This isn’t a subreddit. You’re allowed to talk about piracy here.

I mean movies and tv shows.

Well, you just edited your question to be about Linux Distros (a thing you cannot pirate), so I am still not sure what you’re on about.

pouet.net

Tons of retrocomputing/demoscene resources.

ISOs of what? Piracy is alive and well on IRC, but this isn’t much of a question.

Well, get ready to get married again!

A dollar’s worth of Asian street food every day. From a place like Vietnam, a dollar goes a long way. I could turn that into an amazing lunch every day.

ATProto Federation is hypothetical at best. Bluesky remains centralized for all intents and purposes.

Founders are all cryptocurrency dorks. The CEO got her start in selling shitcoins and peddling AI slop. Not a lot of confidence in their ability to lead a successful social media company.

It’s a for-profit company, and so far their actual profit-generating function has yet to be determined. Maybe it’s ads. Maybe it’s subscription fees. Maybe they just end up selling all your data off to their 1,000+ data broker partners. Nobody knows yet, but it isn’t going to remain free and open permanently.

ActivityPub is already fully federated with dozens of different services, and thousands of different instances. Every instance has its own leadership, and most are run by generous sysadmins, donations, and volunteers. It can’t make top-down decisions, it can’t go out of business, and it can’t be bought.

Eh, depending on what you like to program, C, C++, and Rust are often the only languages that will let you do certain things.

If your specialty can’t be done efficiently or effectively with other higher level languages, then you would be justified in thinking of those languages as BS.

Just as a data scientist who specializes in quickly sorting and comparing data with Python or R would consider C, C++, and Rust to be awful tools for the job.

Write the engine first.

Create characters, stages, and items as modules.

Release them together as a fully playable pack, while leaving the door open for user-created modules. Let the community clone SSB using your engine.

(The StepMania model)

Uh, Shared GPU memory absolutely exists on Linux. Mind you this only exists (regardless of OS) when you have a shitty integrated GPU with no dedicated VRAM, but I am not sure why you think this only exists for Windows (or some other non-Linux OS, you did not specify).

‘5’ does come before ‘M’.

I don’t care about the intent of the encryption. I outright reject any argument that criminalizes the use of decryption.

What are you talking about? 95% of the web uses SSL. 100% of the top-100 sites use SSL.

Just about every single image, video, and line of text you’ve ever seen online was encrypted in transit.

I don’t legally own any of the shit I pirated, but it’s fully in my custody and under my control. That’s all that matters. Can you make a copy, and can you do with that copy as you please?

Some of the first porn I ever saw was some amateur porn sharing galleries someone linked me to on AIM. Lots of normal people having normal sex. I am somewhat thankful I was introduced to porn this way, rather than some sort of hardcore S&M shit. It was nice looking at something somewhat realistic. Like I had an idea that I would have a chance to do these things someday (spoiler: I would).

When the cost of going forward exceeds the cost of stopping now. No consideration of past costs to get where you are. No sunken cost falacy.

Sometimes you have to accept failure and move on from something. You should never give up on yourself, but sometimes you do need to accept your own limitations and reconsider your projects, hobbies, relationships, and career decisions and accept when you’re on a losing trajectory.

Gracefully giving up when you know you’re on the path to failure is the best way to move on to the next thing that you might have a chance of succeeding at.

You have fallen for the ultimate trick: wanting a “big” community.

You only get that from big, centralized social networks that want to maximize the amount of content you are fed, because it maximizes your ad views, and their profits.

Embrace the smallness. Lemmy still has room to grow, and having lot of different options for communication that aren’t all owned by billionaires is a good thing. The fact that it isn’t constantly trying to earn your attention is a feature, not a bug.

Literally anything. See something you like at the store? Take it. Just walk out the front door with it. It’s yours now.

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I really don’t care about either of these men, but they seem like they’re having fun and nobody that matters seems to care that he wore a bald cap instead of shaving his head. In fact, it kinda seems like that’s the joke…