Easy, just connect 4 cables!

In the early 00s I pirated a lot of music, but now I buy records and pay for streaming because it’s affordable and good.

I used to pirate software but now I just use FOSS because it’s free and good.

I used to pirate games but now I just wait for steam sales, which is cheap and good.

I used to pirate lots of movies and tv shows but then got a Netflix account and it was reasonably priced and good… until it wasn’t. Then I set up a full stack of usenet/ sonarr/ radarr/ overseer/ Jellyfin and boy oh boy is that good.

But now I have a baby and don’t watch tv anymore so I pirate pretty much nothing.

lol imagine if Netflix made a show glorifying piracy

I remember once I pirated a pack of something like 100 000 fonts and I stupidly installed all of them and then Photoshop couldn't change fonts because it would take like 10 minutes to load them in the drop down menu.

Not exactly. A big reason for them being sued is for circumventing Switch’s encryption.

This looks promising but it doesn’t seem to want to open chd roms.

I don’t think it’s possible to takedown a project that doesn’t use any proprietary code. You have to supply your own rom.

I was going to post this exact comment because I, too listen to the Linux After Dark podcast.

lol this is such a classic Linux trope

Person A: I can’t seem to get this to work! Arg!

Person B: I have been running this for years with no issues. It just works!

You’re not dumb you just haven’t needed that use case before.

Here’s an example of the last time JDownloader saved me. There was a website where people were posting archives of old skateboard videos. There were hundreds of links across dozens of pages in a forum. All links to sites like mega.

I was able to view all pages in one document and extracted all of the hundreds of links and put them in JDownloader. Over the course of the next several weeks JDownloader was able to manage those downloads without clogging my bandwidth. If a download failed it would notify me and I could retry it.

Can you imagine trying to do that in Firefox?

Were there people exploring the Galapagos in 1000 BCE?

I think a lot of people also misuse the word and use it as a catch-all for companies doing something they don’t like.

Raising prices is not enshittification, that’s inflation.

Not paying employees well is not enshittification, that’s under-compensation.

YouTube putting more ads in their videos including when the video is paused isn’t enshittification that’s… wait no that is enshittification.

Enshittification refers to offering the same service (often free, or at least with an option to pay more) but making it worse in order to squeeze you onto a paid (or higher paid) tier of service. This sounds good to shareholders but ultimately it alienates their customers and often leads to a company dying.

It wasn’t until windows shat itself and I couldn’t boot into it anymore that I took my Linux drive more seriously.

How is that heartbreaking?

Yeah I loved it. Balled my eyes out on “that” episode.

I’ve tried playing that game a few times, but I’m ashamed to say that it is too scary for me lol

Can you just connect it to a screen and a kb/m?

I’ve never played it but I hear the god of war version psp got was good.

What proprietary code did they have?

I think that was the goal.