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For a moment I genuinely thought I saw someone I follow on Mastadon and wondered what they’re doing here on Lemmy…

Nothing like a prime minister saying they need to prepare just in case something happens and their neighbor jumps to the worst conclusions and throws around insults and threats like they’re going out of style.

Cannot speak for anyone else, but it depends on his badly I want it and whether or not I am willing to give money to said compant/person/whatever.

Is it an old out of print game that suddenly had prices jacked up 500% by scalpers/scammers? It ain’t worth me trying to find a ROM if the sources I like don’t have it, nor buying it.

Is it from some indie dev/devs that probably don’t have the financial stability to afford everyone pirating their game? I’m more likely to buy if I can afford.

Did a large company like Sintendo, Activision, etcetera, make it? For older titles, I am likely to buy if it’s a low enough price and I have a real interest in it. Newer titles? I usually don’t bother because the quality for most triple AAA studios isn’t up to par for me since I don’t like buying reskins of the same game with somehow less of the basic features available unless you pay.

Side note: looking forward to Black Ops 99 where you have to pay $9.99 per pixel to be able to see the screen as you play and still have people buy the game, willing to pay for every pixel… only to find out the game servers are constantly offline for an online only experience they don’t get to play and by purchasing the game you somehow agreed to give Activision access to your bank account to do as they please with that money.

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For shows and movies, if I can’t easily find it, I don’t bother because it’s a much bigger hassle than video game piracy. Same with books.

I’ll have to see if any of the things you listed that isn’t removing big food particles ( since I’m already pre-cleaning ) will work.

Also, I really like Technology Connections because his videos give me a serious public TV show kinda simplistic vibe in the best way imaginable.

I’ve been using them for a while and maybe I’m just getting unlucky, but I still have to rinse and pre-clean.

I usually do both because I have never had a dishwasher that actually cleans anything off the dishes, no matter what I do or what cleaner I use. I am at the point I think they’re a myth propagated by Big Dishwasher. JK… or am I! Yeah, they probably do exist, but just for everyone else but me.

Any of the Five Nights games, fortnite, roblox, and basically any sports game that isn’t something like Skate 1-3.

Others have suggested FMHY and piracy communities, but besides the normal advice of having a trustworthy enough VPN and not g••gling something like “free movie torrent” and just clicking on the first link/links, one thing I’ve learned is just, assuming the file is somewhere around 750Mb, I think, seeing what VirusTotal has to say about it is advised.

Also, avoiding programs like BitTorrent in favor of things like Qbittorrent or Transmission is probably a good step. Last I checked, one of the communities said that at one point BitTorrent, or one of the old torrent clients, had become a virus ridden shell of its past.

Speaking of torrent clients, binding your client to your VPN is a good idea. You definitely don’t want your torrents to continue when your VPN disconnects you for any reason. Different clients may have different ways of doing it, or the setting will be in a different spot, so looking up how to do it for your client is a good idea, if you don’t know how to.

Though, I think this final part is real important for your safety when visiting certain sites to find torrents: have some form of working adblock! Because no reputable business want their ads on a piracy website, you might get caught up in a situation where you might get invisible full-screen ads that will take you to porn sites or other probably virus riddled sites just by clicking, sometimes without any way to get rid of said ads. That, or you’ll get lucky and the site just has normal ad placements, but they’re still not something you should click on.

I would never use the spray stuff near others. I’m never in a situation where I spray it anywhere near people, only myself in my bedroom. Especially since my brother used to have asthma and I would never want to intentionally do something that could trigger it for others. Can relate to probably inhaling some and possibly getting a tiny bit in one eye.

It’s also almost never I have the spray stuff, but if it’s environmentally bad, I’ll definitely have to switch to the gel.

I’ve become an either gel or spray deodorant type of man anymore. If I have a stick of the more solid stuff from the local food bank, I’m not gonna be super picky or complain about that because it’s free deodorant, but if I’m buying, gel or spray has become my new favorite.

I presume it’s less prevalent because I usually see way more of the more solid stuff than the gel and have a harder time finding the spray, in store because I know I can easily find it online, but I’d rather get it at the store while I’m already getting other things as well.

ppl don’t know how to torrent anymore

I’ll admit I was guilty of this until a few years ago, when I started learning the proper, safer ways.

My problem is that, last I checked, Searx(dot)be don’t have that turned on as a default and after a while I got tired of going into preferences and changing everything every time I open the browser. Especially when I’m clearing sire data and cookies every time I close the browser.

I am absolutely gonna set up my own instance in the future to solve this problem when I can, but until then I’ll end up sticking with the next best thing I can think of, which is Mullvad.

Mullvad’s search engine ( leta(dot)mullvad(dot) net ).

Due to g••gle messing internally with their stuff to make metasearch engines like my preferred Searx engines a lot more worse by throwing everything unrelated and also me always making sure whatever browser I use is in private mode so I don’t have to clear anything like cookies or browser history, I find it so much easier to just use them.

Also, Wikipedia. Specifically for anything like looking to see what license a software might be under, a link to said software, or maybe where a company is located. Makes my life so much easier. When I get a job in the future, I am absolutely gonna send them monthly donations.

I cannot speak for other countries, but here in America, I blame the fact that once family and personal computers became a big thing they stopped teaching about them in schools.

I know I never had a single class or subject related to using a computer. They just expected us to know how to use them.

Okay, it’s already been done twice in Japan, but I wanna do an adaptation of Urusei Yatsura but have it essentially be a continuation of the UK dub thatasted maybe an episode or two. Instead of the JP dub, just have the hilarious UK dub continued like nothing happened and it got the greenlight to continue.

BBC’s “Lum the Space Invader” dub should have 100% continued because it is so good as a comedy.

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For the most part I think you should be allowed to speak whatever language you want so long as you aren’t speaking it with a customer, co-worker, boss, etcetera, that doesn’t understand it.

I personally don’t see any reason why the language you speak should be policed so long as you aren’t using it with people who don’t understand it, unless they’re saying illegal things, but even then that can be shaky depending on what country you’re in IMO.

So many people have brought up Neocities ( modern day Geocities ) and I absolutely agree it’s an amazing site to find non-corporate and non-monetized to death sites made by random people across the globe. Definitely worth looking around there to see what others have built over time.

As for forums, I wasn’t really on that side of the internet, so no clue.

I don’t. They’re crazy, but crazy only gets crazier with age.

100 upvotes. I don’t like responding to people because I’m not good at it, as a introvert.