Thats true its actually better because the corps get to suffer losses while i still get to enjoy their products anyway, sometimes in ways better then those who actually are paying customers.

You get cash back if you paid with cash. Gift cards would probably also work for a scam like this.

Monero works for me, come to think of it idk when the last time i used cash for a “private” transaction, but all my webhosting and domains and whatnot get paid with XMR.

Piracy makes boycotting stuff like this easy

Does target no longer accept cash?

They are fairly diffent origins, viltrum is a conquering empire sending agents to other planets to conquer them, superman is the last son on a world that no longer exists and whos powers are stronger because of earths smaller yellow sun. Homelander was created by humans in a lab for marketing and profiting off of. On top of that it probabl also counts as parody.

There are a lot of superheros with similar powers or similar origins, but i dont know of any that are similar enough to win a lawsuit.

One that comes to mind is when DC sued over the similarity of captain marvel to superman But it was settled out of court and im not aware of any more recent ones.

Navidrome + Feishin has good lyrics support.

I miss when people made web browsers without appeasing advertisers. Remember when mozilla introduced the popup blocker and netscape actually incorporated that into their mainstream product? You never see stuff like that anymore because advertisers control everything on the internet now.

I think you’re right to be scared, the only thing stopping a corp like microsoft from doing it already is the threat of facing legal sanctions, which is more of an inconvenience then a threat to a corp like microsoft.

It should be, yeah

If a single company has this level of control over our devices we’ve already lost.

Can you imagine a company like dell decided tomorrow to only allow installation from their specific vendor locked market? People would just not buy those products, you wouldn’t be demanding dell let you install linux, you just buy something else.

Even if i had to use a pc that’s 10+ years old, id choose that over using a new pc that can only run vendor approved software. I cant imagine anything a new devive like a phone might have that would change my mind about it.

The live chat never really got fully implemented it was just a test, I just had opencode develop it for me.

Thanks for the heads up on the matrix room, it looks like federation broke when i changed over from nginx to traefik. Im looking into fixing that now.

Use https://lw.ugh.im/ for linkwarden

There is legal precedent for removing a “feature” like the ability to boot an alternative OS. It might not be big enough for a class action to succesed in the case of apple, but it would certainly be a legal hassle to deal with.

Theres also the unspoken agreement between hackers and corpos that so long as they allow linux to boot there is no need to break their secutity models publicly and embarass them.

Apple benefits a lot more just by having different hardware architecture these dayss, afterall they still get paid if you buy their hardware and put different software on it, but apple doest make jack from allowing x86 hackintoshs to exist and they never really fought that hard against those either.

While i do use a vps now i started out just using a dyndns domain. You do need to set it to check/update your ipaddress which depends on who you have dns set for your domain. I use a simple bash script called by cron every 15 mins to update the address.

Spin down when not in use is normally default behaviour for most systems already, you don’t need to do anything.

Its possible to have seerr search integrated into the main jellyfin search.

Streaming torrents popcorn or stremio style is not very practical and never has been. Popcorntime still has working forks and stremio works with jellyfin to some degree but unless you also use a paid debrid service or maybe if you dont care about tanking your ratio on a private tracker There are jusy way better solutions: like using either an on demand iptv service inside jfin that costs about the same as debrid anyway but also gets you live tv.

Not to say there isnt tons of room for improvement still, but a lot of progress is being made. I suggest to folx if jellyfin doesnt meet your standards yet, try back in a year and see how much progress gets made.

And yet i torrent constanly on mullvad and have a great ratio on every tracker i use 🤔

What do law did you think they use to go after people who they monitor on torrent swams? Its the dmca (or equivalent), they notify ISP and isp is obligated to either adress the user a warning or suspension. If the isp ignores and lets users keep going then its the billion dollar ISP not the user that would get sued

Look up the end result of Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum, sony didnt get a dime and was able to successfully discharge the debt through bankruptcy after exhausting all appeal options and costing SonyBMG a ton of money. Thats why you dont hear about lawsuits like that anymore.

They could easily get moles into every single private trackers

Maybe if they actually wanted to, but what actually happens is they hire a much smaller company that monitors public trackers and sends them thousands of “successful” takedowns. When have you seen private trackers taking down torrents due to DMCA? It pretty much never happens, even for public ones these days the best case for these companies is to get google or other search engines to remove torrent sites from results.

You are giving these corps WAAAY too much credit, they only target the lowest of low hanging fruit (ISPs and search engines) because anything else is a waste of time and money. There’s a reason you don’t hear about many lawsuits against private individuals anymore, its because they know its a bad idea to go after “Joe Schmo NoBody” with a net worth of $217 in the bank, who will just declare bankruptcy after the corp spends tens or hundreds of thousands of $ on lawyers for a single case.