I’m on MAM + other private trackers. MAM isn’t particularly strict on rules, and it’s ridiculously easy to have a positive ratio there what with all the freebies.

Private trackers are designed to make sure there’s always plenty of seeders. They mostly do that by enforcing that people maintain a certain ratio - i.e. don’t just hit and run. (There’s other advantages like that you can request re-seeds and the system will message previous seeders but that’s besides the point) You can’t force people to maintain ratio if it’s easy to game the system - that’s why there are these rules about IP addresses.

Many torrent clients are broken, or just lie about their upload stats. Those clients are banned, as are other that are broken in ways that cause others problems. Phones are a terrible source to download from - signal issues, limiting battery usage, etc. They just waste download slots that could be used for real clients on real connections.

Where is all the freedom on that shit?

Are you serious? You’re getting this stuff completely for free and you’re whining that there’s a few house rules. Entitled, much?

I want to see this from other angles. Obviously, this is the only one that looks good.

I think it starts with worshipping a flag in school.

I disagreed until you pointed that out.

More than 10% but less than 30%? They initially said that they only downloaded, but now their argument seems to be they uploaded little enough that no-one got a complete copy of anything from them.

America, why do they keep adding the America word America?

Having the file is the first step in removing the DRM - you can set DeDRM up as a plugin in Calibre to strip DRM automatically when you add the AWZ3/KFX file to your library.

I find stereo mixes are better for more smooth audio levels - if you get a surround mix (assuming you don’t have a surround sound system), then the centre channel is too quiet in the downmix. You might be able to boost the centre volume, which depends on your setup.

I mostly use private trackers, and normally the only stereo is in multi-track releases so you will waste a bit of storage there (plus they tend to be larger, high quality files).

Why is this NSFW?

Ball dance of the apocalypse.

There’s two tiny heads inside the hoodie. It’s like in cartoons where small characters stand on each others shoulders in a trenchcoat.

I find there’s aot of bad advice around shoes - particularly the idea that lots of padding and support is helpful.

I went to a physio who said my feet were flat and wanted to sell me inserts/special shoes. I instead fixed that with stretches and exercise.

It’s like if I’d complained that my arm hurts when lifting something heavy and instead of looking at my form and helping build up the muscles they said “just wear this sling”.

I’m getting on in years and all my other runner friends have bad knees, but I wear minimal shoes and have good barefoot form.

Got a bit off topic… yes, walking is great for losing weight as the body doesn’t seem to consider it as exercise - it doesn’t compensate by being lazy afterwards (which it does for most exercise).