Tanuki-Computing

♄Be the Freak you want to see♄

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☙Mid twenties, đŸ‡©đŸ‡Ș, White, Bi, Enby, English second language, autistic, actual Tanuki❧.


☛18+ Only☚. Will be horny on main.


If there’s a post of mine, that you think is missing a tag— don’t hesitate to ask 😊


Also running the account “SuperSonicoOfficial”


Pfp sprites taken from here♄.
“Pathetic Man lover” blinkie by @CosmicRot
“Twink Lover” blinkie by @pdf
Xenia button taken from here
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A gray square. On it is a skull and corssbones with the text: “Piracy Now!”A gray square. On it is the Quake logo spinning, with the text: “Get Quake Now!”A gray square. On it is a spinning cat face from the game Yume Nikki, and the text: “Dream Now!”A gray square. On it is the Copeland OS logo from Serial Experiments Lain, with the text: “copeland os Now!”
A gray square. On it is Hatsune Miku’s face, with the text: “Vocaloid Now!”A gray square. On it is Lilith, from the movie: “End of Evangelion”, with the text: “Third Impact Now!”A gray square. On it is a spinng floppy disk, with the text: “Pass the Shareware please”A gray square. On the right there’s an image of two connected computers, both having a heart on their screens. There’s also text that reads: “Sharing is caring... seed your torents!
A gray square. On it is a graphic of the letter E, with text that reads: “Eat me now!”A gray square. On it is a marijuana leaf, with the text: “Legalize now!”. The image is noticeably compressed.A gray square. On it is a German flag and the text: “This site contains German Blödsinn”.A gray square. On it is a rotating pentagram, to the left is the text: “Google Chrome is evil!”.
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lake-scum
@lake-scum

you should pirate shit

you should download files. it's fun, free, and better for the world than streaming services. "but it's hard" this is a guide. i promise you don't need to be a computerhead. i believe in you.

why should i pirate shit?

  • streaming services suck. in every industry, they make their money by financially ruining the people who make the art they profit off of. their algorithms, instead of helping you "discover new art", funnel you into what they want you to watch/listen/play. they're janky & inconsistent & are all missing things. fuck em.
  • having your collection of files rules. remember how dads would get excited about their cd or dvd collections? they were right. that shit rules. trust me: knowing your collection represents your tastes, and you're in control of what's in it feels sick as hell.
  • it's free! spend your 10 bucks a month buying music from a broke artist on bandcamp instead. easy.
  • using media library server software, you can stream your own files to your tv/phone/etc, like streaming services.
  • pirate streaming sites also exist but tbh they also suck and I'm not trying to sit through "try not to cum" ads to watch a show in questionable quality with no subtitle options.

read on to Learn....


slimelia
@slimelia

did you know you can use qbittorrent search plugins to find torrents?

literally couldn't be simpler - download the .py files for the search engines on that list, import them into qbittorrent. if you get stuck here's a more detailed tutorial with screenshots

people say torrenting stuff is confusing - and yeah, it can be a bit!! but with this you literally just need the one application. find the torrent you want, set a download location, and bob's yer uncle!! 😎


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in reply to @lake-scum's post:

Games: don't mess with trying to dl PC games from random sites, it only takes 1 virus to mess you up bad. Stick to console games. The Switch is a perfect system, it takes hardly an amazing PC to emulate it. Nsw2u and ziperto are nice places to go. Keep track of which DL sites are good (1fichier!), and bad.

Games from older systems might exist on IA. Sometimes they're bundled under release groups like GoodCONSOLE. Do you know how many zillions of games fall under the MAME project?

Keep in mind that PC games can also be cheap AF, you can also just buy a lot of decent stuff through bundles (itch.io, fanatical, sometimes even humble). When you have DRM free stuff, trading with your friends is a nice kind of piracy too. I hear there's even a "Goldberg emulator" out there for your Steam titles.

Movies & TV - instead of torrenting, consider usenet. You'll need a usenet provider (buy a 1TB block from somebody like newsgroupdirect for about $10 to start), an NZB service (which indexes stuff into something like ".torrent" files, otherwise handling the mess of usenet is awful. Nzbfinder.ws is okay, I'm sure there's better out there), and Sabnzbd.

