There are both private trackers and indexers specifically for audiobooks. Find them. The biggest tracker for it has an application process, read the rules and you’ll get an invite. Usenet… I can’t even remember how I got an invite

Every time I open Amazon it tries to get me to watch whatever drivel they’ve made lately, Fallout and Bosch are the only things I’ve watched in years from Prime Video, and downloaded them both from the high seas. I dunno what Freevee is, but I’m not watching anything on it.

God yes, you can clearly see from the background scene that while at different tables they can clearly see each other. All this bickering is madness

I have a friend in Portugal who uses semaglutide that’s compounded by a local pharmacy for about 35euros a month. I, in Canada still pay $230/month for Ozempic. For $120/month I could take a 2.5mg dose similar to Wegovy which in Canada right now is $400ish

Its the same drug, just no prefilled pen. All these pharmacies that offer it in Europe aren’t accessible from North America without a vpn, and then once accessible refuse to ship to Canada.

eWaste. We have a contract to give an outside company all our stuff. We degauss and shred hard drives and everything else does in a big bin that they pickup every month.

We have a hard drive degausser and shredder. Lucky bastard taking things home

Oh well if everything you do on your kindle is above board then I imagine it’s a great device. Having had my jailbroken kindle auto updated to the latest version without me noticing and with no way to revert it, it has left me rather salty about the device. It can still read epubs but it now only receives KFX files from Amazon which can’t be de-drm’d anymore.

Kobo is where its at, Amazon has locked down their ecosystem to prevent piracy. Which also made my paperwhite garbage. Unless you’re using Kindle Unlimited its not really worth going for kindle

ESET Endpoint, ESET used to be easy to pirate, box+Mara fix, then they patched that loophole and I was forced to subscribe to it (until I switched to Linux anyway) but I thought about putting eset on my windows VM and checked out the latest options for pirating it and I found out about ESET Endpoint which is self hosted antivirus for corporate environments. So we have pirates running their own Endpoint servers…virus definitions hosted by other pirates. That scared me a bit.

Obviously, people said that if you had a newer card it was ok. I say nay nay.

Glad Weston allows it to run in X11 because every attempt to switch to wayland fulltime has been painful.

They’re not, though alot of people would like them to appear to be.

Yes, it works quite well. I found a playlist of all the episodes I was looking for, every file I looked at had sponsor block segments (should’ve kept looking as the newer files didn’t have them) and set it to download the entire playlist. It checks the api and removes any segments that it finds, extracts the audio and reencodes to mp3. Sounds great.

Shhh, best not to mention Plex on Lemmy. The jellyfin mafia will come down and tell you repeatedly how amazing Jellyfin is and why we should give up our lifetime plex pass’ to use an inferior product cause its free and open source.

Excellent, I was not aware of this. Most of the podcasts in YT form have sponsorblock entries. And yt-dlp has an easy command:

–sponsorblock-remove Category

Signed up, I don’t mind paying but it seems like everything is $10, like I’m not signing up to Rooster Teeth’s site and pay $7/month just so I can listen to a single podcast. It’s taking me about 5 mins a file to open, strip the intro, find the midroll, delete the midroll and strip the outroll. Will that get annoying longterm… probably, but it saves me paying for a bunch of content I don’t care about.

It’s “Tales From The Stinky Dragon” which is a Rooster Teeth podcast. I thought they’d have full files on Patreon and I could just use kemono to get access to them, but they have their own app and shit.

No luck there, couldn’t get it to work on any of the Firefox forks. I eventually got it working in Kiwi Browser

Yes, most seed boxes have plex built in, generally you add it to your account and it shows up as a second server. You can map drives, and use it locally instead, but I’ve never done it that way.

Didn’t know that, I actually switched to Kiwi Browser because I couldn’t get the addon to work in IceRaven. And it’s one of those addons I really couldn’t live without.

Didn’t like that requirement either, so I used another site to get a virtual phone number to authenticate. There’s a bunch, but I’ve used this site for both Telegram & Discord:

https://felixmerchant.com/

Maybe indexer was the wrong word: https://tgstat.com/ is one I regularly use to find… things

Check out “The Amber Room” on telegram, it’s the spiritual successor of The Grove. Very actively updated with a secondary requests channel that has never let me down.

