I've used it on probably 10+ windows systems that I've had to refresh/set up for various needs and people. I've never had it fail on any flavor of 10/11.

I'm in the same boat. I pay for a couple streaming services just because they have the shows my kid enjoys. It's so hard to find good sources for kid's shows that are actually quality and not either ancient or abandoned. Even popular/new shows can be hard to find, whereas every throwaway netflix original has seasons available from multiple different release groups.

Kid's shows are really the weakspot of piracy for me. Thrift store DVDs help a lot, but it's always older stuff and never whole seasons of shows.

While I don't have love for meta/facebook/instagram/whatever corpo name they're deciding to lead with this month, the fediverse blocking off people who want to join it seems odd. Like, we want the fediverse to be a thing so that everything can talk to everything else and the content itself can be king without having to worry too much about where that content lives. So we have a standard (ActivityPub, among others) that we want people to use so it all Just Works(tm), and we have a large entity adopting it and we shit on them for it? Like I said I don't have any love for threads or meta at all, but shouldn't we be at least a little happy that the very concept of federation isn't able to be ignored in this way? What's the benefit of building all this that we want the world to use and then getting mad and booting people who choose to connect to it?

I don't have strong feelings about this one way or the other I just don't see the danger or damage in letting federation happen and just letting users decide what they want to view and what they don't.

Gold does not oxidize in atmosphere. You are spouting nonsense you do not understand.

While I hate that this happened, it's kind of...fun?...to be in a more wild-west corner of the internet again where this kind of shit sometimes happens. I dunno man the lack of stability is refreshing. Less corpo and more chaotic energy. Real wasteland shit.

I have not had to pirate software since I was a teenager. There are free/FOSS tools that do all of what I need well enough that I haven't needed to even consider non-free options. Documents I just use Google Docs/Sheets, video editing I use kdenlive, sound recording/editing I use audacity, screen recording and game capture I use OBS, photo/image editing I use GIMP, etc.

It's not that I am opposed to software piracy, I just have not had to do it. I would if I needed too but it just hasn't come up. For games I typically either buy them for a console or Steam and don't pirate them.

The only thing I really pirate with any regularity anymore is tv/movies/music, and most of that is just finding things to add to my jellyfin rather than anything that's new/current.