[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 92 points 3 days ago

Sure bud, pirating some Microsoft Studio video games and windows ISOs right now. What? I found them on the open web!

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 149 points 2 months ago

Lmao..

AAA dogshit shovelware game increases price from $60 to $70 and some people are unhappy.

Small time indie dev bumps game price from $6 to $8 to keep up with inflation and people lose their shit to the point it goes on gaming msm

No wonder we’re the most abused market.

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[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 252 points 7 months ago

I actually never thought of it like that, if you're not partaking in the trade of fossil fuels, you are removing yourself from a lot of potential conflicts and "who support who" ordeals.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by CriticalMiss@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Hello.

Although we pirate for various reasons (ideology, no money to spend on entertainment, etc.) I wanted to know if the community actually donates money to any FOSS project? Nearly all of us use a torrent client based on libtorrent (qBit, Transmission, Deluge) or an open source Usenet client such as SABnzbd to consume our pirated content, yet I wonder, how many people here donate to FOSS projects?

I donated 15 euro to KDE in the past, as well as 10 euro to qBittorrent to keep the projects alive. I think that software that respects it's users deserves to be rewarded for doing so. What is your opinion?

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 128 points 7 months ago

Just because you're paying $10 a month does not mean that Meta will stop farming your data. Sure, they won't shove you any ads, but they will stockpile data for the day you decide that $10 (it's not really $10.. they will increase this price 2-3 years down the line once they feel they had gathered enough users, the Silicon Valley way) and then pump you with ads that cater you.

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 121 points 8 months ago

In the software world, based on personal experience and the UNIX philosophy, software should aim to do one thing and do it really well.

Then there are also the bloat complaints (why should I download a whole stack of arr services when I only care for movies)

The most unfortunate one however can be them mixing. If my child looks up Star Wars but instead the suite ends up downloading a Star Wars porn parody.. that’s just.. bad

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 78 points 8 months ago

I don’t know where you’re from and therefore don’t know what laws affect you but unless the ISP is involved in the media game (i.e HBO & AT&T) they don’t care about restricting access. In fact, they’re against it in most scenarios because if a competitor that doesn’t restrict access to piracy related websites exists, that competitor is likely to siphon customers from ISPs who impose restrictions.

On top of that, most ISPs do the absolute bare minimum to restrict your access so that you can bypass it easily, the most common being the modification of DNS records which you can easily bypass by changing your resolver.

TL:DR blame your lawmakers not your isp

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 84 points 8 months ago

And the enshittification continues..

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 98 points 8 months ago

Musk is about to learn why getting rid of the content moderation department wasn't very cost-saving to the operation of his platform.

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 198 points 9 months ago

Good. Either big tech chip in and start helping maintain the LTS kernels or pay a respectable salary to those who maintain it.

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 115 points 10 months ago

In the article he states that he kept clicking on those ads on purpose, in order to see how deep the rabbit hole goes.

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[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 150 points 11 months ago

Americans don't know it yet but even the third world has better internet speeds than they do.

[-] CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 93 points 11 months ago

Something tells me you’re keylogged if you keep cancelling, ordering new ones and getting pwned within days of the new card arriving. Format your computers. Use more open source tools whose code you can audit. Firefox instead of Chrome, no sketchy extensions like Honey and cash back stuff. If you pirate stuff, try to do it from verified sources.

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As the title suggests, I'm in the market for a vacuum that doesn't phone home, not even for initial setup (if possible). This is my first time stepping into home automation so I'm not familiar with the various FOSS projects in the space. I'm comfortable with modding/rooting the vacuum so throw your suggestions, I'll research them.

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How to Usenet? (lemmy.world)

Hello,

I tried in the past to wrap my head around usenet, and I bought access to some news downloader (iirc it was called that way not sure, but it was Eweka) and tried using it, the problem was that every download I tried to get was dead on arrival (link being dead, failing to verify file integrity) yet so many people on piracy forums swear by Usenet and claim that for ~$60 a year they get a much more superior experience than torrents, and yet, I currently torrent everything with no issues at all.

The reason for trying Usenet that when attempting to search some less popular TV shows/movies, I could not always find it in the quality I wanted to see, and therefore decided to give it a try.

Any suggestions?

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Your RSS feeds (lemmy.world)

So I set up TT-RSS the other day and it's generally nice, the only problem is I'm trying to find feeds that are interesting more or less. For example, we all enjoy watching TV, right? So I took the TV OPML from awesome-rss-feeds on GH and applied it, and was not amused. I don't watch that many television and I very quickly realized that none of the content in those feeds applies to me at all, so I removed it.

Basically, where are the amateur hour feeds? 😅

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