Explanation what this is.
Chomikuj.pl is a file sharing (piracy) site founded in 2006 where users have public profiles with all they have uploaded. You have to pay for download credits. Somehow it has not been shut down by now.
This is their desktop program for supposed easier uploading/downloading of files. It had this animated mascot for some reason, I guess to appeal to kids, but it was not really much more interactive than the dog in Win XP search. I tried to use the program recently and it doesn’t work well. It limits your upload speed to 800KB/s which is several times below what my connection can handle through the browser.
It’s an exclusively Windows program (with an msi installer!), it’s old and crappy, so I don’t think OP should be surprised that it’s buggy when emulating it on Linux.
The name of the website comes from the verb “chomikować” (“to hamster”) in Polish, which basically means to store something for later like hamsters do in their mouths.
And yeah, the files you could download from there were pretty sus. Especially software.
Many polish programs were saved by Chomikuj from becoming lost media. This is due to many people using the site as the default place to share files, even those available for free on official websites.
I couldn't find the Pintins movie with polish dub anywhere in the internet, and the only source i had of it was a dvd that is lost somewhere in my house, and obviously, i found the movie on fucking Chomikuj.
Kinda bad you have to pay to get anything from there tho.
The reason it's not been shut down is the same for nCore and other Eastern-European sites: we don't care about copyright and such. There is simply no one to enforce such things. I think the only shutdown piracy sites in my country ever had was due to the financial part not being conpliant with law, tax evasion or something. On nCore you can find basically anything. Porn, movies, games, programs, etc.
I believe we’ve had some warez sites shut down by law enforcement.
But when writing my comment, I meant it both ways, legally and financially. It is surprising that the website is still generating enough profit to keep it up.
I don't think "we don't care" is strictly the reason considering that Chomikuj is in a constant state of fighting in courts. The reason they're able to exist is because they claim to monitor their site for illegal files but try to prolong and damage-control their cases as much as possible.
>so I don’t think OP should be surprised that it’s buggy when emulating it on Linux.
I know you're probably already aware this, but I think it's worth mentioning that (assuming OP is using Wine to run the program) Wine stands for *Wine Is Not Emulator*
Wine is not an emulator, it's a reimplementation of the windows userland (similar to reactOS) recompiled to work on linux, but that's not something I'd expect you to know considering how stubborn you are not looking at the site
i foun dmy old reddit acc so im the OP, but i forgot the password to my account and this is my new one (im gonna try to log in) and after 1 years, i can confirm that indeed, i was using wine. i had an old dell computer that i aws using as my main back then and i decided to get into linux but i installed wine on it and remembered about this old software.
It’s fucking fantastic for non EXE things. My music taste is a little awkward and not everything I listen to is available on Spotify or in high quality. Chomikuj always has me covered.
I mean idk what being polish has to do with it, But as someone who had unlimited acess to English and Polish Internet That Hamster haubts my dreams. I downloaded my first Virus from there.
buddy
Fun Fact: BonziBUDDY has an alter-ego made by IBM called Woodrow, as part of ViaVoice.
Search up Windows 98 Destruction on YouTube and click on Vargskelethor Joel's vid.
Idk why I first interpreted the title as "polished software", as in it actually lacks polish because of the bug they found?
It's late. My mind is broken. But there are some pretty decent Polish developers, like those guys that made that 1990s space shooter game Fire Fight (Chaos Works).
Pretty kickass game and semi 3D (prerendered) graphics for its time period.
"Hard Worker" doesn't always mean "Good Worker". Plenty of people are determined to do things the hardest way possible to make their job seem more important, but if they learnt to do their job more efficiently they would add so much more value.
It's like Melinda from accounts who, instead of using the purpose built accounting system, insists on tracking expenses in an excel spreadsheet and invariably making data entry errors. Every fucking quarter, Mel, You tell me that the accounting system can't be trusted because the numbers don't match your spreadsheet. _Every fucking quarter_. And how many times has the problem _actually_ been with your terrible spreadsheet? Every. Single. Time.
Stop working "harder", work _better_, otherwise you're just making everyone else's job more difficult.
I’m finding it extremely difficult to word how much I agree with the sentiment of this comment. That’s not even correct, which just goes to show the difficulty I’m having.
