The inevitable r(ul)eturn to the Seas

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63889104

I have no idea why anyone left the high seas in the first place. The wind blows so gloriously strong out here, and the more the merrier, so come back to your past to build a future together.

All these shitty streaming companies need to be collapsed. I’d rather make my hard earned cash walk the plank than give any of it to them.

I have no idea why anyone left the high seas in the first place.

I’ve noticed lately that my GPU fans turn on and my power usage spikes when I turn my monitor off. Only when I turn my monitor off. Weird GPU driver glitch, or have I gotten infected with a very sneaky crypto miner from one of those pirated games…? It’s sus. Very sus.

I know it’s more a hypothetical thing, but have you tried monitoring your processes as soon as you turn off your monitor?
If it’s windows it’s telemetry or MS Office, try watching network usage and blocking MS processes, they don’t need the constant connection anyway and your PC will run faster. If it’s Linux you might want to check on that and fix it.
When Netflix was the only player in town with all the content, it was fine. But now it’s just back to what cable packages once were.
Even then Netflix had the same problem it has now though where it has plenty of content, just not what you want to watch
It’s been so long, I’ve honestly forgotten how. I could use a quick crash course considering how risky it all feels with ISP surveillance and all that jazz

The db0 instance’s piracy community has a megathread pinned at the top that may be helpful. If you have any questions that aren’t addressed in any of those links, you can always post there and ask - there’s lots of helpful people. I was like you and I’ve learned a lot from there!

Here’s a direct link to that megathread: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30393940

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I had a very busy week, so I couldn’t respond before now. Thank you very much. I hella appreciate it

There are content that there is zero torrents for.

I mean you do this “strategy” where you can just queue up a bunch those niche ones on a .txt file, then when ready and have time, get only 1 month subscription to binge it all, then cancel when it ends… xD

Because in the end, I’m not against paying for a service that, albeit small, does somehow sustain the actual creators of the content. That was before it all enshittified ofc.

Same reason why I usually pay games on steam or gog. It’s the “right” thing to do, so if the annoyance is low, I prefer to pay.

With media though, the annoyance went through the roof again a long time ago.