Varyag

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This, so much this. As a car enjoyer, seeing cars slowly mutate into giant bloated expensive iPads on wheels is painful. I don't want to buy any car made past 2010 and I know that won't be a viable option soon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Demonoid, absolutely! Warez-bb, and many oldschool GeoCities blogs. I remember one that had portable cracks of any programs you could imagine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Same thing happened to me a few years ago. My old laptop from 2013 is hardware incompatible with something in modern Windows10 and when it tried installing the late 2019 update it just died. Had to buy a new laptop to keep working.

Today, that same laptop is happily running Arch Linux. I'm still trying to decide what I'll do with the main gaming PC.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

In the modern age, we all need to be our own archivists, saving whatever we can from a perpetually burning Library of Alexandria. This is why pirates are a community, each one saves a little bit of history that matters to them, and then we share.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

access to everything that isn't bogged down by stupid licensing deals, too. so many things just disappear because someone wants someone else to keep paying for that one song they added in a single episode 15 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know either, and I haven't been able to use spotify_player in a while, either in my Linux or Windows machines because of that. Already ended up accidentally resetting my Spotify password 2-3 times trying to solve that.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You sure it isn't the finance and management guys leaving at 4pm and earlier while developers are expected to work past hours and even at home?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (10 children)

We all need to be our own archivists in this day and age. The internet isn't forever, it's a constantly burning Library of Alexandria. I'm glad you found your lost media again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I aspire to have enough storage to do that someday.