You aren't wrong. It is something to be careful of. Here's one source

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/avoid-these-android-tv-boxes-like-the-plague-they-come-pre-loaded-with-malware

Best might be to go with a known brand, get a Raspberry Pi, get something like the Intel Nuc if you want something more capable and a wireless keyboard to go with it.

You only need calibre and it handles everything for you.

An issue you may run into is light gray font, which is easily solved

https://lemmy.world/post/1812376

Why does purpose or ethics matter. It is called piracy and not robin hood.

Whatever the intent, it incentives archival even with selfish purposes across different decentralized sources, which is pretty valuable with that huge amount of data that would be expensive for a centralized entity to archive on their own. Not to mention a single point of failure. So even selfishness is leading to helping history not be lost.

And you think 100 years from now or longer if some random historian comes across some still working storage containing long lost media that a pirate had kept they are going to care about the legality of that at the time?

And don't forget how much game versions change from launch, so new version is history too. Same for movies and shows and books with how editing has been done that's led to loss of the original copy. And led to reliance of fans to restore content like Star Wars.

It is happening now with Netflix too where now the pirated versions of some Netflix show is the only way to see what was originally shown.

"We have George Lucas’d things also that people don't know about," the siblings told Variety, referring to the Star Wars director's much-critiqued altered re-releases of the original franchise. "It's not, like, story, but you're essentially patching in shots."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/netflix-retroactive-editing

The MCU's The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is barely a year old, but even the Marvel superhero miniseries isn't immune from Disney's re-editing efforts. In March 2022 some devoted Reddit fans discovered that a scene where Bucky throws a pipe through a woman's shoulder had been altered so that woman falls back on the pipe instead.

https://screenrant.com/tv-shows-films-edited-after-original-release/

14 years... Time doesn't stand still for that long.

As much as I complain about denuvo I still do buy the games even if they do get cracked. I don't pirate any PC games, since exes are just not something I want to risk. I've got a collection of legal games that surpasses the availability of gamepass. PC gamepass advertisement says 'Play over 100 high-quality games on Windows PC.' That's a baby collection compared to what I got in my legal library of games. That's not even bringing GOG into the mix.

Me too. I need to get far away from all this light pollution so I can see the stars in all its beautiful glory again with my own eyes.

Sir this isn't a Wendys

!freemediaheckyeah@lemmy.fmhy.ml

Has a wiki that has some streaming resources to use in the future.

And if you don't understand it and you do find yourself needing to do some terminal stuff chatgpt can be helpful breaking down what is going on.

Well we did at least.

My instance didn't require me to get an email, but if they did so you can use those email forwarders like simplelogin, duckduckgo, or firefox.

I'm a billionaire. I have my own private island that floats above the world and I can also teleport anywhere in an instant and open portals into other dimensions. And I have a pet dragon named Sparkles.

I dedicated an old laptop running Linux to pirating material. Can get all the programs I need right from the included software app that is in a lot of distros to get Qbittorent and Jdownloader. Linux is awesome.

Yeah, my most treasured subs started their own instances here with fmhy and piracy, so I've been fine without reddit. Just need to secure those alternate communication channels and I'll be able to not go back to Spez.

Nothing would surprise me these days after seeing a Skyrim mod with an AI companion you can talk to.

Interesting, but I'm confused how it can be applied to piracy.

Thanks to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/ober found that ipleak.net can be used to check if you VPN is leaking your IP before proceeding with torrenting.

And also using Qbittorrent to tie the client to the VPN by going to Tools > Preferences > Advanced and changing network interface to your VPN.

I'm going to need look up the different contacts available to keep in the loop on instances I like in case something happens again. Don't want to have to go back to reddit to try and find news on their status haha

It's been difficult to catch jokes with the amount of people that have still continued to have the old views of social media sites like reddit due to not understanding that people aren't locked to instances they signed up to thinking it is a singular authority. So my mistake.

Why wouldn't they? Do you not understand that anyone can make an instance and create the community they want, and that if the one they are in doesn't match what they want they can start up their own? You can too.

Umm..... What did you think the point of mods on reddit was? The mods we chose to support and followed here to lemmy and kept the community on track?

And you know you can just lurk on here and can use another instance that better fits your idea of the type of conversations you want. There's nothing keeping you from making an account on exploding heads and chatting away with them. You can multiple accounts you know.