Might be controversial, but I pirate OnlyFans content (porn). I ain’t payin a monthly subscription for that shit. Telegram is pretty great for that.

Meh… Piracy is still better 🏴‍☠️

They did the same with The Pirate Bay. Didn’t bother them at all. Stay strong, never give up, fellow sailers!
(if you want to learn more about it check out https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/)

The Splinternet | This Is How The Internet Dies

mastodon.social exists

It’s literally there to take the choice away from new users

youtube-local over a Mullvad (other services like Proton or IVPN are great as well) works really well for me

That’s definitely not beta, it feels more like a very early alpha

And it looks more like Hacker News or lobste.rs, not Lemmy or Reddit, since it doesn’t allow the creation of threads, only posting URLs?

Everything works except Thunderbolt/USB4 and Video output via USB-C

I wouldn’t use it as a NAS if you plan to use NVMe SSDs for fast storage (since you can’t connect them via USB4), but if you only plan on using SATA SSDs or mechanical drives, USB 3 should be fine. Other than that, everything you would need in a server is there and works flawlessly.

You can install Linux on ARM-based Macs too:
https://asahilinux.org/
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That’s awesome

I’m not talking about DRM, but about Steam’s terms of service. Technically you only purchase a license to play the game, which can be taken away by Valve at any time. You don’t really own your copy of the game, as you would with physical media.

Sure, but you did you download them, listen to them and then delete them, or did you keep them around for archival purposes? Because it’s rather untypical to re-listen to a podcast episode many times, which you might do with music.

I don’t know, I also use DDG because I can’t find a better alternative. I thought you had a better recommendation 😂

The only thing that comes to my mind is 4get, a proxy for DDG which is a little better for your privacy, since you don’t have to trust DDG as much. But it lacks some features like DDG’s Bangs.

There’s also LibreY, a fork of LibreX, which acts as a proxy for Google. Still not great though. The one thing I really like about it, it that it also has a built-in torrent search feature.

I think the best option is SearXNG, you can configure which search engines you want to use, and you can access DDG bangs by using two exclamation marks (e.g. !!yt for YouTube)

Unfortunately there’s no good self-hostable search engine with a good web crawler

What do you use?

Gone?

Why did you download podcasts?

When I finally got a seedbox and started downloading massive amounts of movies, TV shows, games and music (first to the seedbox, then archived everything on my home NAS, deleted everything with lots of seeders from the seedbox to save space, and now I only use it for either new stuff I want to download, or seeding content with very few or no seeders)

Are people sending $5 every now and then

That’s still better than nothing I guess

See this is why I love Valve. At least their hardware and the great support for open source software (Linux, Wine/Proton).

No, I don’t agree with everything they do in regards to Steam. I know that it sucks, that you can’t truly own your games nowadays, but at least Valve supports an OS that lets you truly own your hardware and have control over your software. And they do it, by providing open source software (Proton) with no strings attached (free software license) that lets you play games on this exact FOSS OS.

Does it also work with Mastodon? Because it is possible to reply to Lemmy posts from Mastodon, right?