Just searched on a public telegram indexer I use and found probably 20+ groups full of private STL files. Some of which would probably make GW pretty upset

I had couple 13B models loaded in, it was ok. But I really wanted a 30B so I got a runpod. I’m using it for api, I did spot pricing and it’s like $0.70/hour

I didn’t know what to do with it at first, but when I found Simply Tavern I kinda got hooked.

Amazon had some promotion in the summer and they had a cheap 3060 so I grabbed that and for Stable Diffusion it was more than enough, so I thought oh… I’ll try out llama as well. After 2 days of dicking around, trying to load a whack of models, I spent a couple bucks and spooled up a runpod instance. It was more affordable then I thought, definitely cheaper than buying another video card.

YES!!! Thanks for this, I didn’t know this was an option. I removed all my wife’s additions and it gives me an easy way to down vote songs i don’t want. Haven’t found the pause history option yet but just being able to manage the algorithm is great

Edit: It’s in Settings under Privacy. Wish it was a button or something easily accessible in AndroidAuto

When I had Spotify I always heard the same stuff and when I invariably got tired of that same stuff and wanted to expand my tastes, I had a hard time finding stuff I liked.

For all the hate YouTube gets I much prefer it now, not a day goes by where something new (that I actually like enough not to skip) appears in my supermix. What isn’t good about the algorithm is if someone plays something on your account that isn’t what you like, the next week will be constant additions of whatever genre your wife decided to play…

“Weapon of Mass Destruction”, its a pretext the US has used to invade other countries in the past

I checked out OpenAudible posted in this topic and it seems interesting, and might be a better choice. But if you’re looking to rip your audible files yourself you’ll want inAudible: https://github.com/rmcrackan/inAudible

There are other options around, but none of them are as free or as good as inAudible, IMO.

We have them, but they’re not allowed to say what the drug is. So only certain drugs bother, like Ozempic, but entire commercial is just everyone asking “Have you heard about Ozempic?” “Talk to your doctor about Ozempic”

They can’t say what it treats or side effects etc. I like old game shows from the 70s so I’ll sometimes pick up an IPTV sub so I can watch the US gameshow channel, and then cancel shortly after because all the commercials are either drug commercials on repeat or mesicaid commercials on repeat. Its terrible.

It’s all about ads to them, and I will do anything in my power not to see ads of products I am not interested in… which is pretty much anything being advertised to me.

Canada has advertising restrictions, notably drug commercials and until recently: sports betting. I wish they hadn’t allowed those, they’re the worst and since we’re a new market every single site is advertising up here.

I had mine jailbroken and had koreader on there. I put it online without realizing and amazon forced an update without my consent so they could patch that little loophole. It still lets me download azw3 files from content & devices to “manually transfer to device” but I was not pleased

Guess you didn’t see what google is trying to do now.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

They only get away with this because of their market share of browsers

Amazon plugged all the loopholes.

The only way to do it now is to have an older Kindle device attached to your account, you can go into “Content & Devices” and you have the option to transfer to your Kindle via usb. Which will give you an azw3 file that you can use with DeDRM. But you can’t do it with KU which will only be served in KFX format.

The KFX team have infiltrated the groups who come up with vulnerabilities to allow DRM removal of kfx to then patch those issues before they can hit the general public. They’ve done it repeatedly so far so that’s why they’ve given up on DRM removal of kfx.

Its available on the open web again, they’ve made official plugins to help you find it:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/z-library/

There’s a chrome equivalent that no one should be using.

I agree the game is worth it. What bugs me is that Larian always releases games for really cheap during EA, then raises the price slightly after release.

This game though, was full AAA price from the start, so I believe a good chunk of the price of this game is going to Hasbro for D&D licensing. And like fuck those guys are getting my money after all the shit they pulled.

Blokada 6 uses the DNS implementation. It’s a subscription service. I paid for a year then realized I could use NextDNS and use it on multiple devices rather than be limited to just my phone for a couple dollars less.

I’m actually using NextDNS’ vpn implementation as it doesn’t affect the wifi at work, for whatever reason I’d always have to disable private dns in order to use the corporate wifi.

I use it with prowlarr, works great.

I prefer Revolt. It’s similar enough to Discord that I thought adoption among my friends would be easy. Nope. Some people just don’t care to leave