I went yahoo for ‘that mail’.

by ‘that mail’, nothing I use professionally, but need for entertainment, picky store accounts and food.

Steam, for instance thinks my domain email address is a temp email and won’t let me use it, they don’t think the same of yahoo.

They should pray harder.

Welp, bring out the pallets of flags and lighter fluid, boys.

Can you please tell me you’re entirely ethical smartphone setup?

A used Onpeplus 10 with Lineage on it

au contrair, that’s still Android!! We got em! Ez, kek!

Yeah, and I didn’t pay for it. I don’t use Google services. You said ethics, right? I bought it used, Google doesn’t profit and I don’t use any of their services, so, they don’t continue to.

Seems pretty sound to me. Lemme know if you need a recc for a TV or anything. I’m good with those too. I like helping normies connect with technology.

I’m an old pirate who remembers, and the thing, the raw ingredient missing in this scenario?

need

If it didn’t exist, if there was no possible way to get a copy of somesuch Gundam episode whatever in english, some dude somewhere would cross the ends of the earth to get it onto the internet. Piracy is motivated entirely by utility and need, it’s why music piracy atrophied into almost nothing until Soulseek arrived and streaming prices increased. Supply met demand, and it will again for fansubs.

If it’s needed, someone will meet the need. We did it in 1998, we’ll do it next year.

Crypto’s only use for me is making it universally easy to pay every tech/vpn company I deal with.

beyond that, people launder money, buy drugs and do darkweb shit with a minority of privacy folks harping privacytokens like Monero.

I’d love if Steam took BTC and people selling used items online embraced it. The grocery store? Ehhhhhhhhh. Nah.

They’d all be honored lmao

The fact that it was connected and downloading anything was the fault.

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT

Welp, clothes are done.

Valve makes the Deck, so, most Deck users use Linux.

Maybe more people would use Linux, and they’d take more Windows users and marketshare from Microsoft to make Linux support more of a priority if it was more available.

Gabe doesn’t care about the Legion Go 2, this man has a 30 year old vendetta against Microsoft.

No one watches Seinfeld for Seinfeld.

Same effect with King of Queens.

Hey buddy, it’s your PC, not mine. I’d just rather know a multi-billion dollar corporation isn’t spying on my every move than reckon they aren’t.

Microsoft has proven on multiple occasions that they really don’t give a shit about the word “no”, so if it’s worth it, by all means, bend over, cover your ears and keep taking it without any lube.

Microsoft: he thinks it’s actually off lmao

Linux, as an alternative, is insane. Just setting up the OS itself is another fucking hobby.

Great OS, too bad most people aren’t savvy enough to tweak minor settings.

Fuckin go for it. It’ll get trashed the following day and every day following it.

It’ll go in endless circles until it finds out why its wrong,

then it will go right back to them anyway! lol

It’s funny how many times people on Lemmy have accused Spotify of not paying artists fairly but for some reason there’s a large amount of ‘I pirate music and pay artists nothing’ that goes on around here and no one says a thing

I accept this dark part of my soul as a bruise on my personality but I still find time to love myself anyway.

Like yeah, I pirate music, but I didn’t rape anyone today so, in the grand scheme of things…

Depends on the song as well.

Are we comparing a rip of a 1990’s album to a remaster, or a vinyl rip?

I guess if you really want to find a baseline, pick a band that’s known for audio quality and pick an album with the best.

Don’t any of these people have bootstraps?!