It's not just a generational thing — most of the millennials who were torrenting 15 years ago (which was a lot of them!) have completely forgotten by now ime. Now I'm longing for the days when 'VLC is the best media player' was common knowledge and not arcana

More of a comment than a question, but that film is amazing

Yeah quite sad how it transitioned from "Karen the demanding customer" to "Karen the uppity service worker"

Wow I think that might genuinely be the most racist thing I have ever read

I don't think it is a particularly ineffable quality though? It's art because another human did it, and it really doesn't have to be much deeper than that. That said, I do agree that intellectual property is ultimately blind alley. What most people don't understand is that IP laws are only enforceable in the name of capital.

💯 the remarkable thing about Starmer is that he didn't even bother pretending

One time I had black stool, but it turned out it was just because I'd eaten an entire box of oreos

Just ask them out imo. This feeling will only fester otherwise. And if they say no, well now you know!

I mean if you absolutely must use Windows applications, why not just use Windows? I won't tell anyone

Yep. We tend not to see it this way because it's just too horrible to bear, but homelessness is a death sentence.

I read somewhere that they transcode everything on the fly, which they insist is necessary. The real point though, imo, is that cloud services have to be incredibly energy intensive in order to justify their existence to begin with.

How many eggs does he think are required to make one baby lol