DoisBigo

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Random thought: Windows is largely successful because of Piracy

Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....

DoisBigo,

PCs are expensive and unpractical.

I wanted a PC, bought a tablet. Ideally, I’d want a SFFPC plus screens that I could easily move. I’d settle for a SFFPC with a dedicated graphics card if I couldn’t move it. I’d also settle for a notebook that would allow me to easily swap HDDs/SSDs. However, none of those things are possible and/or have a good cost-benefit, so I got a tablet.

Notebooks are too clunky compared to tablets because they are attached to a keyboard and to a screen. If those parts were removable, they would be more successful. Tablets would also be more popular if you could use them as PC screens (some from Lenovo already come with this featur).

Manufacturers are moving in the opposite direction, soldering memory, and making as hard as possible to change parts.

DoisBigo,

People give too little credit to how much crimes the police stops simply through self control.

DoisBigo,

100%

But each practice involves different levels of risk. Kissing random strangers has a different level of risk from having anal sex with them, and a different level of risk from having oral sex, piss play, etc. Some stuff seems obvious, other stuff isn’t as intuitive. And for people who engage in risk behavior, knowing how risky it is makes all the difference in the world. Knowing that having anal sex with an escorts is way riskier than having vaginal sex with her makes all the difference in the world.

To what extend are you grateful for free services?

There are services that are actually free, those who don’t sell your data and still manage to stay afloat. I use a lot of these. I like the Freemium model, I like the fact that the community is paying for my use of a great service till I can stand on my own two feet. So, I was wondering if there were any services you used for...

DoisBigo,

I’m not a charity institution. I use whatever is better/more cost-effective for my needs.

I will, however, point out that the ability to migrate and/or downgrade (from paid to free for example) is something in which I place A LOT of value. I will use stuff that is substantially worse than the market leader simply because it allows me to take my shit and leave if I ever change my mind. Being able to move from a paid to a free plan when you are no longer using something is pretty important.

Regarding your example, Proton VPN is on the higher end of VPNs. I consider it pricy, but they are trying to compete with OVPN. Paying because you need to support is an emotional decision. If you ever get enough money that you don’t care about paying another $5 to get a better service, go with them. Else, choose something paid but cheaper.

DoisBigo,

I agree, I like Proton services.

However, offfering a free service is not a favour, it’s a business decision and you should always do what’s best for you. Let rich people pay for the expensive stuff.

Languages in the EU

I’m about to sound like the ignorant American I am, so I apologize in advance! We’re looking at a trip to Germany, and possibly Prague, and we’ve noticed that a lot of the hotel names are French and a couple hotels that aren’t named in French have replied to comments with things like “Bonjour! etc etc” What’s up...

DoisBigo,

No. It’s something else. I can guarantee it.

Source: am not from the EU, but am from the internet.

DoisBigo,

Unless they refund me, I’m boarding. Can’t afford to throw away an air ticket.

DoisBigo,

I only use Lemmy because RIF stopped working.

I’m not an activist and do not tend to act when my bubble isn’t affected. When I heard all the commotion I thought “damn! I liked RIF. Welp, let’s download the new Reddit app. C’est lá vie.”

I proceeded to download it and… IT ASKED ME FOR LOGIN CREDENTIALS 🤡!!!

On that moment I gave up. One of my favorite things about Reddit was the pseudonym aspect of the site. I could see a post about some topic, create an specific pseudonym just to reply that post and preserve my identity and my main online aliases. I’m not against demanding information for accounts that post on the site and even taking measures to limit the number of aliases a single person can have. But demand login to lurk!? Fuck that! Complete greed. Absolutely barbaric!

DoisBigo,

Hello.

I’m very interesting in your ideas.

Do you think you could e-mail me to discuss what you are planning in more details?

My e-mail is [email protected]

Thanks.

DoisBigo,

Nah.

I want to get nipple piercings because I want anybody who have sex with me to play with them and, as a bonus, humiliate me and degrade me. (yes, I know, body modifiers frown upon the sexualization of piercings, but I want them precisely because they are sexual, lol)

But I don’t want Karen, Christian Mother of the Street, to be denouncing me to the police for being a gay freak of nature who will transmit homosexuality to her children when they see my piercings through my shirt.

DoisBigo,

Maybe I’ll do it anyway. But it makes me hesitant.

DoisBigo,

Nice.

Thanks.

DoisBigo,

It takes several months to heal. During those months, you can’t take them off or else the hole heals and disappears.

DoisBigo,

Yes.

Depends on the virus, but unlikely.

