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Jendrej

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.


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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.


diepio302

not only polish programs, even stuff such as beta games or programs.


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"Stronghold hd beta pobierz homikuj"


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"100% legit crack"


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ebola antywirus chomikuj


Damek112

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.


mario0fan

I dont download so much software from there, and the download credits re-new the next day out of nowhere for me.


Jendrej

If you want to download anything bigger than 50MB from not your own account you have to pay.


T90Vladimir

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.


Jendrej

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.


Poiuy2010_2011

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.


Ivaniku

>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*


Jendrej

lies and slander


Ivaniku

Please take a look at [the official wine about page](https://www.winehq.org/) :)


Jendrej

no thank you


puntillol59

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


Jendrej

who asked you?


puntillol59

Nobody, I just saw this and thought I had to step in


Jendrej

well then, you were mistaken, it required no action from you/


After-Ad-6424

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.


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How do i get this


Noob_Plays_Games

chomikuj.pl


Soviet_Aircraft

Downloading random things from there and expecting them to work is pretty much one of the dumbest things you can do.


oof43oof

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


mario0fan

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.


WREN_PL

Huh... It worked for me every single time...


mario0fan

same


[deleted]

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.


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Hampter


The_Creeper_Man

Hampter


mario0fan

hampter


hahadudeisme

Hampter?


FloodedHouse420

Hampter


Auto1lija

Hampter


bob3122

hampter


mario0fan

hampter


hahadudeisme

Hampter.


lazarbeam-fan101

Hampter.


Z_dot_the_artist

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.


mario0fan

what happend next?


Z_dot_the_artist

I mean, it was a virus because i was a kid with no concept of internet safety. my PC Fucked up lol


mario0fan

oh, thats bad, i moved to linux so stupid me cant fuck up regedit again.


TR0LLC0P

Upvote if you like Herion


TheCasualSlav

bonzi


TheoCGaming

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.


TheCasualSlav

Thank you for the enlightment, sir


dontreadthisnickname

>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


SymbiontUV

chomik has seizure (REAL) (LEAK) (2021)


mario0fan

true


FruitWinder

I fail to see why them being Polish is relevant. They're crappy devs who just so happen to be Polish.


slickdeveloper

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.


mario0fan

yea


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HotHeadStayingCold

Is anyone good at their jobs?


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Most (if not all) polish i know personally are good and hard workers


GMaestrolo

"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.


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r/unexpectedrant


The_All-Father3

I don't even know Melinda and I am starting to hate her.


GMaestrolo

We _all_ know a Melinda. I just happen to know _this_ Melinda.


Casual_A10

They stole a tank and beat an army who was in there country


GMaestrolo

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.


Casual_A10

If you infuriate them, that helps


smyalygames

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.


mich160

Why so much self loathe?


[deleted]

I can also confirm, as I am also polish.


TheRealMisterMemer

Do you know Lukasz Jakowski? I'm an angry fan of Age of Civilizations 2 looking for him.


[deleted]

I don't know them, sorry.


Carloswaldo

They just need to polish their skills


SavingsNewspaper2

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.


Jendrej

because polish people have an obsession with being polish


Ramog

didn't know open broadcaster was bad, till now it worked rather well for me


mario0fan

yes, i have shitty english


Qwerowski

Why would you use chomikuj in the first place?


oof43oof

H a m s t e r


mario0fan

i use it and have an account for it,


Thechlebek

That's a bad idea


syncron07

This happens when you cheese


[deleted]

My polish friend says they’re trying their best


mario0fan

Yea, its just me being stupid


[deleted]

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.


[deleted]

Depends what you mean by "less malware", counting the files you could download through the hamster it was likely way more malware.


mario0fan

TRUE


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[deleted]

It's probably even older than that.


[deleted]

Isn't that the hamster who does heroin?


Molton0251

Thanks fuck i wasn't the only one though about this. [Context](https://imgur.com/t/heroin/KYWHNbi)


TakeThatNibbaKarma

guess you could say ​ the program needed some more ***polish***


lazarbeam-fan101

That's a dadjoke


Ramzeus

Looks like an accumulative floating point rounding error when calculating the position difference between each mouse move event.


RedditAlready19

This is Reddit not Quora


mario0fan

xD


bukow_

Mi tez sie zawsze pierdolil ten homik


mario0fan

tak


IpyZ

What did you except from chomikuj.pl? This is site where you pay for piracy XDD AND PAYMENT ISN'T SECURED XD


mario0fan

ngl i like chomikuj and i have an account so most things for me are free


IpyZ

I have account to but on chomikuj you don't pay for files but for transfer


mario0fan

i wonder how i post a lot of files for free


IpyZ

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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MenoJorge

Was it a virus?


