I always go for 720 or 1080 despite having decent 4K TVs. My reasoning is file size too but because I don’t have a ton of space to spare for all the stuff I want to store. I have about 2TB left but that’s going to get used up eventually.

There are some things I’ll go for the high quality stuff like Super Mario Bros which looks amazing but that’s rare for me.

30GB for one movie is nuts.

In my country it is illegal to share, but not illegal to download

By torrenting, you are sharing by default as it’s P2P. Even if you choose not to seed after downloading, you’re still sharing while you are downloading as other people who download after you are downloading chunks of the data from your partially downloaded data too.

So technically you are still committing a crime here.

Should that law change, it cannot retroactively affect something that happened in the past

Not necessarily. Very tyrannical governments don’t care and will tread on your rights even going backwards before the law was enacted if they so desire to do so.

Most laws don’t apply retroactively, but some can and do.

Duh. Always thought it was stupid back in the day how companies like Viacom removed CLIPS of their TV shows from YouTube.

You know what happens when I see a clip of a TV show that I like? I want to go see the full episode.

Fucking idiot executives just figuring this out. Though not all of them have as they still remove clips sometimes.

There are some onion search engines that provide a little bit of context about the site you’re about to visit, much like how classic Google search used to look.

Because of that, I’ve been able to stay away from some sites that are obviously including cp because of the context provided.

I can’t remember the name of the one I use and I’m away from my computer, but if you google search for “onion search engine”, you should be able to find it or another like it that can do this.

Apple Music broke my offline library the last two times I tried.

Replaced a lot of my explicit music with clean versions and left some of it unavailable to me. Music I had for decades that I legitimately bought on CD and ripped in iTunes was now being shown as “unavailable in your region”, even on the MacBook that I uploaded them from.

I had to wipe my library and luckily had a backup from a year before with most of it but some of it is still lost to this day.

I don’t pay for anything YouTube-related but not at all surprised they recommend shit that is irrelevant.

I’m the opposite as you and enjoy metal/rock as well as rap/hip hop. But I am constantly being shown “recommendations” for pop and anything I’ve literally never listened to. Also tons of live performances I just don’t care about.

And what’s funny is there is a way to tell YouTube that you don’t want to see certain videos of non-music stuff, like if I don’t want to see anything from LTT when it’s recommended. But for music? Lol, nope. No such option. It’s so stupid…

It’s funny that would be a thing when it’s been found that even the companies, themselves, like Nintendo, have been caught using pirated versions of their own games for redistribution.

Wonder if those games would get detected for the same reason.

That rhetorical question goes out to those who hold the rights. I know Netflix had no control. I just find it weird that studios/etc. felt that was a wise decision.

I was fine with paying for Netflix. Then they started pulling shit off for their own services and I quit when there was nothing but the lame Netflix originals and some old shit I don’t watch anymore. One of the things that put me over the edge was when they would do things like put a sequel up but not the original.

How the fuck do you expect me to just jump into The Two Towers and not expect me to want to watch The Fellowship of the Ring first?! Oh you think I’m going to go buy/rent the first movie 😂 that’s cute.

No, I’ll just go back to pirating. Much more convenient to be able to say, watch an episode of The Office and then switch to a Marvel movie from Disney+ and then a Marvel show from Netflix without paying a dime to 3 different subscriptions and being inconvenienced to have to close and open a whole new fucking app.

Now I just spend money for a VPN each month. Less than what it costs for a single of any of those other subscriptions too and I can choose my quality and version and not worry about it getting removed tomorrow!

I would not be at all surprised. Considering it’s an older game and they want players to play the new, always online title, they have no incentive to go back and fix it. It really sucks because it’s one of my favorite games I’ve put hundreds of hours into and it plays beautifully on the Deck.

If only other companies did this. Looking at you, Ubisoft.

I would love to play Ghost Recon Wildlands coop on the go but can’t because of the shitty EAC that doesn’t like Linux.

Competition between devices, is what I mean.

But I do see your point and there is another point of this being a cheaper alternative. Either way, I’m just glad to see more choices for SteamOS than one handheld, no matter how solid of a device it is.

Competition always is good to have! Glad to see someone finally adopting this awesome OS. It’ll be interesting to see if they implement any new features that are specific to their device.

Dual USB type C is freaking sweet to see!!! More handheld PCs need that.

Is this Real-Debrid or Read-Debrid? Google took me to one called Real and I wanted to make sure I got the right one

It used to work for me for years and then it gave it up for some reason I can’t remember. Though this was under iTunes Match which is still sort of the same thing, just exclusively for uploading music but no streaming what you haven’t uploaded or purchased.

Though, it did replace some of my music for clean versions which I despise. Music I’ve had for decades and have no copies of any longer…I would be morally justified pirating the right copies, but it’s too many to go through.

What they did this last time was that they replaced more of my music with different versions. I’m talking very different versions to what my CDs had from back when these were CDs my dad let me rip when I was a teen decades ago and they replaced some of my music with versions that didn’t download correctly and couldn’t be played anymore. Almost like corrupt copies.

My offline music library was a mess. 60+ GB worth of music, most of it was inaccessible anymore and would give me strange errors like it wasn’t available in my region anymore despite it being music I uploaded. Apparently others have experienced similarly recently and the only fix was if you have a backup to restore from backup.

I bought an album off iTunes last year in September. I made the mistake of joining Apple Music and it completely fucked my offline music library. So I had to revert to a backup prior to September.

Went back to download that album and was told I couldn’t because it’s no longer available in my region.

It’s okay to buy it but you can somehow lose access to it because rights expired that had no bearing on you.

It’s fucking stupid and they wonder why people pirate when they pull shit like this.

That’s fucking genius. I love it.