WanderingVentra

joined 1 year ago
[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh nice! Thanks!

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago

Is yours one? I saw other people suggest Lemmy.zip, mander I think is one, and lemdr.oid or something like that.

The problem is that they tend to be smaller, which means harder to find.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 33 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

This suuuucks. We need another big, general instance that doesn't defed everyone. But I get it, being an admin sounds like a lot of work or I would do it lol. Plus I don't have place for a server around here. Or do most admins just buy space from the cloud?

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Reminds me of that great joke -

A KGB agent and CIA agent meet up in a bar."I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.

"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused... There's no propaganda in America."

Over analysis caveat of the jokeOf course it's not state media directly in the states, but the same billionaires who own the state own the media, so it turns out all to be the same thing in the end.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Holy shit actual media criticism and analysis on North Korea. Never thought I'd see this day.

The little clip with the meta-commentary on news stories commenting about them was hilarious yet insightful, so I definitely have to watch the full documentary they're referencing (EDIT: especially if it's just the 20 minute video you linked. That's the full video? I thought I heard the word documentary so thought it would be longer).

 

Any Marvel Rivals players on Lemmy? I didn't see a community so I'll just ask here. How are you supposed to play the Hulk?

People say Hulk is OP, so I feel like I should learn to play him as a vanguard, but I have a feeling it's just because of his team-ups. Every time I jump in with this guy I just immediately get hit with a bunch of damage and CC by their whole team, have to shield, then jump out, then wait to get healed before jumping in again. I feel like I'm not holding any space or doing anything with this guy. Venom feels like a more workable version of him.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Oh that is kinda sad.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

They poop on heads though, which is negative points for me.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks! I would super appreciate that. I found that version, too, and got super hopeful when I did. Imagine my surprise when I played it and it turned out to be Chinese lol.

It should be in the Channel 4 streaming service you'd think, but it isn't for some reason. It's actually a great example of the role piracy has to play in archiving media and data.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's a channel 4 documentary that sounded interesting from just a couple years ago, like 2022 or something like that, that I can't seem to find where Prue from The Great British Bake-Off is tracking down the family of her adopted child (I watch a lot of GBBO, hence why it sounded interesting). It's so recent and Prue is so famous in the UK, I am surprised how difficult it has been to track down.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago

The rest of the world needs to learn from the US's failure like this ASAP. I think Europe might already be doomed judging by the way the UK and Germany are going, but others might be able to swerve to avoid a fascist future with the right moves.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago

Is that an app or what?

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

Didn't know they changed owners. That's unfortunate.

 

Been out of the piracy scene for a bit, maybe about 6 months to a year, as I basically have been good with the streaming services I already sign up for. But this past week I've rebuilt my setup (my mini server died), and tested it by trying to torrent something yesterday just to make sure I still can, and I noticed Torrent Galaxy was down. Then I saw some articles that it's been down a lot lately. Does anyone know what's going on? Or was it fine and it was just something on my side, like a DNS issue?

I hope it's fine because that was the best public tracker I knew. For example, the show I was looking for to test my setup with couldn't be found on 1337x (TPB ended up coming through but I don't trust that site as much as I used to). Are they really cracking down on public tracker indexes right now? Have any good alternatives popped up yet? Is there anything we as a community can do to get around or resist these efforts?

I'm not even a diehard pirate, I like the efficiency and user friendliness of paid services or products, I just like it to be an option when I want to punish companies for customer unfriendliness (ex: I stopped paying for Netflix when they prevented sharing outside of household), and without public trackers the hobby feels too niche and exclusive.

 

So far, public trackers have been working fine for me, but think I've finally run into some niche shows that have been hard to find or only been able to find individual episodes instead of a single collected season torrent. (Nothing too special, just some baking shows.)

I'm wondering if it's finally time to look into private trackers or Usenet.

If you use them, what did it take for you to finally look into these more time or effort intensive piracy options?

A movie you wanted to see that was too old to be seeded on public trackers? TV shows too old or niche? A game, an obscure music artist? Something else? Was it just curiosity? Or something you did immediately upon getting into piracy? I'm just curious myself lol.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48643729

Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/48643729

Has anyone seen any particularly good deals for NAS's, storage or memory, mini computers, things like that, for this Black Friday / Cyber Monday season?

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