having alcohol as an excuse!

No sale! If a woman says she’s drunk I’m not touching. What kind of fool do you take me for?

Hey anyone who has seen it, was it good? One of my favorite ongoing comic series is being produced by the guys who wrote Beetlejuice² and produced Wednesday (also haven’t seen, hate remakes/reboots by default, stopped after Total Recall.) I’m nervous lol.

Personally I believe violence should only be used in defense of self or innocent people around you from imminent threats, never otherwise. Use words to fight words, use ideas to fight ideas, use fists to fight fists, guns to fight guns or knives. Straight pacifism to the degree of foregoing defense seems naive to me, but so does using violence for anything but defense from violence.

Yess YEESSS! Gabba gabba we accept you, one of us! One of us!

Honestly if you figured out lemmy you can figure out linux at least enough not to be a 95yo about it.

Use a distro that is both popular and good for beginners, like Fedora or it’s KDE spin, or Mint. There will be learning, there probably will be troubleshooting, you’re switching from something you’ve always been familiar with to a new thing, it is unavoidable. It’s like moving to Mexico, you’ll need to pick up at least a little Spanish. It’s really not as hard as people make it seem, most questions will be solved by searching the problem and pasting in a terminal command, but it’s good to learn what those commands do over time. It might benefit you to use the computer more often while learning if possible.

Do it, you’ll be fine!

I’ve been known to watch a fight video there every now and again, yes.

Tbf those rules came about due to it being a common avenue for robbery. The logic is that if you have a car at least we have your licence plate if you rob us, but if not you could get away with it easier.

I’m surprised they let you do it at all, must’ve been a while ago (or your area just recently got as bad as mine has been for years lol).

I really just hate the UI and everything about it, plus google. I guess I’m just used to firefox really since I’ve used it iirc since before chrome existed (I remember being invited to gmail it was so new, I’m old lol.) I use mullvad and librewolf, but I could install stock firefox still for i2p.

Frankly I’d prefer it to be firefox based, since chrome is cancer and all. (Also I was under the impression it had to be firefox based, didn’t realize you could use chrome if you’re willing to install it. I don’t even want it ungoogled if possible tbh.)

Basically it just doesn’t seem to fit my workflow, I guess, unless I suppose I want to install chrome. Actually now that I say that, I use librewolf these days, I suppose I could just download regular Firefox and set it up for i2p permanently…hmmmm…maybe I will.

Yeah I can do it it’s just a pain in the ass to do it every install when I’m still mostly using the clearnet and have to change the browser settings back and forth every time I want to do the other thing. It’d be much easier for me if I could just launch “i2p browser” and be off to the races. Who knows, one day it may become imperative to use it if piracy is somehow stricken from the clearnet and then the work required becomes worth it for me, but as it stands now the effort required isn’t worth it for me yet.

I’d personally also like to see Jackett implement i2p tracker support so I could just use qbit’s search with the jackett plugin to search all the trackers I can at once, but idk if that’s even possible.

I’ve tried it a few times, back when Tails had it installed first, and then again a while later. I liked it but I do remember it being a pain to set up and having to have separate browser profiles and a bunch of mess, and qbit didn’t work with it yet so I had to have biglybt too.

Tbh I think it’d skyrocket if they’d release “their own browser” (which of course would just be firefox with i2p set up, like Tor). I seem to remember hearing something about them wanting to do that, too, so maybe?

I also seem to remember something about it being sort of slow but the longer you’re connected the better it gets or something? Which, cool, but I’m on a laptop, my uptime is nonexistent lol.

Some of this may have changed since I tried it last, definitely let me know. I’d love to get into it if I can tbh, I have usenet, slsk, a private tracker or two and all that, but more sources is always better, and last time I tried i2p I did find some shit I’d been looking for, but I just can’t be bothered to do all that mess to get it running just to barely use it, then do it all again every time I reinstall Fedora, I’d prefer a browser bundle.

