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I fuck numbers.

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Adding to the discussion, if you want to watch anything that’s not mainstream (i.e. non-western, or arthouse), you’re basically supposed to either wait for it to stream on Mubi or get a Blu-ray/DVD (that are often out of circulation if it’s more than 5 years old). So the only real option is pirating.

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Usually, yeah. But when Coffeezilla’s involved, I’m here for it.

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This is why I exclusively play indie offline games. Also because my PC is getting old lol.

I feel like the Steam Deck is the best proof of Gabe Newell's quote that "piracy is a service issue."

They could have easily crammed the Steam Deck full of stuff to make it hard to use for piracy - locking down everything, making it usable only to play games you legitimately own, force you to go through who knows what hoops in order to play games on it. That’s what Nintendo or Apple or most other companies do....

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Games are one of the very few things that I always pay for. Steam is mostly responsible for that. Also, music. But nowadays I do store some of my own music because I can have lossless that way.

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Yeah, I’m talking about EndeavourOS. I don’t see what got you confused.

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For a total newbie, Linux Mint or PopOS are probably the best options. But EndeavourOS is getting there. There shouldn’t be any issues during the installation if one sticks to the defaults. Only thing is, it doesn’t come with a graphical package manager out of the box. But once that is installed (I think anyone will be happy to write a single terminal command, at least), I don’t see why it’s any harder to use than any other distro.

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No because then you might get decent coffee sometimes. Chromebook is getting coffee from a 7/11.

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MacOS is Starbucks.

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Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 ways.

  1. Using a VPS and DDNS (I personally do this):
    • Pros: Super easy for others to access, you just give them the address.
    • Cons: Not free. (Oracle free tier might work, but it’s unreliable.) But there are cheap VPSs as low as $12/yr that work pretty well. Also, it’s a bit harder to setup since you’ll need to create a VPN tunnel between your local machine and the VPS.
  2. Using tailscale or zeroties:
    • Pros: Free, and easier to setup than a VPS.
    • Cons: People need to install extra apps to access your server.
  3. By port forwarding:
    • Pros: Super easy to setup, just need to forward the ports through your router.
    • Cons: You’re opening a port to the internet, which is less than ideal. Also, it won’t work if you’re behind a NAT.
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Yeah lol. When I we first got wired internet at home (about 15 years ago), the speeds weren’t good. It averaged around 120 KBPS for browsing the internet. But the guy installing the connection told me that torrents went up to 10 MBPS easily, and he wasn’t lying. Before that, I didn’t understand that torrent worked in a fundamentally different way compared to direct downloads.

It was in India. I won’t be surprised if the situation is still similar. (I mean the attitude towards piracy. The speeds are pretty good nowadays.)

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This is what I use for my personal archive:

yt-dlp -f bestaudio/best --extract-audio --embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail --recode opus --audio-quality 0

It does recode to opus but since the bestaudio is usually in that format already, you don’t need it most of the time. You can skip the –recode opus part if you want to. I keep it because I like having a “uniform” collection. You can probably change the bestaudio/best part to simply bestaudio without losing much as well.

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If I’m not wrong, the best way to have best possible quality would be:

ffmpeg -i file.opus -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 0 -map_metadata 0 file.mp3

I know you asked for GUI, but CLI tools are better at this job since it’s very easy to batch process the files using a combination of find and parallel.

Also, it’s probably a better idea to keep the files as they are and use a different audio player on your device. I don’t use iOS, so can’t suggest an app. VLC or mpv should work, but I personally prefer music apps with album, artist etc. support. For android, the app Gramophone is great. Another way would be to serve your files via a music server like navidrome and using a client like Tempo (again, it’s the android client I like, but surely there will be iOS alternatives).

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Unpopular opinion: I like the new Firefox logo. It’s clean, but still has the essence of the original logo. Unlike most other simplified logos, this one’s actually good. If you wanna hate, go see Dunkin’ Donuts’ logo.

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I’d rather have that than be preserved for centuries. I honestly prefer cremation to burial. Heck, feed me to the birds for all I care, just let me unexist completely.

There’s a sort of solace in that. That one day I’ll completely cease to exist. I don’t know why religious people like the idea of eternal life. I’d very much prefer not to exist after a while.

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One word. Piped.

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I do want to move away from Spotify since they randomly drop previously available songs from time to time, but I have some 500 songs in a playlist. Is there a way to easily RIP all of it in good quality? spotify-dl is simply insufficient in terms of quality and accuracy. Has anyone used zotify? Does it work? I might get a second account and try, if anyone can tell me if it worked for them.

Disney is gouging customers with a near doubling of subscription costs. (sh.itjust.works)

Disney is raking its customers over the coals with a 75% price hike for their annual subscription (originally $80.) People wonder why piracy is on the rise.Multiple commenters are saying I’m off base about the 75% price increase. My payment less than a year ago was $79.99. Here’s the proof.

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wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/

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My roommate is the worst when it comes to this. I don’t wanna know what this scene is a reference of. Just let me watch, motherfucker! I do like to discuss movies and get nerdy about them, but only after I finish watching it. I’ve told him so many times, it’s honestly insufferable.

And then he’ll start scrolling through his phone 10 minutes in whenever someone else suggests a movie. He’s a good friend, but God do I hate watching anything with him.

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Doesn’t work for me. I think the proper format is !fuck_cars

Edit: Your link works in browser, but not in Eternity.

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