The thing about viruses is that it is an arms race. It’s almost impossible to get a virus from playing media on your computer. Why? Well, let me explain in a 3 easy steps:

  1. Viruses have specific goals. They want to spy on you, encrypt your files, use your computer on a botnet, access ads with your computer, etc. In order to do that, they must gain access within your system to do those things.
  2. Since they need access, the easiest way to get access is just by simply asking you. Which is why executables (software and games) are the riskiest stuff to pirate. But it’s possible to get viruses from other sources, they do that by exploring flaws in the software. For example, a while ago they managed to insert viruses through VLC media player subtitles.
  3. However, simply exploiting a flaw isn’t enough because flaws get fixed. Following the VLC Media player example, few days after the virus was distributed, VLC launched a new version that corrected the flaw, making the virus useless. Therefore, it’s necessary that the virus either explores a 0-day (a flaw that hasn’t been widely discovered - this kind of information is sold for a lot of money on the deep web and is usually used to hack governments and bit corporations) or targets people using old software on their machines.

In conclusion: you can catch Aids having sex with condoms, maybe it had a tear, maybe you had a small bleeding on your mouth, etc, but you aren’t getting aids using condoms unless you’re extremely unlucky. In the same vein, it’s possible to catch viruses from media files, but if your software is updated, it’s extremely unlikely.

DoisBigo,

qbittorrent

The Piratebay

Plex

1337x

Rutracker

Nyaa

Among others.

Hope I was able to help.

DoisBigo,

NSFW?

DoisBigo,

The Las Vegas Loop.

(known on dictionaries as a tunnel)

And nobody have died there yet.

DoisBigo,

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Piracy db0

All lemmynsfw because named people and hentai.

DoisBigo,

Popular is the future of Reddit.

They will put in effort to kill small communities.

DoisBigo,

In Brazil we had a social media site that was huge during the 2000s called Orkut, it was owned by Google. It was sort of a mix between Reddit and Facebook: you had your own profile with pictures but you could also join communities that were organized in a searchable manner, like Reddit. Several of those communities migrated to Facebook, but they lost A LOT because Facebook wasn’t meant to be used in this way.

I think the same thing will happen with Reddit. It will be more like 9gag and less like Reddit. Communities like r/funny or r/whatcouldgowrong will prosper while communities like r/askhistory will move forward crippled.

I don’t think Lemmy will get a relevant share of Reddit (on Reddit’s perspective) users. It has already obtained a relevant amount of Reddit users (on Lemmy’s perspective) and it should keep being pushed for Reddit orphans, but it will be smaller and communities here shouldn’t be as restrictive as they would be on Reddit. Instead of making c/dogs, make c/pets and include dog owners, bird owners, fish owners, else you will exclude people and have a dead community.

Book suggestion: LONG Space Opera (or sci-fi or cyberpunk) packed with action and cool characters

I feel like I wrote this post from time to time on Reddit and I think I’ll start this tradition here. I’m. a Honor Harrington fan. I’ve read several other space operas and they always fall short. The three that came close were Lt. Leary, Kris Longknife and Vorkosigan saga. Lt. Leary was nice, but it failed on World...

DoisBigo,

I’ve read it and it is awesome. Worth mentioning whenever someone wants a light read.

DoisBigo,

I’ll check it out. Wood ships or metal ships?

DoisBigo,

I gave up on the second. I simply lost interest.

What are you Reading? (August 2023) (lemmy.world)

I’ve put together a collage of some books from last months What are you Reading? post. It’s mostly random, but the more discussion something gets the more it stands out to me. Going forward I’m going to make a new post every month to talk about what people are reading....

DoisBigo,

Well, if you like space opera try Honor Harrington. The first book is called “On Basilisk Station”

DoisBigo,

Keep playing to get more rich.

Most professional gamblers quit just before a big victory. I won’t make that mistake.

DoisBigo,

Are you telling me that they aren’t Chinese spies?

DoisBigo,

I’d add a D and balls to their antomy, right above the P. It would make sex more interesting and make hentai more realistic.

Oh. From social interaction and dating. I think I would make their beauty/attraction rating more evenly distributed, like men rate women. It’s really sad that they (women) can’t feel attraction for someone who isn’t a rich bodybuilder and feel like they are always settling. Meanwhile, somewhere there is a dude beating for an old obese woman…

DoisBigo,

Is the piercing fully healed? How was it? Do you think it increased or decreased sensibility in the area?

DoisBigo,

You want the job that is offered to you, pays good, and won’t feel like hell every day. This job may or may not be related to your field of study, but you better study something useful if you want to be taken seriously.

Stop thinking that you can pick and choose, sometimes you can, sometimes you can’t. Some people can, most people can’t.

DoisBigo,

Great time travel anime.

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