It is your burden and duty to seed

Sometimes context really matters... 😜

Funnily enough, I have a high ratio for that torrent. I've shared that first 80 odd percent dozens of times. I'll keep it in my daily driver list of permaseeds for sure.

Surely people don’t need desktops blasting out heat for 12 hours

I mean, if you're playing the long-term seeding game for a private tracker you do. (Because you can't afford a seedbox)

I have had good experience preventing this from happening by disabling Wake-On-LAN, or enabling deeper sleep modes that remove that capability, on my systems that don’t need it.

My suspicion is that many devices these days are pinging the LAN devices around them, for instance other Windows machines looking for printers and network shares, and this is waking devices that are in higher sleep states.

I recently built a gaming pc for the first time in a long time and was surprised by this behavior (I don't use windows for anything else nowadays). After that first time I developed the habit of switching off the power supply when I shut it down. So weird. Nice that it resulted in a win this time though!

I had an obscure one at 99% for weeks before I realised why it would never finish. The torrent had a text file with the name "Dowloaded from torrentsite" that nobody had been downloading, so it wasn't available. The main file was 100% though.

Have you tried adding the trackers from newtrackon? That should be all the stable public trackers, so if there is someone seeding the file on a public tracker you'll find out.

Otherwise it's just a waiting game.