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.

  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    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

    • elgonzalors [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]M
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        4 years ago

        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.

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • blackmesa [comrade/them,he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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