Hi there, I'm trying to torrent an actual Linux ISO, but it's completely slow on aria2c and not happening at all on qbittorrent, even after downloading the qbittorrent 5.1.4 app image. I'm on CGNAT. I used to get good speeds but now it's all come to a screeching halt.

In qbittorrent, I see the fire icon, and have connections to ~304 DHT nodes, but the fire icon is still there.

Obligatory fuck my ISP...

update 2026-06-03

Holy, I probably shouldn't necropost, but it turns out it was because I set my LAN IP address to the lo network interface. Basically, Qbittorrent was listening only on localhost. I run a complex intranet setup, so I just gave myself an extra IPv4 on the network bound to my physical Ethernet port and made qbittorrent use that and all is well now.

I was the network admin who blocked torrenting 🤣

I obtained a recent release (like, not even been 24 hours) and the quality is shitty. That's normal, that's expected, it's probably someone with a camera in the movie theater. However I want to ask...

How long does it usually take however for pirate versions of movies to approach anywhere near streaming service quality?

Things along the range of:

"Checklist - 1. Ensure that the thing is on."

I've seen stories of people who just don't get it and need their hands held all the time, so what are things where you kinda feel that things are a bit too "hand-holdy"?

I personally like to minimize name changes as much as possible because usually, the current name Just Works and I don't really think it's worth it to break muscle memory or replace signage and stuff.

Marginally related; what is it with American stadiums being named after big companies? And when the naming rights expire, people just have to get used to the new name??

edit: I'm primarily focusing on organizations and places and anything that isn't a single individual person changing names, to be clear

Why em dashes specifically? Why is THAT what we blame on AI?

If I create a new torrent, does CGNAT (carrier-grade network address translation) prevent me from being an initial seeder of that torrent? I've made test torrents before and noticed that none of them seemed to be downloadable. Seeding the test torrents on a VPS of mine with a public IP has surprisingly worked before.

I can download and upload in my torrent client just fine, so I know my ISP isn't (intentionally) blocking and firewalling torrents.

I know that private trackers require users to maintain a good seed ratio. How exactly does that work out mathematically? If a bunch of users have seed ratios above 1, does that mean that there are some users who will forever be below 1, and thus end up getting kicked out, thus resulting in the private tracker just... shrinking over time?

I run a Clickhouse database. My usecase is 99% writes and 1% reads - I rarely query the database. Currently, the tables (excluding system logs) use 6GB of the 80GB on my Ionos VPS, with the VPS having 50GB free space total.

In the far future, when that 50GB starts to run out, are there any cheap storage services out there that support a filesystem or a database? Due to querying the data so rarely, read speed isn't that big a deal, and if the storage is on HDD, so be it.

I've been looking to get myself a VPS. It's my first time, too.

A friend of mine recommended Hetzner to me, so I signed up for them, twice, but was rejected due to "some concerns with the information".

So I'm looking for alternatives now. I stumbled upon Ionos but I saw a ton of negative Reddit posts, which is giving me doubt.

Update 1: I found https://lemmy.ml/post/19647638 - some positive feedback about Ionos, but the more opinions the better

Update 2: I proceeded with purchasing one anyway, and the experience has been smooth so far, so that's nice. But it's only been a couple hours since purchase so we'll wait and see.

If someone's post is deleted, and the modlogs don't specify who performed the action (instead it is a generic name like "admin"), how can the user discuss that deletion if they have a rationale for why it should not have been deleted?