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overzeetop, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to memes in “I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.”

The only way you die on that hill is from crushing as we are all crowded on there with you.

Hell, I picked up the book last year and had forgotten that Marley was a single (former) partner, not two brothers.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to piracy in Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday

Re: reasonable levels - You can have fail safe or fail secure. Those are two mutually exclusive options. Locking people out of content, whether it be consumers or a partner organization (like a theater) is the price of security (fail secure).

There is no condition where mild DRM is valuable to anyone. For consumers it constitutes a hurdle to use of content they have purchased without hindering non-purchased copies from being reproduced and distributed. No DRM allows the latter; unbreakable DRM ensures the former will be substantially affected at some point.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What is the least shit online store of the shitty ones? such as: Wish, AliExpress, etc..

Temu is the current loss leader. You have to be careful as there are some items more expense than the Amazon or Aliexpress options, but many are 1/2-2/3 of the Amazon price with free shipping. Most items are 7-10 days shipping, but Amazon (to a rural address) is barely a couple days better with prime and about on par without.

Shipping has pretty much killed Aliexpress for me. I’m not willing to buy anything expensive as it’s effectively impossible to return and most sellers have an Amazon sellers account that is the same price or less once intl shipping is added.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to upliftingnews in Scientists find possible first room-temperature superconductor

Please, please, let this not be another Cold Fusion debacle.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to asklemmy in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

Is breathing underwater too exceptional? I’d settle for charging batteries by holding them, or the ability to revive/kill plants that I touch (my choice, not some random thing or King Midas curse)

overzeetop, 1 year ago to memes in “I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.”

I need to find an navally appropriated version. I have both, but the version with the restored song is a 4:3 VHS(?) transfer I think.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in It's a good thing they aren't in charge of adult toys...

I think thou dost protest too much. Perhaps not so much ace as you claim.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to maliciouscompliance in r/steam (maliciously) complies with the call to open again

I pray he stays and has an Ozymandias future.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in This is just cruel

Right? I was thinking the syntax was wrong (space in GoTo) and the og would not have accepted a string as a jump location.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to memes in “I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.”

Well shiver me timbers I didn’t expect it to be on the open seas so readily. May your grog be strong throughout the new year.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to asklemmy in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

Phone, flashlight, gaming system, headphones, laptop, jump start cars, watch (though the Apple Watch wouldn’t be compatible with my super power…same as in real life with all normal chargers).

The real question is if it would transfer energy magically, or would I experience a calorie deficit. That could go both ways in my book.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to piracy in Have 4K TV show torrents entirely disappeared from public trackers?

I’m on private but don’t have a seedbox, so I’m 100% pay to play. I pony up $100 every couple of years and my ratios don’t matter. On a personal pride level I make sure my old favorites say seeding, esp now that they only have a couple of seeders, but for torrents with 30-100 seeds I’m not needed and my contribution with a 10Mb cable pip against Gb seedboxes is always nil.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to asklemmy in If you could have one small thing as a superpower. What would it be and why?

We’re all here think of good things; you’re plotting nefarious powers.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to piracy in Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains - Illegal subscription services that steal films or TV shows bring in $2 billion a year in ads and subscriber fees.

[Raises hand]

I don’t have time to fuck with managing a seedbox to make ratios and community participation bullshit (looking at you, abt). I don’t even have time to fight incompletes on a usenet block. Let me drop a Benjamin in your “donation” box every couple of years and I’ll cover part of the server as long as I can find what I need, when I want it, in the quality I’m looking for.

I have subscriptions to a few of the big boys through legal cross-marketing deals; it’s still better to know that my shows will be waiting for me on my server if and when I ever get around to watching them.

overzeetop, 1 year ago to piracy in If you love piracy you should consider voting/joining your local Pirate Party

I love piracy like I love electricity - it makes my life easier, and I will extoll the virtues when asked. It doesn’t rise to a core political belief for me, though.