That's exactly right about pirating software that requires you to develop skills with it. Pirating Photoshop or whatever just means you are foreclosing the libre options to yourself in the future as you build up the proprietary ecosystem.
GnuLinuxDude
joined 2 years ago
You want to… own the phone you bought???
Have you tried going into nautilus settings to ensure it will generate thumbnails for remote mounts? Not just local files. I am not able to access a computer but I distinctly recall that setting existing
Lack of evidence isn’t the problem. Just like how a parent must teach a child instead of submitting to a child’s demands because the parent should know better, climate change deniers mustn’t be allowed to have functional decision making power over climate change policy.
Of course they do have it now and will continue to have it until we have a blue ocean event, totally receded glaciers, scorching summer seasons, and slower brains from the ever increasing carbon dioxide molecules ppm that rises and rises and rises and rises. Much like how the seas will.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere this graph is literally foretelling the future
Wow, that is so cool!
The one that always ships late with my distro (Fedora) is my favorite, I guess, since it is the one I use :)
User statistics
All-time upload: 12.436 TiB
All-time download: 3.021 TiB
All-time share ratio: 4.11
That's starting from about May 1 on one device. There have been and are others, of course. My provider no longer offers port forwarding and that really curtailed the upload part, but I tried to maximize that while I could.
While I do miss what cd dearly, I haven't been on a private tracker since. I prefer freeing the bits as much as possible for all people, so that means public torrents and trackers.
I would assume the real surges would be in bluesky and threads. Out of the frying pan and into the other frying pan.
People don't really understand Mastodon and federation (nor do I blame them for that), but those details are now much, much less in your face than they were when Elon bought Twitter. Mastodon's reliability and usefulness has also improved a lot since Elon bought Twitter. Nothing else works quite like sending a few hundred thousand people your way to stress test your product (and some of them are even nice enough to give money, too!)
Is this the thing that wants a retinal scan to allow you to buy the coin?
but then how can the line go up??
I have long felt that the computer industry course-corrected with mobile phones. They made a mistake in the early years of computers by letting users do things like install software from unauthorized sources, modify software to run to their liking, or even strip out the operating system and replace it with an alternative. Now we get things like TPM, Pluton, chains of trust, and DRM. 2% (rounding up) to protect users from malicious software tampering, 99% (rounding down) to extract rents from users and to track them for advertising or other purposes.
IMO pirating media from anybody but indies is moral, correct, and good. The big companies have trade representation and lobbyists which they use to push their insane copyright agenda. Consider the Mickey Mouse act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act which extends copyright to such an absurd term, only corporate lawyers could have devised it. Which they did. Disney is a great example, in fact, since much of their media empire relies on adaptations of public domain works which are then copyrighted basically indefinitely. If our copyright laws today were more similar to what copyright laws were back then, we could have a lot more remixes, adaptations, and takes on well known stories and media.
Anyway, by purchasing from these copyright pushing companies I am funding their agenda, which is against sensible patent law and copyright law, and against me. They also promote vile DRM schemes, as their industry pushes ever onward away from personal ownership of anything and toward rent seeking behavior. If it were up to them we would all have tivoized boxes that we not only have to pay rents for, but must also consume ads on. Literally against my own interests to give them money, ever.
It's too bad that so much of our media is produced by a shrinking number of companies, because pirating their shit isn't even worthwhile. Most of their garbage is unwatchable slop.
As for any other form of piracy, I consider intellectual property to be mostly bullshit. But I can appreciate the time that goes into creating a work one wishes to sell and having some domain over that for a period of time after initial publication. But like many other things about our world, it's the stupidest version we have to live with.
P.S. and that's just one aspect of copyright law. Imagine trying to copyright the fundamental advances of human knowledge and science. God bless Sci-Hub!