Frank Dana

@as-muncher Ohhh-kay, wow, there's a lot there. Well, without turning this into a deep dive on decentralized, distributed peer-to-peer file sharing and replication, a few notes... > @ferdnyc You bring...

> Ohhh-kay, wow, there's a lot there. Well, without turning this into a deep dive on decentralized, distributed peer-to-peer file sharing and replication, a few notes... And by "a few...

> You should absolutely never, ever have two torrents **downloading** to the same files at the same time. They will get in each other's way and likely cause lots of...

> For the whys and wherefores on how that works and why it needs to be that way, it's important to understand that your torrent client _doesn't have control_ over...

> @ferdnyc That's interesting about just letting BiglyBT do its thing and download whichever pieces it wants to when it wants to. At the risk of being overly precise, that...

Yeah, I don't seem to be able to make it happen, either. I really _thought_ I would be able to, but piece mode seems too smart for me. Here's how...

I don't think this is the 3D look — that wouldn't explain why the _text_ (which is drawn **on top** of the shaded bar) is also gray. Hey @johnvolfovits, you...

> When the GUI becomes unresponsive, is there any way I can cleanly shut down `biglybt` from the commandline? `kill ` doesn't seem to work in those instances. Yeah, that's...

> Normally, when BiglyBT is functioning normally Redundantly, when I make statements redundantly... 🙄

> But between shutdown and restart, part of what happens is the execution of the utility class `com.biglybt.platform.unix.ScriptAfterShutdown`, which is run by the _old_ launch script following an exit of...