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[–] berg@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, so just free models available, unless you already bought the paid ones. I fail to see the piracy part, or the "free chatgpt". You're just advertising that there are free alternatives, which I don't mind particularly, but it just came of as something else.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is just free local models right? Not models from OpenAI.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It doesn't protect you from evil executables, no torrent client does (that I know of). It's up to you to make sure you trust what you download. If it simply is movies I wouldn't be bothered, but games/software can be nasty when from public trackers (open for everyone torrent search engines). The same is true for direct downloads.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

If it isn't broke, don't fix it. It simply downloads torrents, I wouldn't worry about it.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What is unclear with the mega thread? Maybe get some sleep and try again.

You can direct download sometimes but content is usually downloaded through torrents. If you want to download a torrent you need a client that can handle these torrents, you can probably search for "torrent client Android" and find something, I've never downloaded on my phone.

To find torrent files, check the megathread. Usually such a site works as a search engine for torrents, where each torrent equals a movie, game or some such. So you could say they replace telegram I guess.

At least that's how I pirate, albeit with some more automization and through private trackers.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Basically, yes. It costs me about $140 a year.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I just dislike having public things. With WireGuard and then tailscale, VPNs got so hasselfree that I've removed most things from the open net. Reduces setup time and management a lot.

IPTV is basically paid piracy. Someone else has grabbed most commercial channels from somewhere and sell it to other people. Usually they have a collection of movies/shows you can stream as well. But I only use it for sports really.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Jellyfin is great, I have it setup with iptv as well, and tailscale so I can reach it from any of my devices from anywhere. It actually saves me a ton of money, since having sport stream subscriptions is cooooostly, and I just use my main computer as host.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago
[–] berg@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Go ahead, be the change you want to see.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you actually tried finding the alternative I bet you'd find it.

[–] berg@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I hope for the same for Russia. To me it seems like that sort of change has to come from within though. External pressures is put through the internal propaganda machine and out comes agitation. But if they get a movement going I'm sure they'd be heard by the west. The HK demonstrations got a lot of light, not that it helped much... But what else is there to do. We could start a war, but I'm doubtful that will make things better.

 

With the advent of Reddit going public and selling user data an opportunity has arisen. I still consume Reddit from time to time and noticed in the threads about these things that a lot of displeased users were there. But when they ask what alternatives there are, lemmy is barely mentioned at all. So if you're still on there, this is a chance to educate others about the fediverse and alternatives.

 

Happy new years 🎉

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by berg@lemm.ee to c/gaming@beehaw.org
 

Say a simple (hours enjoyed playing)/(price of game) equation. How many hours (you enjoyed) per $ do you think is reasonable/expected? Or is there other criteria for you?

I feel like I'm on the upper end here. But to be fair I also tend to play things that has a lot of replayability. So I usually reach 100+ hours on my favorites eventually.

Eager to hear how others reason about it.

Edit: Added the enjoyed part. I agree with the comments that frustrating hours shouldn't be included in the measure :)

 

In the pixelfed webapp you can tag a location (not an #) to your post. But I can't seem to find what it's then used for? I can't see it on the post, only if I press to edit the image and then go to the "other" tab.

 

I'm coming from an Kindle Paperwhite but looking to getting a new one since I cracked the screen. So I'm interested in suggestions! I liked my old one for what it was, but I could find myself missing being able to take notes comfortably.

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