Whelp…boo-urns. :(

OOTL and someone who only uses a vm once every several years for shits & grins: What happened to vmware?

40 years old. Haven’t been satisfied with a phone-slam since before my first cordless phone in 2001.

Honestly the only thing HP has ever made that I haven’t been horribly, horribly disappointed with is their monitors. Just through circumstance of ‘whatever-the-fuck-was-cheapest-but-not-total-ass-when-I-went-to-buy-them’ I’ve ended up with 4 different HP monitors over the years, including a 20ish year old 4:3 one which still goes strong to this day.

Every other product was pure unadulterated ass.

Fair!

I find it funny any time I check Reddit and see the people complaining in the comments. ‘Whats going on with Reddit lately?’, ‘Why are there so many bots and so much spam as of late?’.

Memories of gerbils I swear, we fuckin’ told you this was gonna happen. How are these simpletons surprised?! (I know I answered my own question there lol).

also seems to me that you should be able to fix them without publicly announcing it.

You would seem to be wrong then lol. News has standards higher than Uncle Joe’s Truckin’ Blog™ or someone’s Aunt’s Facebook post.

Fuck sake…

Edit: Just shut shit down, sell the IP’s to Dramatic Labs (who are made up of former OG Telltale people) and let shit continue on with competence (I say, having enjoyed Star Trek: Resurgence).

https://www.sportsbots.xyz/

This. Sometimes I’ll go to an actual torrent site for shits & grins but why go search on 1 site when I can search 50+ at once?

Fucking nutters.

As another person in Ontario who uses both bagged and jug milk: you’re doing something wrong or buying milk that’s at the expiration date and it’s blowing. What you’re describing has never happened to me after 40 years on the planet lol.

Still working for me with just the basic bitch plan on the web/desktop.

That being said: Fuck you Spotify lol

Edit: fuck GadolElohai and CybranM too ya low expectation having downvoting motherfuckers lol

#fucktheirvings

I go to Facebook nowadays for 3 reasons:

A) Post memes to give my friends a smile or chuckle.
B) Check on a group or two (50% of the time related to memes also lol.
C) Someone messaged me.

If I want news, I go the same places I’ve already been using for 20+ years and it aint Facebook.

Technology and piracy always will find a way. Even if Plex goes tits up, we have options with Jellyfin and Emby. Sharing may not be great or even possible in some or all circumstances, but I’m sure if Plex shuts down today they’ll go into overdrive to bring things more up to speed since there’ll be a real need for it. If not, someone else will come up with something to replace it, or something new.

Hell only reason I started using Plex in the first place was because I was using Universal Media Server and was tired of putting up with it’s shit. Only reason I was on that was cause I was tired of Playstation Media Server beforehand, and if I hadn’t smoked my brain cells away I’d tell you the same thing for whatever I used before that too lmao. We’ll always find new ways to pirate, and to share that content. Plex just became so commonplace cause it’s so damned easy and (…mostly…) works well.

It’s really satisfying having someone to share your collection with. I moved in with my now-fiancée late last year and it’s so fun watching it grow to suit us both.

Ditto. I started my Plex server about 11-12ish years ago for myself and my wife. Nowadays we’re sharing 30TB to almost 20 of our combined friends and none of em pay for subscriptions anymore lmao.

Bingo!

In fairness, they would have been absolutely stupid to have not done a 100% prewritten, teleprompted PR riddled pre-written response given the situation. Linus sitting down in front of a camera and just letting his mind do Linus things isn’t gonna help anyone lol.

I don’t have an answer for you but this woke up an old memory of me sitting on my old ass XP machine running Serialz2k or whatever the shit it was called, big database of serial codes, username/passwords, etc for tons and tons of different software. Could update it monthly/quarterly and get new serials added into the database. Only managed to get a handful of serial codes to work but for a young teenaged me it was glorious.

Right? Like oh no, well sucks to sucks l.w lol.

Such a mess lol. I take pride in knowing that every movie, tv show, comedy special, album, game (up until the ps era cause i’m not made of hard drive money), comic book, novel, piece of software, basically anything I ever enjoyed over the course of my life (as well as a couple terabytes of random data hoarder shit) are sitting 2 feet away from my fingers at all times.

