I’ve got so many layers of adblock it’s hard to know which one(s) are responsible for blocking the ads.

Dang, was hoping for the new Doom. I refuse to play it with Denurvo, but I don’t trust anything out there.

Remote-only companies existed before, during, and continue existing after COVID. And those companies have new people as well. Perhaps you’re right and that it’s harder to ask questions on slack as a newbie (although I believe it’s completely up to personal taste) but is that worth all the benefits of remote work?

I believe it’s not.

I somehow doubt Austin needed this. Meanwhile, I’m posting this via an ancient DSL connection that barely functions.

I thought the advantage of carpooling was saving money on gas and car maintenance. Also, environment.

Probably because they wouldn’t see a dime of revenue from this. It would be a new law that just says they have to do it. At best, they would be allowed to pass the costs to customers somehow, likely through our plate registrations at the DMV.

It’s basically a no win for the car companies. Lots of ill will, increased chance of litigation, increased costs for building cars, all for nothing.

In fact, I bet the car companies lobbyists are the reason we don’t have this already.

Is it? I don’t remember seeing a guy running for Congress that promised he’d prevent huge corporations from running rough shod over everything.

People like saying stuff like “just vote better”, but the fact is the vast majority of people that run for any office are pro-big business because that’s their background and the lobbyists give them lots of money to get elected. Where’s the anti-big business guy going to get his money to run? And without money, you sure aren’t winning.

Through lobbying, corporations have us all by the balls. It doesn’t matter what side of the isle you’re on; both sides have basically been endorsed by big money.

Eh, you’ll still need something that allows you to search for a file/torrent and gives you a hash or magnet. Right?

but I can use it offline with any software I want on any device whenever I want

Tell that to all the VCR tapes in people’s basements. Finding a working VCR player is nigh impossible these days, and it won’t be too long until optical media is the same. Last car I bought didn’t have a CD player. DVD drives are disappearing from computers. Game consoles a generation or two from now will be download only.

Content owners can’t wait until the only option we have is to stream.

The screenshot literally says “sponsored recommendation”. Not sure how much more clear it can be that somebody paid money for that.

That would be annoying, since my password is pisscockshit.

Did you know you can say cock on the Internet? Fuck, piss, shit, and cum too. What an amazing place this internet thing is!

Jpeg is already compressed, so compressing them again won’t do anything but make it impossible for people to selectively download just the image/folder they desire.

Metadata on the other hand sounds like text files, which compress very well. Wether the space savings is worth it is hard to answer without more info. I’d personally lean towards not archiving it.

I presume it’s cool to post magnet links in here?

I wonder if we’re wrong to group entertainment and physical goods into the same category though. They’re wildly different things.

If I make you a pair of shoes, I need to charge you money to account for my time, my effort, and the materials it took to make them. If I make a thousand shoes, it doesn’t scale; the price per shoe has to stay the same.

If I write an ebook, I would charge for the time and effort it took to write it, but there’s no material charge. It scales entirely differently because I can make a billion ebooks for the same cost as one.

Considering that, the old way of thinking that I should be able to resell an ebook like some shoes I bought doesn’t seem to apply logically. We’re buying entertainment, not physical goods. I don’t bitch that I can’t resell the experience of going to a concert, so why do I bitch (and I do) that I can’t resell digital media?

I just wish the publishers would price media accordingly. If they all worked out a deal with stremio to get ten cents whenever I streamed a movie, I wouldn’t think twice. But instead I need to sign up with multiple services and pay $20 to stream one, and I just realized I’m bitching to the choir so I’ll end there.

Am I the only one that has never gotten this software to work worth a damn? The interface is impenetrable and it never finds what I want.

Maybe it’s because I’m not searching for Steven King or whatever super-popular author? Either way, I’ve yet to find anything that is as easy as just going to library genesis and downloading manually.

I don’t agree with the punishment one bit.

But it was never about getting their money back. Instead they just wanted a life-ruining sentence and large number to give to the media to scare people into not fucking with Nintendo.

Nintendo knows they’ll never see even one million of that 65. Hell, they’ll probably never even make enough to cover the lawyer fees. They don’t care as they’re playing the long game. They’re trying to prevent the next Bowser before it happens. Which won’t work, but they’ll never understand why.

That’s fair, I didn’t specify DRM-free. Still probably better than buying through Amazon.

But I’d prefer to use my own ebook reader.

Can you even buy ebooks these days without going though Amazon? Aside from an incredibly small amount of indie authors (who probably got kicked from Amazon for unknowingly pissing off some algorithm) there’s no place to download them and support the authors.

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