I don’t care what quality the things I’m downloading are so long as the file size is small enough. There are very few acceptions to that rule. Biggest one is if someone tried to edit shows using AI to enhance them by upping the resolution. Had one series I was so looking forward to watching after a long time torrenting that I had to delete because you could easily tell an AI (or someone who doesn’t have a clue what they’re doing) tried enhancing the resolution and made it unwatchable for me.

Edit: Damn, reread and I wish I could get 5mbps in the apartment complex I’m in! I’d be lucky if my download speeds spiked to 1mbps. All this with what is supposed to be the best ISP in the area, which is also an absolutely shitty company (xfinity).

That’s a theory I can actually agree with. Sounds plausible enough to be true, given what we know about large corpos.

I know I’ve seen that on 1337x and was absolutely disappointed. Don’t remember what I was looking for, but definitely a shame.

It’s absolutely amazing how we went from the majority of people not knowing how to use a computer in the beginning of computers to everyone knowing how to do at least the bare minimum on a computer in the 2000s to now circling back to the majority of people not knowing how to use a computer because pretty much everything they do can and probably is done on a phone. It’s also real scary to think since I’d assume most of us Gen Z-ers aren’t properly able to object to privacy eroding tech bills because we’re too tech illiterate to understand the impacts.

Same. There’s one game I liked well enough after demoing it that I bought merch for the game to support the dev, alongside having bought the game on Steam. If a game is worth the price and is a quality game, I have absolutely no problem going from demo to buying it if I can.

Then they need to innovate and create something outstanding…

There’s the snag. Anything they innovate or create that’s outstanding will 100% be anti-consumer. That, or their version of innovation will be forcing an update to your system that pretty much brick it to ensure you buy a newer model (at least for countries that don’t have strong pro-consumer laws). I can count the number of companies on a single hand that I would trust not to do that.

So far the only games I’ve ever played on Deck that require them would be Portal 2 alongside the Portal 2 mod Revolution (or something along those lines). I think jump and maybe 1 other function is tied to the back buttons. Otherwise, I haven’t messed around with controls enough to find a use for them.

I bricked a save on pre-release 3 of Pokemon Vanguard earlier, so I gotta move my save to my desktop and boot up the game in RPG Maker XP to fix my mistake of using a glitch I didn’t think could screw me over.

Besides that, probably gonna continue my New Vegas melee weapon only build that I finally ended up transferring the save for it to my deck. That, or finally get around to starting the new Ratchet and Clank after looking at ProtonDB to see what issues people have and what they do to fix them.

Pretty much ever since getting mine a few weeks back, I’ve been absolutely loving it and using it fairly often when I can. So far the only problem I have with it isn’t even an issue on Valve’s end. It’s literally just that the BeeMod for Portal 2 doesn’t have a Linux port and I’m too lazy to set it up on my deck.

Otherwise, definitely a purchase I don’t regret. Especially since it’s gotten me to continue my melee only save in New Vegas that I’ve been meaning to get back to.

That’s good to know.

I’ll have to quickly check there to see if they have what I need. Thanks.

Edit:

This was a site I got a file that caused Windows Defender to go ballistics ony desktop a few years back. Couldn’t remember the name. Probably gonna find a patch and see what virustotal says.

There used to be a site I looked at a few years back that I don’t recall the name of, but it definitely felt a little sketchy. Same with the one file I downloaded. Set off Windows Defender real quick and that told me to stay away from that site.

Definitely gonna have to look in virtual disc emulating them. I have a virtual disc drive program on my desktop, so I could look into trying to make that work. That, or I’ll try and find the small disc image thing you brought up to save space while trying to make that vde thing work.

Thanks for the info.

I personally don’t see a reason to torrent music when a simple download of a flac or something from yt if I can’t find it anywhere else is usually fine. But I will say I’m more likely to pirate music from large artists/companies because I don’t support large record companies and their shitty practices.

Similar thing goes for things like Vocaloid, UTAU/OPENUTAU, Synthesizer V, DeepVocal, etcetera, songs because the majority of the time the songs I’m listening to don’t have an official download (or a link to a removed file) or way to get it through supporting the person who made them.

I have no idea what to do or how to even get started with Usenet, so I just use a VPN and torrent as needed.

Earliest example of me pirating was when my dad used Limewire. I’d like to think I used it as well, but I doubt it since I wouldn’t have known anything to look up.

Otherwise, in highschool I would go to different sites to find cartoons/anime that weren’t available on Netflix (or Hulu back when it was just about the only competitor). This was before I knew what sites were safe, so I probably ended up getting viruses without knowing.

Depends on the devices I have on hand. Both my laptop and have my VPN, so I am able to get my LibreOffice windows downloads and ahem other things that I am not gonna talk about.

Well, I think I might start an Amorous playthrough. Maybe this time I won’t accidentally say the wrong thing to the wrong person and not have a backup save . Otherwise, I’ll probably continue slogging through Baba Is You.

That, or try out one of the games in my library I’ve yet to touch despite having them for months.

Sounds like a game I gotta try.

I liked that so much I bought it on Steam to support them, assuming it’s the same devs.

Definitely gonna have to install NV on my deck that finally arrived yesterday and see how good it is on deck… even though I am still nowhere near done with my melee build on my desktop and will need to copy all my bug fixing mods and settings from there as well.

Maybe I’ll do an unarmed build where I side with Yes Man while taking out as many factions as possible.