That’s really odd, I bring up piracy in conversation decently often (usually if I’m talking about a show and someone asks me if that’s on Netflix/Prime/Disney+/Hulu or whatever and I have to tell them I haven’t a clue)

The reaction had never been judgement, more so curiosity about how I go about my piracy.

Although I guess that’s really more of an indication of the poor, anti-capitalist leftist types I tend to associate with than anything else :P

I feel like running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg would probably fix that.

Disclaimer: I mostly have no idea what I’m talking about.

It depends on if you want to access it from anywhere (or give others access), or if you’re only accessing your server from specific devices.

Since I only ever access my server from my phone or my desktop, I use Wireguard via wg-easy. You set it up as a docker container on your server and it gives you a neat web UI (defaults to port 51821) from which to add Wireguard clients. Once connected through Wireguard, you can access your services as if you’re on the server’s local network.

Note, you’ll of course have to open up a port for Wireguard on your router for this to work, the default being 51820.

No, it’s not like stealing a physical item from a store.

I’d argue stealing physical items from massive corporations is also morally acceptable. If you shoplift from a small mom & pop store, you’re actively hurting your community, however, if you shoplift from Wal-Mart, you’re actively hurting an entity which is hurting your community, therefore helping your community.

The difference is, if the app were open-source someone could continue developing it.

If it’s proprietary, you’re shit out of luck.

There’s many things I dislike about how Mozilla operates, they are however completely outweighed by the massive list of things I dislike about Google.

Seeing as the only realistic options for browsers use either Blink or Gecko as their engine, I’d much rather use Mozilla’s offering than contribute (even if ever so slightly) to Google’s monopolizing of the web.

though if a sane Arch-based alternative arises (think Manjaro done right)

If ever you get the Arch itch, check out EndeavourOS. It’s basically vanilla Arch but with a GUI installer and basic defaults/programs preconfigured. They use the main Arch repos, so no weirdness with AUR stuff like in Manjaro.

The smart crib seems particularly dystopian to me. We don’t even need to wait for children to develop enough fine-motor functions to make use of smartphones or tablets, we can start collecting data on them before they even utter their first word!

How long before the smart cribs have ParentAI attached to them? Let the computer raise your child!

Woah cool, thanks for the heads up on Madari! I’ve been hoping for something like this for ages.

For anyone too lazy to check, ESET is a Slovakian cybersecurity company.

There are a dozen Firefox forks though. Mulch, DDG, TOR, Fennic, Bromite, etc.

Mulch is also Chromium-based (not to mention also developped by the DivestOS team so as of now unmaintained) and DDG’s browser is based on WebKit.

Only 2/5 of the browsers they mention are Gecko-based.

Poor Sharon Needles, she’ll be homeless now.

There is an airport that still uses Win 3.1 on some computers, don’t recall the name though.

You’re probably remembering articles stating that Southwest Airlines still uses Windows 3.1, they were floating around the tech news sites during the CrowdStrike fiasco a few months back.

Sadly, it seems to be misinformation.

artificial insemination isn’t torture.

Doing so to a creature who can’t consent is pretty wack though.

cows aren’t kept constantly pregnant

Female mammals, including cows, produce milk as a result of pregnancy in order to feed their young. The dairy industry is for-profit, they’re not going to let their dairy cows have downtime from producing milk if there’s money to be made.

kicking and beating cows isn’t part of husbandry.

The meat and dairy industries have lobbied hard for ag-gag laws criminalizing photography on their farms after abuses have been discovered by undercover investigators and activists. It is undoubtedly a part of animal agriculture. Here’s a whole paper about it, if it interests you.

killing cows at the end of their useful life is fine.

It definitely isn’t the worse part of the miserable lives we make them live after breeding them in massive numbers. It’s probably a relief at that point.

Also, just a sidenote here, I scrolled a bit through your history and you seem to go on the defensive for meat and dairy whenever you come across anything relating to veganism or the negative impacts of those industries. You engage with vegan content much more than I do and I’m vegan! I don’t think I can change your mind about veganism, nor do I really feel the desire to write any more than I already have. But, I don’t know, maybe go comment on stuff you enjoy rather than getting riled up about this stuff? It might make for a more enjoyable experience on lemmy.

Yeah they host their own repo, here’s the link:

https://www.collaboraonline.com/downloads/fdroid/repo/

Eh, I won’t die over 20$, it’s due to something out of their control that anyone could have seen coming, and I’ve been quite the satisfied customer since I’ve been using Real-Debrid. I wouldn’t judge anyone for doing a chargeback, but I personally don’t really feel the urge to do so.

Bummer, I renewed my subscription for 6 months just two days ago.

I guess this’ll finally be an excuse for me to setup Jellyfin and the arr-stack. I really don’t mind too much (honestly I’d be fine just downloading torrents manually for whatever I want to watch) but my roommates really appreciated how easy to use Stremio is.

No one wants to eliminate fire trucks and ambulances in favour of bikes.

When people talk about “ending cars” they’re talking about private ownership of personal vehicles. It’s not necessary to address first responders because that’s not what anti-car people are talking about.

I’d say French press ≈ Linux Mint.

Intuitive, easy to use and maintain, but despite the lack of fuss still delivers great results.

Yup, xkcd #198 to be exact. “Perspective” is the name of the comic, and the text underneath is the title text.