It’s/its is also common mistake with non-native speakers.
The really obvious one is using of instead of instead of have. Would of. Should of. Could of. From would’ve, should’ve, could’ve. Non-native speakers will rarely if ever make that mistake.
Get a cheap paid VPN subscription, cancel any and all streaming services, don’t buy any media or books, pirate anything you like. Books, audiobooks, movies, tv shows, everything. I recommend Qbit torrent, bind to vpn, piracy community is in the sidebar for suggested websites. Use ublock origin.
Much much cheaper than not having a VPN.
Hell, if you want to save money get Mullvad for a month (like you just did) and torrent as much as possible. Then cancel until you need it again. $5 for potentially $10000 dollars worth of content. No brainer.
Very annoying.
And they take up almost no space, so that makes it even more annoying. I make sure to keep seeding as much as possible.
I think I have that among my torrents. 33 seeders.
Maybe you’re still seeding a torrent that’s no longer as popular.
Disc rot is also a thing.
I find it’s best to accept entropy, that you’re going to die, that everything ends, that you will lose data, that there will be a last time you watch a movie or show, and keep running those ssd/hdds even when they’re in the yellow/red warning zone.
Years back I was sorting through ten years of emails. I got so sick of it, I simply deleted everything. You know what? No drawbacks even ten years later. Such a huge relief.
Reminds me of the artist Michael Landy who chucked everything he owned - pictures, clothes, artwork, his passport - into a shredder. Performance art, reaction against consumerism. He was understandably miserable doing it, but what a relief that must have been. To be free of all the crap. It is true that the things you own often end up owning you.
My grandparents hoarded all their lives, and after they died much of what they owned ended up in a skip, because there wasn’t enough time or interest to sell it. The supposedly priceless porcelain? Chucked. All the records? Sold. Furniture? Goodwill. The huge supply of sunlight soap? Really useful actually.
Curate, is my advice.
I occasionally go through and cull the worst shows and movies. No point keeping mainstream crap that’s readily available on all the streaming sites.
How often do you see your mother?
Poorly designed button. Wrong colour and too much information. Green and “Download Here” would have been better.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want GTA6 to be fun if I can pirate it.
I wonder if GTA 6 will be any good.
Previous entries still had an edge, but I worry that GTA online has ruined them. I assume most of the people who created the previous games are all gone too.
Keep seeding the rare shit please.
I know people go on about ratios and yadayada, but the popular stuff will always have seeders, seeding popular stuff is just helping people download quicker.
Seeding the rare shit means that torrent continues to exist.
So much stuff has been lost forever and a large part of that is torrents no longer having seeders.
What do you think all those dual cassette decks were for?
So you could make friends a copy or copy friends’ music.
Perfectly acceptable at the time. Only an issue if you were selling them, but even then not a huge issue.
IRC the Netherlands and Belgium it’s also not a crime, you won’t be pursued by the authorities.
However, that doesn’t stop rights-holders from suing you for damages.
In any case, if you’re using a VPN and privacy conscious you should be fine.
This being said, I really should switch to linux.
rutracker dot org
So you’re saying I should steal content by downloading it illegally from rutracker.org?Thanks for the tip. I’ll be sure to download loads of content illegally, then seed it in perpetuity, so that others can also steal it and infringe copyright on a mass scale.
Just kidding, I will be sure to only download public domain content and open source software.
In all seriousness, is rutracker something I should visit with my browser in a sandbox, or is ublock and privacy badger enough?
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Are you me? LOL.
Yeah, you become a complete snob. On the other hand, once you’ve watched enough, perhaps read a few books or watched a few documentaries, you recognise references and techniques much more, and that becomes enjoyable in its own way.
It’s a bit like kids watching classic The Simpsons and enjoying it without getting the references, compared to old people watching classic Simpsons because they get or vaguely recognise most of if not all of the references.
And I find you start to enjoy movies which are different, even if they are a bit shit, because they manage to do certain things in different ways and still surprise you.
Luckily these kinds of measures are invariably poorly conceived and full of holes, so most of us will be able to bypass them.
The problem is that when graphics become to realistic, you enter the uncanny valley, which makes things seem off.
IME it’s better when they (slightly) stylise the graphics, which makes the game look less realistic, but you weirdly end up noticing it less.