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aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Torrents have little to offer when you aren’t pirating bulky media files. And don’t track frequent release versions, code repos, or integrate with distribution packaging ecosystems.

Is there any practical reason they would offer torrent downloads?

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ozymandias117@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Windows uses them by default for updates (they call it “Delivery Optimization”)

apt-p2p exists, but it’s not installed by default, so is unlikely to have enough peers to be useful

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- aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  ah, so Distribution bandwith naturally matching number of users requesting.
  
  I’m not sure if we are as bandwith constrained anymore
  
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