Media server - Plex is naaah. How much do you really need to serve stuff around? Maybe you'd be happier hooking LibreElec on an old PC up to a TV. Or get a plain cheap as chips brand-new intel n95 box (Beelink is pretty decent here), they run under $150. Don't bother with white-box Android set top boxes - to get a decent one you are looking at close to a PC puck price, and you're getting a skeevy as hell Android loadout.

what website fucked you up bad? fitgirl repacks and more are excelent for pc games as there are plenty of places to get great pc games. if you are well informed on what sites are bad and which are good you will be fine and if you are ever in doubt you can always run malwarebytes afterwards.

the only viruses i have have been windows defenders false positives because windows defender is a shit antivirus and it always thinks cracks are trojans.

ive ran malwarebytes time and time again and it has consistently found no threats despite windows saying otherwise

of course ram is untraceable so there could always be a virus on my system but that remains true for every technological device and its just how computers run no matter how cautious you are.

also using steam key websites fuck over developers just as much as piracy, im not sure about humble bundle but other steam key sites do some really shady shit to get games that cheap

"How much do you really need to serve stuff around"? uh... like maybe to your phone? or tablet? or TV in another room? Thats not even accounting for friends, roommates, parents... Plex isn't that difficult.

Great writeup, I'd also like to add that Plexamp is a really great mobile app for streaming the music on your plex server, much better than the regular plex app. Basically feels just like spotify but for your personal music collection, I love it.

I believe the free version of ProtonVPN does not do peer-to-peer traffic (the type torrents use). Tested it a month ago and no dice.

That said the one thing I'd add to this guide is I highly rec using a VPN when torrenting to avoid the legal nastygrams from IP holders. I recently decided to switch from Mullvad to Proton (paid version) because the former dropped support for port forwarding.

thank you for this, i'm going to pore over some of the places I didn't know for for reference - and it might even get me closer to trying to sort out my music files.
(also, driveby love for Musicbee - it is just so customisable in terms of what info you're seeing from field columns to UI sections)

this is an incredible resource! Im gonna stop using spotify today i think.
one thing: could someone point me to a good music player for android? I listen to almost all my music on my phone :(

late to this, but foobar2000 has an android version that's very straightforward and simple, and not overly cluttered like some can be. it also works with every album i've thrown at it, with all the metadata working fine. i've run into metadata problems on every other music player i've tried, but foobar2k handles all of it fine

a few things to add:

virustotal.com is a very useful site that will scan files with 70+ antivirus engines and show you all of the results. nearly anything you give it will already have been scanned by someone so you'll get the existing results instantly.

most major antivirus systems include signatures specifically for flagging keygens that don't actually do anything malicious, so if you get something from a scan where the type of "virus" has "PUA.Keygen" or "Riskware/KeyGen" or "Unwanted-Program" or something like that in the name, you can be fairly sure it's a false positive.

the only time i've ever gotten a notice from my ISP about piracy is when i torrented a textbook. textbook publishers are among the most ruthless IP holders (since their whole business model is exploitative and people frequently try to circumvent them) so if you're getting a textbook from a torrent you might want to be extra careful to use a vpn for that.

Oh my god, soulseek brought me back to the napster glory days. Thank you for this. I've already found tons of stuff that was IMPOSSIBLE to get on torrents, and in a matter of minutes. I'm so goddamn hype to get an mp3 player going and load all this stuff up.

I have a very silly question that I'm struggling to find. How do I register for a Soulseek account? I get to a login screen in the app, but I can't find a registration page on the website or a way to progress in the app anywhere but login

If you torrent any Star Trek, make sure you have a VPN! Paramount is extremely aggressive, and they closely monitor for piracy of even the very old Star Trek series. But if you have a VPN they can't do anything about it.

If you do have the money to buy stuff, vote with your wallet and buy DRM-free (Bandcamp for music, some parts of Vimeo On Demand for movies, GOG for games etc).

I personally love to support artists and creators who make the stuff I enjoy, but I refuse to pay for a product that doesn't respect me and limits how I can use it. If I can buy a file that I can backup and use freely on all of my devices I WILL buy it.

Just to add a note (and someone did leave a comment to this effect), but Tachiyomi isn't getting updates anymore due to a webtoon publisher going after them. Basically immediately, a spiritual successor called Mihon got made, and as someone who used Tachiyomi for multiple years and now uses Mihon, it's an exceptional way to find and read manga (and comics in general!) on your phone, including stuff saved locally. I would highly recommend it, it saved my life when my power was out for 4 days and I needed something to do.

Does anyone know any good resources for Japanese music/media? There's a collection of old ass anime drama/character song cds I'm always on the hunt for, but the English speaking internet is no help...

in reply to @slimelia's post:

been using qBittorrent for years but only noticed the search plugins feature last month. it's been a great streamlining of my usual search process! mostly don't need web browser now.