It’s never been difficult for me to run pirated games on Linux. Occasionally you’ll get a game that needs something like the .NET framework, which increases the install time by about another thirty seconds or so.

Actually, it often is that easy. If the game isn’t a repack, you can usually add the EXE to Steam and launch. If you need dependencies, then you can take the extra minute or two to add it to Lutris or Bottles.

I didn’t know about the transphobia, thanks for telling me.

It’s was grabbing the very first file that matched the name, is what. That’s one of the things you will be configuring for the Trash guides. I prefer the best quality possible, since I’m downloading to a NAS. But if you’re downloading to a desktop, they also tell you how to search for media that’s of a reasonable size. For 1080p, suspect you’ll be grabbing high-quality files that are 15-20gb for a movie.

I’m more a fan of Hyprland myself, but i3 is a great and mature WM. Currently I use KDE, at least until I bother to get an AMD GPU so I can switch to using Hyprland and not have to watch Obsidian and Discord fight with Wayland constantly.

If the Servarr apps are being janky, you may want to check out the Trash guides for each app. The default configuration ends up fetching a lot of bad releases, because it doesn’t have many criteria to meet for a download to match.

It’ll take you an hour or so to copy the configs you want, but it’s worth it.

I use a NAS running the Unraid OS, with a Docker setup using the Servarr apps to find and fetch media using SABnzbd and qBitorrent to download from Usenet and private trackers. It pipes movies, TV shows, and music into my Jellyfin library, which has all the features of Plex, but is free. I don’t believe in telling corporations what shows I’m pirating. Bazarr automatically fetches appropriate subtitles for everything. I have the Servarr apps set up to fetch the best quality using the Trash guides.

For visual media discovery, I use Jellyseerr, which allows me to easily find new shows and movies, and allows my family and friends to request shows to be downloaded. Jellyfin automatically cleans up watched media so that it doesn’t take up space after it’s been watched.

For audiobooks, everything is fetched from private trackers, specifically the mouse site, and automatically piped into Audiobookshelf, to it can be streamed to friends and family. Ebooks get likewise sent to a Kavita server, so they can be quickly sent via email to physical readers as desired by users.

And of course, all ebooks and audiobooks are seeded in perpetuity, meaning I get a lot of points on the tracker from seeding hundreds of torrents. I use those points to buy free leech tokens, so I don’t have to worry about ratio. Other types of torrents are usually seeded until they are at 1.5 ratio, then they are deleted.

Video games I download are automatically synced to all gaming PCs on my network via Syncthing, so they can be installed by everyone. Save games for each person are also backed up to the NAS and to any other PCs or portables used for that game by that person.

All this is protected behind an obscure domain proxied by Cloudflare and protected by an LDAP server that authenticates and validates access for each user to the services they are allowed to use. Torrents and Usenet media are downloaded to the NAS using a bound VPN located in a country that doesn’t cooperate with Western governments. Everything is streamed to users on a fiber connection.

Any book that’s been banned is going to be freely available many places online, and if the government could actually ban things and have them disappear, piracy wouldn’t exist. I would look for queer literature on private trackers like MAM, and seed those files if you’re concerned. Although usually they have dozens or hundreds of seeders, so they’re not in any danger.

No matter what happens, in four years Trump will be gone, and queer literature will still remain. And piracy will be as strong as ever.

With no government oversight, and the nation already cut up into segments by the ISPs so that they have monopolies in their areas, you think the free market is suddenly going to start working like Ancaps say it will and regulate itself in a way that’s good for consumers?

If you’re the kind of person to believe something like that, then I have a new cryptocurrency you should buy from me. Guaranteed to go to the moon, no rug pull. Trust me, bro.

I am not an expert

If you were, you would know that a website has no way to see what extensions you have installed, unless those extensions modify the page in a way that JavaScript can detect.

Radar has an API, and there are mobile clients that allow you to add movies for download. I use LunaSea, it works with Radar and Sonarr, among others. Then I use Jellyfin to stream it to my phone, wherever I might happen to be.

Either Bottles or Lutris. Lutris is the popular way, but the Bottles fans swear by it. Either one will get you going, and neither one is usually difficult. There is the occasional game or app that is a little bitch though.