All of the above. Fuck capitalism, fuck DRM, and fuck giving the 1% more money lmao

Just wait until you find out how much roads cost. No, gas and registration taxes don’t even come close to covering it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0

Usually the second, which is the most common option, because we know objectively that studios are in fact not “losing” eleventy billion dollars to piracy. If that were true most people would choose the first.

I’m not buying the new Pokémon game. I’ll play it on an emulator if it’s not too much hassle. I don’t have plans to ever buy it, and if it never works on emulation, I will just not play it.

In a different case, I’ve gone from pirating a bunch of games to buying them because I liked them and wanted the updates. BG3 for example.

Of course there is, but the K400 just does its job very well. You can get all kinds of Bluetooth and RF remotes. I have a generic one also meant for HTPCs (Rii brand) and it literally requires line of sight within 3 meters to work at all. The K400 is recommended for a reason.

I’d say stay away from niche distros unless you understand what you’re getting into. I’d recommend Mint over Zorin.

1. Because I like to. 2. Because it still has the best flexibility for packages. 3. I like using cutting edge releases.

It is also extremely overblown just how “hard” arch is. Either way I know a lot more about my system and how it functions now.

It doesn’t happen automatically, you’ve just gotten lucky with your files. Subtitles can be embedded in the video file.

Do not take what this government says at face value. Palantir has their fingers in it like crazy.

Yes, this. Torrenting music is not necessary. Slsk is a better option 99% of the time. Most of the tags are the automatic ones applied by the streaming service it was ripped from or MusicBrainz. But everyone seems to expect different things from tagging, so if you want every performer tagged and like every genre you’re never gonna find that.

Librem 5 is what you’re thinking of

One joke

You know those are the exceptions, not the rules. Capitalism means that you play the dirty tricks everyone else does or get left behind. Legislation is the way out of this, not the delusion that we can convince people to just “choose better”. I tried to convince people for the better half of a decade. People simply do not have the knowledge to understand why they should care.

I don’t know why people keep saying this. You either pay for a service, or you get a company extracting as much data as they can from you for advertiser or VC money. Servers and bandwidth cost money

Honestly I just use PiVPN on my clients and Jellyfin over HTTP. (The VPN encrypts traffic, don’t worry). It’s more secure than exposing it to the public internet in any way, really. After I had a goddamn Minecraft server get joined by a bot I stepped up security - in 2025, any hole will be exploited for data and botnets. If you’re hosting for family, I think there’s still value in the security Plex is offering by being the middleman between your computers in your home and the outside world.

Both sets. Also fuck it just make me my fursona. I don’t care what the implications are it’s gotta feel amazing to have wind flowing through fur

+1 for thrifted laser. Just look for replacement toner before checking out.

Yeah, I think laser with viable third party cartridges is the actual answer. No matter what brand. Individual model is more important than the brand too, because my Brother was actually still kinda annoying to get working properly.

Inkjet isn’t appropriate for somebody who prints infrequently, especially refillable inkjets, because they dry out even faster than cartridges. Toner is powder and stays good for basically as long as the printer is functional.

It might depend on climate, because I live somewhere semi-arid, but it’s worth keeping in mind.

Because they suck.

That’s unfortunate (for Linus), but Louis Rossmann’s story about dealing with Linus directly pretty clearly shows him to be an unpleasant person that thinks of relationships as transactional. And it is objectively true that LMG is going for quantity over quality of videos.

As other people in this thread have stated though, it seems this problem isn’t actually about Linus or LMG, it’s a greater trend at YouTube.