Even if you buy several huge drives there's nothing much left to download compared to 15 years ago. I'm saying this as a person who's still seeding and sharing stuff since 2009. Torrent trackers, forums, personal websites with direct links are either shutting down or becoming ghost towns (yes even your beloved Rutracker because two biggest contributing countries are getting destroyed and depopulated), blogspots and file hosting services are totally dead, even p2p networks are dead (even soulseek is becoming a mere shadow of its former self not to mention scammers).People who used to rip music and films from CDs, DVDs, VHS, crack licenced programs, games, OSs, create repacks, keygens, upload and share their files 24/7 are getting old and tired or worse - facing legal issues, their hardware is starting to fail because it has been running 24/7 for decades. Nobody is passing the torch to younger generation and everyone's getting used to live without a desktop, use subscription based services and products even if they're heavily censored and limited. Newer hard are much less reliable than the ones that were produced 20 years ago no to mention that all storage devices and other hardware are getting ridiculously expensive and companies are eager to price their consumers out of hardware ownership.I'm not trying to discourage you, download everything while it's still possible, just bear in mind that most good stuff which was very easy to find some years ago is now lost without a trace, you're gonna have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find anything.
>I'm not trying to discourage youhahaha!
>>108108281luckily I'm getting older as the world is going to shit, so I'll die soonish enough anyway.
>>108108281>just bear in mind that most good stuff which was very easy to find some years ago is now lost without a trace, you're gonna have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find anything.Provide a single example.
>>108108281twenty years ago 400GB hdd was big
>>108108565Linkin_Park-In_the_end.mp3.exe
>>108108281Ewwwww that image, so glad I am asexual On to the topic, I already have all that I need. All the chemistry, math and engineering books I personally need for reference once in a while as well as all the music files I need. In order to fully cycle through my music library I need a whole year (I commonly listen to music for 2-3h a day) > Newer hard are much less reliable than the ones that were produced 20 years agoI found the opposite the case. They also are cheaper than a few years ago, adjusted to inflation. Anna's Archive really contains all the essentials and now even the complete spotify library.
>I'm not trying to discourage youhaha yeah surely not>bear in mind that most good stuff which was very easy to find some years ago is now lost without a traceeat shit faggot, I already backed up the things I liked ;)
>>108108774Does looking at sexual stuff like that image cause you to feel uncomfortable? Is there a resistance to the lower part of your body when you look at it? I'm trying to understand the experience of an asexual person.
>>108108281Nice ass
have you tried Usenet? it's bigger than ever
>>108109066>Does looking at sexual stuff like that image cause you to feel uncomfortable?It ranges from treating it like random noise (so no emotional reaction) to disgust (physically feel like vomiting)
>>108109174Interesting. So some things trigger a reaction and others don't. If you're interested in trying to fix it. I recommend focusing on your lower body for some time ever day. Especially when you get a bad reaction. More circulation and nerve stimulation can help stunted development or repressed traumas.
just use ai to make programs/apps from scratch. use ai to create music/video/movie media. no need to hoard anything since it'll all be made in realtime.
>>108109205I am not trying to fix anything, it's a feature not a bug =) Happened to me since I took acid a few years, I was just so repulsed beyond anything, by the cringe sounds during sex, the smells involved, the visual ugliness of a vagina ewwwww
? I am literally in the process of hoarding right now
so why didn't you uh back it up earlier?why didn't the nerds band together and make an open-source app to distribute all ~600TB of releases in 600 torrents? lol and set up hotspots in each city where you can download it over wififeels really, really good to be right about everything. a few normies finally woke up to the fact that Google doesn't work anymore - like 8-9 years too late, because of smooth BRAINS!!!!!!!TWO STARS WITH FIVE SPIKES
>>108109218With what training data nigger.He's right, hoardl.
>>108108281I re-torrented like 500 films last week after a drive failure
>>108109313>why didn't you do xyz? Me? No no no! Never!
>>108109298Do you get erections? How big is your dick?
>>108109594off topic
>>108109594lmao wtf
>>108108281Cringe mentally ill doomerslop
>>108108281Bro cartoons are on the seas with all season at 1080p and 170gb file sizeSuck my dick bitch I'll torrent every day I have 32tb
>>108108281>Even if you buy several huge drives there's nothing much left to download compared to 15 years agoSpotify just had 300TB leakedPreservation of current state LLM modelsNews archival>Torrent trackers, forums, personal websites with direct links are either shutting down or becoming ghost townsAnd that's a good thing.>People who used to rip [...] are getting old and tired or worse - facing legal issuesUmm...source, sweaty?!>Nobody is passing the torch to younger generation and everyone's getting used to live without a desktop, use subscription based services and products even if they're heavily censored and limitedThe market has spoken. Convenience > ownership. You are now the boomer.The cherry on top is that while you wax and wane poetically about how sad this all is, you use your storage devices for softcore anime of all things. In all seriousness, Anons: listen up. The world has changed and whether that's good or bad doesn't change that things are different. You have to adapt, grow, and evolve as a person or you're going to be that faggot boomer singing "Sweet Caroline BA DUM DAAAAAA" as if it hasn't been playing for 50 years.If anything, the changes OP mentions just make archival more special.
>>108108281My favorite private tracker is still a thriving community where requests are filled pretty quickly. But I won't give out invites unless I really know and trust someone because if they get banned, so do I.
>>108110022RED?
>>108109594it's moments like this that keep me coming back.