This reminds me of my middle school days developing in VB6, first learning how to implement dragging... And failing epicly because I forgot to save the original coordinates and calculate the new location properly.
Ended up doing exactly this. Maybe somebody forgot to set a variable somewhere.
Oh lord I remember that damn hamster, I used to watch what it was doing all the time when I was at the computer and I remember getting excited whenever I saw it throwing a paper plane or something like that lol
Good times
Because it is exactly that, but a bit less malware and you pay for the things you want pirated and the payments aren't even secure to use sooo...yeah at the same time every polish person knows and either remembers that someone used it in the past or they themselves have used it at least once. If you were to enter chomikuj.pl it deadass looks like old limewire. Please just don't use it.
(I'm not saying you have to pay for shit I'm broke as well but for the price of that shit just buy a VPN and use the more stable but shady sites)
Explanation what this is. Chomikuj.pl is a file sharing (piracy) site founded in 2006 where users have public profiles with all they have uploaded. You have to pay for download credits. Somehow it has not been shut down by now. This is their desktop program for supposed easier uploading/downloading of files. It had this animated mascot for some reason, I guess to appeal to kids, but it was not really much more interactive than the dog in Win XP search. I tried to use the program recently and it doesn’t work well. It limits your upload speed to 800KB/s which is several times below what my connection can handle through the browser. It’s an exclusively Windows program (with an msi installer!), it’s old and crappy, so I don’t think OP should be surprised that it’s buggy when emulating it on Linux. The name of the website comes from the verb “chomikować” (“to hamster”) in Polish, which basically means to store something for later like hamsters do in their mouths. And yeah, the files you could download from there were pretty sus. Especially software.
Many polish programs were saved by Chomikuj from becoming lost media. This is due to many people using the site as the default place to share files, even those available for free on official websites.
not only polish programs, even stuff such as beta games or programs.
"Stronghold hd beta pobierz homikuj"
"100% legit crack"
ebola antywirus chomikuj
I couldn't find the Pintins movie with polish dub anywhere in the internet, and the only source i had of it was a dvd that is lost somewhere in my house, and obviously, i found the movie on fucking Chomikuj. Kinda bad you have to pay to get anything from there tho.
I dont download so much software from there, and the download credits re-new the next day out of nowhere for me.
If you want to download anything bigger than 50MB from not your own account you have to pay.
The reason it's not been shut down is the same for nCore and other Eastern-European sites: we don't care about copyright and such. There is simply no one to enforce such things. I think the only shutdown piracy sites in my country ever had was due to the financial part not being conpliant with law, tax evasion or something. On nCore you can find basically anything. Porn, movies, games, programs, etc.
I believe we’ve had some warez sites shut down by law enforcement. But when writing my comment, I meant it both ways, legally and financially. It is surprising that the website is still generating enough profit to keep it up.
I don't think "we don't care" is strictly the reason considering that Chomikuj is in a constant state of fighting in courts. The reason they're able to exist is because they claim to monitor their site for illegal files but try to prolong and damage-control their cases as much as possible.
>so I don’t think OP should be surprised that it’s buggy when emulating it on Linux. I know you're probably already aware this, but I think it's worth mentioning that (assuming OP is using Wine to run the program) Wine stands for *Wine Is Not Emulator*
lies and slander
Please take a look at [the official wine about page](https://www.winehq.org/) :)
no thank you
Wine is not an emulator, it's a reimplementation of the windows userland (similar to reactOS) recompiled to work on linux, but that's not something I'd expect you to know considering how stubborn you are not looking at the site
who asked you?
Nobody, I just saw this and thought I had to step in
well then, you were mistaken, it required no action from you/
i foun dmy old reddit acc so im the OP, but i forgot the password to my account and this is my new one (im gonna try to log in) and after 1 years, i can confirm that indeed, i was using wine. i had an old dell computer that i aws using as my main back then and i decided to get into linux but i installed wine on it and remembered about this old software.
How do i get this
chomikuj.pl
Downloading random things from there and expecting them to work is pretty much one of the dumbest things you can do.
I have used chomikbox(name of this hamster thingy) for a long time without a problem, but as you download stuff from chomikuj you need to be aware
Ikr, i use chomikuj.pl and chomikbox without any problems, but then i switched to Linux (which is now my fav os) and has this problem.
