Posts made by eobox91103

@Kekkaishi said in Potential problem with ssd boot drive:

What could be the problem? and should I be wary of any early signs?
What would you recommend I do?

There are others on here who are more IT-savvy than I am, but I would suggest immediately backing up everything that you have--to two different places just to be safe. (Hard drives are super cheap these days.) If the problem is with your SSD, another glitch might prevent you from getting any data that's on that drive.

Two additional thoughts:

• I find that when I have boot problems, it helps to completely power off the machine (even unplug it) and let it soak for a few minutes in a dead state, then reboot into safe mode. It sounds like this also worked for you.

• At eight years of age, your computer might not be ready for recycling, but in the next few years will be. I find that a really good machine with a lot of capability will last longer than a big-box store sale model. The computer I'm using right now is a high end desktop workstation that I got in 2013, and it's doing just fine. I have replaced both the power supply and graphics card (both had failed cooling fans), but otherwise it has all the capability I need. It was born with Windows 7 (64 bit), and is now happily running Windows 10.

@bi4smooth Thank you for putting a spoiler alert at the beginning of your first posting: I always enjoy reading your material, but I haven't seen any of this series yet, so I squinted past your comments. At some point I will take the plunge...or at least dip my toe in the water. I don't consider myself a Trekkie, but I have enjoyed the original series, next generation, and Voyager. (I found DS9 and Enterprise quite uninteresting, based on a very small sample.)

My house in the US has cable, Netflix, and Amazon Prime; I think I need something else to get Discovery. Next time I'm there, I'll check around.

@bi4smooth said in nothing works:

So, since we've recently re-launched the service at a new domain name (.rent vs .ru), it is safe to assume that all of your currently seeding torrents using the .ru domain SHOULD be re-downloaded with the .rend domain to ensure their long-lasting presence here. ESPECIALLY true for your uploads!

I was hoping to avoid doing this, as I have quite a few .ru torrents hovering in my client. I'm probably overdue for housekeeping anyway.

the ACTUAL xfer of data is NOT "through" the tracker, but rather from seeder's PC to leecher's PC

I sometimes refer to the tracker as a "matchmaker," and a good matchmaker will not go along on a date with the couple.

@bi4smooth said in nothing works:

For those torrents you already have - and WERE seeding - try re-downloading the .torrent file.

Is this issue related to the .ru to .rent conversion? I have some torrents in my client with the .ru tracker that are seeding just fine; others are not seeding, but show a count for seeders and leechers, so they seem to be communicating with the current tracker even if there's no seed flow. If downloading the respective .rent torrents and adding those trackers to my client is necessary to keep them alive, I can do that...but I don't think I need to. Thoughts?

@raphjd I watched the first season of this, and it was pleasant enough. But the main theme of the series was the coming out of the young couple, and since that's been largely accomplished, I don't know what another two seasons would offer.

After watching the programme, I did a bit of web-searching to get some back story, and saw in one article (I don't remember where) that the director followed a strict policy of casting people in line with the character's orientation: A gay character would only be played by a gay actor, while a bi character would only be played by a bi actor. Supposedly this was to give more authenticity to the performance, although there's a long--and successful--history of straight characters played by gay actors, and vice versa. That's why it's called "acting."

I will be curious to see the next two seasons, and I look forward to their release.

@kco said in Handling "dead" torrents.:

I've got "some" unregistered torrents. (As reported by the tracker)
That means:
. taken down?

"Unregistered torrent" usually means that the site has deleted the torrent--most likely because of a takedown request, but there can be other reasons. Once it's gone from the system, the tracker will no longer play matchmaker between you as a seeder and others who are leeching the torrent. But, if you were connected to other leechers when it was taken down, you'll be able to continue seeding to those specific leechers. The tracker is out of the loop at this point, and you won't get upload credit for whatever you're seeding...but will get the satisfaction of sharing your own seed with someone else. (The same situation is true in reverse if you were leeching material--if you were connected to seeders when the torrent was deleted from the tracker, you'll still be able to leech from them as long as they keep the torrent alive in their client.)

Why I don't delete them? Because sometimes torrents "revive".

Strictly speaking, a torrent that is removed won't "revive." But, if the original uploader (or someone who has snatched all of the content) uploads a new torrent with the same name and file contents, it will look similar enough to the tracker that if you still have the original torrent in your client, the tracker will connect to it and you can resume seeding to new leechers. While in my experience this doesn't happen very often, I will keep a dead torrent active in my client for a few days to see if a replacement torrent is uploaded. If this hasn't happened in a week, I'll delete the torrent from my client, and archive or delete any downloaded material.

@stam8 said in Being attracted to Straight Guys but it's a bad thing now?:

Where do you usually find them?

The cop was in a gay chat room; the other guy was from a gay hookup site. The cop was open about his situation from the beginning; the other guy only said he wanted to "give oral" and then hit me with the camera thing when I got there. Those are the only two "straight" guys I've hooked up with--that I know of.

I haven't had any experience lately because of the pandemic and just worried about catching anything in general.

Same here. Somehow asking for proof of vaccination and a recent covid test seems like a mood-breaker, even if it is just a hookup.

@stam8 said in Being attracted to Straight Guys but it's a bad thing now?:

There seems to be a little bit of a pushback from other gays, maybe due to the g4p models too taking over jobs from gay models.

