a hash that can also be verified through the .torrent file. If you don’t trust the source enough to provide a valid .torrent, I don’t see how downloading the image directly from them makes any difference. Read more: Official BitTorrent BEPBitTorrent V2 and SHA-256

cantevencode ,

You grab the .torrent file from the source website (Mint, in this case) and it’s safe

beeng ,

Ahh makes sense. I still direct download but I guess if I had Torrent client locally it might be nice. But 3-4GiB on direct download doesn’t take long…

FierySpectre ,

It’s more of a way to reduce costs for the CDN, using torrents everyone contributes and they only have to send a small magnet file.

jrgd ,

For many with unstable ISP connections, http downloads can get corrupted. Torrents are superior in this regard as the file gets split into blocks that each get checksummed for integrity after completion. This helps to ensure that the large iso is actually complete and won’t just be garbage on an attempted install. Even if you checksum the iso from http download, you have to pull the entire thing again if it is damaged whereas the torrent would just repull the damaged blocks automatically.

YourMomsTrashman ,
@YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world avatar

The Rotating Food Gifs Collection 1-5

Fizz ,
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

Do you have a link to this torrent? I am very interested.

Blizzard ,

You’re not seeding properly, check your upload settings or try qBittorrent.

mrvictory1 ,

OP has acceptable seed ratio on the files near the bottom.

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