shaytan

joined 9 months ago
[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago

Worth it? Sure, but I'd try to grab a 2nd hand steamdeck instead, similar prices, but much more capable

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 8 months ago (7 children)

It isnt the best one, but its cheap, allows port forwarding and its not sketchy as far as we know

Air vpn

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

Been thinking about buying a similar setup, and you just pushed me into buying a "Chinabox"

Let's see how this goes, if It explodes you owe me a beer, and a pair of hands, and another chinabox (I'm not a quitter)

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Download stremio, install the "torrentio" addon, and you're good to go, search a movie and play it, it keeps track of half watched movies and series, has subtitles integration with opensubtitles, and supports tv android pc etc

If you have the money, pay for real debrid and you'll get better reliability

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

I've needed something like this for a while, thank you buddy

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago

Wow, thank you, I'm really new to this, I'll edit the comment, and do that from now on :)

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah, on pc yt-dlp is absolutely the best option, If I remember right, there's even a way of downloading the high bitrate versions of videos spoofing iOS or whatever, but maybe this was using a fork of it

And on android, I used to rock youtube mate

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Discord:

  • Takes down accounts for mass reporting without checking the issue.
  • Takes down accounts for sharing slightly copyrighted content.
  • Takes down accounts for using alternative discord clients.
  • Doesn't take down accounts related to coordinated spam attacks to another platform.

Discord being discord I guess, but it's weird, I've seen them take down servers and accounts for all sorts of light issues, but not for this?

[–] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I find this to be the case to absolutely every app, free versions being filled with adds, selling your data, trying to fry you with more and more dopamine intensive content. And then the paid version, which usually is overpriced, happens to be worse than a modified client of the same app but free.

Youtube for example, doesn't allow you to download content in 1080, 1440 or 4k, 720 is the limit, for a paid subscription. Then you try revanced and oh wow, you can download 4k content for free, how cool is that?

And usually changing the interface to make it more addictive, forcing shorts on Youtube, reels on Instagram, making the base app worse so people go for the paid version, is why people end up with moddified clients/applications, yet the companies are obviously going to blame us, "pirates oh very bad, they steal content and avoid ads, why would they do such crime",

Instead of wondering why their app is 4 times heavier than a couple years back, has 8x the useless crap built-in, and is priced 2x than a year ago. At least this crap has taught me to value actual well built apps by great people, in many cases, out of passion.

Props to Freetube, my greatest discovery last year, I can't even express how much I missed using a useful interface for youtube, instead of what we have now...

Well that's it, no-one should feel bad for using alternative apps when the actual company is the one to push users out of their apps with shitty updates and anti-consumer practices.

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