Back in my day we had Netflix and nothing else, and it was good. Nowadays I can’t even watch Looney Tunes on fucking Max because they were delisted. Please someone explain to these execs why they are losing money. They’re dying.
Because of the price hike by all the streaming services, pirating never felt better. I can watch anything I want, any time, dont have to wait for my monthly sub to expire to switch to another provider and than watch what onley they provide. Maybe if pirscy numbers rise they will do somthing that helps the consumer.
I got into datahording pirated media out of spite, youthful angst and complete lack of funds. Now i literally consider it an act of preservation.
lack of funds
datahoarding
how’s that working out for you?
I did the same, gotta keep an eye out for good deals. Last year i got a 18tb ultrastar HDD for $40 cad from an auction ($10+$30 shippibg to RMA)
Also shucked a 12tb Ultrastar out of a external enclosure
At one point I got 3 used 1tb drives for free out of an old business server
Im up to about 40tb of storage across all my drives now
Execs are getting paid millions! They DGAF. Once they drive one thing into the ground, they can just move on after landing very softly with their golden parachute.
To be fair I can’t find a decent collection Looney Tunes on the high seas either.
It’s out there. I managed to collect nearly everything from I think '35 onwards.
Heh, that’s kind of funny
I’m doing my part! o7
Ahoy matey!
I can see the headlines from shitty tech news websites now: “What is lemmy? A platform mostly where crooks go to find content to illegally download.”
Or something equally ridiculous.
I used to be part of the memes community but it sucked so much ass that I just returned to reddit
Which one? The lemmy.ml community sucks because there are so many tankies, but according to the Community-Browser there are at least half a dozen other general meme groups.
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Just ignore him, eventually he will relise that communism ends in genocide.
nah, they’re just good at posting. up your game.
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there’s a lot of Linux memes… don’t get me wrong I’ve had a chuckle at a couple Linux memes before but tbh most of the time it’s just a reference to Linux and they forget to include a joke.
Those people are weird. I’m saying this as someone that has a Steam Deck and runs Proxmox and Opensense and 13 VMs and containers on my network, so you know I understand the value: Linux should never be prescribed to Normies. This is not the year of the Linux desktop. It might be your year of the Linux desktop, and that’s great! But to blanket prescribe it to everyone with a slight problem in Mac or Windows with the phrase “Just Use Linux!:tm:” like all of their problems will go away if you just move to a new OS is the most asinine, fanboy shit I’ve ever heard of. And it doesn’t have anything to do with “skill issues” or whatever, it’s that normal people don’t fucking care, just want shit to work
But I get it, we’re in the fediverse, where people have a higher proclivity for open source, open protocol, open hosting, open bars, etc. But if you’re reading this and getting upset, please understand there’s a whole lot of other shit to care about, and someone’s choice of OS has as much to do with you as their sexual preferences: none at all.
I think if somebody could benefit from it, I’m going to recommend it. Taking the attitude of “You’re a normie, so obviously you can’t appreciate Linux like I do” is condescending.
Wasn’t this damn fediverse made because of this…? It should be obvious…
nah, it was a politically conscious choice to set up something like reddit, outside the control of capital and the state. the devs have written about it.
I mean, yes, but granted, for all I know, I’m supposing that Lemmy was built for open-source software supporters, and I guess alotta ‘civil’ liberals and ‘libertarians’ joined in, due to this cause…
I was thinking there was like a seperation between the M-Leninist mods (eg. Dessalines) and their site’s followers… like church and state…
This is pretty awesome grats dbzer0!
I don’t pirate games anymore because steam solved my access problem.
Amazing that all these shitty streaming services make me wish blockbuster was a thing again.
But, since it isn’t and never will be, it’s a yo ho ho from me.
(Until a reasonable steam-esque service for movies/shows turns up anyway)
Until you think it might be fun to play 2 games on 2 different monitors on 2 computers at the same time. Then you realise, Steam games are not treated as just software. 1 of the many reasons I prefer to pay the price for GoG despite Steam being significantly cheaper due to regional pricing.
No idea what you’re talking about; I’ve played two games from steam plenty of times while waiting for something in a game.
Hmm. I remember steam saying it can’t run a game because the same account was using a game on another PC. Maybe something changed since then. I’ll check it out again. Thanks for the info.
I can’t find copies of Australian standards books :(
Yo if you ever find a good source PLEASE tell me, this is a constant struggle for me too, I will return the favour
I’ll keep it in mind. It’s so weird how gated it is
Blame profiteering businessmen and a weak as piss government of the time not stepping in to block the sale of the distribution of essential public information to a chinese entity for profit.
your local library should have them or if you ask they can get them for you or tell you where you can access them.
They are starting to make them more accessible, for example, see here for actually free, official access to the standards but with a few caveats.
Thanks! My brief adventures into the TAFE library and my university’s library’s website searches were unsuccessful!
Lemmyverse? How will that exist in the Fediverse?
Fediverse > Lemmy Galaxy / Cluster?
