But it’s not, they’re not doing actual piracy there, they’re talking about it, and that’s very much not illegal
But it’s not, they’re not doing actual piracy there, they’re talking about it, and that’s very much not illegal
This is by no means a vital service, but Imgur. Not the image hosting part itself, although the multiple self-hosted alternatives available are mostly aimed at photographs and surprisingly very few if any to memes and reactions for chats, forums and social media. On the other hand, the particular use case of sharing memes and meme dumps is not being fulfilled by anything else at the moment. Go to Imgur even on it’s current sorry decayed state and at any time you’ll find multiple people sharing image galleries, usually of up to 50 memes at a time, sometimes more. Lemmy, Mastodon and Discord servers try to fill that gap but right now they can’t.
That’s because Steam/Proton has mostly solved this (with some qualified notorious exceptions), which used to be a real problem even just a few years ago, but not remotely as much these days; the meme is mostly outdated by now, I’ve lived both cases and it used to be a pain but these days? people are spoiled by Valve and many have never lived the OP situation (which is great news!)
Honestly Steam and Proton have solved like 90% or more of this issue, i was in this spot in the past for a long, long time, but Steam has made this work almost seamlessly for a great number of games
And then i got the Steam Deck and this went into overdrive
At this point i feel like Linux is a realistic option for a gamer, qualified of course (anti-cheat tech tends to break things, plus there’s a few problematic ones), but we are at the point where you can buy an AAA title and be relatively confident it will run on Linux (check first though)
In EU at least they’re required by law to have working unsubscribe links that actually unsubscribe you, otherwise they risk getting huge fines, i understand that in California things are not too far from this but no idea about the details
VPNs were never intended to make you anonymous, if you expected a VPN to make you anonymous you were very mistaken
Tangential partial offtopic aside: Unless i’m misunderstanding, you’re setting this up behind your home router and allowing it on your various devices using a VPN. Am i right? Any details, or even better, guides, on how to replicate this setup? I guess the DNS records on Leng are to be able to call services inside your home LAN by name instead of IPs, which is a nice quality of life upgrade.
Most did, but there’s always people like OP 😅
I’m thinking of the target user for this: For us here it’s a really unfunny joke. For the people wanting to do “non-kosher” stuff like watching streaming for other countries or even outright pirating i don’t think Google’s gonna have their back. People trying to hide their identity while doing compromising stuff (like anything sexual or identity related, not illegal but not something they want in public) hopefully know not to trust Google on this. And corporate users already have their own corporate VPNs, don’t think they’re aiming for those (yet).
Who the fuck is left as potential user? My only conclusion is the terminally gullible. I see no other option. And since of course there’s a sucker born every minute it’ll have millions of users…
Likely related to that lawsuit they’re dealing with
VERY understandable, requiring a GPU would limit it’s application and spread, i hope a good GPU-less solution is found eventually
I am saving this post for the future, informative! Thanks!
Last i saw, the physical media version of their recent shows came with a box and a code to get it online, not actual discs, so they’re effectively getting out of the business of letting you own your media
Seen many attempts at “Brand/Series/Game/Fandom OS” over the years, and now i wonder if it wouldn’t be better to spend the effort on theming engines or something over a base but functional distro, and then have a gallery of themes to choose from that applies them on everything from the bootloader screen up to the mouse cursor. Want to switch to some other Brand/Series/Game/Fandom? Apply this and reboot, you get the other one. Like the ancient MS Plus but much deeper since Linux allows for a lot more these days.
Now I wonder about the empty intersections
Looking in the Deck’s direction with deep anxiety in the wallet…
https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic