the most similar instance to reddit, culture-wise.

Why would anyone want that? The whole point of being on Lemmy is to get away from Reddit

While the piracy community being among the biggest arguably doesn’t make for great optics

I’d argue otherwise. It is great optics to have a thriving piracy community. It keeps the corporate boot lickers out, and attracts the kind of crowd that we should want on Lemmy.

Programming class at school when I was 15. Basic Delphi/object pascal back then. Was always into technology beforehand, especially tinkering with the first android phones, rooting them and installing custom ROMs

Pretty similar to that yeah. No downloads, and I don’t think it saves any changes made to audio quality in the settings.

Spotify APK with no ads and premium features. I then pirate what I like

In my first programming class in what Americans would call middle school (I was in grade 9), we got introduced to scratch and used it to draw penises lol.

Settings > connections > more connection settings > private DNS

I’m using private DNS on mobile data right now. It’s system wide and not dependent on WiFi

I find using a DNS server that blocks ads gets rid of them. You just put the name of the server (like “dns.adguard.com”) in the private DNS field in settings and turn it on.

I find the setting on my phone in Settings > connections > more connection settings > private DNS

Third party apps for Spotify is definitely the way to go if you don’t have premium.

The same way you install revanced, you basically have to reinstall it with an updated APK and patches. At least that’s how I did it.

I use YouTube revanced, and after a quick update a few weeks ago it’s working fine again

Surprised by C# and Java. People always moan that they have too much boilerplate code and something else about how OOP sucks and that makes these languages too verbose, yet they’re close to the top of the chart here for least characters used on average.

Skidrow also claims that they would accept EMPRESS’s challenge of cracking a non unity denuvo game under the condition that EMPRESS releases pornographic video of herself.

Wtf

Stremio is pretty cool. Allows for streaming torrents with a lot of seeders. Watch most TV series and movies on there nowdays