There's "gay for pay," and "gay for play." I use the latter category to describe guys who are emotionally/psychologically attracted to women, but enjoy the physical sensation of sex with guys. Such as:

1. One buddy of mine is a police officer (who would sometimes show up in uniform, although that's not a fetish of mine). He's married, has a couple of kids, but enjoys getting fucked. It's always doggy style, and he's not looking at me...but he loves getting his prostate tickled. It's not the best hookup in the world, but still enjoyable for both of us.

2. Another guy I met a few times (at his place) was also married, but he wanted to suck cock. He said he was neutral about "enjoying it," but that his wife really liked seeing him do it, and he would ask me to hold a camera or phone to do a POV shot of him sucking (which wouldn't show my face). This seemed a bit weird, but he definitely knew what he was doing, so I was fine with it. One time, though, we were in his bedroom, and I heard a rustling in the closet: It turned out that his wife was in there watching us through a hole in the door. I zipped up and left, and I never went back.

@bi4smooth said in Help me with this torrent.:

Just a note: there is no value in deleting the DATA when you remove a torrent to re-download it.

Good point--I think I was on autopilot when I typed this. Deleting torrent + data is my default when cleaning out my torrent data folder after I've archived any downloads to another location. In the case of a "stillborn" torrent, there wouldn't have been any data so nothing was lost.

On a related note, a couple of days ago I had another one of these "won't start" torrents. I was reluctant to delete it and start over as I had carefully selected about 10% of the many files for downloading, and I didn't want to do that over again. I let things be, and after two days or so the torrent started up and I got the stuff I wanted. That's a longer delay than usual, but patience paid off.

(Who was it that said, "Lord, give me patience, and give it to me NOW?")

@serdue0 said in Help me with this torrent.:

@eobox91103 what option did you choose when deleting the torrent?

I use uTorrent with Windows 10: I right-click on the torrent in the client listing, and select "Remove and delete torrent + data." Then I'll download the torrent again and start over.

With other torrent clients and/or a Mac, it's probably similar, but perhaps another user can weigh in if this doesn't work for you.

I've had this happen a few times. Often it fix itself in a while (maybe an hour or two) and start seeding. Other times, I've deleted the torrent and then downloaded it again and it works fine.

@kulmel36 If you didn't choose to download all of the files in the torrent (i.e., if you de-selected some that you didn't want), that tracker software will consider you to be leeching the torrent even though you have downloaded the bits that you want. This will take up one of your download slots. There's no way around this other than to remove this torrent from your active torrent list, but that also means that you won't be able to seed to other users and get credit for that.

@gabisev said in Does anyone know the name of these actors?:

Shane Hirch

Shane Hirch is also casted as Ramon Macchio, Honza Onus, and other names; see https://pbc.xxx/wiki/Honza_Onus .

@kalayaan said in Who are these two guys?:

That is Masyn Thorne and Joe Prior from Man Royale "Dick Too Big For Anal"

Thanks very much! You are "Hero of the Day."

I thought the guy with glasses might be Johnny Hands, and the guy with longer hair might be Justin Owen, but the tattoos and birthmarks don't correspond.

You get extra credit (or at least my appreciation) if you can identify this video, and any others with these guys on the site. (This stills are from a low quality video from a tube site, called siimply "Bros Having Fun.")

@blissful1011 said in How to download specific file from a torrent:

how do i get more peers

The peers are other users who are seeding the torrent. In some way that I don't fully understand, your torrent client negotiates with the tracker (at gaytor.rent) and hooks you up with other seeders. You won't necessarily be connected with every other seeder. I don't know if there's a way to get the tracker to connect you to more seeders...perhaps another user can chime in.

I re-read your OP, and I think I misunderstood what you were asking. I can't edit my post, so I'll try again.
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If the torrent uploader neglected to include a folder of thumbnails/previews, there's no way to get that out of the system. You might add a comment to the torrent page like, "Thank you for sharing your material. It would be more useful to members if you included a folder of thumbnails/previews. There is good software for doing this available at https://funk.eu/amt/ ."

@blissful1011 Hi blissful, and welcum I think you have two questions:

How to download just one file from many in a torrent? This depends on what torrent client (software) you're using. I use uTorrent; when I open a torrent file it gives me a list of all the files available in the torrent, and I can tick/untick a box next to each file. Other torrent clients are probably similar. I find that if I download only a part of large collection of files, I will seed that material very quickly, and it helps my ratio. One thing to remember, though, is that even if you complete the download of your selected files, the system will still consider you as a leecher on that torrent--and this can be a problem if you have a small limit on the number of torrents that you can have downloading at once. You can find your limit of downloaded torrents by going to https://www.gaytor.rent/rules.php#96.

How to know which file to download from a collection with non-descriptive file names? This is often a problem. A good torrent uploader will include a folder of thumbnail images from the videos in the torrent. This is very easy to do, but many uploaders don't do it. I share your frustration. Sometimes I'll download just a few files (usually the smaller ones) to see if the material is something I like.

@ichbins I suggest that you check the torrent listing frequently, and download a freeleech torrent when it appears--especially one that shows a lot of leechers. Even if it's not something that you want to keep, you will get upload credit for whatever you seed.