My latest bounty
My latest bounty
Hello Pirates.
Let me tell you a tale of a bounty I am proud of partaking. I have installed Risk of Rain Returns on a fresh Arch Linux distro, Wayland (i also needed XWayland) , KDE plasma 6, and GPU-accelerated.
Moreover, I have used another laptop i have at my disposal to become a 24/7 i2p router, which is able to capture the warez that were necessary to perform this bounty. This bounty can be obtained without the use of a vpn, since the game can be downloaded from the i2p postman site.
Because it was an exe file, I had to take certain steps to allow it to execute on my system. I installed lutris, as well as the arch linux dependencies that it required, and launched the installation executable through lutris
This journey was not without its challenges and setbacks. One such challenge I had to face to secure this bounty was to install the xorg-xwayland-explicit-sync patch. The nvidia drivers 550 is weird when playing games through XWayland, because it would render frames out of order. Applying this patch, as well as using envycontrol to switch to nvidia mode (i am on a dual-gpu laptop) worked in fixing this issue
overall, I am happy with this bounty. I actually feel morally regretful when pirating games, more so than pirating movies, because of just how much sweat and tears developers had to put in to making it happen. But I am broke, and I have bought Risk of Rain and its DLC in the past, so in the moral calculus of piracy I think I've balanced it out. I am quite broke right now, however, so games are outside of my price point and I'd rather have something to eat.
I love i2p. There's so many cool warez in there, and I believe it's the future of piracy. It allows us to decouple ourselves from VPN providers, because who knows how long until they turn against us.
In hindsight, i probably should’ve sticked to the linux-lts kernel and used an older version of nvidia drivers that didn’t have the out-of-order frames issue
Why not use a more stable distro for a server machine like this one?
I’m a hobbyist so i don’t really care about stability. Arch is wonderful because of the wealth of packages. On debian based distros you have to mess around with adding repos, installing via .deb files, and maybe even building some obscure programs from source. But with arch 99% of the programs can be run either through pacman or yay, so there’s more of a unified way to upgrade and maintain packages on my system. So in a way, for my usecase, arch is actually quite stable :). EndeavourOS is also quite good, in my opinion endeavour is to arch as linux mint is to debian
Arch also has the Java implementation of i2p in the AUR. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/i2p.
Can you tell me how you got started with I2P? What exactly do you do with it?
easiest to get going is probably https://geti2p.net/en/download/easyinstall
when you get it running allow the router to run for a while. the longer you leave it running the better connected it'll become, it takes some time to get well connected into the network. torrenting right away is a good way to speedrun this since it'll discover a lot of peers this way. to browse eepsites (.i2p domains, kind of like .onion) router needs to be running, and need to change proxy settings in browser.
there are guides and plugins for this but basically you want to set http proxy to 127.0.0.1 port 4444. it will proxy everything through the router. clearnet sites should go through the default outproxy (stormycloud) but i2p isn't really build for clearnet browsing. if it's working should be able to visit an eepsite like http://notbob.i2p (has a registry of other eepsites). things like trackers, forums, git repositories can be found on notbob.
can setup irc through it (comes preconfigured) and has built in torrent client (i2psnark). can also setup email, java router has that built in, as well as a webserver to host your own site through i2p.
if you just want to torrent biglybt comes with a router on its own, settings under "i2p helper" plugin if you just want to torrent through it without all the other stuff.
good to hear, couple new uploaders have been popping up so maybe things will get more rounded
Thats cool but how long did it take to download the game? It mustve taken hours right? What were your router settings, 1 hop for speed or 3 for anonymity?
A couple of hours, it was only like 470 MB. Although I put in the torrent at night and let my dedicated router do its thing and it’s ready for me during the day. Theoretically you can get away with 1 hop but i don’t really care about speed; the torrent will complete sooner or later. For regular browsing of i2p 3 hops is recommended though. If i’m not paying for it i don’t complain about waiting tbh xD
I actually feel morally regretful when pirating games, more so than pirating movies, because of just how much sweat and tears developers had to put in to making it happen.
Be at peace my child.
my catholic upbringing forbids me T_T