>>108109594kek
There is only one thing worth archiving and you better start printing copies and reading it right now before god wipes out the AI with a coronal mass ejection https://archive.org/details/guidetoselfsuffi0000seym
>>108108281judging by the amount of thong cloth I can see with her in that position I can say she has literally no assDisgusting
>>108108774>Ewwwww that image, so glad I am asexualMeme term for manchildren, you're not "asexual" you are an 8 year old who experienced psychological retardation and most likely a gigantic attention whore.
>>108110250I was molested as a child you a-hole
>>108110244She’s Asian. What do you expect?
Thanks for the tip, anonymous! I will promptly proceed to destroy all my hard disk drives and reinstate my Netflix subscription for $24.99.
>>108109298>it's a feature not a bug =)You are literally a fatal defect in the species and fundamentally maladaptiveIf everyone were like you there'd be no people You are defective, broken, wrong, and fundamentally anathema to life itself.That would all be fine. What's not fine is that you know this, you self deceiving fraudster, you freak.
>>108110288>If everyone were like you there'd be no peopleGood. End the bionigger race.
>>108110288this post has so much butthurt it's as if the investor of Sex Inc himself was personally losing money from that anon's mental disease
>>108109714>>108110147>>108110175samefag upboating his own post to repost it on his hecking redditerino
>>108110259Clearly not enough.
>>108110288Ughh someone is having a meltdown, calm down Musk, I thought you will soon have enough of your fancy robots to replace all the human workers, or is it not going according to plan, loser?
>>108110288>You are defective, broken, wrong, and fundamentally anathema to life itself.And?
>>108110288>t. niggerbrained coomer
>>108110213Never pulled books from the Internet Archive before, is there a way to actually pull a copy of this? I'm not making an account for nothing, and it's literally in the "printdisabled" collection.
>>108110288>If everyone were like you there'd be no peopleSaid the sexless incel on a mongoloid eye crossing board
>>108109579yes, so why didn't anyone do it? out of 2+ billion internet-connected whites, no one thought "Gee, the entire internet is going to be gone soon, including all sites, images, search, and forums. I'd better do something about this". why didn't they do it?too busy? too lazy? too... JEWISH?there was an easy solution: pass a law to mandate Google and other search engines to provide hard copies of the entire cached "old internet" before it's gone forever. no one has ever even thought of this, because they just can't think that far ahead. archive.org sucks, shit disappears from there all the time.the 2nd solution was to scrape and distribute our own copies - 1 billion pages fits on ~1TB. >100-1000TB to hold images and video, and 600tb can hold most releases(movies, music, games, etc. and of course books). but now it's too late for that, too
>>108108565Can't find some of these bands anymore or there aren't enough seeders.
Those who host data for people to pirate are absolute heros.>>108110551Even on Soulseek?
>>108108281My only gripe with "being too late to hoard data" is that I am now forced to worship and fellate literal tranny freaks to even get into the most bottom of the barrel private trackersAnd I will basically never "tier up" and get into the trackers that actually have a large amount of stuff to pick from if I am not circlejerking those deranged fucks every dayBasically I am doomed not because I am taking too long to get into hoarding, but because I have to associate myself with extremely mentally ill "people" who are the ones in "charge" of this hobby
>>108110521if i could do that i'd rather pass a law that says every person in the usa has to give me 100 dollars yearly
>>108110250>>108109066Shut up.>>108108774You're letting ego and complacency cloud your judgement. Your PC shouldn't be about what you need, it should be about what you want. Availability. Scraping by with ancient textbooks a small collection of music won't be good enough 25 years from now when everything is traced, tracked, locked down, or just illegal and strongly enforced. Are you aware Anna's Archive has been down for like a month? You need to be paying attention.
>>108109852>Preservation of current state LLM modelsModels that will be borderline useless in 10 years.>News archivalMedia has proven themselves unreliable. Big and small news outlets have be going back and revising their old articles under the table. The only trustworthy players in this space are constantly attacked legally and otherwise.>And that's a good thing.Explain why.>The market has spoken. Convenience > ownership. You are now the boomer.The difference is things were actually better in the day, technologically speaking.>you use your storage devices for softcore anime of all thingsThat's a good point. Cumbrains are degens.
>>108110521Very low IQ post
>>108111036Doesn't seem down for me anon
>>108111167Weird. I can't resolve it. Country?
>>108108281
strawpoll.com/7rnzVe0B3nO
>>108111218EU/ US economic zone https://annas-archive.li/I think I configured my network to use an alternative DNS server, it's been a while.
I only hoard modern porn so idgaf. All my movies and games are in physical discs
>>108111416Good looking out. It worked for me in December, then they went down in January for a while. I assumed my problems were related to that i.e. AA was still down.
>>108108281holy fucking shit this post glow, never stop pirating, there are petabytes of content out there easily reachable, more than ever before.>there's nothing much left to download compared to 15 years agoabsolute horse shit, there is so much content available, so many bdremux, fan edits, various encoder releases for movies, so many songs included stuff that sold to less than 10 cd 40 years ago, so many games you can crack/buy, mods and indie stuff, manga/animes from the last 50+ years all available for free, millions of books, wikipedia fits on a usb dingdong if you need it , you can watch anything broadcasted on any tv channel in the world for free or for less than $10/mo.>>108110551picked some random names I can type on my keyboard>tortharryeverything is available in lossless>tristant tzaraI have over 50 tracks>twin obscenitytheir three albums are there>transcending bizarretheir three albums are thereI'm talking various kind of lossless straight from the labels, you're just too retarded to know where to look for>hurr I want cd rip in .wma in inferior quality from 20 years agopeak brain damage
