Lol our standup+parking lot is scheduled for an hour. Kill me.

I’ve switched to indie games or older releases in my backlog

Good on you for having such a detailed and well-meaning post, and good on the devs for being so receptive to ideas. I run Immich but am definitely a novice when it comes to self hosting things, so I had no idea this was going on. I don’t have any suggestions for the feature request but the proposed changes to the documentation would be good for people to know its thete and can be changed.

I chipped in when my friend bought Paranoia Agent on Blu-ray because he promised me the digital copy, so this does affect me. Granted, after learning the news I “found” some rips online for my NAS, but still. It’s not okay.

OpenMediaVault (Debian), it’s the perfect amount of tinkering and simplicity for my first nas/homeserver

You can just set your torrent program to open at startup, as long as you use your computer somewhat often you’ll be fine. Or you can look into a seedbox, it’s cheap

I got around this by just downloading some big freeleech porn packs or a couple new release shows/movies. My highest ratio item is an anime episode I downloaded minutes after release

A private tracker is a torrenting site, like TPB, but is invite-only or has some other barrier to get in. They’re usually safer and faster, bur you have to seed. Also YMMV, obscure things might either not be on there, or have few/no seeds.

I used to be a lot less lenient in the past, but as I’ve gotten older and DRM and streaming services have gotten worse I’ve been sailing the high seas more. Now I’ll do it if there’s no reasonably easy/convenient way to buy it in my country, if the work is old/big enough that nobody creatively involved is going to notice, or if I already bought the same or similar version in the past (such as wanting a movie for my Plex server that I know my parents have on DVD somewhere). Sometimes I’ll “acquire” something and end up financially supporting it down the line if I like it.

I do agree with some of the other comments though, that for things like software where there’s an alternate FOSS or independent version, I’ll go for that. I’ve begun getting in the habit of donating or paying one-time purchases (such as ad removal) on software I use a lot.

I found it via the Podcast Addict search. This is the feed link: https://500songs.com/feed/podcast/