I never stopped, but I doubled down a good 10 years ago when Netflix first announced they were gonna put an end to people getting around geolocking. I’m Canadian. I’d pay (at the time) for US Netflix 100%. Canadian Netflix wasn’t worth the cost of the pot to piss in.

Spun up a Plex server, set up Sonarr, Jackett/Prowlarr, Radarr, Tautulli, and now I am Netflix for 20 people lmao.

Edit: And I’d have it no other way.

My wife and I are on ODSP and living in a rent controlled 2br apartment for just under $1200. We’ve been here 13 years. If we got evicted tomorrow I’m pretty sure my next living space will be a pine box with or without an above-ground-view.

Amazingly enough this all happened on 2 machines with 2-week-old OS installs so, honestly not a huge hassle to do so lmao.`

Oh 100%. Was a dumb moment where I didn’t expect it and didn’t bother, and neither did a lot of other people from the looks of it. Good thing is it was something fixable in less than 5 mins and not a bigger problem.

What remains to be seen is the impact the reduction will have on prices consumers pay for pot or on the bottom line of cannabis companies.

We already know lol

This is the way. Been using RSS feeds since 2005. Haven’t had a piece of news delivered to me via Reddit, Facebook, Twitter or any other social media without it being in my feeds within 5 minutes. Never need to go anywhere else.

I’m still easily finding a lb of onions for $4 at No Frills or FreshCo by my place, but the wild prices do seem to vary area by area as well.

Never been happier that I’ve been cooking and baking for 30 years so I can at least save some money making some things myself lol

Yep. The day µTorrent did their adware/crypto/whatever the fuck it was shit happened more than once, I immediately grabbed qBittorrent and never wanted to look back. Only once did I have a problem with it and that was an issue between it and Sonarr which I resolved by just downgrading qBittorrent for awhile lol

qBittorrent for over a decade now.

Ironically, for old stuff at least, Piracy is the only way it’s reliably preserved. Even if you do want to buy it new to support the creators, oft-times you can’t. It’s because I can’t buy it that I turn to piracy. Not just for old games, but sometimes old comics and manga too. Occasionally Anime that’s no longer licensed or available.

'Tis why I’m a data hoarder. Any TV show, movie, album, book, comic, video game (up to the n64 era, I’m not made of money for storage space lol), stand up comedy special, basically anything I’ve ever enjoyed in my life, I got that shit on disk. Anything 100% irreplaceable is backed up, but otherwise it ain’t going anywhere till shit breaks.

Yeah that’s a CAM. Not the same thing. Most movies get cam copies online within a day or so of being in theatres.

Don’t expect all pirates to be ‘against the man’, some are just lazy gits who don’t wanna spend money (not that there’s anything wrong with that) and don’t give much of a damn otherwise about ‘the other shit’.

I’m 100% on board with the protest, and I’m 100% on board with /r/piracy just dying if for no other reason than just because Reddit is the worst fucking place to deal with piracy, especially with the times they threatened to nuke the sub in the past, double-especially with that time the mods had to wipe out pretty much the entire history of the subreddit in order to prevent it from being shut down.

Not OP but: they are apps to schedule automatic downloads. Like Star Trek Strange New Worlds but don’t wanna go every week and download it manually? Set it up in Sonarr and when you wake up the new episodes are waiting for you. Radarr is the same for film, prowlarr for aggregating torrent trackers all in 1 spot, bazarr for subtitles, and there’s a few others. Can also be set up with usenet in addition to torrents.

Are most piracy users aware of programs like sonarr or radarr?

Of course we are, hell that’s what I use with my torrents. They aren’t just for usenet lol

I gave up on Netflix so many years ago now with zero regrets. The second they started their rumblings (nearly a decade ago now) about wanting to stop people from accessing other countries media selection I said fuck it, spun up a Plex install and never looked back.

I used the hell out of mine back when I had it, loved this thing.

Ah, I see you’ve taken part in Bullshit Corporate Meetings™ before!