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7.09 global but I do have a few files with over a 30 ratio

With a traditional download, examplesite.com sends a file to your computer, that's it.

With torrents, instead of that you download little pieces of the file from many different computers. Sometimes hundreds of different computers. Then once you've downloaded the file you can then start sharing pieces to other people downloading. The more people doing this, the faster the downloads will be for everyone else and the less strain it will put on each computer's Internet connection.

Also if not many people are seeding, there's a danger that the file will have 0 seeders and nobody can download it at all.

This is also why torrenting is good for privacy. Shutting down one website isn't so hard. Shutting down hundreds of random personally owned computers is very hard.

One of the things I like about my OnePlus 12

Best use is it allows me to control the A/C in my apartment complex's gym :)

Us instance admins appreciate it I promise

See email is one of the few things I don't host. I host a webmail frontend, and use my domain. But PurelyMail is an amazing service that's so cheap it's basically free at personal scale with very few limits. I didn't really care to try and deal with having all my mail sent to spam.

Same with the HP mini PC. But I have a $12/yr dotcom domain and a script on my server updates the DNS record anytime the IP changes.

Selling? I host things for myself, not others. Except my Lemmy instance I suppose, that's public.

Start selfhosting. I use my domain for tons of stuff

The end of the console gaming era?

Yeah I've had email verification on since the first bot signup wave like a year ago and we have a few on the list here.

Sigh...

I'll look into it. Thanks for pointing them out.

Most banks I've used allow SMS notifications for things like deposits and purchases.

The check things is true but I need to use it like less than once a year so eh.