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If you're gonna go off-topic, I wanna join.

How absolutely terrible is the box where you write the emails in web Gmail? I get you need more features than what a simple <textarea> provides, but how can a trillion dollar company make such an absolutely broken piece of crap as the most important part of one of their key products? You delete something and the cursor goes to the end of the email. You ctrl-z and the cursor goes before the first character of the email, not before modifying a string of a completely random length. Like a year ago, and for like a month, there was an area on the right side that didn't accept any clicks at all. Native keyboard shortcuts constantly violated.

We figured out WYSIWYG decades ago, how can it be this bad? I've resorted to writing my emails on a notepad app and pasting them when they are done. I thought it had to be an issue with some browser extensions or something, because I've never heard anyone else complaining about it, but no, it really is that bad.


I’ll pile on this one. I’ve never quite figured out some of the common formatting icons they use. Text color and text background fill color I guess wrong every single time and think “why is that icon used for that”. I can never find how to edit bullet types. Simple stuff that I never struggle to locate and identify in any other application

I commented somewhere else already, but you can search directly from qBittorrent. Search by title, then filter by "Remux" or sort by size. Keep in mind tho that a blu-ray release must exist in the first place, and that some 4k blu-rays are just not very good to begin with (upscaling and what not).

I haven't visited a torrent site since I found out I could search for them from within qBittorrent.

I don't think I'd prefer this, tbh. I would want to see the whole topic information when choosing what exact torrent to download. Is it marked "verified" or "questionable"? If it's "questionable", is it for some arbitrary formality, or something like "the audio is desynced"? Are there many different dubs (because I'd rather prefer not to have them, as they're bloating the files?)...

After a certain point, you get a sense of which release groups to trust or not.

Not to mention you can just open the download page from within qBittorrent.


But how are you trusting that it's actually that group

When it comes to movies/shows, I generally just trust the listing; there's no real risk, particularly as I'm not a quality whore.

For games/programs, I'll mostly just check the download page to ensure it's from a verified, trustworthy group.

Mostly though, I've never felt the need to be as paranoid as some people suggest one must be when torrenting; despite doing this for 20+ years, I've not had any incidents since I was about 12 years old.


I had no idea! As much as I appreciate TPB, their ads are cursed.

You browse torrent sites without uBlock Origin?

You use anything on the web without uBlock Origin?

They are cursed even with it.

wtf you talk about? here's my example of searching latest euphoria episode:

i.postimg.cc/tJ2tMJYm/pb-example.jpg

Do you see any ads there?

You mean you don't use Firefox? Then that's on you bro!!


They all do have auto firing things that would not necessarily show on a screenshot. It's a cat and mouse game between these sites and filter maintainers.

But even for those I recommend the popup blocker strict extension.


This a good point but, do you browse torrent sites? There are much better tools available these days, than torrent sites. I mean, it was always the case that Usenet was quicker but even with that, there's options available such as the *Arr stack.

I only used Rutracker and Rarbg (rip), TPB felt sketchier. I wonder what's the "prime" English-language public tracker now? 1337?

1337 is OK. Rarbg too. For movies, nothing beats YTS imo.

I might be misremembering, but wasn't YIFY/YTS known for their awful quality ultra compressed releases? I thought they closed down many years ago tho, so no idea if they are the same people or if they still focus on low-quality releases.

Yiffy/YTS was always about compressing the hell out of everything to fit it onto a CD!

Rarbg was shutdown last year or sometime thereabouts.

Nothing beats yts for shitty compression


Yeah, it did shut down :( Ever since, I haven't really found an English-speaking replacement. Rutracker has the absolute majority of what I need but doesn't have some newer American children's cartoons that I used to get from Rarbg. For example, one show had full seasons on Rarbg, but only individual episodes on 1337 (of which none are from the newest season), and Rutracker only has the first two seasons, only with a TV dub and in a horrific quality :/

tpb.party works without JS. It's the main mirror I use.

I've never seen a torrent site that had things marked.

Not those exact markings, but TPB does have user-markings displayed that can serve as a vouch for credibility.

- Normal User, no special status (No Skull) - Trusted (Pink Skull) - VIP (Green Skull) - Helper (Blue Skull, Legacy) - Moderator (Black MOD Tag) - Super Moderator (Red MOD Tag) - Administrator (Black ADMIN Tag)

https://pirates-forum.org/Thread-ThePirateBay-Want-Trusted-V...


