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ScratchySoft

@ ScratchySoft @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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My pronouns are she/her. You can call me ScratchySoft or Scratchy. Not Soft though. That's weird.

I'd list what accounts I have on other platforms to discourage impersonation, but the character limit is too short.

  • What to do with !retropirates?

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  • Good question... Maybe, though I don't know much about old music or movies.

  • What to do with !retropirates?

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  • Maybe? But I can't imagine that would be particularly healthy for the site for legal reasons. I'm thinking maybe trying to do a biweekly to monthly feed of recently dumped ROMs and related media would be nice? Though admittedly I'm not sure how well I'd be able to keep up with doing that.

  • How do you go about finding specific items when it's prohibited to even ask?

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  • Convenience isn't necessarily the only problem with a given service. Maybe their favorite movie got the "50 remasters of Star Wars" treatment over the years and the latest one doesn't look or sound that good, or the company behind it has shitty business practices like using death squads against South American union workers or something.

  • Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents?

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  • Because I'd rather not get spyware.

  • Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents?

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  • Tribler is not Tor, and I know Tor doesn't work. That's why I asked if there's anything like Tor rather than just doing the stupid thing of using Tor immediately. I'll look into I2P.

  • Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents?

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  • I live in the US, so it is illegal here though not always enforced much, but a lot of trackers also encourage seeding for obvious reasons and it seems like poor form not to.

  • Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents?

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  • Sadly I am not in any private trackers. And while I know VPNs like ProtonVPN are fairly reliable, I'm hesitant to place much trust in them, nor do I have... Any income right now (things are a mess)...

  • Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents?

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  • switched from a client application to a web interface

    uuuuuuugh, good to know

  • Any noobie guide on switch piracy and along with emulator setup?

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  • Is there a full set of title keys anywhere? I can only find a small set out of all the titles in the eShop.

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    Trying Soulseek/Nicotine+ for the first time, and I noticed something...

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  • I was referring to the Nicotine+ chat being ruined. I'm already on Beehaw, though it's not really about piracy-related stuff. It's nice though.

    I'm not sure how much I'd even use Nicotine+, it doesn't have a lot of what I'm looking for. Just music. I tend to look for retro game stuff. I have all the No-Intro sets for older systems so I don't need stuff that's in those (except the private entries). It's hard to find stuff that isn't just in any No-Intro, GoodTools, or TOSEC set, unfortunately. I might use it to share stuff. Maybe eMule as well? I don't know. shrug

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    Trying Soulseek/Nicotine+ for the first time, and I noticed something...

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  • That's true. sigh It's just rather frustrating that it only takes a few to ruin things for so many...

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    Trying Soulseek/Nicotine+ for the first time, and I noticed something...

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  • My problem with Soulseek is that it only really has music. That's it. I'm more interested in stuff for retro game systems. Not just the stuff that's listed in No-Intro or some GoodSet, you can find those anywhere. I'm trying to find a site that has stuff that isn't just the same sets you see everywhere. But I can't find one.

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    Trying Soulseek/Nicotine+ for the first time, and I noticed something...

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  • Why don't the majority talk over the dickwads if they outnumber them? Why does it only take a few to mess everything up?

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    Still finding my sea legs, but not sure what to do or how to ask...

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  • True, though I'm a bit worried about seeding requirements, and making sure my ISP and college don't complain.

    There's also the matter of "how the heck do I figure out if a keygen or crack or whatever is a virus if a lot of antivirus software just screams at it for being a keygen or crack without checking it for malware nowadays?"

  • How To Torrent Software Safely (For Dummies)

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  • I sure hope so.

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    Still finding my sea legs, but not sure what to do or how to ask...

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  • For me I'm just trying to find information on how to safely download games and figure out what is and isn't a virus and how to avoid getting hit with scary letters from my ISP. I know for the latter I can use Mullvad or something, but I don't know what kind of antivirus to use. Apparently a lot of them see a crack and go off about that rather than checking further to see if it's actually malicious. This mainly applies to newer games that run with exe files or other executables.

    I've also been trying to find good sites that have games for retro systems like the NES, Genesis, and DS (yes, I'm counting the DS as retro for the purpose of this post) that aren't just easy to find in any No-Intro, Redump, or MAME database. You can find No-Intro stuff pretty much anywhere, at least for most of the sets. Same with Redump to a lesser extent. MAME/MESS is a bit harder, but not impossible. But trying to find anything that isn't in those is incredibly difficult. FC Gallery is alright for NES/Famicom stuff, though other than that, I've got nothing.

  • Why torrenting haven't fully adopted I2P?

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  • I see.

  • How To Torrent Software Safely (For Dummies)

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  • Are you sure that won't also get a bunch of false positives because it detects that a file is a keygen or crack?

  • How To Torrent Software Safely (For Dummies)

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  • And what about other stuff?