Imagine: pirating ebooks but donating money to the author at the same time. Win win.

Can you actually download a torrent without seeding it?

Probably a new smart way to force sell you printer ink.

P.S. buy a Brother printer instead

Yeah, that’s sad, but in this case the product itself squashed the startup, not HP.

Yes, me too. My phone is always silent and with Do Not Disturb on. Only few family contacts can get through, and only with a phone call.

I don’t even know what’s the sound of the notifications of my phone. It’s blissful.

I stopped pirating altogether thanks to Spotify, Netflix and Steam.

But now I’ve cancelled Netflix and I have a 24 TB NAS filled with movies

And what’s the extension of opus? .opus?

It’s sad but I agree. Lemmy works well, especially if you use third-party apps such as Voyager, but Mastodon… is so badly thought. I can navigate it because I’m a technical person, but normal people will never be able to understand how to use it, what are instances, why it asks me to type my instance when I want to follow someone, etc.

Using a VPN means that all your traffic is routed through a possibly malicious actor.

Using a VPN just moves the trust to another middleman.

Paramount also owns Pluto TV which is completely free and I love them for that.