I rarely actually pirate anything. The only time I pirate is when I'm otherwise forced to go through that specific company to do the things I want due to monopoly shit.

Used to pirate windows before switching to Linux (I still give people I know helpful tips on the process though, not everybody can make the switch yet). Used to pirate MS office and a couple other pieces of software back when I had to use them for school. I would pirate substance painter if a Linux crack was available, but I haven't been able to find one and I can't get the windows version working, so I simply don't use that software. And as for shows and movies, that whole mess of subscriptions, yeah I don't watch pretty much any of it. I buy physical copies when possible and watch stuff with friends who have the services. I use bandcamp for most of my music, sometimes YouTube for discovering new stuff.

I will however keep up to date on all of the piracy methods because i will not be caught helpless by some shitty company who thinks it's found a way to corner me.

Idk if you can even get a 32 GB hard drive anymore. I can only find 64 GB drives for around $14

But they don't have to reach the ground or get in your way, and you can make them light and breathable but also repel water and protect you from the wind, but you can also open them up and move them out of your way by wearing them as a sort of cape which also lets the breeze in... They also look neat. I like cloaks.

Alright, you do have a point there. Reading docs and asking questions is a skill too, and if you haven't learned them yet then chatgpt can stunt your growth there, i agree with that much.

I still think that chatgpt, if used correctly, can be a huge boon to your education. Knowing how to interact with those bots to avoid their shortcomings and not use them as a crutch I think is also a skill worth learning.

and there are so many cases in programming where you can save hours asking a really simple question that should be easy to figure out on your own but actually isn't.

I like setting a 16x16 board with 70 mines and going through a few of them if I'm waiting for something. There's enough that it can be entertaining.

Flatpaks have always been really buggy for me. Most of them require at least some amount of tinkering in flatseal to get them running properly, others require some amount of specialized care. I find if you need something running properly and cannot afford hidden bugs then it's best to try to get something made for your distro if possible.

Thing is the left would turn out to vote if any of the candidates represented their interests. Becoming bootleg Republicans isn't how they win votes.

if everything is copyrighted, including something as simple as a doodle, then nothing is.

Care to explain? If I make something that inherently has copyright, then if you copy it I can take action.

I really wish some large government would order that all hardware manufacturers publicly released any source code used to make the hardware run. I think there are some real arguments you could make for the benefit of the economy if that happened. A hardware manufacturer can still lean on selling the physical parts even if the software can be copied, and the software can be tailored to their hardware making it harder for it to apply to their competitors. I'd actually like to hear others' opinions on that too.

Hey, I didn't play myself, over a hundred thousand Americans played me.

I gave up my human rights and all i got in return was 5 cents