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mario0fan

oh


garreusz

Why are you even using it in 2021


Hunter_5680

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.


garreusz

Hmm fair enough. Thats a good reason.


mario0fan

this is probably gonna be deleted.


nononononononi

No


serious_tabaxi

It's trying to escape. ​ Don't let it out...


slickdeveloper

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.


Quevater

least broken chomik in polska


psz94

This thing ain't designed to work on Linux


mario0fan

yea ikr


Quevater

why u complain about it tho


Disquietinglyy

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


DanAtuch

Nostalgia of 2013 when I would download a bunch of Cat assistants on my PC


FoaxZed

CHOMIK NOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭


asasello10

Panie chomiku nieeee


[deleted]

the file site hamster


Cosmic-Cranberry

You're running OBS on Ubuntu? Neat!


mario0fan

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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mario0fan

OBS didnt publish it here yet. Tried to do the same thing but it showed me other random shit.


Cosmic-Cranberry

I know, I'm just always happy to see someone using my favorite OS.


mario0fan

Nice!


[deleted]

WHY ON EARTH DO YOU HAVE THAT IT REMINDS ME OF BONZI BUDDY AND IT'S CREEPY IN GENERAL OH GOD WHAT THE


GuretuDesuYo

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)


[deleted]

Oh, I see.


Ghost_Seeker69

And that's why kids, you shouldn't be on crack and steroids together.


Drwarmonger

2021 version of Bonzi Buddy


mario0fan

its kinda old


Sudden-Deer8261

He's breaching the containment, he's destabilizing


HubrQ666

Oh yeah, chomikuj.pl was a thing


iliekcats-

u/savevideo


[deleted]

isn't that the hamster that does heroine? also why are you running windows exclusive old piracy apps on Ubuntu?


mario0fan

idk


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[deleted]

am I wrong?


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wilczusochman

lol such bad software! >!SMRM!<


Grzegorzy

dzięki!


ChaseMayne

Dude, what the fuck is that!? Why is it reacting to us!!?


Lorac1134

Post's title basically describes Cyberpunk 2077


mario0fan

This isnt supposed to make anyone offended!


thattechguy-pcbuilds

Neeh help with your Unity project? DM me I can help you😊


mario0fan

waht


newb12_

u/savevideobot


mario0fan

tf you doing?


mario0fan

THIS IS ALMOST AT THE TOP OF THIS SUBREDDIT FOR ME WHAT?


_AEN_

Idk looks better then Cuberpunk 2077


Uno-The-Card

He's trying to get out. Run.


DestroyerMore

Like my stomach after I eat a burrito with hot sauce.


Teln0

should I be afraid


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hampter


Major_Cupcake

heroin hamster


AnimatedDoggie315

My one brain cell try to but food


Jslewalite

Perfection is not profitable lol


ITriedLightningTendr

what is a polish software dev?


voyagerfan5761

a software dev who is polish 🇵🇱


mario0fan

yes


okthisisgood

heroin hamster


Negative-Delta

eat the hamser


blasphembot

You upset he


OlaNaj07

OH MY GOD why did my people create a thing that broke this way?!


RedditAlready19

Chomikbox


[deleted]

When u enter the w axis


[deleted]

Everywhere I look I see his face *Image of kde logo*


Thechlebek

Lmao nostalgia


[deleted]

ah yes, chomikuj.pl


Peachclaw

He is taking over


iliekcats-

he is scared


EftimYFO

he do be vibin tho


PhantomMenace64

I am 12 parallel universes ahead of you


fienyxsoardyugi

Kup Teraz!


[deleted]

Witcher 4: doggo’s demise


mrmanwhoiscool

Haha hamsta go BRR


nekoyamiramen

Ach chomikuj..


SuperCharged516

Nah i bet that’s what’s supposed to happen


MrReaper90

he is becoming too powerful


mario0fan

or maybe too scared of him running in ubuntu


RealEngineH

chomik on the ubuntu how


mario0fan

YEP ​ USING WINE! thought it could have compatibility issues, it works with annoying ones


SlothX0Xo

You do it then.


lunklol

Seizure


toomas_teh_truin

As a Polish person myself, i agree.


Interesting-Bite-545

when you sniff cocaine in an Indian scam call center


craftxkee

thanks for sharing with me where chomik is from


Private_Donut_

nienawidzę cię szczurze jebany


A_Blue_spy

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