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I tried thinking of them and started laughing. Tried a second time to be sure and it happened again. Am I doing it right?

Before even worrying about the content of individual torrents people should worry about the sites themselves being full of ads, spyware and other garbage that generates revenue for shady people. There’s a reason beyond just privacy that people use rss and magnet links. In an ideal scenario you never go to an actual torrent website.

If you’re not using it to make money it’s never not OK. I can’t see it as theft. It’s just a different method of obtaining the same thing that doesn’t harm anyone.

Not only are those making this choice unlikely to pay anyways, but all the regular people who worked creating it already got paid so nobody can say “oh the film crew, VFX artists etc will be out of a job”. No they already did their job and got paid. The investors maybe want more money but they aren’t hurting for it, I don’t feel anything for them.

Season 8 is the season that just started last week. There’s a second episode coming out today if it isn’t already.

Some sources will say there’s 11 seasons because they split up some older ones for some reason but officially there is 8.

I had forgotten that you could pay them.

There are places where people literally leave the window open or door unlocked so people looking to steal shit can take a look without breaking the window, see they have nothing to steal and move on.

This is a good way to get a lot of people to never pay for a video game ever again, after Steam did a pretty good job convincing people not to pirate.

I’ll just hope it accepts an environment variable for user/group ID because on my server 1000 is not the appropriate user to have permissions to these files. Will find out next time I give it a try.

I was hoping it would be fixing my having to manually add games to steam after manually copying the files over to a PC and have a nice catalogue for them. But it just seems like it generates more work than it saves.

I really liked the concept of this and had high expectation, but I just tried this out following their documentation and not a fan so I’ll have to pass / find a better alternative if one exists.

The docker-compose.yml given seems to cause the containers to be lacking permissions to save images and even the DB: logs show images can’t be created/saved, restarting the container wipes the DB. No files created at all on the mounted volumes paths. The volume for game files works great though so that’s confusing. I can probably troubleshoot that but this is the first container I’ve ever had such an issue with so I won’t bother particularly due to the next points:

On the app itself I was pretty disappointed that it doesn’t at the very least extract the files for you, and won’t even skip all the manual junk for direct play games that I took the time to name properly with (DP) on the archive files. The reason given is there may be too many manual steps/variations for installation but direct plays don’t need any of that.

Given the manual steps required I’ll stick to copy/pasting the files off my server to my local games folder, the games themselves being added to steam if I really need to go that far with them.

Sometimes I pirate something that is so terrible that I still feel I’m owed compensation for the time I wasted watching it and the bandwidth I used to download it.

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You’d think in some instances the family tree would look more like a wreath though.

I suspect it’ll just lead to A.I generated headlines in lieu of headlines taken from news publishers then. You can’t make any claims on the facts of the news. If there’s a big earthquake in Japan then there’s a big earthquake in Japan. An A.I can generate a headline saying as much, and the news publishers are cut out of the equation. At most they’d pay whatever subscription other news outlets pay for things like AP and other sources to get a stream of facts, then let the A.I go to town on that data.

And honestly as long as the info is accurate I’d much rather use something like that then have to deal with going to multiple websites, i’ll go to multiple sources manually if I need to research something, not for my morning news. This is where RSS feeds come in handy but the same publishers who whine about this issue often don’t publish a feed for the same reason. I’d personally prefer to not consume the content at all, if the only method was going to individual websites and checking for updates.

I get it if those doing the linking also host enough of the content (or all of it) so that users don’t have any need to go to the site. For example if a post here on lemmy or on reddit has the link to the article with the headline, but then the top comment is a copy/paste of the entire thing.

What I don’t get is why news are any different than any other search result in this context? On my phone for example if I look at the android default feed that shows news and other content based on my interests, it’s just headlines and thumbnail images. If I want to actually see the content I have to click on it, thus going to the news publisher’s web page. Is this what they’re mad about?

It just sounds to me like they’re wanting to make it harder for individuals to find them. Since it’s so accessible (don’t even need to open an app) this is often where i’ll see important headlines first thing in the morning, only later in the day will I bother to open apps, go to websites, check my RSS etc.

Especially now that I can’t even click on a twitter link without being asked to create an account and log in. It’ll be chaos if some big situation is going on and people without twitter accounts are scrambling to find critical information from other sources.

You mean that documentary “The Last of Us”?

For the longest time tipping was very stable and nobody said much but with the covid-inspired tipping greed hopefully you’re right. If enough people get pissed off maybe something will happen for tipping to be eliminated. I personally haven’t sat down in a restaurant since the end of 2019, haven’t done a food delivery since 2021, and that won’t change until tipping is gone.