I still live in Florida. Sadly, I don’t see things getting better here anytime soon.

More communities for making friends, casual discussions, and local Lemmy meetups.

Pay off my debt, some credit card debt and an auto loan.

I’m here. I left reddit for good, I don’t even lurk it anymore.

Nearly got strangled to death by my own dad for saying that the family name didn’t mean much to me. He pushed me against the wall. My stepmom and stepbrother had to get him off of me. That was years ago. I no longer speak to or see him.

Yes, I mostly pirate anime and some live action. I was saddened by the closure of RARBG, I used to torrent from there daily. Nowadays I mostly use Nyaa and 1337x, Nyaa for anime and 1337x for live action and other animation. I pay for Spotify premium, YT Premium, and Amazon Prime. I use Steam to purchase video games.

Piracy via torrenting is my preferred way for watching series or movies, I just want the mkv files, I don’t care for the BD menus, UI, bloopers & extras, buffering, etc. I remember trying Netflix a few years back and noticed that some content wasn’t available for offline viewing. I also don’t have to worry about things like licenses expiring meaning the streaming service no longer has the right to have it in their catalog or the drm in Blu-ray discs.

I think piracy exists in a gray area like “illicit” drugs among other things and labeling or moralizing it as either good or bad paints it with a broad brush traps and confines it to a dichotomy that we really should look beyond. Heck, even services like Crunchyroll and Napster(Rhapsody) started off as piracy sites before they legitimized. Piracy also has benefits like preserving content from being lost due to it being out of print or licensing issues that limit sale or access. Old games can be played again by using emulators and roms.

Personally, I’ve become more technologically literate through piracy. I started off with apps like PopcornTime and sites like Kissanime, 9anime, and Putlocker. I used to exclusively stream or use direct downloads until I discovered torrenting. I used to use UTorrent until I discovered Fosshub and Qbitorrent. Most of content I’ve torrented I’ve yet to watch so I’m more of a data hoarder. I have multiple external hard drives filled with data. I don’t thinking purchasing would’ve made me more likely to watch the content I’ve watched as I’ve purchased many physical books that I have yet to read.

Imo the term piracy means the unauthorized tampering/modification, access, and distribution of a product or service. That also poses the question whether or not consumers actually own what they buy. Piracy fights back against anti-consumer practices such as DRM which has been around since 1983. Also I’d say that corpos have gone way overboard with their anti-piracy measures when they can prosecute and extradite individuals.

I’ll end with this video, "Why We Should Get Rid Of Intellectual Property.

Eggs

Your parents getting divorced and you should tell your parents to get you diagnosed for autism. Especially since we used to be mute when we were younger and we were also in special ed and rode the short bus.

Awesome, I’ll check it out, thanks for the info.

No, but I’ve heard of it. Does it require root?

I miss YouTube Vanced, it had better UI and more features than the official app. I pay for premium and I like it and all, but I wish they could’ve adopted some features from Vanced instead of monetizing previously free features such as background play.

I’d say it depends on the country, I could understand if the country’s military is a self defense force like Japan’s military for example. In my particular context, I live in US and I hope to see that conscription never happens again, we have an insatiable military industrial complex and war machine. We have 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad, we even have one in Syria near the oil fields and we were never invited there. Plus we have a long history of interventions that have gone awry, including the more recent ones like Libya back in 2011, we made the situation even worse. All conscription would do is just serve our imperialism.

Seconding crypto.

I’ve heard of Proton, but I never knew you could get the whole suite and that they had the option to subscribe for 24 months, that’s pretty neat.

Second Thought, First Thought, Our Changing Climate, Polymatter, Kurzgesagt, The Grayzone, Geopolitical Economy Report, Breakthrough News, Democracy Now.

We’ve been living in a dystopia for a very long time now, we’re just becoming more aware to it.

Incompatibility from the start due to her not entirely honest dating profile, I also looked past her red flags, baggage, and past trauma, because I thought to myself that everyone has those and that I should remain humble.

Card, mostly credit, sometimes debit. I rarely carry cash around as I only have a card wallet. I live in the US.

Video games.

KISS launcher