Over the years i’ve torrented with no VPN, Tunnelbear, NordVPN, Mozilla VPN, and Proton; i’m pretty sure all of them messed up my torrenting in some way, not necessarily by making the connection slower, but by making some peers invisible and making me invisible to some peers.

And then there was Soulseek, which had me trying and failing to set up port forwarding. It was complicated and still didn’t work as well as it would have if i didn’t have a VPN.

Incidentally, i do need a VPN to torrent because i’ve gotten two fine-threatening letters already

Honestly YT Premium has been a thing for a long time and it’s done the opposite. There used to be exclusive shows that were made public later. (i.e. they were made public the day after i paid for my subscription)

I like YT Premium (and Twitch Turbo for that matter) for two reasons: they support creators (wayy higher CPM than ad-supported viewers), and they support the platform in a way that makes them less dependent from advertisers. If more people subsribed to YT Premium, their incentives would lean towards paid members and away from advertisers and music labels.

Having said that, i have ethical problems with both Twitch and Youtube, hence why i don’t subscribe to either and subscribe to Nebula instead. It’ll do until PeerTube becomes usable.

I’ve been doing that, but then it doesn’t play the next video in the playlist. Which sucks because i can’t listen to my favorite audiobook

Some people will link to Piped to avoid YouTube, some people will link to Bing Videos

It’s undeniably better for you to not worry, but also the ability to not worry is undeniably privileged since it means you’re not personally affected.

Also i just don’t think it’s true that we can separate our issues from the third world’s issues, they are connected, and the very uncomfortable fact is that the connection often is our benefitting from their exploitation. That’s not as true as it once was, colonialism is different now, but it’s still true, i own countless cheap items thatwere manufactured by exploited workers in other countries.

The trend on social media is idle outrage, it’s overexposing ourselves to the most devastating and most infuriating information while doing nothing about it. I’ve seen a lot of Gaza footage but i haven’t done anything other than donate e-sims and upvote memes.

I don’t blame anyone for wanting out of that. If you’re not going to do something about politics, then you might as well not let it poison your social media. If you are doing something about politics, then you already know to step out of online flame wars, or you should know.

Of all human emotions, rage is the one that’s best at keeping us engaged, so for-profit social medias feed us rage bait constantly to keep us on their platform, and one great way to do that is through politics. Here on Lemmy, the same is done for internet points. I see no point in either because neither leads to action. In fact there’s incredible danger in being politically angry, we should be politically educated.

When did you buy the M570? I bought mine 6 years ago and it doesn’t require software, if yours is recent then that’s a new thing

The beauty of capitalism

Bathroom books are absolutely a thing. My boomer aunt has dozens of Andy Capp booklets.

But that’s just the thing, all the best food in the UK comes from India, France, or Italy.

Fucking stop with this conspiracy theory already, i’m reading it for the third time this thread. As if CEOs can’t make bad decisions and there has to be a “realll11” reason.

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You’ll get my boot in your reer in a minute if you carry one like that

Oh my god they even have a pop-up

“Yeah sorry boss, i didn’t actually read the email, instead i had an AI summarize it for me and it got a key detail wrong. Anyway what’s a couple thousand dollars in lost sales right”

Man i’ve have dozens of usernames spanning 15 years but i ALWAYS get comments about my username being funny lmao

Yeah, the key is to add “umm” and “uhh” here and there. Makes it conversational

Fucking, uh, keys and a wad of cash. Oh and phone i guess. I kinda stuff them wherever depending on what i’m wearing, i don’t have that many pockets so i don’t fumble for them that much. This one pair of jeans has a hole in the pocket, i don’t remember which one, but basically can’t put coins in that. Um. Yeah

I vaguely remember the Nvidia driver generating tons of log files, so many that they piled up over years and filled my drive

Skibidi toilet is a gmod/SFM series. This isn’t zoomer culture, it’s millenial culture. It’s zoomers appreciating our culture.

So now the problem is sharing your IP with every member of the P2P swarm.