For the first time in two decades of my tumultuous relationship with the coldhearted mistress that is Microsoft Windows, I am glad that it turned itself on. It didn’t update itself. It didn’t even bluescreen for no reason and update itself in its confusion.
The torrent finished downloading about an hour before I got home, and by the time I noticed it finished, the elusive seeder was long gone. I feel oddly at ease. I feel oddly… responsible. For propagating knowledge to future seekers.
Is this dull enough for here?
Have this terrible photoshop bodge job as an offering of my goodwill.
I feel oddly… responsible. For propagating knowledge to future seekers.
It is your burden and duty to seed
It is your burden and duty to seed
Sometimes context really matters… 😜
The context is here. Please be more dull
Funnily enough, I have a high ratio for that torrent. I’ve shared that first 80 odd percent dozens of times. I’ll keep it in my daily driver list of permaseeds for sure.
What is the deal with windows waking up and just… staying on? Surely people don’t need desktops blasting out heat for 12 hours, or dead laptops sitting in warm bags.
Surely people don’t need desktops blasting out heat for 12 hours
I mean, if you’re playing the long-term seeding game for a private tracker you do. (Because you can’t afford a seedbox)
I have had good experience preventing this from happening by disabling Wake-On-LAN, or enabling deeper sleep modes that remove that capability, on my systems that don’t need it.
My suspicion is that many devices these days are pinging the LAN devices around them, for instance other Windows machines looking for printers and network shares, and this is waking devices that are in higher sleep states.
I recently built a gaming pc for the first time in a long time and was surprised by this behavior (I don’t use windows for anything else nowadays). After that first time I developed the habit of switching off the power supply when I shut it down. So weird. Nice that it resulted in a win this time though!
What was the file?
I have so many torrents sitting at 80-99% for weeks and weeks–not even that obscure of media. You’ve given me a glimmer of hope!
I had an obscure one at 99% for weeks before I realised why it would never finish. The torrent had a text file with the name “Dowloaded from torrentsite” that nobody had been downloading, so it wasn’t available. The main file was 100% though.
I probably have a few that are the same way. Should probably go through and uncheck that content so at least my “Stalled downloading” queue looks a little cleaner.
Have you tried adding the trackers from newtrackon? That should be all the stable public trackers, so if there is someone seeding the file on a public tracker you’ll find out.
Otherwise it’s just a waiting game.
No, but I will check it out thanks!
Is this dull enough for here?
I think voluntarily archiving difficult to find media is pretty dull. Love the meme btw.
BSOD anymore is from failing hardware, or driver errors. The drivers which have BSOD-causing bugs are usually third party drivers. “No reason” is from the 9x era.
