[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 7 months ago

And after they've deported so many people who've come to the country to work hard and pay the taxes that American billionaires aren't, when employers can't find anyone to fill jobs, they'll just spin up the lie of young people not wanting to work, rather than recognize the contributions of hardworking immigrants to American society.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In the case of 1337x.to, the megathread lists 1377x.to as the fake replica of it. In terms of quality, 1337x.to is one of the best public torrent indexers.

While I personally prefer not to use YTS releases due to their low quality, and can't seem to find a legitimate YTS link that yts.mx would be the replica of, as long as you're downloading via Prowlarr rather than going to the website itself, the only risk is the trustworthiness of the releases, rather than the possibility of ads or otherwise unwanted links on the website itself.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 1 year ago

If you're the one paying for internet access, you should also have the right to determine the content that you're paying to have access to. While something like pi hole could be used to metaphorically take down most of the billboards without impacting the ground below it, even everyday users should be informed about the data advertisers are getting from them, whether it is anonymized or not. Hiding an important setting about data sharing near the bottom of a page in settings doesn't help anyone but the advertisers.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago

The communist leader in Germany before Hitler took over said that failure of the nazi government would help convince people to vote for communism in the next election; he was subsequently killed in a concentration camp.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 year ago

80% of Americans know that water is wet. /s

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 year ago

"Genius! Who would'a thought? 10,000 extra shares in your bonus this year!"

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 years ago

They could still hold onto the land and Ukrainian population they've taken so far. Anything less than Ukraine regaining Crimea and the rest of its territory will not only be a loss for them, but would tell the Russian government that the West would rather appease them than let allow a conflict to escalate further. Appeasement didn't work on Hitler, and it won't work on Putin either.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 years ago

Given the number of people in today's world that rely on social media instead of well-sourced (or better-sourced, at least) publications for 'reliable' sources, it's highly important to minimize the extent to which such platforms can be used to manipulate the outcomes of elections.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 years ago

While it doesn't do live TV and doesn't work directly on an Apple TV, Real-Debrid is only $35 a year and is a relatively seamless Netflix replacement when used with Torrentio and Stremio.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not enough users left Reddit after the blackout to either make a difference there or establish communities on Lemmy that are big enough to encourage people on the fence to switch over. To turn Lemmy into a viable alternative, we need to convince more Redditors to switch over by mentioning Lemmy in the right threads, making sure to explain features of Lemmy in terms of Reddit analogs to avoid the usual complaints of Lemmy being difficult to understand. Most people won't care, but the ones that do will be vital in bringing the userbase to the point where people will want to join Lemmy due to it having active communities rather than it just not being Reddit.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 years ago

As long as they participate in Steam sales, assuming they're on Steam to begin with, PC games are more convenient to have in a library where I don't have to manually update each game. Valve's not perfect, with its 30% cut of sales being arguably too high (as is the case for all other platforms that defend its use as being an "industry standard"), but given Nintendo's monetization of online gameplay and replacing the Virtual Console system with what is essentially console library rentals, I don't mind putting up with updating Switch ROMs once in a blue moon if it means not supporting anti-consumer practices. Any games I had in my Switch library that are also on Steam I simply repurchased for the sake of convenience, however.

[-] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 years ago

The number of active Denuvo crackers would say otherwise...

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