Movies & TV

So, somebody on hexbear mentioned Stremio late last year/early this year.

(VPN, VPN, VPN, or whatever you do to anonymize your traffic. If your VPN is an app that has kill switches, turn them on for your torrent streamer or torrent client)

Its ... interesting. Its an app that functions like a streaming service but uses torrents. So you download and install Stremio, download whatever addons you want. Find and figure out how to install some addons that aren't listed in the Stremio app's Addons section (which I don't remember what I did, but I do remember it being way simpler than I was thinking). Then you're pretty much off to the races. Search for something you want to watch or browse a generic list of "what's hot", click on it, select a torrent from a list that is organized by Quality and number of seeders and click the play icon. If its something popular, there'll be a bunch of seeders and it won't take long to buffer enough to start playing or just hit the pause button (when its available) and go do some other stuff while it buffers/downloads. Doesn't seem to permanently save anything to your hard drive outside of temp files so when your computer turns off its gone and you don't have to worry about filling up a hardrive in a month long binge.

Things that have only a few seeders may take a while and it would be easier to torrent them.

Torrenting isn't too hard, i figured out how to use the Transmission client. Its a pretty bare bones thing. Go to a torrent site, search for what you want, check the seeders and other qualities of the download, copy the "Magnet" link, in the Transmission app click on the File -> Open URL -> paste the Magnet link into the Source: text box (itll be a long string of characters), set the download location, there's some checkboxes that I don't mess with, and click Open. It'll take a bit to find the seeders and start downloading (sometimes days if its something really niche). Once its done, you can watch the thing and/or keep the client open to start seeding it back.