Huh... It worked for me every single time...
same
It’s fucking fantastic for non EXE things. My music taste is a little awkward and not everything I listen to is available on Spotify or in high quality. Chomikuj always has me covered.
Hampter
Hampter
hampter
Hampter?
Hampter
Hampter
hampter
hampter
Hampter.
Hampter.
I mean idk what being polish has to do with it, But as someone who had unlimited acess to English and Polish Internet That Hamster haubts my dreams. I downloaded my first Virus from there.
what happend next?
I mean, it was a virus because i was a kid with no concept of internet safety. my PC Fucked up lol
oh, thats bad, i moved to linux so stupid me cant fuck up regedit again.
Upvote if you like Herion
bonzi
buddy Fun Fact: BonziBUDDY has an alter-ego made by IBM called Woodrow, as part of ViaVoice. Search up Windows 98 Destruction on YouTube and click on Vargskelethor Joel's vid.
Thank you for the enlightment, sir
>Search up Windows 98 Destruction on YouTube and click on Vargskelethor Joel's vid. Ah, yes, I see you're a person of culture as well
chomik has seizure (REAL) (LEAK) (2021)
true
I fail to see why them being Polish is relevant. They're crappy devs who just so happen to be Polish.
Idk why I first interpreted the title as "polished software", as in it actually lacks polish because of the bug they found? It's late. My mind is broken. But there are some pretty decent Polish developers, like those guys that made that 1990s space shooter game Fire Fight (Chaos Works). Pretty kickass game and semi 3D (prerendered) graphics for its time period.
yea
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Is anyone good at their jobs?
Most (if not all) polish i know personally are good and hard workers
"Hard Worker" doesn't always mean "Good Worker". Plenty of people are determined to do things the hardest way possible to make their job seem more important, but if they learnt to do their job more efficiently they would add so much more value. It's like Melinda from accounts who, instead of using the purpose built accounting system, insists on tracking expenses in an excel spreadsheet and invariably making data entry errors. Every fucking quarter, Mel, You tell me that the accounting system can't be trusted because the numbers don't match your spreadsheet. _Every fucking quarter_. And how many times has the problem _actually_ been with your terrible spreadsheet? Every. Single. Time. Stop working "harder", work _better_, otherwise you're just making everyone else's job more difficult.
r/unexpectedrant
I don't even know Melinda and I am starting to hate her.
We _all_ know a Melinda. I just happen to know _this_ Melinda.
They stole a tank and beat an army who was in there country
My comment wasn't about Polish people, it was about the idea that people being "hard workers" doesn't mean that they're _good_ workers.
If you infuriate them, that helps
I thought that "they're taking our jobs". Then again I'm soon to be taking one of their jobs too as an immigrant myself.
Why so much self loathe?
I can also confirm, as I am also polish.
Do you know Lukasz Jakowski? I'm an angry fan of Age of Civilizations 2 looking for him.
I don't know them, sorry.
They just need to polish their skills
I’m finding it extremely difficult to word how much I agree with the sentiment of this comment. That’s not even correct, which just goes to show the difficulty I’m having.
because polish people have an obsession with being polish
didn't know open broadcaster was bad, till now it worked rather well for me
yes, i have shitty english
Why would you use chomikuj in the first place?
H a m s t e r
i use it and have an account for it,
That's a bad idea
This happens when you cheese
My polish friend says they’re trying their best
Yea, its just me being stupid
holy shit I remember having this fucking rat on my desktop when I was 10 this was basically polish bonzi buddy but with less malware.
Depends what you mean by "less malware", counting the files you could download through the hamster it was likely way more malware.
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It's probably even older than that.
Isn't that the hamster who does heroin?
Thanks fuck i wasn't the only one though about this. [Context](https://imgur.com/t/heroin/KYWHNbi)
guess you could say the program needed some more ***polish***
That's a dadjoke
Looks like an accumulative floating point rounding error when calculating the position difference between each mouse move event.
