For example, there’s no easy way of bypassing ads on YouTube mobile. But a lot of them don’t actually say the product name. Refusing to look at it is my one, small, micro resistance.
Piracy, just fucktons of piracy.
Living in the Global South, if I didn't pirate as much stuff as I do, I don't really know if I'd even be able to speak English. I've been pirating games, books and movies for most of my life. A single Playstation game costs about 25% of the monthly minimum wage where I live.
One could even say that "as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a pirate" ayy
This was Lenin’s real gripe with the whole imperialism thing. He was a gamer at heart, revolutionary by necessity
This is so true, a software i work with it cost around 2 months of my salary. So when I see people from rich countries equating piracy with robbery I find it so dumb, because many people from the global south are not potential costumers in the first place, only when we start earning money with a software we can afford to pay for it.
Shit gets wild in manufacturing with CAD/CAM stuff. Shit costs so much money. Tens of thousands of dollars for a single seat. You could buy a good milling table, turret lathe, drill press, saw, and tooling for all of them for the cost of a single software license. Production shops just eat it because the software "pays for itself" and there's basically no alternative for programming 4 axis or 5 axis CNC mills. Those things will shoot through 100 lines of G-code in a second when milling contours on multiple axis. You simply cannot write this kind of CNC program by hand. But there is little to no competition because you would need to invest millions of dollars in CNC machinery just to start testing a comparable product (and thousands of dollars on repairs every time it fucks up), let alone all the engineers, metallurgists, and programmers you'd need.
A single Playstation game costs about 25% of the monthly minimum wage where I live.
Same for ps4 games where I live. I just end up buying second hand disc games at the local pawn shop thing because it's so much cheaper.
I have 2 XL's sitting in a drawer. Year ago it was the r4 card? Same thing thee days? I miss my modded PSP from back in the day, it was super easy to pirate ISO's for that. Literaly a functioning warez site for them called pspiso or something like that once upon a time
ive have two, i might do this to one and do the top screen delete to another and make an emu pocket rig. thanks for this info comrade
I was driving in front of a guy who's turn signal was out. A cop spotted him and pulled out from a driveway a few cars back. I changed lanes, let the dude pass, then got behind him and helped him get lost in traffic before the cop could catch up.
I pirate almost all of the media I consume, and I have since I was a teenager.
Growing up my dad rented movies from Netflix mail service and made copies.
I thought I was the only person who did this. I would rip h264 copies with Handbrake.
Piracy guide for fellow cumrades:
https://github.com/Igglybuff/awesome-piracy
Don't forget your VPN (you should have it anyway if you browse here)
We should get a bot that distributes piracy tutorials whenever piracy is mentioned (or a have sidebar info)
There's no such thing, really. You either pay with your money and trust that they really don't store logs (and hopefully verify this independently), or get a free at point of use service knowing that your activity is logged and either directly sold or has access to it sold (a subtle difference that marketers dodge).
As far as I know, mullvad doesn't require any personal info. You can send money in an envelope with your payment token ID and they'll keep your account open if you really want to.
On the other hand, intelligence agencies have traffic mirrors at all major ingress points so even all encrypted traffic is logged to help establish usage patterns or to eventually decrypt as older ciphers are broken. The VPN you choose ultimately depends on your threat model. I personally use IVPN, but that might not be the right VPN for you.
What about Tor? It's slow and as far as I know not super secure, but will it get your data sold?
It’s actually gotten a whole lot faster over the years (but it’s still not blazing fast), I remember it used to take easily at least 45 seconds to load a page back in like 2010 but now it’s pretty dang usable for forums and the like, pages load quick enough to not be annoying.
Usually when a VPN is free your data gets sold somewhere. And the trick part is also getting an unbiased and reliable recommendation. The guide I posted earlier touches on this topic. Best is to visit the one big privacy site and check their table to choose something that works for you
Love when artists/albums are available on Bandcamp because they have DRM-free downloads that include lossless files and also frequently forgo their cut and donate it.
I bought an expensive CPU a few months ago and the fan was fuckin' squeaky so I yelled at them til they sent me a new one. They asked me to send the old one back. I didn't.
everytime i see fashy bullshit online i usually dont even engage with it mentally and just say some shit to myself like "damn you need to be shot dude". very good for mental health as its a very easy way to just not interact with the stuff even on a basic level.
(dear federal agents,
just to clarify, this is not an actual threat to any specific person, this is just something i think to myself every so often.
tyvm,
a random internet communist)
Can't recommend this to anyone but I always get a kick out of a "fuck you" with no further responses they get so mad
You can do this with all KINDS of items. Just make sure the weight is similar. I hate how the self checkout at Safeway announces your poduce super fucking loud. "BROCCOLI" as you clearly weigh out something totally not green
I always just straight up don’t scan stuff. Run it over the scanner with my hand over the bar code. Usually for light and expensive products . Never been caught and if they say anything I’ll just play dumb
Yeah for like gravy packets and coffee filters you can totally get away with this. They usually hire apathetic teenagers who probably enjoy watching shit get lifted
thrifting all of my clothes, pirating all the media I consume, and using ad block and blocking trackers. also when I was in high school I always let people copy my homework, not sure how much it helped lmao, but it made me feel like I was sticking it to my school when I absolutely despised it and thought homework shouldn't exist (which I still strongly believe, the school system fuckin sucks)
me too! I can't stand when leftists defend school. institutionalized school should be abolished and no one will ever change my mind lol
yeah it's important to distinguish between education and school. school is the problem because it actually hinders real education, just like you were saying before! I'm all for education, just when it is consensual and non-coercive
I mean at the end of the day, you're just another brick in the wall 🔺 🌈
School is so cookie-cutter too. Certainly a product of industrialization. Imagine if people could actually learn what they wanted and not be held to some imaginary standard.
School, instead of making you more curious about the world, makes you less curious. What you learn is decided for you, how you learn it is decided for you. You are given no autonomy. As a result of this people start to associate learning with a lack of autonomy and begin to hate it.
That's art in general.
Talent is a great way to explain to the poor why they can't do something and for the rich to explain why they can do something.
Everyone can do art, all you need is just the COMMUNITY, time and money to pursue it. :agony-consuming:
Mine auto joins random ones it’s really funny to get kiwi tire service ads or Czech dance music ads.
