DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
You aren't wrong. It is something to be careful of. Here's one source
Best might be to go with a known brand, get a Raspberry Pi, get something like the Intel Nuc if you want something more capable and a wireless keyboard to go with it.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
You only need calibre and it handles everything for you.
An issue you may run into is light gray font, which is easily solved
Credit goes to reddit user **PrettyMuchPhysics** >Convert the book to its existing format in Calibre. To do so, right-click it, select convert, convert individually. Make sure that on the top left and top right, both formats are the same (e.g. EPUB). > >1. Then on the left select "Look and Feel". >2. On the top row, select "Styling", >3. Put a checkmark at the bottom right option where it says "Color". >4. Press OK. >5. After the book finished converting, right-click it and send it to the device, as usual. > >This made the font an easy-to-read black, instead of a light-gray nightmare. https://web.archive.org/web/20230608085927/https://old.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/io79ru/solved_gray_font_in_a_book/
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
Why does purpose or ethics matter. It is called piracy and not robin hood.
Whatever the intent, it incentives archival even with selfish purposes across different decentralized sources, which is pretty valuable with that huge amount of data that would be expensive for a centralized entity to archive on their own. Not to mention a single point of failure. So even selfishness is leading to helping history not be lost.
And you think 100 years from now or longer if some random historian comes across some still working storage containing long lost media that a pirate had kept they are going to care about the legality of that at the time?
And don't forget how much game versions change from launch, so new version is history too. Same for movies and shows and books with how editing has been done that's led to loss of the original copy. And led to reliance of fans to restore content like Star Wars.
It is happening now with Netflix too where now the pirated versions of some Netflix show is the only way to see what was originally shown.
"We have George Lucas’d things also that people don't know about," the siblings told Variety, referring to the Star Wars director's much-critiqued altered re-releases of the original franchise. "It's not, like, story, but you're essentially patching in shots."
https://futurism.com/the-byte/netflix-retroactive-editing
The MCU's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is barely a year old, but even the Marvel superhero miniseries isn't immune from Disney's re-editing efforts. In March 2022 some devoted Reddit fans discovered that a scene where Bucky throws a pipe through a woman's shoulder had been altered so that woman falls back on the pipe instead.
https://screenrant.com/tv-shows-films-edited-after-original-release/
14 years... Time doesn't stand still for that long.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
As much as I complain about denuvo I still do buy the games even if they do get cracked. I don't pirate any PC games, since exes are just not something I want to risk. I've got a collection of legal games that surpasses the availability of gamepass. PC gamepass advertisement says 'Play over 100 high-quality games on Windows PC.' That's a baby collection compared to what I got in my legal library of games. That's not even bringing GOG into the mix.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
Me too. I need to get far away from all this light pollution so I can see the stars in all its beautiful glory again with my own eyes.
DarkTides 1y ago • 75%
Sir this isn't a Wendys
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
!freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml
Has a wiki that has some streaming resources to use in the future.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
And if you don't understand it and you do find yourself needing to do some terminal stuff chatgpt can be helpful breaking down what is going on.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
Well we did at least.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
My instance didn't require me to get an email, but if they did so you can use those email forwarders like simplelogin, duckduckgo, or firefox.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
I'm a billionaire. I have my own private island that floats above the world and I can also teleport anywhere in an instant and open portals into other dimensions. And I have a pet dragon named Sparkles.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
I dedicated an old laptop running Linux to pirating material. Can get all the programs I need right from the included software app that is in a lot of distros to get Qbittorent and Jdownloader. Linux is awesome.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
Yeah, my most treasured subs started their own instances here with fmhy and piracy, so I've been fine without reddit. Just need to secure those alternate communication channels and I'll be able to not go back to Spez.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
Nothing would surprise me these days after seeing a Skyrim mod with an AI companion you can talk to.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
Interesting, but I'm confused how it can be applied to piracy.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
Thanks to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/ober found that ipleak.net can be used to check if you VPN is leaking your IP before proceeding with torrenting.
And also using Qbittorrent to tie the client to the VPN by going to Tools > Preferences > Advanced and changing network interface to your VPN.
DarkTides 1y ago • 100%
I'm going to need look up the different contacts available to keep in the loop on instances I like in case something happens again. Don't want to have to go back to reddit to try and find news on their status haha
DarkTides 1y ago • 91%
It's been difficult to catch jokes with the amount of people that have still continued to have the old views of social media sites like reddit due to not understanding that people aren't locked to instances they signed up to thinking it is a singular authority. So my mistake.
DarkTides 1y ago • 66%
Why wouldn't they? Do you not understand that anyone can make an instance and create the community they want, and that if the one they are in doesn't match what they want they can start up their own? You can too.
DarkTides 1y ago • 92%
Umm..... What did you think the point of mods on reddit was? The mods we chose to support and followed here to lemmy and kept the community on track?
And you know you can just lurk on here and can use another instance that better fits your idea of the type of conversations you want. There's nothing keeping you from making an account on exploding heads and chatting away with them. You can multiple accounts you know.
My set up has been MPC and MadVR for HDR content, but dolby vision when I tried long ago didn't work properly. Has any players come out since then for dolby vision support?
With the VPN thread I thought this video is worth the watch
What are good practices to take when integrating AI into your life without compromising security?
Some names I had seen mentioned are TERMINAL and SWTYBLZ. But, I SWTYBLZ is gone now 🙁 since they were RARBG release group.
Keep seeing that address getting blocked by malwarebytes as I'm browsing here.
https://r-roms.github.io/
I liked the rarbg one in the past, but RIP to it. 1337 works, but Torrent Galaxy one hasn't been working for me.
Found out I was missing out on a lot and that communities in all to subscribe to don't show up until someone from your instance searches them out So here's some that have interested me. - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/div0 - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/stable_diffusion - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/lemmyarchivists - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/crackwatch - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/bbses - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/roms - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/retropirates - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/vitapiracy - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/switchpiracy - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/steamdeckpirates - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/cemupiracy