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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

Be warned:

If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Amateur. You set this up ahead of time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

When you're torrenting and you're planning to watch with someone else, you decide what you're watching at least eight hours in advance, preferably a day. Radarr can't find stuff instantaneously, assuming the automated search finds it at all, and torrents can take hours to finish, plus leaving time to resolve technical mishaps with your *arr stack, like the VPN being dead. If you and the person you wanna watch with aren't going to be in the same room, you'll have to set aside even longer in order to transcode it into a format a browser can play at a bitrate that's low enough to stream, and load it into your HTTP server so that Cytube can play it. Ideally you'd block out some time to test and troubleshoot Cytube too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have none of these issues, but I use Usenet soo...

Honestly though if push comes to shove Stremio and RealDebrid can work wonders provided your internet is actually fast enough.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (6 children)
  1. Meet woman, don't be weird.

  2. Gradually build a loving, trusting relationship.

  3. She has to get surgery and she'll be bed-bound while she recovers.

  4. "Will you take care of me, Anon?"

  5. Lord of the Rings marathon. The director's cuts. She can't run.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The long setup. "Babe, you agreed to stay in sickness and in health. This is my sickness."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Narrator: But she didn't stay.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

She died during the Battle of Helm's Deep

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

But inside she was already dead

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Just do old school style and read her the Silmarillion.

Make sure to get the annotated version.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

This is why you have a server running jellyfin qbittorent, Jackett, sonarr, radarr, all behind a good VPN.

Anon is obviously a noob and deserves the walkout.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

do you know of any good guides that explain how to set up a full stack like this? I've been meaning to level up my movie watching game but don't know how these services interact with each other

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

FOSS always > everything else.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

What's with the "ooga booga woman scared by tech" meme? Like, people have been torrenting for ages, it's not like it's underground.

And just have it downloaded? "Hey, wanna come over and watch ____? Yes? Cool, see you then." Then start the download. If it's popular, you'll have the file in, like, 10 minutes. And if she's that "confused" by an hdmi cable (which is an extremely common cable these days, but whatever), put it on a flash drive and plug that in. And if someone is interested, I can't imagine setting something up would make them leave? "Oh gosh, he had a laptop and a... A cable, you say? Well golly gee, I should run away from this fringe tech afficionado because who does that???"

I don't know why some guys act like tech just washed over women. We were there sailing the same high seas as the rest of ya'll.

"What do you mean the movie will come from the laptop?" Boy, bye

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Tech literacy has peaked hard with millenials.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I like your comment because it tells me why I didn't found this that much funny.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'm choosing to interpret it as her getting skeeved out over anon not having their shit together.

>not downloading the movie in advance
>not knowing about the "download in sequential order" option on the client that lets you start watching quickly

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't think it is about women being scared by tech, but "normies" only really knowing how to use Netflix to watch a movie.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

I prefer NGINX with autoindex. Lightweight, no JavaScript, looks like every Linux ISO mirror, filenames already have all the required info, can be quickly searched with CTRL+F, fits perfectly to my laziness.

If you want some improvement, you can use FancyIndex module.

But the files need to be in codecs supported by your browser(s). I prefer AV1+Opus in WebM container which have been supported by Firefox for a while. At this point it's really only Safari not fully supporting AV1 because it relies on hardware decoding and Apple wants you to buy new hardware.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry, your favorite media server is just files you play on a browser?

I mean, not shaming, I just had never heard of that being preferable to Plex/Emby/Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That's absolutely ridiculous. I'm into it.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

torrent ahead of time?

anon is a dumbfuck.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

You can also press one button to configure a torrent to download first and last, allowing you to play a video while it streams in.

Anon can’t even torrent right, she just got scared that he’d be too stupid to put on the condom right.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Once I was with a girl and taking too long to get a torrent going so she whips out her phone and does it herself. Safe enough to say that we are together now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Wow torrenting on a phone. I know it's possible but I always thought it was slow or difficult.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It might have actually been a streaming site now remembering. She used a vpn to connect to Mainland China, typed some Chinese into a Chinese search engine and found it on a Chinese website.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

On Android, Flud has been good to me over the years even though the ads can get annoying at times. Hopefully it helps you get Linux ISOs on your phone with ease :)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah my ex wife initially made fun of my server with my Plex media on it...

Guess what she wanted after our divorce? That's right Plex.

If she scoffs at your media setup she's wrong for you.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

My ex told me she never ever wanted to talk to me ever again, ever!

Next week she texted me asking access my plex server.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mate, don't be weird. Torrent the movie you wanna watch before your girl gets there. Put it in your plex library and boot up Plex on your xbox. Easy peasy. You don't have to be weird about it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

If she's not excited to see the download bar move, she's not getting invited back.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

My family has learned not to ask questions, just tell me the name of the movie or TV show in signal, and Ill let you know when its on plex.

I know they dont understand. I see their glassy eyes staring past me if the compel me to explain. 'But who puts it there, and what motivates them?' they ask. They do not see the irrationally of their line of inquiry.

But they have learned now. No questions, no complaints, just leave me a muffin when I've done a good job.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Muffins for the showfinder!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mostly what i see is a lack of preparedness. If i had a date over the movie would be downloaded and the TV plugged in a week in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look, there are enough women in the world for you to stop thirsting after someone who's just not right for you

If you're geeky you need a girlfriend that at least vibes with that even if she's not into it herself for fucks sake

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Girl is super geeky, she's just mad at him for running his laptop on the TV instead of using Plex to watch torrents from his xbox like a normal person.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

If she doesn't know what a hdmi cable is I'm boiling her into a stew.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That was a close save! I wouldn’t fuck a blind consumer with your dick…

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (15 children)

It's Usenet babe. Get this... it's been around since 1980! Isn't that wild, babe? It just goes to show, if a distribution system isn't broke, don't fix it.

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