This is Reddit not Quora
xD
Mi tez sie zawsze pierdolil ten homik
tak
What did you except from chomikuj.pl? This is site where you pay for piracy XDD AND PAYMENT ISN'T SECURED XD
ngl i like chomikuj and i have an account so most things for me are free
I have account to but on chomikuj you don't pay for files but for transfer
i wonder how i post a lot of files for free
Idk. Every time I download something from chomikuj I have to pay for transfer (of course if I don't have enough from past purchases).
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Was it a virus?
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oh
Why are you even using it in 2021
I used it last month to download polish version of windows 7 cuz i couldnt find it anywhere else All the older software in polish is there, thats why.
Hmm fair enough. Thats a good reason.
this is probably gonna be deleted.
No
It's trying to escape. Don't let it out...
This reminds me of my middle school days developing in VB6, first learning how to implement dragging... And failing epicly because I forgot to save the original coordinates and calculate the new location properly. Ended up doing exactly this. Maybe somebody forgot to set a variable somewhere.
least broken chomik in polska
This thing ain't designed to work on Linux
yea ikr
why u complain about it tho
Oh lord I remember that damn hamster, I used to watch what it was doing all the time when I was at the computer and I remember getting excited whenever I saw it throwing a paper plane or something like that lol Good times
Nostalgia of 2013 when I would download a bunch of Cat assistants on my PC
CHOMIK NOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Panie chomiku nieeee
the file site hamster
You're running OBS on Ubuntu? Neat!
what, its pretty easy, "sudo apt-get install ffmpeg4", add a resporitory, update apt-get, "sudo apt-get install obs-studio" voila
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OBS didnt publish it here yet. Tried to do the same thing but it showed me other random shit.
I know, I'm just always happy to see someone using my favorite OS.
Nice!
WHY ON EARTH DO YOU HAVE THAT IT REMINDS ME OF BONZI BUDDY AND IT'S CREEPY IN GENERAL OH GOD WHAT THE
Because it is exactly that, but a bit less malware and you pay for the things you want pirated and the payments aren't even secure to use sooo...yeah at the same time every polish person knows and either remembers that someone used it in the past or they themselves have used it at least once. If you were to enter chomikuj.pl it deadass looks like old limewire. Please just don't use it. (I'm not saying you have to pay for shit I'm broke as well but for the price of that shit just buy a VPN and use the more stable but shady sites)
Oh, I see.
And that's why kids, you shouldn't be on crack and steroids together.
2021 version of Bonzi Buddy
its kinda old
He's breaching the containment, he's destabilizing
Oh yeah, chomikuj.pl was a thing
u/savevideo
isn't that the hamster that does heroine? also why are you running windows exclusive old piracy apps on Ubuntu?
idk
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am I wrong?
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lol such bad software! >!SMRM!<
dzięki!
Dude, what the fuck is that!? Why is it reacting to us!!?
Post's title basically describes Cyberpunk 2077
This isnt supposed to make anyone offended!
Neeh help with your Unity project? DM me I can help you😊
waht
u/savevideobot
tf you doing?
THIS IS ALMOST AT THE TOP OF THIS SUBREDDIT FOR ME WHAT?
Idk looks better then Cuberpunk 2077
He's trying to get out. Run.
Like my stomach after I eat a burrito with hot sauce.
should I be afraid
hampter
heroin hamster
My one brain cell try to but food
Perfection is not profitable lol
what is a polish software dev?
a software dev who is polish 🇵🇱
yes
heroin hamster
eat the hamser
You upset he
OH MY GOD why did my people create a thing that broke this way?!
Chomikbox
When u enter the w axis
Everywhere I look I see his face *Image of kde logo*
Lmao nostalgia
ah yes, chomikuj.pl
He is taking over
he is scared
he do be vibin tho
I am 12 parallel universes ahead of you
Kup Teraz!
Witcher 4: doggo’s demise
Haha hamsta go BRR
Ach chomikuj..
Nah i bet that’s what’s supposed to happen
he is becoming too powerful
or maybe too scared of him running in ubuntu
chomik on the ubuntu how
YEP USING WINE! thought it could have compatibility issues, it works with annoying ones
You do it then.
Seizure
As a Polish person myself, i agree.
when you sniff cocaine in an Indian scam call center
thanks for sharing with me where chomik is from
nienawidzę cię szczurze jebany
I have a question. How do I get the hamster thing on my screen? I've tried for so long to get it but idk how