Weird, I don't think I have ever seen that. Granted, I'm not a frequent user of TPB.

What he is describing is how Rutracker does things.

Perhaps you could try visiting the famous one mentioned in the headline.

You can? Tell me how

You can turn it on in `View -> Search engine`. Then a new tab will appear next to the main transfers one. You can (have to?) add search plugins, which is done from the same search tab (look for a button in the bottom right). And I think to remember you need to have Python installed for the search tab to work, but qBittorrent should prompt you automatically for it.

I might be misremembering something, so ask again if something I said didn't work or wasn't where I said.

Free extra tip: did you know qBittorrent has support for themes? I got a pretty clean dark theme one, but no way I can remember the name or where I found it.

I love qBittorrent.


You can take that a step further and integrate it with Jackett: https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

I’ll have to check that out. Do you need tracker lists or something?

I think you can add add-ons for additional trackers, even private ones I think, but I've always just used the ones that qBittorrent comes with and I can find almost everything I look for.

There are bets everyday, so no matter when the ban is announced, you can always attach a conspiracy to it.


Most of Spain did not even know polymarket existed until a couple of days ago.


Also, most of Spain can walk to a functioning casino which will be more than willing to take all sorts of odd prop bets.


Not sure how you want me to respond to that. Are you getting that from a feel of yours or some statistical analysis of familiarity with polymarket in Spain? I don't think it matters much anyway, I bet most human beings don't know what polymarket is. But still, you think it warrants a conspiracy? To what end? None of this makes much sense to me.


I'd say based on vibes too, it seems to have gotten more common subject to talk about, also on TV, news and so on. It was virtually not talked about a year ago, compared to today.

Google Trends seems to agree too: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=polymarket&date=today%20...


I really doubt that's as general of an occurrence as you make it up to be. There's a particular government process I can only do on Edge (no other browser works, chromium or not). For a certain login process in a different branch of government I can use Vivaldi or Firefox, but not Edge. I don't think you can single out a browser for this kind of thing.


Interestingly, the video on the announcement also starts with some papers and a toy car on a wooden table exploding like those jenga pieces.


> Websites may go back to being simply labors of love.

If I'm gonna lose my job, at least give me that in return


Lee Pace is just bigger than life, and Mackenzie Davis is electric in every scene, but my favourite on the show was Scoot McNairy's character. A very specific type of nerd that's rarely written with such depth and nuance. Although I guess that could be said of all the main (and not so main) characters in the show.

If anyone else loved these actors watching HACF, I would recommend watching The Fall (Pace), Fargo S3 (McNairy) and Station Eleven (Davis).


(Lived the HACF era/story personally, so it was a poignant watch.)

What HACF got right, imho, was the collection of the various personalities that were attracted to the rising computer technology, of the era.

I've known plenty of Joe's and Camerons and Donna's, but the ones I chose to remember were the Gordons .. alas, there are the odd Gilfoyle and Josh stains among the sheets of memory too, though ..


> Scoot McNairy's character. A very specific type of nerd that's rarely written with such depth and nuance.

AGREED! I became an instant favorite of that actor just from this part. I'm the rare nerd type who is extremely outgoing and comfortable in any kind of social situation, very capable of getting along and communicating with both the business types and nerds, but I'm still extremely technical to a degree that surprises the jocks and the nerds. "Gordon", the character, is the exact type of nerd that I wind up getting along best with, and I loved that character in the show.


That's correct AFAIK, submissions can't be downvoted.

If anyone's interested, here's a list of undocumented HN features/rules (although I don't know how up to date it is): https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented


Have you been unable to find a DE or a DE theme with that type of UI/UX? I haven't looked into it, since I don't have these issues and prefer a more modern look, but surely there must be options out there if that's what you want.


I think the parent is lamenting the lack of this in a commercially viable DE, like MacOS or Windows.

As much as it pains me to say it: custom Linux distros are not often deployed en masse. Especially not the ones that “look old”.


SerenityOS is the most well known but it's a fully custom operating system of its own. For Linux you can install the chicago95 theme (includes a widget set for GTK+3) and the b00merang GTK+4 theme (doesn't help with excess padding unfortunately, but it still has proper high-contrast 3D for the widgets and color for the headerbar. The mobile-friendly responsive UX of new GTK+4 apps actually works great with the traditional 3D look.)


The latest KDE with a suitable theme actually comes quite close.


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