Many of us also lived through the era where any 13 year old could steal Mommy’s credit card and rent a botnet for that ezpz

My MC server a decade ago was tiny and it still happened every few months when we banned some butthurt kid

I’ve got a server I’m mass downloading anything I or my wife can think of and quite a few obscure movies and shows aren’t on the major sites in any form that has enough seeders to actually finish

So, Usenet it is, at least until I’m mostly done.

If I was huntig for it all by hand I’d probably not bother but I’m using the Arr stack for automation so

I’ve never worked an office job that wasn’t pirating software openly and somewhat proudly when pointed out

When my mom’s old laptop became mine in around 2011 it wasn’t even powerful enough to run Minecraft at more than 13 FPS, so I sure as shit wasn’t gonna spend the occasional money I got on a steam card at 7/11 to load up an account I couldn’t even use to play the games well with

I think every game I’ve ever pirated from childhood and actually liked enough to finish has been paid for now though

My SYNOLOGY NAS that’s just shy of being used for too much stuff (96% CPU means I’ve got 4% left babyyyy) is, was, and will forever be: Senpai.

That way people (my wife and parents) notice it in the network list.

Hiding on .world, the last place any sane person would look, genius

Theres zero benefits to going with MS

Lol

You might be able to adapt code that’s used to analyze text to form word clouds in order to pull that off

No idea where exactly to look but the concepts seem pretty much identical, just change the output

Seeding isn’t capped because I have 100/100 and who the fuck needs 100 up all the time?

Downloading is capped during normal day use to 70% of my network because I love my wife and want her to have Internet

Multiple theatres owned by one mother company / investor / whatever you get what I kean

Buy the rights for one location/franchise to run it then copy to your other locations to save cost

80% certain it’s DRM to stop theatre owners from pirating it between each other and not to stop the public from having those copies

Synology rules

Even as someone with tech experience using it for the last couple years as I learned what I even wanted to do with my NAS, it was awesome

Even my less tech literate wife was able to do stuff with it, just s little bit of “here’s how to access the server” and boom, the GUI is that intuitive

I think it’s the work that goes into it, at least for me

Money abstracts it too much. Sure that game cost $20, let’s say an hour of my job time. But because it’s the weekend and money has obfuscated this fact a bit I just buy it and move on.

But a game that takes an hour or more to find, download, install, and properly get running? I just did that work on my own free time with no obfuscation, so I’m more likely to want to reap the reward of it

For example: spent a couple hours turning my old hodgepodge of emulators I’ve been using since 2014 into a nice Retro arch installation that my steam deck can also fully utilize a couple weeks back. Because of that I spent some time downloading old games to play, mix of old faves and ones I never got around to.

After all that work it’s all Ive really been playing lately, and the cycle shall repeat I’m sure

Finally got over my laziness and set Retro Arch up so both my PC and SD can play and sync easily

So I’ve been playing a bunch of old PS1 and GBA games for the last few weeks, Pokemon Emerald most recently

Having achievements in old games is addicting