I'm a billionaire. I have my own private island that floats above the world and I can also teleport anywhere in an instant and open portals into other dimensions. And I have a pet dragon named Sparkles.

Nothing would surprise me these days after seeing a Skyrim mod with an AI companion you can talk to.

Interesting, but I'm confused how it can be applied to piracy.

Thanks to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/ober found that ipleak.net can be used to check if you VPN is leaking your IP before proceeding with torrenting.

And also using Qbittorrent to tie the client to the VPN by going to Tools > Preferences > Advanced and changing network interface to your VPN.

It's been difficult to catch jokes with the amount of people that have still continued to have the old views of social media sites like reddit due to not understanding that people aren't locked to instances they signed up to thinking it is a singular authority. So my mistake.

Umm..... What did you think the point of mods on reddit was? The mods we chose to support and followed here to lemmy and kept the community on track?

And you know you can just lurk on here and can use another instance that better fits your idea of the type of conversations you want. There's nothing keeping you from making an account on exploding heads and chatting away with them. You can multiple accounts you know.

Pirates adapt or die. So at the very least you have increased your chances of survival. Don't know if sharks will eat you though.

Noticed there's a lot of geeky people on lemmy, and so many seem to be using stuff like linux in threads asking what OS do you use. Which is definitely a big outlier from the average user. So seems like even if the numbers aren't high that there's a lot of people who can provide tech support to dumb people like me.

Some people here are saying i2p may be the future https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/259433 Sounds like Qbittorrent is planning to provide i2p support too. So hopefully port forwarding won't matter as much for future releases.

Kind of hard to notice copyright laws when I'm busy sailing and feeling the fresh ocean breeze.

I haven't been commenting in /r/piracy or reddit for that matter anymore, so if there are large numbers who have taken that attitude it is expected that the voices you'd expect to hear would change as active user demographic changes.

I've relied on this mega thread for a long time.

Are there any tips to see check if VPN isn't leaking anything when torrenting? Mullvad used to let you check with a magnet link they provided before they got rid of it.