VPNs for filesharing

I don’t think they actually can do that. There’s functionally no difference between VPNs for “not” pirating and VPNs “for” pirating, they’re all just VPNs.

It’s like saying they’ll ban 4 door sedans for drug buying, they can’t because they’re functionally the same as “4 door sedans for driving to work.” You literally cannot tell, if you see a guy driving an accord down the street, if that guy is on the way to work or on the way to buy coke. Similarly you cannot tell, if you see VPN traffic, what that guy is doing.

I may be wrong, but I don’t think they actually can do that. They’d have to ban all VPNs even for legitimate use, and the corporations that bribe our politicians use them. They could maybe pressure like Nord and Express to report pirates but mullvad will still be there.

Paid research papers - Maybe, and that’d be kinda nice if it happened.

Games - Nah that’ll continue on as it has, some get cracked and some don’t, it is what it is.

Movies - No way. Torrents and Usenet have been here for how long now? They’ll be around for longer than any other methods. Frankly this applies to everything, but especially movies.

Music - Ironically the only form of piracy I almost did watch die. Nobody was doing it really for a few years there because spotify was “just so convenient” but then they thankfully shit the bed and now it’s back in a BIG way.

Books - It’ll be another game of whack-a-mole. Those three go down more will pop up (though I hope those three just stay up!) There’s also IRC to pirate books from, too, and those have been running for like 30yr.

Applications - This is dangerous as hell, you guys have fun I guess. Imma be over here using FOSS.

Android apps - Not the safest either really, but there are packs of them on private torrent trackers that’ll continue for a long while still.

News - Yeah paywalls are a bitch, sometimes you can kill em with UbO, sometimes they’ve been archived for free on archive, this is honestly the hard one here.

Porn - Fat chance. Idk what you’re talking about with the "porn piracy scene being small,” there are so many torrent sites both private and free and of course don’t forget Usenet, and even sites dedicated to leaking camgirl footage. Maybe it just seems small because even pirates can be embarrassed about porn lol, but trust me there’s plenty!

Sure, indexers can be taken down, like RARBG. So you can share torrent files on slsk (I’ve downloaded some rarbg torrents from there after rarbg’s collapse), or another site can pop up and host them either on the clearnet or on i2p. Torrenting may go somewhere technically speaking, but that “somewhere” isn’t “away forever” it’s simply “another domain, at worst i2p.”

This puts a whole new spin on Visigoths.

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Knives aren’t required for food prep either for most people, most people don’t hunt they buy their food at a store, we can have stores cut it up for people and have them be regulated since they work with dangerous items. Maybe butter knives, fine, I can see how people need to spread stuff, but assault knives should definitely be banned. Nobody needs a knife longer than 8cm for food. And besides as long as you can pass a background check you can have the knives in your home to cut food anyway, why would you need a knife while you’re not having a meal? It’s irresponsible and it’s time we do something about it, we need common sense knife control!

Americans want to ban knives? News to me.

Funny, people say the same exact things about guns.

Sounds like you need federal background checks for knives, bans on certain lengths, bans on what establishments you can carry it in, permits required to carry them “concealed” (i.e in your pocket) requiring you to show “proper cause,” bans on whether or not they can be automatic, and bans on the specific blade shape (probably drop or spear point) used in these murders, and don’t forget to serialize and register each and every knife while you’re there and require knife sharpeners to become federally licensed and log your knives in their books if they’ll be performing maintenance on them.

Catch up Germany, knives are a tool designed for cutting and stabbing, not everyone should have the right to use them!

Thanks! This inspires confidence! Seems like it won’t be so bad!

I’m more worried about package management I guess. Though I suppose now with flatpak that may be less of an issue. Still I use some weird shit, some of it is only packaged as a .deb or .rpm on their site, like the Brother printer drivers.

And yeah the documentation lol. I rely heavily on that or places like lemmy for linux help, which is why to start I picked a really popular distro with good documentation (fedora). It’s definitely something I’ll try one day though!