You aren't wrong. It is something to be careful of. Here's one source

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/avoid-these-android-tv-boxes-like-the-plague-they-come-pre-loaded-with-malware

Best might be to go with a known brand, get a Raspberry Pi, get something like the Intel Nuc if you want something more capable and a wireless keyboard to go with it.

You only need calibre and it handles everything for you.

An issue you may run into is light gray font, which is easily solved

https://lemmy.world/post/1812376

Why does purpose or ethics matter. It is called piracy and not robin hood.

Whatever the intent, it incentives archival even with selfish purposes across different decentralized sources, which is pretty valuable with that huge amount of data that would be expensive for a centralized entity to archive on their own. Not to mention a single point of failure. So even selfishness is leading to helping history not be lost.

And you think 100 years from now or longer if some random historian comes across some still working storage containing long lost media that a pirate had kept they are going to care about the legality of that at the time?

And don't forget how much game versions change from launch, so new version is history too. Same for movies and shows and books with how editing has been done that's led to loss of the original copy. And led to reliance of fans to restore content like Star Wars.

It is happening now with Netflix too where now the pirated versions of some Netflix show is the only way to see what was originally shown.

"We have George Lucas’d things also that people don't know about," the siblings told Variety, referring to the Star Wars director's much-critiqued altered re-releases of the original franchise. "It's not, like, story, but you're essentially patching in shots."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/netflix-retroactive-editing

The MCU's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is barely a year old, but even the Marvel superhero miniseries isn't immune from Disney's re-editing efforts. In March 2022 some devoted Reddit fans discovered that a scene where Bucky throws a pipe through a woman's shoulder had been altered so that woman falls back on the pipe instead.

https://screenrant.com/tv-shows-films-edited-after-original-release/

14 years... Time doesn't stand still for that long.

As much as I complain about denuvo I still do buy the games even if they do get cracked. I don't pirate any PC games, since exes are just not something I want to risk. I've got a collection of legal games that surpasses the availability of gamepass. PC gamepass advertisement says 'Play over 100 high-quality games on Windows PC.' That's a baby collection compared to what I got in my legal library of games. That's not even bringing GOG into the mix.

Me too. I need to get far away from all this light pollution so I can see the stars in all its beautiful glory again with my own eyes.

Sir this isn't a Wendys

!freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml

Has a wiki that has some streaming resources to use in the future.

And if you don't understand it and you do find yourself needing to do some terminal stuff chatgpt can be helpful breaking down what is going on.

Well we did at least.

My instance didn't require me to get an email, but if they did so you can use those email forwarders like simplelogin, duckduckgo, or firefox.

I'm a billionaire. I have my own private island that floats above the world and I can also teleport anywhere in an instant and open portals into other dimensions. And I have a pet dragon named Sparkles.

I dedicated an old laptop running Linux to pirating material. Can get all the programs I need right from the included software app that is in a lot of distros to get Qbittorent and Jdownloader. Linux is awesome.

Yeah, my most treasured subs started their own instances here with fmhy and piracy, so I've been fine without reddit. Just need to secure those alternate communication channels and I'll be able to not go back to Spez.

Nothing would surprise me these days after seeing a Skyrim mod with an AI companion you can talk to.

Interesting, but I'm confused how it can be applied to piracy.

Thanks to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/ober found that ipleak.net can be used to check if you VPN is leaking your IP before proceeding with torrenting.

And also using Qbittorrent to tie the client to the VPN by going to Tools > Preferences > Advanced and changing network interface to your VPN.

I'm going to need look up the different contacts available to keep in the loop on instances I like in case something happens again. Don't want to have to go back to reddit to try and find news on their status haha

It's been difficult to catch jokes with the amount of people that have still continued to have the old views of social media sites like reddit due to not understanding that people aren't locked to instances they signed up to thinking it is a singular authority. So my mistake.

Why wouldn't they? Do you not understand that anyone can make an instance and create the community they want, and that if the one they are in doesn't match what they want they can start up their own? You can too.

Umm..... What did you think the point of mods on reddit was? The mods we chose to support and followed here to lemmy and kept the community on track?

And you know you can just lurk on here and can use another instance that better fits your idea of the type of conversations you want. There's nothing keeping you from making an account on exploding heads and chatting away with them. You can multiple accounts you know.

Wow that is incredible. This will increase immersion a lot.

Need back buttons. Can't go back to controllers without them.

Mastodon place for announcement would probably be ideal than another lemmy instance in case a vulnerability that affects them all causes issues.

Libraries are awesome and more people need to use them.

Thank you for making quick moves to protect us!

I've been old reddit user so I was right at home. I wonder if the ones who consider it ugly are the ones who stuck with the default reddit.

Nothing they love more than back ups of back ups.

Yeah, in the end I'm here for people who know more than me providing good resources. And if they can't figure out even making a lemmy account then they probably weren't much help beyond memes. And I'm dumb shit, so it's not like it takes competence to make an account.

Cats are great

Wow this is awesome. I didn't know something like this was possible.

There is the mega thread on the side bar. Here's the music section maybe it'll have something you are looking for

https://rentry.co/megathread-music

Here's also the freemediaheckyeah wiki

https://fmhy.pages.dev/audiopiracyguide/

Just go to be sure the download the clean adware free version from what I remember. Easy for Linux though since it is available in the repo. On windows I think you go to the page https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2

Been a long time since I used it on Windows.

Not sure what you are asking for, but one thing I can recommend is that for qbittorent to go to settings > Advanced > Network Interface to tie your VPN to the client. This will help in the event your VPN cuts out reducing chances of your IP address leaking.

Absolutely vital for anyone who uses an ebooks.

Found this article from my attempts at trying to find an answer

https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-s9-galaxy-note-9-snapdragon-root/

And here is the thread for the S9+ snapdragon https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/root-extreme-syndicate-g965u-u1.4043707/

Pirates adapt or die. So at the very least you have increased your chances of survival. Don't know if sharks will eat you though.

Noticed there's a lot of geeky people on lemmy, and so many seem to be using stuff like linux in threads asking what OS do you use. Which is definitely a big outlier from the average user. So seems like even if the numbers aren't high that there's a lot of people who can provide tech support to dumb people like me.

Could ask the guy and he might do it. I love his tutorials, and would probably love the opportunity to make more content.

Check the megathread on the side it has everything.

But, from what is recommended on there I have found torrentgalaxy coming close to rarbg.

Some people here are saying i2p may be the future https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/259433 Sounds like Qbittorrent is planning to provide i2p support too. So hopefully port forwarding won't matter as much for future releases.