Torrenting is getting worse and worse these days, I’m learning the ancient art of Usenet.

Lol, did it have “Revenge list” at the the top crossed out?

“Short-term thinking has been the fatal tendency of the Conservative governments to which Britain has been subjected since 2010…”

Pretty sure short term thinking has been the problem with all Conservative governments in living memory. They treat the country like a crooked CEO treats a business. Get in, strip and sell as many assets as possible, make as much money for yourself as you can, get out whilst it all crumbles behind you. Who gives a fuck if it ruins the lives of all the little people? They were lucky to have your amazing leadership in the first place and they just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, never mind that those bootstraps are now in your pocket.

A prime example is Thatcher’s government and their “right to buy” scheme that decimated council housing stock and is still causing housing problems to this day.

Damn, this could stop Invidious, Piped and Newpipe from being able to block ads.

Exactly. I’m not worried though. There are so many alternatives these days.

I could be wrong but isn’t it essentially impossible to pirate modern versions of Adobe Creative Suite products as they’re now cloud based, meaning the only versions you can pirate are around 10 years old?

Oh yea. There’s definitely still time.

Hey, not all of us Debian users are lesbians.

It would be more accurate to call us lovers of lesbians.

Holy shit: “The company is recommending that customers do a factory reset on the product and find some way of responsibly recycling the hardware.”

So they’re not offering to dispose of it, or even giving any advice on how to dispose of it responsibly. Just suggesting people should probably do that.

If companies are allowed to behave this way we’re all screwed. Any efforts by the average person to avert the environmental damage caused by the waste they produce is completely futile and any politician who claims that they’re doing their best to try to hold companies accountable is a liar.

For me it was the Simpsons when I was a kid and a relative would record it off satellite TV for me. It just carried on from there. I started recording stuff off TV myself, recording music on audio cassettes and eventually copying VHS tapes.

Then I got a PSX console and my parents “knew a guy” who burned games.

After that I heard about Napster and started downloading MP3s on the family PC. When Napster was shut down I moved onto other apps like Kazaa and Limewire.

Then I got a DVD burner. At first I just copied DVDs but when I got broadband I started downloading torrents and burned the files to DVDs.

About 10 years ago I started storing those files on a NAS. Planning on moving to Jellyfin in the next few weeks.

True. I can’t understand why anyone would choose having the newest features over stability. But each to their own.

it’s literally Ubuntu (But better) in every way except no snaps.

That would be Debian, friend.

I use a wyse terminal as a torrent downloader and samba server. I stored documents, including my CV on there until recently but started thinking that might be a bad idea. So now I sync those documents between my devices using Syncthing and will soon be installing Jellyfin on that wyse terminal.

But isn’t that the whole point of them?

Hello fellow media pirates…

Yea, but the modern ones aren’t like that. No company would make the mistake of making a high quality durable product these days. No profit in that.

Sure was. Seems all Nokia can do now is make middling Android phones or try to cash in on nostalgia.

Sure, there were off editions that were weird and unpleasant

You could just say ME.

But I’m curious, have the issues you’ve described made you consider leaving Windows?

I’m cautiously optimistic.

I think some smaller companies and government/ civil organisations might switch this time around. But probably most large companies will pay for long term Windows 10 support then begrudgingly switch to 11.

Those switching could use something else, but lets face it the only option mature enough other than Mac OS is Linux. Regardless of the number of organizations that do switch the increased exposure should make the idea of an OS that has no license fees being used successfully very tempting to a lot of people.

Now I’ll never find the Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles lair. Thanks Thatcher