

What is with all the depressing shit posted on Mildly Interesting lately?! This isn’t mildly interesting, its c/OrphanCrushingMachine
What is with all the depressing shit posted on Mildly Interesting lately?! This isn’t mildly interesting, its c/OrphanCrushingMachine
It’s not nature being “brutal” that’s the issue (I wouldn’t even call it brutal because nature is what it is regardless of how we feel about it) - the issue is humans mocking or taking delight in an animal’s pain.
This is kinda what we do. But in our case we use both because personal storage is not cheap in this country and thus our self-hosted storage is limited. All out favourites that we watch repeatedly stays on the home server but we use Stremio and Torbox (because no way we’re going to use RD after theyb doxed customers) for one offs, shows were trying out, etc.
You get that fish feel pain right? Would this still be considered funny if that was a domestic cat in excruciating pain and terrified?
This isn’t mildly interesting or even mildly sad, it’s a lot sad 🌳😭
Oh please gods yes. Advertising is violence and even though most of my life is now ad free, I still can’t avoid the advertising scourge being shoved into my eyeballs every time I leave my house. It would be a blessed weight lifted from my already tired brain to never see a single ad again.
And yet I was saying just today there’s no way I’d go to the movies to see it anyway… Because Microsoft. Yet another example of how they’d never get money anyway but no doubt there’ll be another article claiming they lost billions from the leak or some bs
You joke but a (NZer) family member on an overseas holiday got into an argument with a local over the existence of NZ. Family member, being a tourist, was asked where they were from and said New Zealand. Nothing strange there. Local said that NZ was a state in Australia. Confidently incorrect. When my family member tried to correct them, they argued they were right and the person who was from the actual country was utterly wrong 🤦♀️
Or buy a Kobo instead and it just works. Bonus, no money to Amazon at all.
Are you OK? The Thought Police haven’t made DISCUSSING or TALKING about piracy illegal yet.
also smokers having reduced sense of smell!
Nowadays I feel like people have nuked their sense of smell with fragrance generally. I trip to anyone else’s house and I get headaches from the amount of automatic fragrance despensers, reed diffusers, essential oil atomisers, scented this that and the other on top of bombing themselves with strongly scented body products and sprays.
For more storage space yes. We have 2x2TB HDDs in raid atm and a few years ago that cost more than $100 (although I forget the exact amount). I have no doubt they will last long long time (I have a 1TB HDD in my PC that is about 10 years old and still going strong). But we can’t even store all our favourites let alone movies/shows we watch as one offs. So we would need to ‘upgrade’ what we have which we can’t remotely afford because in this country even 2nd hand storage adds up to expensive.
Unfortunately not everyone has access to cheap storage so for us a few bucks a month is more cost effective than having to upgrade expensive storage regularly. 😓
Record labels (and the like) suing ISPs like this is such a weird fucking take. Like, imagine book publishers sending their agents to markets, libraries, book shops, etc. and noting down every single book sold and who bought them, then suing the local council/government/roading organisation if they discovered off brand books or even second hand books for allowing book pirates to drive those books along the roads.
Or how about suing the power companies for providing power to pirates, or computer hardware manufacturers, or farmers for growing the food that pirates eat…
Organized crime has negative consequences for consumers and society as a whole
Organised crime like Google, Meta, Microsoft, the entertainment and music industries, Microsoft, most politicians… right?
I think some amount of it is apathy, or modern-life time-poor induced apathy where people just want something to work and work quickly without much effort or time and so they just pony up. And with so many people not keeping a budget, $10 a month here and there or $30 once a month doesn’t seem like much if you’re not adding up all those subs combined over a month or a year or 5 years. Really, some subs could fall into the category of a dark pattern because $10 a month doesn’t seem like much compared to say $100 up front even though over the course of a year (or 2, 3, 5+ years) that sub costs you more than just buying software up front. (Think also Sam Vines Boot Theory).
I see some people are getting fed up (I’m one of them) but sadly plenty more who mindlessly keep paying more and more.
Good luck getting anywhere in this country’s judicial system. The Courts here have repeatedly shown they kiss government arse and the NZ government has shown they kiss corporate arse.
New Zealand is no longer the land of no. 8 wire and protesting to stand up for rights, the environment, etc. but I fast becoming another western country beholden to apathy and consumerism. 😔
Its been a while since I used a Kindle but AFAIK its still this - using Calibre + the deDRM plugin. I don’t know if linking directly to stuff here is OK so just do an internet search for github noDRM deDRM_tools and you should find the plugin you need for Calibre.
Couple this with SLDL which can use Spotify URLs. I haven’t used it (yet) but was recommended to me for the same thing you’re wanting to do.
https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl